A few months ago, one of my friends from work suggested we get together to have a "crafting day." Angela wanted to try making sugar scrubs and lip gloss and then create adorable decorations for our jars and pots of gloss using our new cricut machines! So we gathered up all of our supplies and got to work. Unfortunately, we couldn't find cute jars to use for our sugar scrubs...and we ran out of time to make cute things with our cricuts...and the lip gloss didn't turn out very good. Kind of a bust. But...it got my wheels a turnin' and I've been searching out good sugar scrub and lip gloss recipes ever since! After hours of searching on pinterest, I found some recipes that looked like they were worth a shot. I finally got the chance to try them this past week and had GREAT results! I was even able to find cute glass jars to use at Hobby Lobby. Anyway, with the help of a few awesome blogs, here are my results:
I can't take credit for the label...it was created by someone else and posted on this blog for all to use! So thank you for allowing me to use this awesome sugar scrub label for my gifts! :)
The recipe I used came from the same website as the label, I just tweaked it a little bit. Here is the altered recipe:
1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup olive oil
few drops of scented oil of your choice (I used vanilla)
I thought the jars turned out cute and will make fantastic gifts! I tried using modge podge to paste one of the labels onto the jar, but the ink smeared. :( So no more modge podge...for this project at least. Tacky glue seemed to work just as well without the smear.
As for the lip gloss...I found a recipe for homemade chapstick...and it turned out WAY better than I expected!! This blog gives you step by step instructions (which I will not take the time to re-type on here)...so go to her blog...follow the instructions...and pat yourself on the back when you see how cool your chapstick turns out!! :)
As you can see, (or maybe you can't see...) the labels on the chapstick tubes didn't turn out quite like I wanted them to. :( I spent hours on photoshop trying to figure out how to make these cute little labels and after I had them printed and stuck on the tubes, I realized that the ink was rubbing off with every touch. Grr. Apparently I need a different kind of printer... At any rate, the label that I had designed was really cute, so I stuck it on there anyway. The recipients of these gifts will just have to read the label quickly before it all smudges off on the inside of their pockets. :)
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