Saturday, February 5, 2011

Feel the Love Blog Hop - Candles


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 Welcome to Feel the Love Blog Hop!  My valentine craft was decorating candles.  I started with ordinary white candles.  I cut strips of regular tissue paper in the size of the candle, and then stamped my design on it.  (For the brown ones, I just doodled with a brown crayola washable marker!).  After you have your tissue paper design, hold the tissue paper up to the candle and use an embossing gun to "melt" the paper to the candle.  The embossing gun heats up the wax and melts it a little so the tissue paper can stick.  Be very careful to keep your fingers out of the hot air stream, it's HOT!  I think you may be able to use a hair dryer on the hot setting too, for those of you that don't have an embossing gun.  If you put tissue paper on the top of the candle, make sure it's not too close to the wick or it will burn right away.  See below for a pic of the candle after it burned completely. 

If you just happened upon this page today and you want to start at the beginning of the blog hop, click HERE.  You can also use the links given at the bottom of this post.  Happy Blogging!



 Things I Simply Love Today
1.  Mercy Me (Kevin surprised me last night by taking me to their concert!)
2.  Quiet days with the kids
3.  Having my husband home after 12 long days!
4.  Cherry angel food cake my mom made for my birthday
5.  Knowing that God loves me more than my husband does - which must be A LOT!


The picture below is the candle after it was completely burned.  The tissue paper on the side actually didn't burn until ALL the wax was burned.  I was actually surprised when I went back to look at it and it was burned, it had been just a tube all night.


1. Jamie at Glitter, Stamps, and Paper, Oh My! http://glitterstampsandpaperohmy.com/
2. Karel at One by One The Flamingos Are Stealing My Sanity http://karelj.blogspot.com/
3. Nikki at The Glamorous Side of Scrapping http://www.theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com/
4.Elizabeth at Skittles and Scrapbooks
http://skittles-and-scrapbooks.blogspot.com
5. Brittni at Life's Musings http://gardenwhispers.blogspot.com/
6. Jesi at Jesi's Things http://jesisonaroll.blogspot.com/
7. Ellen at Card Monkey http://cardmonkey-business.blogspot.com/
8. Jessica at Overjoyed Scrapper http://overjoyedscrapper.blogspot.com/
9. Casey at Simple Joy Crafting http://simplejoycrafting.blogspot.com/
10. Jenny at Crazy about Cricut http://www.crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com/
11. Shannon at My Scrappy Creations http://shannonleffew.blogspot.com/
12 Meagan at Beyond Paper http://beyondpaperdesigns.blogspot.com/
13. Jessica at Creative Stamper http://thecreativestamperspot.blogspot.com/
14. Jill at The Scrapaholic
http://thescrapoholic.blogspot.com/
15. Aimee at Little P's Momma http://www.littlepsmomma.blogspot.com/
16. Kathy at Kathy and 3 kids http://kathyand3kids.blogspot.com/
17. Amanda at Something Sorta http://somethingsorta.blogspot.com/
18. Michelle at Holy Cricut http://queenofmycraftroom.blogspot.com/
19. Kathy at The Beautiful Life www.kathy-thebeautifullife.blogspot.com.
20. Angie at A Tuttle Time http://atuttletime.blogspot.com/.
21. Angela at Created with Joy http://createdwithjoy.blogspot.com/

30 comments:

  1. Very nice Casey! Thanks for sharing.

    Debi
    cards_by_montana_reflections@bresnan.net
    http://cards-by-montana-reflections.blogspot.com/

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  2. What a creative idea!! Thanks for sharing!!

    mkshriver@gmail.com

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  3. Cute and creative! I hadn't thought of the hair dyer thing...Thanks for sharing! ksjennings at gmail dot com and or/ http://karelj.blogspot.com

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  4. love all the candles! i can never get this technique down. either my images come out faded or i melt my candle! not as easy as it look, you did an awesome job!

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  5. I love candles, and those are quite lovely. I haven't tried decorating candles...yet.
    http://kopperhead100.blogspot.com/

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  6. What a great way to doll up your candles. tfs
    Debbie
    Http://craftywizard.blogspot.com
    debbie_craine at hot mail dot com

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  7. What a neat project! I've seen a lot of candle altering lately but never this technique. Very cool!

    ~ I'm a new Follower of your Blog!

    Hip Hop and Awaaaaayyy!

    Email: QC Kelsey
    Visit Blog: Crystal Case Creative Creations

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  8. What an awesome idea and so easy. Love this idea.

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  9. What a creative idea!!! I haven't done anything with candles yet. Great idea.

    Michelle
    http://peanutbutterandjellydesigns.blogspot.com

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  10. What a great idea! Lucky you... to go to a Mercy Me concert! I love how you share your faith! I am a child of God too! I am a happy new follower of your blog... I love the little creatures you made out of pipe cleaners a couple of posts back! So adorable! pjritsema at gmail dot com

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  11. those are great candles,thanks for sharing. a perfect way to get candles to match your entire house! tfs
    brenna
    rbanderson@live.ca

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  12. Thank you all, you have seriously made my day with your kind words!

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  13. This is really cool, I love your candles!!
    TFS
    Bonnie
    http://ascrapabove.blogspot.com

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  14. Love your candles - I have an embossing gun but have never used it. Maybe I need to dust it off and try my hand at these lovely candles.
    Thanks for Sharing!
    mlcain0202(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  15. Great idea. I had heard of using vellum but tissue paper sounds even better.

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  16. Great idea. they are pretty.

    Kristin
    ksully4597 at gmail dot com

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  17. Sure do love those candles!! Ihave made them before and you are right the heat tool does give off very hot air Ouch!!
    God Bless

    audreyscardsbydesign.blogspot.com

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  18. This is really cool. What a great bloggie you have here.
    Hugs,
    Raven

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  19. Wonderful idea for a personalized gift. I am a new follower

    Thank you,
    Karen
    countrygirlin_md at yahoo.com
    karenscreativeramblings.blogspot.com

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  20. love the idea
    pigs20052002@yahoo.com

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  21. Great idea. Thanks for sharing.

    vwilson577 at yahoo dot com

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  22. love the idea! Great project

    Janice
    www.cricutconfessions.com

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  23. What a great idea. Candle making is another one of the crafts I've dabbled in. Your idea would take it to the next level perhaps. Thanks,

    Mike

    johnson.md at sbcglobal dot net

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  24. Cool project!!! :) Your candles came out great!

    Thank you so much for sharing,

    Jennifer
    partridgelu at yahoo dot com

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  25. Weeeheyyyy i got to be follower number 20 =) Love your candles. Sooo pretty =)

    Hugs from Lilli =)
    l.a.nikolaisen at gmail dot com
    www.crazycardmaker.blogspot.com

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  26. I am a new follower, I make candles too!! Thanks for sharing, Karen<3

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  27. I have never taken the time to get directions as to how to make these. Thank you for explaining. I will have to try.

    Your's are really pretty!!

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  28. This is pretty cool! Thanks for the instructions. I think I want to try this for myself. I imagine you could get very creative with the designs.

    Anne
    lucyblueeyz at yahoo dot com

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  29. what a great idea! thanks for sharing. your candles came out really cute.

    thanks for joining my hop!
    Jamie

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