| Bring Warmth to a Home With Hand-Decorated Candles |
Cathie Filian and Steve Piacenza, cohosts of Creative Juice, provide step-by-step instructions for decorating candles.
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Candles are perfect for gift-giving during the holiday season or adding a decorative touch to your own home.
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Oct. 20, 2008 — Creating elegant candles is easier than it looks. The rich texture and patterns are created with rubber stamps, embossing powders and a little tissue paper. Candles are perfect for gift-giving this holiday season or simply to decorate your own home. Materials: light-colored pillar candle
white tissue paper
scissors
rubber stamp
black ink pad
purple embossing powder
embossing gun
Luminarte Twinkling H2Os watercolors
paintbrush
parchment paper
small scrap booking eyelets
candle paint pen (Candle Decopaint by Marvy was used for this project.) Steps: 1. Cut a piece of tissue paper that is large enough for your stamp. One side of the tissue paper will be slightly glossy. Ink your rubber stamp and stamp onto the glossy side of the tissue paper. 2. Sprinkle embossing powder on the image on the tissue paper and tap off the excess. Heat the powder on the candle with an embossing gun until the image is embossed. 3. Swirl a wet paintbrush into the Twinkling H2O and color in the background of your stamp. (If you don't have Twinkling H2O watercolors, any other type of watercolor will work.) Make sure your paintbrush is not too wet or your tissue paper may tear. Allow to dry (drying takes 10 to 20 minutes). 4. Cut a piece of parchment paper large enough to cover your image and wrap all the way around the candle, plus an extra piece several inches long. Trim the excess tissue paper around the edges of your image. Place the image onto your candle. The embossed side of the image can face in toward the candle or outward, depending on your preference. We placed the embossed side inward for a more antiqued look. Wrap the parchment paper tightly around the candle, using the excess parchment paper in the back as a handle. 5. Move your embossing gun over the image to melt the tissue paper into the candle. You will be able to see the wax melting through the parchment paper. Once you see the wax melt in one area, move the embossing gun to another area so as not to melt the candle too much. When the entire image has melted into the candle, carefully remove the parchment paper. 6. Add details to the candle with scrapbooking eyelets and candle paint pens. While the candle is still warm from step 5, press eyelets into the candle at the corners of the image. Add dots and lines with candle paint pens and then allow the candle paint to dry for 24 hours. (Emmy nominated Cathie Filian and Steve Piacenza cohost Creative Juice. For more information log on to www.cathiefilian.com. Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service.)
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