Hi Everyone
Welcome to 3D with Jaydee! Today's project shows you how to create embossed candles. Of course, I had to use delightful decorations for this project – as well as Dasher. I made the Delightful Decorations candles to go with the card I made a couple of weeks ago. To make this candle project you need the following tools:
- Tissue paper
- Stamp
- Ink (in my case I used embossing powder)
- Heat gun
- Candle
- I began by cutting a piece of tissue paper to fit my candle – about 1/4 inch from the bottom of the candle and 1/4 inch from the top of the candle (before the tapered part).
I made the tissue just long enough that there was a little overlap at the end
- I then took the tissue paper and used my embossing buddy all over the tissue paper to try to remove as much static as I could from the paper.
- I laid out the paper and stamped my images both on and half off the paper.
- I sprinkled the silver embossing powder liberally over my tissue paper until I had the coverage I need.
- I then set the embossed images with my heat gun
- Next comes the more tricky bit…. this just takes a little bit of practice. BE CAREFUL ON THE NEXT STEPS. Make sure that you have cover on whatever surface you are working on and remember that you will be working with heated wax from the candle so make sure that you supervise children and are careful when handling the candle.
- I didn't follow my own advice, of course, and ended up with waxy fingers, because, of course, I have no patience and heated the candle too fast…. so.. have patience! 🙂
- Next thing to do is to place your paper on your covered work surface and put the candle in place.
I rolled the paper around the candle until it was about half way and used that as my starting point. What you have to do here is to melt the wax of the candle just enough that it causes the tissue paper to absorb some of the heated wax. It doesn't take as much heat as you might think. If you heat it too much – then you get too much wax meltage and it starts to drip. So, just take it carefully and I promise you it will be worth having just a little patience. - Use your heat gun along the edge CLOSEST to you at this point. You can gently tap the paper into place – this creates the seam.
Continue to roll the candle and run your heat gun left to right up and down the candle – just melting the wax enough to have the tissue paper stick to it. I kept stopping to let it cool and then smoothed out the paper after every 3rd roll or so.
- The key is that the wax melts just enough – you will see the paper absorbing the wax. Once it does that – move to the next spot and continue.
- You work your way all around the candle and at the end you will be left with a little bit of overhang of paper. I cut the paper just after the overhang and then did another quick melt on that spot and pushed the overhang into the wax.
- Just wait for a few seconds for the wax to cool – then you can pick it up and voila – you are done. It really is quite simple – as I said, the key is patience and getting the wax melted just enough. I'd suggest practicing on a small candle first if you want to.
I made two of them and put them in a little box with tissue paper and ribbon and the card that I made. Unfortunately, when I came to do my blog update, I realized I hadn't uploaded the pics of that before I left!!!
I'll be doing more of these when I get back as they really do make fabulous gifts. I first saw this technique on a stamping tv station and knew that I had to give it a try.
I hope you all have a fabulous day today and that you get to spend time doing the things you love – with those you love the most.
As always, thanks for visiting my little space in the stamping blogosphere – where your visits are always appreciated.
Jaydee
