Hi everyone!
I have received quite a few questions about the two gift class projects that I posted the last few days. So I thought I would try to answer them today (hopefully I’ll get them all). And I have a few more pictures of the ornament. The original ornament post is here.
This is a better picture of it. One of the questions was to show the stand – here it is with the ornament in it. It is just a strip of card stock – I think mine was 7″ long and 3/4″ wide and then I punched it with a border punch. Here it is without the ornament resting in it.
Some asked if the snowflake was suspended from something – yes – I sandwiched a piece of Whisper White Baker’s Twine between two snowflakes that I glued back to back. I tied the end of the twine to the cap of the ornament once I had it all together with the snowflake inside.
Many of you asked how did I get the darn thing in there – well that is the tricky part but it can be done. Carefully roll up the snowflake until you can fit it through the hole in the top of the ornament.
Poke it inside and then if you need to help it uncurl a bit use a pencil or something thin to carefully put in the hole and kind of flatten it out against the side of the ornament. Once you add the cap back on then tie the Baker’s Twine around it to keep it suspended in the ornament.
Hopefully that answered the questions about the ornament.
Now the candle. Here is the candle post. I don’t have any additional pictures for you but the way I make my candles is to use a piece of tissue paper (like you use to put in your gifts and gift bags) – I use plain white just one piece. Stamp my image on there. For this candle I colored with my Watercolor Wonder crayons directly on the tissue paper (no water) – just coloring like you did as a kid. Then what I think is the important part – tear away any extra tissue around the entire image. Don’t cut it. When you cut you leave a harsh edge and when you tear you leave a feathered edge which disappears into the candle. Now place the tissue paper on your candle – wrap a piece of wax paper (from the kitchen) around it and hold in the back like a handle. use the heat tool to heat the candle – you will see the tissue paper disappear into the candle – don’t stay too long in one spot though because you don’t want to actually melt your candle. Do that all the way around until you see only the image and not the tissue paper. Now pull off the wax paper and ta-da you have a pretty candle.
Have a good day – I plan to be back with the UDI Color Challenge next week – I did not participate this week. Too many thing going.
