A Gift of Love in a Jar
These gifts were very special to me for many, many reasons. As I have mentioned before in a lot of my pages, I love giving baked items as gifts for all Holidays because it feels like a gift made from the heart. So the next Christmas after Loretta gave this gift, I started decorating little mason jars and filling them with a yummy treats and gave them away as gifts.
This is a very inexpensive little gift that would make a wonderful present for teachers, nurses, friends, gift baskets and so much more. So let's start and I will guide you through a simple yet wonderful gift given from the heart.
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You will need:
Small Mason Jars, tops and flat lids
Scrap material
cotton balls or batting
ribbon
little gift tags
glue gun
A special recipe for brownies or even a boxed mix will do just add to it.
Glue Guns
Let's start with the Jar
-Lay the flat lid down on some scrap material and draw a circle adding about 1/4 of inch of extra material around the edge
-place several cotton balls under the material and begin to glue the material down to the lid
-make the middle fluffy with the cotton balls so it sticks up like a small dome.
-place the lid into the jar ring and allow them to dry
You can use material for any occasion you are making these jars for they also make wonderful Valentines Gifts
After your jar is done, and your goodie treat is baked, cooled and cut into tiny pieces, fill the jar
wrap ribbon about the jar and add your tag
I also love the recipe jars, where you place the ingredients in the jar and write up the recipe on a card and attach it to the jar. And what about the extra change jar, how awesome would that be to give to a family who is low on finances? The only limitations for this projects would be you not using your imagination.
Mason Jars
Material and Batting
If you are in a time crunch, get a package of brownie mix from the store. Add a little coffee to enhance the chocolate flavor, add a little mint extract and/or chopped nuts or tiny marshmallows. Bake according to package, allow to completely cool. Cut in very small pieces. Loretta cut my mint brownies into 1/2 inch pieces. It was great-just tiny little bite sizes!!
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Ingredients
- bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips
- chopped walnuts
- 1 6oz. package of Cherry Cranisins-Chopped
Instructions
Using a double boiler method, melt your chocolate chips and add chopped walnuts and chopped cranisins to chocolate and stir well.
Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and pour chocolate mixture onto the parchment paper and allow to completely harden.
Once hard, break into small pieces and fill your jars. Wrap the jars with ribbon and add a tag and you my friend have made a wonderful yummy treat made from the heart!!
You can find a lot of recipes here!!
Countdown to Christmas
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Comments and Ratings are welcomed and appreciated
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vallain Dec 15, 2011 @ 11:17 pm | delete
- I'm featuring this on my 101 Ways to Use Mason Jars lens. Just published today.
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Pinkchic18
Feb 18, 2011 @ 11:19 am | delete
- These are great gift ideas! I love being able to make gifts instead of spending a ton at the mall, so these are wonderful. Blessed by a SquidAngel!
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SquidooKimberly
Dec 23, 2010 @ 2:12 pm | delete
- I LOVE receiving these as gifts. I can save them for a while and bring them out when I'm getting spring fever.
Congrats on being on the Great Ideas for Christmas Crafts list!
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WhiteOak50
Jan 3, 2011 @ 7:15 am | delete
- Thank you Kim
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stargazer00
Dec 23, 2010 @ 1:31 pm | delete
- These look like cute gifts and not too hard to make. Thanks for sharing.
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WhiteOak50
Jan 3, 2011 @ 7:15 am | delete
- Thanks for visiting
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capriliz
Dec 15, 2010 @ 8:57 pm | delete
- Lovely ideas for Christmas gifts from the heart.
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WhiteOak50
Jan 3, 2011 @ 7:15 am | delete
- Thanks for visiting Carmen
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clouda9
Dec 15, 2010 @ 8:32 pm | delete
- Thanks for the step-by-steps to creating these wonderful mason jars. Homemade gifts from the heart ARE the best.
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WhiteOak50
Jan 3, 2011 @ 7:14 am | delete
- Thanks for visiting Correen
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Ecolicious Dec 12, 2010 @ 10:45 am | delete
- i would love homemade gifts. i'm lensrolling to my glass jar lens
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WhiteOak50
Dec 13, 2010 @ 12:43 pm | delete
- Thank you Gloria
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WildFacesGallery
Dec 12, 2010 @ 10:24 am | delete
- I've done a similar project with a small cross stitch. Really cute. :) Have added as a featured lens to my Handmade Christmas Lens under gifts.
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WhiteOak50
Dec 13, 2010 @ 12:42 pm | delete
- Thank you so much
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nightbear
Dec 10, 2010 @ 3:52 pm | delete
- I love crafts!!!! I love Chocolate!!!! I love Presents!!!! Okay so this is a pretty cool lens...Great job Eva.
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WhiteOak50
Dec 13, 2010 @ 12:42 pm | delete
- Thanks Susan!!
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Joan4
Dec 10, 2010 @ 2:32 pm | delete
- Love gifts in a jar - of course! how delish! wonderful ideas! I received one of these some years back and I loved it!
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WhiteOak50
Dec 13, 2010 @ 12:42 pm | delete
- Thank you for visiting Joan
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GypsyOwl
Dec 10, 2010 @ 8:40 am | delete
- This is fabulous. The jar of love is easy to make and will make someone very happy any holiday of the year. I like to bake but I also don't have a lot of time. So, I like the idea you offered to add an ingredient to an easy to make premade mix (such as a brownie mix for example). I think I will mix up a premade mix and add those tiny chocolate chip Mint chips I have been seeing in the baking section. Wondering what I would do with them I didn't want to buy them without a plan or I might be tempted to eat them right out of the bag.
Great lens!!
Thank You.
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WhiteOak50
Dec 10, 2010 @ 11:36 am | delete
- Oh, Deb double yummy on adding the mint chocolate chips!! They would be awesome!
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