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Ice cream float candles

Starla and Lisa share how to make an ice cream float candle. Their instructions are easy to follow and I love the fact that they include many pictures and are not afraid to get down and dirty. Supplies needed for this project:

Metal Ice-cream scoop
Hand held mixer
Knife
Hard paraffin wax
Color blocks of your choice. (Brown is good [...]

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Candle Stenciling

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Nancy Henning shares this project from StencilSearch.com. I love the stencil idea because I can not draw anything that is recognizable. For this project you will need a few simple things.

Plain White Candle
Rubbing Alcohol
Candle Painting Medium
Acrylic Paint
Stencil
Stencil Brushes
Stencil Adhesive
Rubber Bands
Blue Tape
Paper Towels

I found the brushes and paint at Michael’s craft store. No matter [...]

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Pressed Flower Candles

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For a nostalgic country sort of look, try pressing flowers or leaves onto your candle. A pillar would give you more area to work with, but a tapered candle could be decorated more quickly.
First, heat enough wax to dip and seal your candle when it’s done. Arrange the flowers, leaves or herbs in a [...]

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Gothic Martha Stewart…It’s a goth thing

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Trystan L. Bass from the Gothic Martha Stewart site shares how to make elegant embossed candles. For this project you will need:

Pillar Candles
Tissue Paper
Rubber Stamps
Pigment Ink Pads
Embossing Powders
Embossing tool or heat gun

I find the metallic embossing powder striking, especially when combined with a black or dark red colored candle. Things are not always sunshine and [...]

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Making Your Own Candle Molds

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Do the prices for those silicone candle molds make you cringe? Making your own is not that difficult and you definitely have more options than what the store offers. The next time I find a giant strawberry, I’m making a mold out of it. Maybe I’ll even drizzle some fake chocolate onto the [...]

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Yummy Candles

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Candle Bay makes these delicious looking birthday cake candles. I love the one that’s adorned with ice cream cones. They would make wonderful decorations for a birthday party although I would be nervous about having them around younger children because they really do look good enough to eat.
Another one of my favorites is their gel [...]

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Creating Aromatherapy Candles

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Adding a few drops of essential oil to your melted wax before pouring is a simple way to make an aromatherapy candle. Alternately, if you want to add an aromatherapy scent to an unscented candle you can put several drops of essential oil around the wick before lighting. Essential oils are not the same as [...]

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Which wax is best?

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It depends on what you’re using it for. If you want to make rolled candles, beeswax is best because it’s more malleable than paraffin. Spiral candles are fun and easy to make. You just warm a beeswax sheet a little until it softens and then cut the sheet into a triangle, place the wick along [...]

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Carving Candles

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Tracy Birch shows us how she carves candles in this short documentary on youtube. She does amazingly intricate designs by cutting, twisting and carving multiple layers of candle colors and later glazes it for a beautiful shine. She said she trained intensely for three months but she does it so gracefully she makes it seem [...]

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Grubby Candle Making

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If you like grubby rustic looking candles Starla and Lisa’s candle making website offers step by step instructions. A classic primitive country style type of candle is usually made with darker colors on the outside and is achieved by “caking” the candle with whipped wax. To make the whipped wax, [...]

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