James candle

I like to make a centre piece for our Christmas table with candles, baubles and greenery, but this is the first year I have tried to transfer an image onto a candle to use in my decoration.

My first attempt was on a very old candle, which was lurking in the Christmas box in the garage. Yesterday I went to our local village to get some more candles but the only ones I was able to buy had a film on them, which meant the image wouldn’t transfer. I resorted to the potato peeler to remove the film and the image transferred well after that. I used James and the snowman by LOTV, stamped it onto tissue paper and coloured it with promarkers. I transferred the image with a collar of greaseproof paper around the image and my heat gun. After leaving it to cool for a few moments I glittered the fur on James’ hat with Stickles frosted lace. As the candle is perfumed my craft room smelt lovely yesterday evening.

I circled the candle with some red ribbon from my stash and added a small bow. The candle is sitting on a circle of oasis, into which I’ve pushed some small pieces of leylandii from the garden and I’ve added a few baubles, a bundle of cinnamon sticks and a tiny pine cone.

I would like to enter my project into the following challenges –

Dream Valley Challenge – Anything but a Card http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.fr/2013/12/challenge-71-anything-but-card.html

Love to Create Challenge – Holiday Gift/3D Project http://lovetocreatechallenge.blogspot.fr/2013/12/challenge-94-holiday-gift3d-project.html

Totally Papercrafts Challenge – Anything Christmassy but a Card http://totallypapercrafts.blogspot.fr/2013/12/challenge-196-anything-christmassy-but.html

Cute Card Thursday Challenge – Eternal Flame http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.fr/2013/12/challenge-298-eternal-flame.html

Stamping with the Dragon Challenge –Gifts and Decorations http://stampingwithdragon.blogspot.fr/2013/12/stamping-dragon-design-challenge-gifts.html

LOTV December Challenge – Anything but a Card http://ideastoinspire.blogspot.fr/p/challenge.html

7 thoughts on “James candle”

Gorgeous image to use on your candle and you finished it up so elegantly!!
Thank you for sharing with us at Love to Create Challenge.
Zenita (aka Scrappinwith’Z)
DT member Love to Create Challenge
http://www.scrappinwithz.blogspot.com

Just love this idea of having stamped images on candles and can’t wait to try it myself. Its a lovely image and you will be able to admire it all over the Christmas period .So much better than a white candle .Thanks for the inspiration .