Patriotic Flower Mason Jar

Celebrate the 4th of July and Memorial Day holidays by DIY’ing some affordable red, white, and blue decor. This Patriotic Floral Mason Jar is the perfect way to get crafty and show your American pride, while decorating your home on a budget!

Patriotic Floral Mason Jar with wood cutout, vintage red, white, and blue truck and barn, stars and stripes dollar tree flowers on a white chippy shim background to decorate for the 4th of July or memorial day.

4th of July and Memorial Day are such fun and festive holidays to craft for, but the best thing about this Floral Mason Jar project is that it can easily be adapted to be an “everyday” decor piece, or for any other season or holiday.

I made a beautiful Sunflower Mason Jar similar to this one that I have in my living room to this day!

Just swap out the napkin for one that matches your decor, and then swap out the florals to coordinate with the napkin.

Voila! Instead of a Patriotic Floral Mason Jar you have a (Insert holiday here) floral Mason Jar. LOL!

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Supplies Needed to Make a Patriotic Flower Mason Jar

Supplies needed to make the craft sitting on a table laid out.

12″ Wood Mason Jar Cutout
12″ Wood Shims (13 shims)
Patriotic Truck napkin (Amazon has come cute napkins)
Burlap
Small “Blessed” cutout
Twine
Patriotic Florals
Sticks from outside
Boxwood greenery
Blue bakers twine
Red button
White Chalk paint
Antique wax
Mod Podge
Hot glue gun
Cardboard rectangle

How to Make a Patriotic Flower Mason Jar

I made this Patriotic Flower Mason Jar on video, so you can WATCH it or click on the picture right below

Amanda holding the completed project on a Facebook live thumbnail.

Watch the video here

There are quite a few steps to this one, so I highly recommend watching the live replay to get the best tutorial, but I’ll do my best to walk you through how I did it here. You can always fast forward the video through any talking or any parts that you don’t want to watch!

First, paint the entire wood mason jar white, then Mod Podge the patriotic napkin over the entire surface and sand the edges to get rid of the excess napkin.

Wrap twine all around the top portion and then secure with glue in the back. Add a cute little shoestring bakers twine bow with a red button for decoration!

Cut a small strip of burlap and glue that to the front. Paint the word “Blessed” with dark blue paint and then glue that on top of the burlap.

The Mason Jar part is done! Now for the background.

The wood mason jar with a patriotic red white and blue vintage truck napkin decoupaged to the front with a piece of burlap and the word blessed.

Stain all of your wood shims with antique wax. I used 13 shims total. Then glue them staggered to the the piece of cardboard, making sure to alternate thick end/thin end, thick end/thin end.

Using vaseline, do the “chippy paint” method by adding it randomly to the shims, wherever you want the paint to chip off. Then coat with a generous coat of white chalk paint. Once it’s dry, use a paint scraper to “chip” off the paint in the areas that the vaseline was.

Wooden shims put together to make a white chippy paint background.

Cut a large piece of burlap in the shape of the mason jar, but just slightly larger so that you can see it from behind the wood mason jar cutout. I had to do this because my napkin blended in with my background. You may be able to get away with not using the burlap behind it.

If you do need the burlap, glue it onto the wood shim background, underneath the mason jar, leaving enough room at the top for the flowers and greenery.

Last, glue your sticks as stems for the flowers, add the patriotic flower heads, and fill in the empty spots with boxwood and greenery until you are happy with how it looks.

How cute is this Patriotic Flower Mason Jar!?

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