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Organization Week :: DIY Spice Jars using the FREE Shape of the Week
Hi there and happy FREE shape Tuesday!
Today
I want to share another project that has helped me organize my home. I
recently moved into my house, and in my kitchen I still find myself
moving things around trying to find the best home for them. My spices
are a perfect example. They are all different shapes and sizes. Some
have labels on the top, others just on the side. So, prior to this
little DIY I kept them all in a plastic bin up on my shelf and would
take them down and rifle through them to find what I am looking for.
It's worked ok, but in a perfect world all of them would be the same
size, I'd be able to access them a little more easily and I'd be able to
see the name of all the spices at a glance. So... my solution :: DIY
spice jars with printable labels.
To make them... I bought a baby food jar for each of my spices and donated the food inside to one of my neighbors who's little one looooves applesauce. {You can find empty jars online or at thrift stores too if you don't have anyone that can use the baby food.} Then I removed the labels and the glue from the outside with goo-gone, washed them and spray painted the lids white.
Next, the fun part. I opened this week's FREE shape in Silhouette studio and ungrouped it.
Then I deleted all but the floral circle with the white background.
Next, because I was printing on the printable clear sticker paper which is letter sized, I opened the page window and selected 'letter' from the menu.
Then, I opened the registration marks window and turned them on by clicking in the box next to 'show reg marks'.
Next, I opened the scale window, clicked the box next to 'lock aspect ratio' and entered 1.6" for the width. Then, I duplicated the shape so that there was one for each of my spice jars, making sure to keep them inside the red line and out of the grey hash marks.
Once I duplicated the shape, I used the new Paprika font in the online store and typed the spice name in the center of each label.
Then, I selected all of the text, opened the fill color window and used the eye dropper to select the orange color from the label shape.
Then, I opened the line color window and select no color.
Voila, they were all set to print. Once I printed them out, I opened the cut settings window in Silhouette studio, selected printable sticker paper and for good measure selected double cut. Then, I placed my printed sticker sheet on to my mat as shown in Silhouette studio, loaded the mat into my CAMEO and clicked cut.
Once the labels were cut, I removed them from the white backing and adhered one to each of my lids. After the jars were filled with the corresponding spices, I placed them in the drawer next to my stove. Now, they are super easy to access and having them in alphabetical order has helped quite a bit too. I'm loving the way they turned out!
This week's free shape worked perfect for this project, and I think I'll use some of the others to make labels for my salsa garden. Hmmm the possibilities!
What will you create with this week's free shape? I'd love to see! If you instagram use the tag #silfreeshapeoftheweek
Happy labeling!
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