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Trash-to-treasure crafts are the best! Turn old spaghetti sauce jars into adorable nautical stripe vases using chalk paint. This is such an easy, inexpensive, and beautiful craft!

Trash-to-treasure crafts are the best! Turn old spaghetti sauce jars into adorable nautical stripe vases using chalk paint. This is such an easy, inexpensive, and beautiful craft!

I’ve been on a big nautical kick lately… Mainly because my Cape Cod coastal bedroom makeover has been the focus of my attention for the last several weeks.  Baked spaghetti has also been the focus of my attention lately.  It is seriously the easiest dinner recipe, and much cleaner than it’s un-baked counterpart.

“Girl, you have gone off the deep end!  What do coastal bedrooms and baked spaghetti have in common?”

I’ll tell you: the opportunity for some seriously cheap crafting!

See, this baked spaghetti requires the use of one jar of spaghetti sauce.  Yes, store-bought spaghetti sauce in a jar.  In an alternate universe I make spaghetti sauce from scratch, my children put away all of their toys, and I have a pet unicorn in my backyard.

Trash-to-treasure crafts are the best! Turn old spaghetti sauce jars into adorable nautical stripe vases using chalk paint. This is such an easy, inexpensive, and beautiful craft!

Basically, I had some glass spaghetti sauce jars lying around and decided to put them to use as fresh-flowers-from-the-farmer’s-market-season-approaches.

Trash-to-treasure crafts are the best! Turn old spaghetti sauce jars into adorable nautical stripe vases using chalk paint. This is such an easy, inexpensive, and beautiful craft!

Leftover Food Jars + Chalk Paint = Crafting Goodness

Trash-to-treasure crafts are the best! Turn old spaghetti sauce jars into adorable nautical stripe vases using chalk paint. This is such an easy, inexpensive, and beautiful craft!

Nautical Stripe Chalk Paint Jars

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Supplies

  • Jars, washed and labels removed
  • Chalk paint in colors of your choice.  I mixed my own custom colors and used BB Frosch chalk paint powder.  I also like the Martha Stewart Crafts chalk paint in these colors: Sailor Blue, Antique Sky, and Ivory.
  • Paint brushes

Trash-to-treasure crafts are the best! Turn old spaghetti sauce jars into adorable nautical stripe vases using chalk paint. This is such an easy, inexpensive, and beautiful craft!

How to make Nautical Stripe Chalk Paint Jars

Step 1 – Pick Your Colors

I mixed my own colors with BB Frosch chalk paint powder.  If you want a more straight-forward option, I really like these colors from Martha Stewart Paint.

Trash-to-treasure crafts are the best! Turn old spaghetti sauce jars into adorable nautical stripe vases using chalk paint. This is such an easy, inexpensive, and beautiful craft!

Step 2 – Start Seeing Stripes

I just kind of painted whatever stripes looked good to me.  I chose thicker stripes for the lighter colors, and thinner stripes for the dark navy.

Trash-to-treasure crafts are the best! Turn old spaghetti sauce jars into adorable nautical stripe vases using chalk paint. This is such an easy, inexpensive, and beautiful craft!

Since I painted the entire bottom of two of the jars, I just held the jar by the opening  and then let them dry upside-down. My hand looks so weird in that picture.  Great. Now I’m going to be super self-conscious about my hands in all of my pictures.  #bloggerproblems

Trash-to-treasure crafts are the best! Turn old spaghetti sauce jars into adorable nautical stripe vases using chalk paint. This is such an easy, inexpensive, and beautiful craft!Trash-to-treasure crafts are the best! Turn old spaghetti sauce jars into adorable nautical stripe vases using chalk paint. This is such an easy, inexpensive, and beautiful craft!

Step 3 – Coat # 2

I went over the stripes with a second coat of paint, just for good measure.  It seems like the darker the color, the more likely you are to need a second coat.

Trash-to-treasure crafts are the best! Turn old spaghetti sauce jars into adorable nautical stripe vases using chalk paint. This is such an easy, inexpensive, and beautiful craft!

Step 4 – Let Everything Dry & Enjoy

I just let everything dry for a few hours before putting my flowers in them.  I don’t think putting them in the dishwasher would be a good idea.  Hand washing is fine.

Trash-to-treasure crafts are the best! Turn old spaghetti sauce jars into adorable nautical stripe vases using chalk paint. This is such an easy, inexpensive, and beautiful craft!

So there you have it.  Too easy, right?

Now whenever I look at my new vases, I will be able to enjoy my farmer’s market flowers and think of baked spaghetti.  Mmmmm…. baked spaghetti. So. Good.

Happy painting all!

Trash-to-treasure crafts are the best! Turn old spaghetti sauce jars into adorable nautical stripe vases using chalk paint. This is such an easy, inexpensive, and beautiful craft!

Trash-to-treasure crafts are the best! Turn old spaghetti sauce jars into adorable nautical stripe vases using chalk paint. This is such an easy, inexpensive, and beautiful craft!

Trash-to-treasure crafts are the best! Turn old spaghetti sauce jars into adorable nautical stripe vases using chalk paint. This is such an easy, inexpensive, and beautiful craft!

7 Comments

  1. I am so out of touch with all the paints available out there, I need to do this!!! (In all my spare time) Thanks for sharing, love this!!

  2. Loving the shabby chic look of these jars 🙂 Thanks for sharing this tutorial! Visiting from the Pin Junkie link party.

  3. Love the jars, but I am having a problem with your Font it is very light for us older chicks so I am having a very hard time reading the tutorials . Am I the only one with that problem ? Thanks hin for sharing them.

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