Enjoy these free printable jar labels for home canning that you can customize with your own text. Use as a pratical and decorative touch for homemade jam, jelly, or food gift in a jar.
A few weeks ago the red currants were ripe in our garden. These little red berries are delicious for homemade jam. Today I will show you how to create homemade jam jar labels.
First I had to pick the berries or find a few helpers with little fingers who enjoy picking them for a few bucks = my sons Nicolas and Frédéric.
They eagerly picked ALL the red currants. We weighted them and summed up we had 2.6 kg of fruit.
I washed the red currants, took off the remaining leaves and put them in a net which I squeezed over a pot to extract the juice.
I added the special sugar for cooking jam to the juice and cooked it all up following the instructions on the sugar packaging.
We have collected glasses over the years which we use for our homemade products. Here they are filled with the delicious red currants jam.
The glasses are a bit dull and need a nice label to pimp them up. After cleaning my juice and jam sprinkled kitchen I switched to my computer to play a bit in Photoshop.
To create these labels you will need a sheet of adhesive label paper for your printer and scissors. Ribbons to embellish the glasses are also nice.
You can either make a label for the front of the glass (rectangular) …
or for the lid (circle). I will make both.
Free Printable: Jar Labels for Home Canning
I created a free printable for you which will probably work for most of the regular size glasses. Click link below and it will open the full-size printable. Right-click on it and click “save image as…” to save to your computer for printing or adding text.
Please note: this download is for personal, non-commercial use only. You are welcome to link to this page or pin on Pinterest, however the actual file/printable cannot be offered for download on any other site or blog.
Click here to download your Free Printable Jam Jar Labels
After saving, you can open this file in Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, or PicMonkey to add text digitally, or you can print it out first and write on the labels by hand.
I wrote ‘Kréischelen’ which means red currants in my native language Luxembourgish. My boys don’t understand English and remember that they were my willing helpers to pick the berries and cook the jam.
If you don’t add text on your computer, but want to hand write it, you can print right away on adhesive label paper. If you add text digitally, save the file as jpeg and print it on adhesive label paper.
Cut out the labels.
Carefully place them on your glass.
Wrap some raffia or ribbons around the glass and your product of love is ready to be stored, offered or delightfully tasted.
I think this post needs one last picture …
Homemade jam is simply the best!
About the Author: Caroline Kaiser is a talented artist and designer. You can view her designs, her blog, and learn more about her artistic endeavors at:
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Betty says
I like that you reuse jam jars from tat company. Does that mean you don’t process them for shelf storage but rather used for freezer jams?
PS love these labels….plan to use them for my crockpot Apple Butter!
Lorian says
These are lovely – I made some 3-berry jam and wanted something fresh and original and found your labels. Thank you for sharing!!!!
creativejewishmom/sara says
Love it!! thanks so much for sharing on craft schooling Sunday a whole month ago. I am back now after a month unplugged, and the party will be resuming this sunday as well, hope to see you there!
gigi says
These are SO pretty! Thank you so much for sharing them with everyone! I love them!
samantha says
Love these cute labels. Thanks for joining the Family Joy Link Party!
Kristen from The Road to Domestication says
That jam looks amazing! And your labels are super cute! Thanks so much for taking the time to link up with us over at the #HomeMattersParty – we hope you had a wonderful holiday weekend, and that we see you again this Friday! Feel free to bring a friend 🙂
Tammy @ creativekkids says
The jam looks so yummy; and your labels really dress up the jar! Thank you for linking up to the Bloggers Brags Pinterest Party. I am finally getting around to pinning your post to the Bloggers Brags Pinterest Board.
brandie says
Thanks Tammy! And thank you for pinning too! I always appreciate it.
Rhonda Gales says
These are adorable. Perfect timing for this post, it’s jam making time. I’ll be picking strawberries in a few weeks to make jam. The labels are perfect. Thanks for sharing on Sunday’s Best. Hope to see you again.
brandie says
Thanks Rhonda! I love how they are perfect for all sorts of jam making…especially those red and blue fruits. Enjoy your upcoming strawberry picking!
Evija says
Thank you for joining our Oh My Heartsie Girl Wordless Wednesday Link Party.. The jam looks amazing and the labels are so gorgeous, thank you for sharing! Have a great day, co-host Evija @Fromevijawithlove
brandie says
Thank you Evija! Thank you for hosting the linky!
Jerri says
Love the labels! I’m sure they’d make a great touch for gift giving! I’m featuring you this week for Friday Favorites.
Felissa says
Thank You for stopping by Inspire Us Tuesdays and leaving some inspiration behind. We would love for you to visit each week and leave some inspiration, find some inspiration, and borrow some of these ideas for yourself for the future.
Swathi says
You are right homemade jams best, those labels are cute, thanks for sharing with Hearth and Soul blog hop. pinning
Miz Helen says
Thanks so much for these awesome labels, I will be using these! What a great photo of your boys enjoying that delicious jam! Thanks so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday and have a great day!
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Miz Helen
Made From Pinterest says
What lovely labels! Thank you for sharing them!
Mindie Hilton says
Pinned for later! I love your pics. I bet my boys would want to eat it straight from the jar too. Hope to see you Friday for our Anything Goes linky.
Margaret Anne @ Natural Chow says
These labels are so pretty! I am pretty sure my brothers would look like the two boys at the end, digging right in. There is nothing like homemade.