Mason Jar Matchbox

My son's close friend is getting married soon and we were invited to their wedding shower on Saturday. We are giving them money instead of a gift since they are going to live overseas after they are married, but I always like to do something a little creative when I give cash to make the gift interesting. Their wedding is being held on a farm and their invitations are in the shape of a mason jar so I used that as my jumping off point. Have a look at my last post (here) to see all the amazing things people use mason jars for. One of the things I saw online (here) was using a mason jar to store matches. I loved the idea.



I had a look around to see if I had what was needed, but I didn't have any sandpaper to cover the lid to use to strike the match on. I was all in favour of using what I had around the house and didn't want to have to go out to the store just to buy new sandpaper so I decided to cut the strike strip from a new matchbox we had and use that on the lid instead.  

Here's how I made it:

• I traced the metal lid onto a piece of cardboard from a tissue box and cut it out.  
• I cut a hole for the matches to come out of.  
• Then I covered the lid with some wedding wrapping paper so that it looked pretty.
• Then I glued a piece of the strike strip on the lid.

I even added some wedding wrapping paper to cover the cardboard on the underside of the lid.

I couldn't resist a wedding pun on the label.

Here's to many years of lighting candles for cozy romantic dinners and birthday candles on cakes and maybe a campfire or two.

Linked to DIY Project Parade at DIY Showoff,
Tuesday's Treasures at My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia,
WOW Us Wednesday at Savvy Southern Style,
Inspiration Friday at At the Picket Fence,
Just Something I Whipped Up at The Girl Creative