Tuesday 27 November 2012

Christmas Candles


Have you ever needed a really quick last minute gift? Here's how you can give something really pretty that is quick and simple to make.

First you will need the following. 
Plain candles in a size of your choice.



You will also need some white tissue paper, stamps of your choice and  metallic markers




Scribble the pen over your stamp, don't worry these pens are water based so they will just wash off your stamp.
Lay your tissue paper over the stamp and pat down gently till you see that the image has been transferred, peel off the paper very carefully, it is quite fragile. 



When you have your images all stamped, cut your tissue paper to size, it needs to wrap totally around the candle. Lay it over your candle and adjust the position until you are happy. 


Now take a piece of waxed paper that is longer and wider than the candle. if you do not have ready waxed paper you can easily make some. Take a piece of tracing paper or parchment paper and rub a white candle over it til you have a very light covering of wax.


Keeping your tissue paper wrapped tightly and very flat around the candle, you should now wrap the waxed paper around the candle too. As this paper is bigger there will be  an excess of paper, fold this over to make a handle for yourself.

Make sure both the tissue paper and waxed paper are completely flat and tight against the candle. 
Now take a heat gun on a low setting and very gently heat the candle all over. There is a fine line between melting the tissue paper into place and causing the whole candle to disintegrate. so slow and gentle is the way. 


Basically you are heating  so that the tissue paper is trapped between the wax of the candle and the thin layer of wax from the waxed paper. As you heat you will see areas start to look a little 'wet' through the paper as soon as you see this move onto the next area.

when finished you will not be able to see the tissue paper at all, just the designs that you have stamped. 



Now for the exciting part, I have a pack of LETRASET metallic pens to give away.




Rules of the giveaway.

1. You must leave a comment on my Christmas Candle post over on the Letraset blog.

AND

2. You must add your name to the link widget below. If you don't have a blog, instead of adding your name to the linky widget, just leave it in the comments.

Your name must be in both places.

GIVEAWAY NOW ENDED





Giveaway will end at midnight GMT on Sunday 2nd December 2012


22 comments:

  1. Don't have an active blog. But pretty candles and seem like a fun project.

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  2. This is an awesome tutorial. I didn't think about making your own waxed paper! Great tip!

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  3. I don't have an active blog either, but I love these candles and I know a couple of people would like one for Christmas. Thanks for the tips and instructions.

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  5. Thanks Darcy - great idea. x

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  6. this is a great tutorial! thank you! would love to try these pens. thank you for the giveaway!

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  7. You're so clever, Darcy! The final effect looks awesome. And what a great giveaway :)) x

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  8. You make it look so easy. It never works for me. The candles are lovely.

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  9. Great idea - you make it look really easy ;)

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  10. Great effect - I have a few plain white candles in my stash, will have to give it a go!

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  11. love it, thanks for the chance to win!!

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  12. I had forgotten about this I made some yrs ago, thanks for the reminder xx

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  13. I'm going to make some of these for Christmas. They're awesome.

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  14. oh wow, what a wonderful idea for the last minute!! i love love loved the markers... wouldn't they look great for working on gift tags as well?

    i know i am being a bit greedy... but i want those metallic markers as well!! :) hope you have a blast this Christmas.
    Love, Shalaka :)

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  15. Oh my gosh, this is great. Now I know what I am going to give my sister for Christmas!!!! I just know my daughter will want to do this with me. Thanks!

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  16. thanks for the wonderful tut I love snowflakes and thank you for the chance to win some sweet metallic markers

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  17. What a wonderful gift! Great tutorial for a really neat Christmas gift.

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  18. Haven't updated my blog in ages, so I'll just leave my name here. Great tutorial Darcy!!

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  19. Great will try this out, what a lovely present xthankyou

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  20. Wonderful opportunity !!!
    Thank you so very much !

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  21. Amazing candle decoration at every occasion is so excited. I want the design of candle of light with big one, so give me the whole details of that. If you want the light candle with great knowledge then take a look on that: www.waxations.com

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