Thoroughly wash out the jar and remove any labels. If warm soap and water doesn’t remove the labels entirely, a product such a goo-gone works well.

Open the Design Space site and upload the “Christmas Blessings” project template.

Cut out the phrase on a piece of red Smart Vinyl using your Cricut Joy cutting machine.

Following the instructions on the screen, select “customize” to adjust the size of the phrase in order for it to fit on the mason jar.

In the toolbar, adjust the width of the template to 2”high.

Click “Continue”.

Load it into the cutting machine and unload when complete.

Weed out the lettering discarding the excess vinyl and keeping only the lettering needed.

Apply a piece of transfer tape to the lettering and remove the backing from the vinyl.

Apply the vinyl transfer to the bottom third of the glass jar. Carefully remove the transfer tape.

Fill about one the bottom third of the jar with clean sand.

Pour in the fake sand on top and level.

Cut down your photo of interest to size and place it standing up in the sand.

Add the bottle brush trees, largest in the back.

Put the photo inside leaning it against the big trees.

Place other accessories inside as well.

Tie some decorative ribbon and greenery around the neck of the jar.