We spend part of our winter in Arizona, and the rest of the year at our Michigan home. I have found that leaving baking supplies in plastic during the intense Arizona summer while we are in Michigan, is not a good idea. The heat causes the food to absorb an odor from the plastic containers. I prefer to keep my dry goods in glass jars anyway, so I will begin transferring dry ingredients to the jars this winter.

I have recently purchased some matte inkjet printable vinyl. This is just what I needed to make these cute kitchen jar print and cut labels.

Materials:

1. Inkjet vinyl (I purchased from HH Sign Supply)
2. Image
3. Printer
4. Make the Cut Software
5. Glass Jar
6. Red – capped blade

Settings for KNK ZIng:

1. Force – 40
2. Multi-Cut – 1
3. Speed – 10

Steps:

1. Import design and pixel trace in MTC.
2. Print design
3. Complete Print and Cut
4. Clean the glass jar. I like to clean the area which is going to receive the label with rubbing alcohol.
5. Apply label to glass jar.

Tips and things I learned during this project:

1. I was having trouble with my Print and Cut, even though I usually get a perfect result. So…. this should have been common sense and I almost hate to mention it. But, perhaps someone else will make the same mistake, so I will swallow my pride and tell you that I failed to consider that I was using a new computer and hadn’t calibrated the software yet. When I finally figured out what was wrong, I simply looked at my X Y values in MTC on my other computer and plugged them in. Perfection!
2. The printed vinyl seems to be waterproof. (I used an Epson printer with pigment ink. Your results may be different, depending on the ink used.)
3.  Some of the detail of my original image didn’t show up in the printed version, even though I printed at a high quality. While I still like the result, I will keep that in mind when I choose/ design my next image.

My local Walmart only had one of these jars. I will be making be making more labels when I am able to purchase more of these cute jars.