Bernardin – The Perfect Crafting Toolkit! #FMEGifts #Giveaway
Gone are the days when mason jars would be used solely for home canning! This holiday season, take these timeless pieces and transform them into perfect decorations and even gifts! Candleholders, flower vases, light fixtures – the possibilities are endless!
Bernardin has many products that are great to give to a crafter or for a crafter to put together handmade, unique gifts. I was sent what is truly the ultimate crafting toolkit from Bernardin including a Gift Jar Kit, Decorative Mason Jars, Parowax and Limited Edition Blue Vintage Jars!
The Gift Jar Kit includes 8 cloth lid covers, 8 “To:/From:” labels, 8 “A Gift For You!” hang tags, Stretch loops and Ribbon rolls all neatly packaged inside a 1 Litre mason jar. This kit makes it easy to dress up and decorate your canning creations for the perfect personalized gift. I used my kit to package up homemade gifts of “cookies in a jar”. It was easy to do since everything I needed to package my gifts was included in the kit!
The Bernardin Decorative 250 mL Jars come in a box of 12, along with standard mouth snap lids, and 12 decorative labels. The jars have a textured decorative surface featuring different fruits along with a smooth area perfect for the labels. These jars would be great for candles, decorations and for gifting preserves.
The Parowax included will be perfect for making my own candles with the Decorative Jars. I can’t wait to get started as I’ve always wanted to try and make my own! Parowax is a highly refined paraffin wax for sealing jars and for home candle making. I think some homemade candles would also make for great homemade gifts your friends and loved ones will appreciate!
I really love Bernardin’s new Limited Edition Blue Vintage Jars, they are so beautiful and unique. These jars celebrate the history of home canning and mark the 100th anniversary of the first true “Perfect Mason” jar. They feature a period-inspired blue colour and vintage-inspired packaging. They make it easy to add a retro look to your centrepieces, hanging lanterns, flower vases and more!
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One Canadian Frugal Mom Eh reader will win the Ultimate Crafting Toolkit including a Gift Jar Kit, Decorative Mason Jars, Parowax and Limited Edition Blue Vintage Jars! Giveaway Ends January 3rd 2014 at 11:59 pm EST. See Giveaway Tools form for Entry and T&C.
Disclosure: I received the above mentioned product in order to facilitate this review. All thoughts and opinions are honest and my own.
mango jam
I would make Jelly Papper Relish.
I would make some homemade strawberry preserves. I love the blue ball jars, wish I could find some in the stores around here. Thanks!
i’d make pepper jelly!
raspberry jelly
I would make bottled meats and jams
I would make jam, hopefully blackberry jam!
I would totally can tomatoes next summer
I’d use these to make jams for friends and family.
I would make a candle for a gift!
some candles
I make green juice and use these jars to store the juice for a day or two in the fridge. I also use the jar as a drinking glass.
I need to do new chutney 🙂
Love the blue jars!
I will make candles.
I want to try doing outside Patio lanterns. with citronella candles.
I would cookie mixes for gifts!
I so want these blue jars I put them on my wish list to Santa. Alas, he wans’t able to find them or make them. Blue is one my favourite kitchen colours!
would make jam!
I would make ‘salads in a jar’
Bernardin has the best sugar-free pectin! My jams & jellies turn out perfect every time! I can pretty much EVERYTHING (it’s totally addictive!), and I find their jars the strongest, their products the best, and I know I’ll have a winning product if I used there’s!
I would love to try my hand at making some jams, homemade salsas or jelly!
apricot jelly is my all time fav but have not yet attempted to make own….that’s what I would try and make 🙂
I have always wanted to make candles.
The blue jars are gorgeous. I think I would use most of them for decoration even though I love canning.
LOVE the blue jars!!
Bernardin is the only brand of strong glass preserving jars I use or recommend to anyone. I do lots of preserving and pickling in the spring and fall, and Bernardin has never let me down. Quality I have come to rely on, used for generations past and future.
I would want to show off the blue color of the jars and make some White Wine Jelly or Gold Leaf Jelly … something very clear so the blue jars would shine like jewels!
I would probably patiently await next years tomatoes and make chili sauce.
I’d make strawberry jam
I would fill some jars for my granddaughters. I would fill them with the ingredients to make brownies. all dry ingredients so all they have to do is ad the egg and water. it is easy baking for when they are in the mood. young kids love this
The cookies in a jar set.
Absolutely candles -love candles
I would make jam
I would make homemade Salsa
I’d love to make some jam for friends!
I would make apple jelly.
I would make scented candles
Crabapple Jelly
I would make a trip to my dearest friend’s house and have tea while she makes something fabulous to put in the jars. She is amazing talented when it comes to canning!
I would give this to my daughter-in-law. She is very talented and would enjoy this.
i would make candies
jam, jelly, salsa…its endless!
My husband and I like to make candles for gifts…so I think that is what we would make
I would use them for cupcakes in a jar!
I would make strawberry jam.
Carrot pudding and old recipe
Red pepper jelly and strawberry jam
I would make salsa
salsa!
Would use for candles
I would make pickled jalapenos (from my garden)
Some sugar free jams!
jam
I would make bake apply jelly
We would make jam. 🙂
Any jam…or candles would be fun to try with my daughter.
I would make raspberry jam
I would love to make some jam.
I would love to use the jars to make some homemade candles!
Blackberry jam.
Thanks for the chance.
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Tomato sauce and chutneys
Strawberry jam.
I’d try my hand at jam!
I think I’d make candles in them 🙂 thanks!
I would make strawberry jam
Id make strawberry jam- so reminds me of my mom and helping her make jam
I would love to make candles!
I would like to make mayflower scented candles.
jalapeno Jelly for me!
I have a book of jar recipes id love to try out.
I like all the suggestions listed here but I didn’t see home made coffee liquor.
cookie mix in a jar or some other dry mixtures that are great for gifts.
I would make granola.
I would make jam and beets in the fall.
I would make strawberry jam for family and friends.
Layered cookie mix in a jar.
Great contest! 🙂
I would make salsa!!!
Candles, candles, and more candles…I have always loved these jars…they just scream yummy!
I would make brilliantly tart and wonderful ruby red Cranberry Jam ! So yummy, especially at this time of year.
I’d make a window display.
I would make tomato sauce
blueberry jam
I love canning stuff but never have the proper tools to do so and my food usually ends up in the garbage 🙁
The first thing I would whip up with these babies would be some delicious homemade black currant Jam (we pick them in the summer) YUMMY!!!!
Thanks for the chance!
pickled beets
Jam
make hanging tea light holders for my vintage style wedding
Homemade granola!!
I would make apple jelly
Something will all the cherries from my cherry tree. Jam maybe?
I would can baked beans!!!
I would make Chili Peach Butter.
I would make hanging candle holders to hang from my pagoda
I’ve been wanting to try fresh spaghetti sauce 🙂
I got into canning in the past six months – I joined a CSA this past summer and I wanted to preserve the freshness of the Harvest to enjoy during our long winter. If I won the first thing I would can would be some turkey stew – got a free turkey using points at the grocery store! The CSA and pressure canner
investment means I can make ready meals in jars , had good success so far
I’m unsure what I’d make 🙂 turkey stock is next on my list 🙂 the candles would be fun!
I would make salsa!
I would make lots of canned red grapefruit segments in honey! I think I would also pack my lunch in the blue jars because they are too pretty.
Making snow globes would be fun.
Cookies in a jar for our up coming bday party
Relish and jam!
I would make salsa to share with my friends
I would make jams and pickles!! We bottle (can) many things. We also bottle wild meat for the winter as part of our tradition.
my moms pickles 🙂
Fruit salad yum
candles
I think I would make some candles.
Some type of berry jam!
pickeled beets
January is the perfect time for making marmalade 🙂
I’d make jam
sugar scrubs
Canned pickles!!
Raspberry Jam!
I would like to make an indoor herb garden with some
I’d make my hubby salsa!
marmalade
spicy tomato jam
Green pepper Jelly….one of my favourites!
I would make jam.
Homemade salsa, seems to disappear so quickly!
it would be salsa
I would try some candles. I love the country look.
split pea and ham soup to give away for christmas. it always makes people warm and toasty on a cold winter day!
love candles so think I would like to make some candles with the kit!
Tomato sauce.
I would try making my own candles first 🙂
my famous chutney
I would love to make lights with some and then gifts. You just can’t go wrong with mason jars.
apple sauce, or candles
pickles
I would make (more) body scrubs. This year the ladies in my family are getting lemon & thyme salt scrub with olive oil and coconut oil and brown sugar body scrub in a little self-care kit. That’s the first thing on my list – a batch for me!
Rhubarb ginger jam! I made all my own jam for years, and now that I have moved I have no jars! 🙁
I would make apple butter.
salsa, jam, granola – they all sound amazing
I would make jam
tomato jam
Apple chutney. I love chutney but can’t have it very often. However my brother loves the apple chutney I make and has ‘offered’ to take as many jars as I give him. He has introduced many people to the joys of chutney!
candles to be made
I would make some mustard pickles.
peach jam
Red pepper jelly!
Spicy pickled beans!
strawberry jam
plum jam
jams
Strawberry jam yummy
I would make some really decorative meals/baking in a jar kits.
I would make strawberry jam
Jam
apple jelly
Candles!
I love my spaghetti sauce!
I would make Apricot Jam
I would use them to make up pancake mixes for my niece and nephew
I’d make red pepper jelly.
salsa
jam
Every Summer our family goes Strawberry picking out at Emmalea Farms and we also pick up Blueberries in July, then in August we head to the Okanagan for fresh Peaches. We also jar our own jams every year so these jars would be for Strawberry Jam homemade!
Candles!
Cake in a jar!
I would put all dry ingredients for cookies in the jar, and put a label on it of what wet ingredients to add. its the perfect homemade gift. cookies in a jar!
I would make some snow globes as well as salsa !
I’d make some Cranberry-Apple pie filling.
This is AWESOME! Those blue jars are amazing!!!!!!
I would make my Cranberry Pistachio bark and package it up as yummy Christmas gifts.
Apple Crisp Refrigerator Oatmeal
I’d love to try to make salsa.
Apple Jelly!
Raspberry jam!
dill pickels
preserves!
I would put them away till next summer then make strawberry jam and gift them to my friends who don’t can. :).
If I won this the first thing I would make would be antipasto.
I would make sets of jar glasses-drinking, flowers, candies etcs- for my freinds.
tomato sauce
I would make salsa
thanks
I would make jalapeno jelly!
I would probably make jam as that seems pretty easy to do.
I would make salsa for gifts
I’d make my mom’s amazing apple butter.
I’d make strawberry jam.
I love the idea of making homemade candles!
I would make red pepper jelly
I would make some yogurt to put into these jars.
I would make lemon curd. My Mum makes this at least once every year at Christmas time.
Mustard relish
home made jam, nothing better, strawberries & champagne, yummy
I’d make cranberry chutney!
JAM
If I won I would make Candle holders out of them, thank you:)
Pasta sauce.
I would make pickles.
I would try making salsa!
i would make the cookies in a jar
Soon I will be making Maple syrup. (End of March)
oh ive been wanting to have the jars..
If I were to win, the first thing I would do is put ingredients for some simple recipe inside the jars for gifts for the teachers at my local elem school.
Jam!
I would make those salads that I’ve seen on pinterest before, that last for like a week in a mason jar. These: http://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=mason%20jar%20salad
Preserves
Jam! Raspberry is my favourite to make.
I would make galaxy lights for the kids’ rooms! It is awesome!! All you need is some aluminum foil, a mason jar, paint, a printed picture of a section of the night sky, and some glow sticks. My kids can’t get enough of these!!
Salsa never can have to much
Jams or pickles!
Strawberry Jam
I’d like to try a homemade snow globe
I’d make red pepper jelly.
I remember seeing the blue jars many years ago, very cool that they brought them back!
I would make freshly juiced drinks for my boyfriend to take to work, as well as use the containers for dry cookie mixes 🙂
My daughter is vegan and we use these jars to store/creats vegan recipes for her! Could always use more! Thanks
raspberry jam
strawberry jam
granola to gift to friends
Bernardin is the only choice I use for crafting and preserving. Their quality has never let me down, and their dependability has never disappointed. I would be honored to receive such a package 🙂 And my family and friends would love the items I could use it for.
I have always wanted to make a jalapeno jelly 😀
spaghetti sauce
I would do a cookies in a jar kit to giveaway. A nice gift.
I would make vintage snow globes or candles with a piece of jewelry at the bottom!
Crabapple Jelly
Would love to try and make homemade candles and like this idea for decorating them from their Pinterest site http://www.pinterest.com/pin/195414071301859541/
I would make candles!
I would love to make antipasto again