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What you need: New/used Candle(Preferably white, cream,
tan or beige), Glue stick, tissue paper (facial), hair dryer, printer and
design materials(optional)
How to do it:
1.) First you have to find the image you want to put on the candle. It can
be a picture of you, your mother, your kids, grand kids, or the whole family.
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| This is the Image that I used. |
2.) Insert the image to Microsoft Word. Make sure it’s on landscape
mode. Adjust the image on the center of the page and make sure it’s the
same size as your candle.
3.) Attach a piece of tissue paper (1 ply) to a piece of
paper by putting glue around the edges. This will keep the tissue paper
in place as it goes through the printer. Load the tissue paper into the printer
and print the image onto it.
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| You can see how the image is just at the middle of the tissue paper. |
4.) Cut the tissue paper along the side where the glue is.
Make sure that it’s the same width (or a little smaller) than the height of
your candle.
5.) Wrap the tissue strip around your candle to make sure it
fits. Put a line of glue directly on the candle where the end of the
tissue meets to hold the tissue in place.
6.) Blow the heat using the hair dryer at the candle moving
slowly over the tissue paper. Don’t stay in one place too long or the wax will
start to pool. As the wax begins to melt, it will seep through the tissue
paper. Shortly your whole candle will be smooth wax with the tissue paper
image underneath. Look at the image below.
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| The wax is seeping through the tissue paper. |
7.) Design your candle with embellishments like buttons,
beads, ribbons, etc. I have some beads and gemstones lying around so I used
that to design my candle.
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| End Result! |
You can wrap your candle with a clear plastic and add some raffia or ribbon
to the top as your finishing touch.
Advance Happy Mother’s Day!
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