Magazine Pencil Jar

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• Step 1

  First of all you need to clean the jar thoroughly, and remove the label.

  I did this by running the jar under hot water, then gradually peeling it off.

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  Step 2

  I realised that the jar was too tall for my pencils. So i stuffed some paper balls in the bottom to work as a booster!

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  Step 3

  I ripped out several cuttings from magazine. I went for lots of different colours and textures.

  By ripping them out, it gives a nice uneven texture, and makes the design alot more quirky. I dipped each section in a pva glue / water mix (roughly 3:1), then laid each section on bit by bit.

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  Step 4

  I then covered the whole jar, leaving the bottom bare. This was so I could leave it to dry in the sunlight without damaging my rental property!!!

  I also pasted some cuttings into the mouth of the jar, as I could see into it, and it looked a little odd!

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  Step 5

  Leave the jar to dry in a warm area. Once it was dry, I cut out some images i liked and glued them onto each side of the pot to make it extra personal!

  And voila! Your pencils never looked snazzier!!

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Coraline · Cullman, Alabama, US · 4 projects 24th April 2012

I'm going to try this

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Jet H. · Haarlem, North Holland, NL · 108 projects 6th December 2009

lovely looking, i does me thinking of the early seventies, we did this with everything including the fourniture.LOL love it.

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