Candle Decorating

Hey guys, I'm back with another tutorial and this one is about candle transfer or candle decorating I guess you could call it.

So for this you will need

 A candle,

White tissue paper with your image either stamped or printed (The image I used is my own )

Heat gun

Grease proof paper

Bull dog clips

And whatever brand of alcohol markers you like to use, I have used Copic ciao markers in BV000, BV02, BV13

First start by deciding what image you would like on your candle. If your using a digi stamp you will need to attach a sheet of white tissue paper to a normal piece of printer paper a small piece of double sided tape in the corners will do the trick, you do need to make sure the tissue paper is crease free otherwise it will more than likely jam your printer I find running an iron over will get rid of most creases, the printer I use is just an all in one cannon ink jet so nothing special but does the job, or you could use a stamp and ink pad. As soon as your image comes out, spay a little hair over the image, but do it from a distance you don’t want to soak the image you just want to lightly sprits it I find this helps with any colour bleed you might get from the printer, then go and make yourself a nice cuppa tea or coffee and put your feet up for around 20 minutes while it dries.

If your Colouring your images with alcohol markers, make sure you have a piece of scrap paper under your colouring   because the tissue is so thin the markers soak through, so you need the scrap paper to catch all that ink,

Once your image is all coloured, cut to size and decided where you want it to go, wrap your candle with the grease proof paper and clip it in place at the back, I have tried using pegs and just holding the grease proof paper and even not using any grease proof paper what so ever!, and yes it still works but the end result doesn't look good…. At all (so if you’re like me and if it’s not perfect I will start all over again) use the bull dog clips otherwise you will be starting from the beginning.

Heat the wax with your heat gun, you will see the tissue paper disappear , and the colours on your image will look as if they are getting brighter, you only need to hold the heat up to the candle few a few seconds to melt a little of the wax otherwise you might end up an uneven surface on the candle  (unless that’s the look you’re going for) do this over the whole candle, then leave the  candle to cool down for a round 10 to 15 minutes and remove the grease proof paper slowly and you’re done.

They make beautiful unique gifts for someone, and the design possibilities are endless with a process that’s so quick and easy to do.  

   If you like a free copy of my butterfly, just e-mail me at somethingfunkycrafts@gmail.com and I will happily send it over to you in a jpeg format.

Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed.