Frosted Luminary DIY with Free Clover Template for St. Patrick's Day

Are you ready to make a St. Patrick’s Day DIY? See our tutorials for how to make a Frosted Luminary. It has a shamrock but, you can but you can easily adapt this tutorial if you want something different, like a flower shape. You’ll enjoy making, and lighting this frosted luminary DIY. Use it for your St. Patrick’s Day decor.

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Frosted Luminary DIY

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Frosted St. Patrick’s Day Luminary DIY

This one of our many mason jar crafts. Let’s get started on today’s craft idea.

Materials List of Supplies

Wide-mouthed glass canning jar
Mod Podge
Sponge
Glitter (white/iridescent and green)
Black glitter card stock
Shamrock template printable
Paintbrush
Scissors
Pencil
Tealight candle or green Shamrock mini lights

Instructions for creating your luminary

Begin by cutting the shamrock shape freehand or grab the free printable Shamrock Template. This is slightly different than the freehand one. You can use this one or search here for other 3 and 4-leaf free – clover templates.
Trace the template onto a piece of black glitter card stock and cut it out. You can use just one shamrock, or cut out two, one for each side of the jar.
Paint mod podge all over the front of your black cardstock shamrock shapes.
Place the cardstock shamrock with the mod podge on it into the inside wall of the jar with the pod modge side against the jar. Paint some additional mod podge onto the back of the shamrock shape while it is attached to the wall inside of the jar.
Pour some mod podge into a bowl or other container, and mix in some iridescent glitter as well as some green glitter. We used lime green colored glitter to keep things light and frosty.
Dab a small sponge into the glitter mixture and dab off the excess on the side of the bowl. Gently tap the glitter mix onto the jar with the sponge, tapping it along the entire surface, You can do two layers of the glitter mixture on the outside of the jar to create a truly frosty appearance.
Let the jar dry completely.
Place a battery-operated tealight candle, fairy lights or a battery-operated green shamrock mini light set like the one shown in our photo. These small Shamrock light sets can be found at the Dollar Tree and Amazon.