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today i have a fun video i'm going to show you how to make your own labels with packing tape and a
printer and that's all you need and they make the cutest little labels you can label everything in
your kitchen everything in your pantry i'm going to label a bunch of jars from my craft room here
and organize everything as so many possibilities so that's what i'm going to show you today
now there's probably a lot of seasoned crafters here that have always that i've already tried this
technique but i have a lot of beginner crafters here and i thought it would be fun to show you
guys how to make them now i have the graphics that i'm using today for the project are in my etsy
store so if you're interested you can head over there and check them out i have five sheets of all
different words that you can use on your canisters or your jars and check that out over there and i'm
also going to be picking somebody from my comments that will get a free set of the five sheets so
make sure you leave a comment below whether you've tried this technique or not and at the end of the
week after this is aired i'll pick somebody and i'll email you the graphics okay let's get started
and i'm going to put these labels on these glass jars that i picked up at the dollar store
and i got a bunch of different assorted sizes and they're perfect for my kitchen pantry
and this is what you're gonna need you're gonna need a credit card
you're going to need some good packing tape you're going to need some printed off labels
on regular computer paper but i've printed these off on my laserjet and some warm water
now i'm going to cut these down to size so they will fit onto a piece of the packing tape
and as i said before this technique will only work with a laserjet printer it won't work
with an inkjet i'll show you later on in the video of what happens when you use an inkjet
okay and now we're going to put the packing tape onto the graphic and i've put a little dime on the
table and just so when i go to pull the tape up it makes it a little bit easier just a little hack
and i find this works best if you use a good quality packing tape
it seems to adhere the ink better and you're just going to take that credit
card and you're going to really press down that tape right into that paper
now just peel it up off the table now i've cut all the excess tape off around the paper and
the back you can see is just the plain paper and the top has the packing tape on it and i'm
just going to finish up all the rest of these now we're going to take one of those labels and
put it in the warm water and it's going to curl up and you want to leave it for about 30 seconds
okay 30 seconds is up and now what you want to do is you want to unravel it
and take all the paper off the backside you're just going to use your finger and rub off all the
paper and as you do that the paper will come off and the lettering will stay on the packing tape
takes a little bit of patience and you might have to dip your fingers in the water and just wet it
a little bit around the corners or the edges but just keep rubbing until all the paper is off of it
now i'm going to get the rest of these done
once you have the labels done you want to just set them aside and let them dry
and as they dry that stickiness of the tape will come back to it so it will stick on your jar
okay now i'm going to put this flower one on one of the jars and show you how it adheres
if you have a little bit of the extra tape uh above the graphics you can always just
take your scissors and just kind of trim them down to the size that you need them
and as you can see it's sticky and it's gonna adhere right to the glass jar
so make sure you have your glass jar nice and clean before you put the label on and you're just
gonna set it down gently get all the air bubbles out of it press it down firmly and it'll stick
right to your jar now these of course are not dishwasher safe they will just peel right off
but you can just wipe them down with a damp damp rag if you need to okay now i'm going
to show you what happens when you use an inkjet printer as soon as you go to rub off that paper
it'll take the lettering right off also so this is a project only for a laserjet printer
and there you have a fun way to make quick easy labels with packing tape
for your pantry i'm going to make some of these after i'm done my pantry jars for my craft room
and these are the five sheets of labels that i have available in my etsy store if anybody's
interested in purchasing them i'll put a link below in the description and you can purchase them
and make your own labels
i hope you've enjoyed today's tutorial and have inspired you to make some of your own labels
with packing tape thanks for watching and have a great day