Personalized Photo jars for Mom

Looking for something personal to give mom (or grandma) for Mother's day?  It doesn't get much more personal than your (or your kid's) face on a funky jar.  Beautiful AND useful!  My mom just has my three kids for grand kids so I picked up these three spice jars at good will and cleaned them up. You will need bottles, clear shelf lining contact paper, a laser copy of your image.  I printed these with a laser printer on plain copy paper. You don't want photo paper, it won't rub away. If you don't have a laser printer you can get a copy at the copy store for about a quarter.  We were being silly at the antique mall and trying a bunch of hats on the kids.  Hayden kinda looks Amish anyway so the hat really completed the look.  Nadia's hat reminded me of the scene from the Wizard of Oz where the guy at the Emerald City stuck his head through the door.... remember that guy?  And who doesn't love a newsboy cap?

Cut a piece of contact paper the correct size to wrap around your bottle.  Bottles with straight, even sides are the easiest to work with.  Peal off enough of the paper backing to fit your trimmed photo.  Put the image face on the sticky side of the contact paper.

In a bowl of water, soak this for a few minutes to loosen the paper.  When your paper is soft use the pad of your finger to rub it off.

Continue until all your paper is gone.  You can re-soak if needed.  If it's really wet when you get done let it dry a bit, the stickiness will return when it's dry again.  Peal the rest of the paper backing off and wrap it around your bottle.

Like magic!

It's also very easy to remove and re-stick so if you don't get it on straight, or you just get sick of it, you can peel it right off.

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