Candle Wrap

Today I'm bringing you a Stampendous Holiday Inspiration project for when you're looking for a last minute handmade gift idea.

Every year I try to come up with creative handmade gifts to accompany the baked goods I give my family and friends. I spend weeks trying to think of something and then usually the last week before the holidays rushing around trying to finish the projects. And every year I say I'm going to start earlier...no more last minute projects. LOL! Join me today as I give you a glimpse at the gifts I'll be crafting and giving out this year.

Stampendous has some FABULOUS holiday stamps for all your crafting projects. For this project I'll be working with the Cling Mount Snowman Greeting Set (CRS3006). As soon as I saw that cute snowman I thought the winter scene would be so cute stamped onto natural linen. I've been wanting to embellish candles for a few years now, but thought the Snowman Greeting Set and the linen would be perfect for a candle wrap. And because the wraps just slip over the candle, when they're done with the candle they can pull them off and use them on a new one.

Supplies Needed:

• stamps (Cling Snowman Greetings Set by Stampendous)
• Memento Ink (Tsukineko)
• Copics
• white acrylic paint
• fabrics & thread
• fusible web and Fast2Fuse Interfacing
• button
• candle

1. Cut two strips of linen at approximately 3.5 inches by 12 inches. You will need to measure your candle to determine the size for your wrap. Allow an extra inch for the ends to overlap.
2. Place one of the fabric strips onto a craft sheet and stamp your image in Memento Ink.
3. Begin coloring your image with Copics. I had a bit of color bleed through the fabric but not much. Take your time and build up the color. Don't over saturate the fabric.
4. When you are completely done with your copics its time to add some white paint for the snowman. I dabbed a bit of white paint on my craft mat and picked up a bit at a time with my aquapen. You don't want it to be too watery or your stamped image will run. I tried to avoid painting over any of the stamped image to reduce bleeding.
5. The next step is to iron the stabilizer in between your pieces of fabric. I cut the Fast2Fuse stabilizer 1/2 inch smaller in width/height than the fabric.
6. Stitch your pieces together up along the stabilizer.
7. Once all the edges are stitched, begin fraying your material.
8. Place your wrap around your candle & pin the ends where they overlap. Pull it off and stitch it by hand.
9. Cut four holly leaves out of fabric using the Cricut Winter Woodland Cartridge. (The trick to cutting fabric is to adhere fusible webbing to your material before you cut. Leave the backing paper on until after you're done cutting. )
10. Iron the backsides of the leaves together to give the leaf some stability.
11. Tie twine through red button and adhere leaves and button berry to lid for embellishment.

Be sure to stop back on Friday for more Stampendous Holiday Inspiration!!!