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3d29-I Burn For You, Part 2
For this week’s 3-D Tuesday, we’re following up Susanna’s fabulous candle project from last week with a little more candlemaking fun. Today, I’m going to share with you how to make a fabulous gift box that will hold 4 small tea lights. This makes a great little gift to bring to a hostess or give to a friend to brighten their day.
The process for stamping on tea lights is pretty similar to the one for stamping on regular candles. You need to find an image that will fit the surface of the tea light, preferably a solid one since the working surface is pretty small. Here, I used an image from Papertrey Ink's 2009 Autumn Tags sets. I stamped the image on tissue paper, then punched it out with a 1 3/8" circle punch. I found that it was easier to put a piece of plain copy paper behind my tissue paper before punching--the tissue paper is so delicate and the copy paper gives it a little more body. Next, I punched a hole in the center using a 1/8" handheld circle punch. This allows you to thread the candle’s wick through it so the tissue will lie flat on the candle's surface.
Now you’re ready to melt the image on to the candle. Just place the image on to the candle’s surface and heat with a heat tool. The top layer of wax will melt and coat the stamped image. The outside rim of the tea lights will get hot (spoken from experience), so you may want to hold the stamped tissue paper in place with a tweezers or other tool that’s heat safe.
I decorated the metal rim of the tea lights with small strips of designer paper (1/2" by 5"). A little bit of Mono Multi held the paper on well. You could also tie ribbon around the base, too.
I've included a downloadable pattern for making the slide top box (not to scale). It’s basically a nugget box, adjusted in size just a little bit to accommodate the candles. You can decorate the box with stamped images that coordinate with your candles or some coordinating designer paper and add a tag to finish off the gift set.
I hope you'll play along with the challenge this week. If you do, please upload your project to the PCP gallery with the keyword 3d29 so I can add it to the gallery for everyone to admire.
The process for stamping on tea lights is pretty similar to the one for stamping on regular candles. You need to find an image that will fit the surface of the tea light, preferably a solid one since the working surface is pretty small. Here, I used an image from Papertrey Ink's 2009 Autumn Tags sets. I stamped the image on tissue paper, then punched it out with a 1 3/8" circle punch. I found that it was easier to put a piece of plain copy paper behind my tissue paper before punching--the tissue paper is so delicate and the copy paper gives it a little more body. Next, I punched a hole in the center using a 1/8" handheld circle punch. This allows you to thread the candle’s wick through it so the tissue will lie flat on the candle's surface.
Now you’re ready to melt the image on to the candle. Just place the image on to the candle’s surface and heat with a heat tool. The top layer of wax will melt and coat the stamped image. The outside rim of the tea lights will get hot (spoken from experience), so you may want to hold the stamped tissue paper in place with a tweezers or other tool that’s heat safe.
I decorated the metal rim of the tea lights with small strips of designer paper (1/2" by 5"). A little bit of Mono Multi held the paper on well. You could also tie ribbon around the base, too.
I've included a downloadable pattern for making the slide top box (not to scale). It’s basically a nugget box, adjusted in size just a little bit to accommodate the candles. You can decorate the box with stamped images that coordinate with your candles or some coordinating designer paper and add a tag to finish off the gift set.
I hope you'll play along with the challenge this week. If you do, please upload your project to the PCP gallery with the keyword 3d29 so I can add it to the gallery for everyone to admire.
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Permalink Reply by Susanna Boyd on -
I LOVE this!!! Damn. I'm pretty sure that I'll order the set to make this EXACTLY. Sigh. Lori, you're an "enabler" and I have (clearly) no will power.
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Permalink Reply by sonia on -
i had a right job with this one lol i dont know if my tea lights were bigger but the box was just to small anyway after the 3rd attempt lol i got these i cheated a bit and printed the tissue paper for the candles and everything else .sonia
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Permalink Reply by Gail on -
i'd so appreciate an answer..are the tealight just for decoration or can they be used?..tfs..loves ya
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Permalink Reply by Amy (Tethered 2 Home) on -
Gail, I was just doing some searching before I posted this. From everything I can read, it just gives the typical, 'never leave a candle burning, unmonitored'. As a tea light burns, the wax melts, so I can't see how the tissue paper would ever be dry enough to catch on fire.
Does that help?
I've never had any issues with my tall candles
or pillar candles, but I've never actually burned the tea light kind. -
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