I hope everyone had a great time playing with Jaydee's Tic Tac Toe challenge last week. From the wonderful entries we had in the gallery, it would seem you did!
This week, our hostess is Joanne and she has a theme challenge for us: Candles. Birthday, Christmas, whenever... you decide.
I'm afraid that I was rather literal in my interpretation of the theme. I was looking through my stamp library seeing what inspired me with candles and I kept coming back to some fun stamped candles I did a couple of years ago.
I took myself down to the local discount store to see what they had in the way of plain white candles. I wasn't too happy with the size of them as I'd hoped for something more substantial but sometimes, you just have to make do. 😀
Anyway, I assembled my supplies: Noel Tidings and Welcome Noel stamps, Mossy Meadow and Pecan Pie Ink, Daffodil Delight blend, plain white tissue paper, some waxed lunch wrap and a heat tool.
If you've never stamped on candles before, it's really very easy to do.
- Stamp the design you want onto tissue paper.
- Do any colouring you like. I've coloured the windows of the house.
- Trim around the stamping, leaving about 2-3mm. There's not really a rule about the margin but you don't need a lot of excess tissue to deal with.
- Place the tissue design on the desired position on the candle.
- Cut a strip of waxed lunch wrap that's tall enough to cover the stamped area and that is long enough to wrap around the candle with some overlap so you can hold the ends and keep the waxed paper tight over the tissue paper. Make sure the waxy side is towards the candle.
- Gently heat the stamped area with a heat tool. This won't take very long. Within seconds, you'll see the waxed paper go glossy. That's enough. Lift the waxed paper off carefully. You shouldn't be able to see any tissue paper - it should be sealed over with wax.
- If you can still identify the tissue paper, then reposition the waxy paper and give it another few seconds of heat.
- That's all there is to it!
The team and I would love to see your take on the candle theme. You can see what everyone has done and link up your entry at The Paper Players. And again, thank you for continuing to play along with us!
Here's a quick recap of our challenge rules:
- Create a new paper-craft project specifically for this challenge.
- Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us.
- Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
- Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL, including ours
- Have fun, and thank you for playing with us!
Don't forget to check out the great inspiration from the rest of the design team.
Jan Clothier - You are here
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