Just a tiny boast

[A.T.Hagan]

I ended up making my own canning labels and am so pleased with them I want to show them off.

The background was a freebie download and I added the lettering.

Probably won't use them on every jar, but the wife really likes giving jars of stuff to friends and family so we'll use them on those jars.

I promise not to fill the board up with junk like this.

.....Alan.

 

[Deemy]

How do you put them on jars? Do you tape them on or do you have a sticky back labels? Need more room for date!

 

[A.T.Hagan]

I want to get the labels back off again so I decided against adhesive labels like Avery. I tried their peelable labels and they don't stick on glass reliably.

Probably just use a bottle of mucilage since it's easy to apply. A quick swipe across the top and the bottom and the label is ready to apply. Tape would work too, but then you'd have to get it off the glass again. Mucilage is water soluble. Probably could use kid's white glue as well, I suppose.

That's the actual size of the label. Isn't the date clear enough?

.....Alan.

 

[Freeholdfarm]

Alan, that's neat! Where did you find the background?

Kathleen

 

[ejagno]

I absolutely love it. The background is awesome. I use the Avery labels but I use the 2" round ones and apply them to the lid (since it's not recycable) so that I don't have to scrub and scrape to get them off of my jars. The graphic is great and I think the date is nicely done as well.

I cooked a huge spaghetti meat sauce with mushrooms, a huge vegetable beef soup, a huge pot of chili and smothered a ton of okra with tomatoes, bellpepper, & onions, approx. 5 lbs. of seasoned boiling okra, 8 heads of cabbage with tasso and sausage yesterday. I've been canning all night so I'm barely coherant but it's much cooler to do alot of canning at night.

It's all worth it because those jars are beautiful!!!

 

[A.T.Hagan]

Alan, that's neat! Where did you find the background?

Kathleen

The background came from here: http://www.hoodriverfruitloop.com/recipes/labelsfruit.htm

I did the lettering in Paint Shop. I'm not very good with it, but I eventually beat my head against it long enough to figure the lettering out.

Not a lot of good background stuff out there for making labels that I could find.

I really like the old-fashioned fruit and vegetable crate labels and the old can labels like used to be used from the mid-twentieth century and before.

.....Alan.

 

[juco]

Alan, that's way cool! Where did you get the freebie download?

My children think I have a canning jar fetish, as I won't even let them help me write the dates/contents on the labels. They have to be just so or I'll discard them and write out a new one.

Then, after the jars are all processed and labeled and sitting in nice neat rows on the counter, I'll sit at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee , admiring them.

Sad, isn't it?

 

[juco]

Ah, I see you posted teh link while I was typing. Thanks.

 

[theoutlands]

Awesome stuff, Alan!! Thanks for the link!

Found another set of labels on their site:
http://www.hoodriverfruitloop.com/recipes/labelskitchen.htm

 

[Mushroom]

If you decide to put the Avery lables directly on the jars, they can be removed by filling the empty jar with HOT water and heating the jar. The lables will peel off intact if you do it slowly and carefully. Just a little FWIW.

Mushroom

 

[A.T.Hagan]

I couldn't find a bottle of the old-fashioned mucilage that I wanted in the couple of stores I looked in so what I ended up with are Elmer's School Glue Sticks. They're supposed to be water soluble as in easy cleanup. A swipe across the top of the label and another across the bottom and on the labels goes.

So far they seem to adhere pretty well even on textured glass.

Makes for a rather handsome presentation even if I do say so myself.

I'm printing ten labels to the page at the moment, but I think I may reduce their size somewhat and print twelve to the page on the next run.

.....Alan.

 

[nutkin]

Very, very sharp! I like it!

Great idea....I've been looking for something/some idea for labels for what I've been putting up. Thanks for the link, too!