Thursday, June 2, 2011

Candles + Tissue Paper = Awesome!

Thursday, June 2, 2011
Once again, I was inspired by Jaime Lyn at Crafty, Scrappy, Happy for this project, with images from The Graphics Fairy. I grabbed some candles, tissue paper, wax paper, and a hair dryer, and I got to work! Check out her full tutorial here. Instead of using vellum paper, I used tissue paper, and it worked really well!

First, I cut a piece of tissue paper about 1/2 inch bigger all the way around than an 8.5 x 11 inch piece of printer paper. Then, I centered my printer paper on the tissue paper, folded the edges of the tissue paper on top of the printer paper, and taped all the edges down with scotch tape. (Sorry I have no pictures of the process, but there is a video on youtube that demonstrates what I am talking about.)

I loaded the tissue/printer paper combo into my printer and printed out my images. I find that it works really well to copy all of the images I want to print into a single PowerPoint slide, then just print once. This saves time and tissue paper!

{Sample PowerPoint slide}

Once printed, I cut the tissue paper away from the printer paper, and cut each image out -- pretty close to the actual image so there was little tissue paper overhang.

Next, I placed the tissue paper on the candle, wrapped the candle in a single layer of wax paper, and used my hair dryer to melt the tissue paper into the candle. That's it!


Most of my images are from The Graphics Fairy.


I combined a couple of images for this candle


I made this one for my sister-in-law who is getting married in July! I used this image from the Graphics Fairy, and made it entirely black and white for the candle.


 I made this candle for my mom. I did some work in Photoshop to combine an image from the Graphics Fairy with the lyrics to a song written by Horatius Bonar/Jeff Ling. I like the way the color image transfered and might be doing more color in the future!



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9 comments:

  1. Awh another really really wonderful job! I am so glad to "meet" you! I love that you are in med school and finding time to craft! I didn't realize how important that was for me! It is such a needed outlet! And plus you can usually do it pretty inexpensively when living on a student budget! I love your projects and I love your blog I will for sure be back to visit!

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  2. This is so classy! I have seen/heard of this technique for a while now, I will give this a try very soon. May I ask if you wrapped the wax paper around the tissue paper such that the waxy side is to the outside or inside (i.e. towards the tissue paper image)? My guess is it's facing inside so that heat melts the wax from the wax paper and adheres the tissue paper to the candle? Hope you can clarify since all tutorials fail to mention that small bit that escapes my head :)

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    1. Hi Rupa! I actually don't think it mattered which side was out, but I would suggest you go with your gut and put the waxier side facing inside. To be safe, you could try it on a cheap little candle first. :)

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  3. Wow, that was a speedy response. Thanks Sarah for taking the time to let me know:)

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  4. Hi:

    I just found your post on the candles, so pretty, I have a sister
    getting married and I want to do something like your candle with
    the script and image. You said you did it on photoshop? how did
    you do it, please help.

    thanks
    martha

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  5. Hi:

    sorry you can email me at:

    marthargarrett@yahoo.com

    thanks,

    martha

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    1. Just sent you an e-mail... hope it helps! For those wondering about the font, I downloaded the free font from here: http://www.dafont.com/angelic-war.font (It is for non-commercial use only).

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  6. Wow - your candles look amazing! I haven't tried the tissue paper method yet but I'm dying too! Especially after seeing these beauties!

    Jeanine

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    1. Thanks, Jeanine! I love this method because it goes so fast! I'm definitely going to do it again as soon as school slows down a bit!

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