Hi! I am sharing today as part of the Craft Lightning Patriotic! I am excited I am able to participate in this blog hop. It includes a lot of bloggers making “lightning crafts”. These are crafts that can be made in 15 minutes or less (excluding drying time). I used some dollar store mason jar glasses and jazzed them up for a 4th of July celebration. Now they are the perfect patriotic glasses.
I created some fun patriotic decor last year for the office so I was excited to make more this year.
Patriotic Glasses
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Oil Based Sharpie Markers – Red, White, Blue, Silver (my photo shows a black pen instead of a silver one but I changed my mind)
Oven
Rubbing Alcohol ( just in case you make a mistake)
Let’s Get Started
I wanted a hand-drawn look for these glasses so I chose to just draw my stars onto the glasses free hand. If you don’t like this idea you can make a stencil or use a pre-made stencil with stars on it. And if you hate what you drew or you make a mistake some rubbing alcohol and some paper towel or a q-tip will remove the marker and you can start over.
This is so easy. All I did was draw a 5 point star with the marker then color it in.
I had four glasses and I mixed up the colors a little bit. On each glass I used two colors for the stars and then two colors for small dots as a filler.
Glass one – red and white stars with silver and blue dots
two – red and blue stars with white and silver dots
three – blue and white stars with red and silver dots
four – silver and red stars with blue and white dots
When they are done place them on a cookie sheet into a cold oven. Turn the oven on to 250 degrees and let the glasses “bake” for 2 hours. Then turn the oven off, keeping the glasses inside until the oven is cool.
This should make them safe for washing in the dishwasher but I would really recommend hand washing.
The Final Result
They are so festive and it is fun to have patriotic glasses for my 4th of July celebration.
I love them. If you love them as well don’t forget to pin them!
Thanks so much for stopping by!
Michelle
Heather Northington
Wednesday 7th of June 2017
Love love love these! I didn't even know sharpie made these kind of markers. So many things you can use them on. What a great post.
Michelle
Wednesday 7th of June 2017
Thanks. They really are so easy to use. I love them a lot. I recently used them to make two retirement mugs for a co-worker. It was nice to be able to personalize them.
Carolann
Monday 22nd of May 2017
Perfect for the 4th Michelle! Just too darn cute! I have so many mason jars I think I will try these myself!
Michelle
Monday 22nd of May 2017
Yay!! They are so fast...except for the baking.
Angie Holden
Monday 22nd of May 2017
Great idea! Thanks for joining!
Michelle
Monday 22nd of May 2017
Thank you Angie! This was fun.
Laura Kelly
Sunday 21st of May 2017
These are totally darling. I am so glad you are participating in Craft Lightning!
Michelle
Sunday 21st of May 2017
Thank you Laura! I love a fast craft so this is right up my alley!
Nancy
Sunday 21st of May 2017
Those mugs will hold a lot of wine, Michelle!
Michelle
Sunday 21st of May 2017
Hi Nancy! You better believe they will. Haha!