Fancy Candles
Stephanie Loomis, Editor and Guide

Candles are a great hostess gift, but the fancy ones in the stores are outrageously priced. With some creativity and inexpensive stickers, you can customize less expensive candles and create personalized gifts.

Supplies:

Inexpensive pillar candle : white or colored (Old Time Pottery is where I got mine, but wherever you can pick them up inexpensively)
Gold Christmas Stickers (Hobby Lobby)
Heat gun (Marvy)
Freezer paper or waxed paper

Optional:
white tissue paper
Silhouette Nativity stamp (The Angel Company)
Versafine ink: Onyx Black (Tsukineko)

Directions:

1. Decide a pattern for your stickers.
2. Hold the candle in the freezer paper.
3. Heat the candle just a bit to soften it.
4. Quickly attach stickers according to your plan.
5. Heat the candle again and roll it over the freezer paper to smooth the wax and blend in the sticker edges.

Optional:

1. Stamp the Nativity onto the tissue paper with black ink.
2. Tear around the image.
3. Heat a white or light colored candle just a bit.
4. Quickly press the tissue paper into the softened wax.
5. Then add the stickers as instructed above.