Tulle Santa Jar

Today I will show you how to make a Tulle Santa Jar. This one is very similar to my Fall Tulle Pumpkin blog post, I did in October. Again, somethings wrong with the pictures or something, so visit The I in Creativity Facebook page to see them in detail.

 

Before you start, you will need a glass jar, 14 feet of red sparkly tulle, 3/8 thick black ribbon, scissors, a hot glue gun, and gold and white glittery twine or any cute gold string/thin ribbon to put around the lid and to use for the belt buckle. 

First, plug in your hot glue gun to let it heat up, while you cut the black ribbon to fit around the jar, which for me was about 17 inches. Always try to cut the ribbon on a diagonal, so it doesn't fray. Put a dab of glue on the back of the jar, and hold one end of the ribbon there for a few seconds. Then wrap it around the jar, and reach it back to where the dab of glue was. Add another dab of glue and stick that end overlapping where it started. 

Now, cut a small piece of your gold twine and glue the ends together, making a circle. Glue two microscopic dots of glue on each side of the circle and push and hold it in the spot where you want it, which for me was on the front, opposite to the overlapping, but you could put it on that side to cover the overlap if you want to make it two sided or something.

Cut a piece of the gold twine to wrap around the lid, and dab a dot of glue on the back of the lid and wrap it around. Lastly, measure your tulle. Measure out 14 feet of it (which was around half of my roll if you want to make two) and stuff all of it into the jar. 

That is all! I wanted to make it illuminant and use a tea light like I did for my Fall Tulle Pumpkin, but because the light was orange for Halloween, it didn't look Christmasy in the dark. If you can find a white light or red, I would DEFINATELY put it in there. Another option would be to take a string of white  battery powered lights like what we used for our Wire Christmas Tree and wrap it in with the tulle. I think it looks really cute just how it is though! To see my other #CreNativity blog posts of the season, click here!