Craft Alert: Wax Candle

Just a burnt down candle, right? Think again my friends. This right here is in fact not at all a candle at all. In fact, it's just a towel roll and a candle holder.
So, read on if you want to learn how to make your own!



Things You'll Need:
Candle Holder
Towel Roll/Cardboard Tube
Hot Glue
Scissors
Paint (Optional, though Recommended)
Plate (Optional)


Okay, when I saw this pin on Pinterest I knew I had to make my own. After a few minutes of deduction, I knew what I needed, and grabbed what I needed. The best thing was, I had everything I needed laying around the house. So today, I was ready.
And what better thing to do than craft while you're watching re-runs of Psych? Ah, aha, so here we are!

You probably want me to get to the how-to part huh? Okay, well here goes!

Step One:


If you have a small candle holder, like so:
(or something similar) you have the first part down. Next thing you'll need is the Cardboard Tube:

(I cut the cardboard in half, at an angle, though slightly shorted then the one you see here) and after cutting the cardboard, I painted it, originally it was going to be blue, however I was out of blue paint, so I went with red instead. I painted the cardboard, and waited until it dried.

Fast Forward Thirty Minutes, and you have:

STEP TWO:
Okay, so the cardboard's been cut and painted, so what are you going to do next? Well, for starters, you're going to put the cardboard over the candle holder, like so:
(Note: This was the other half of the cardboard I DID NOT use, so that is why it is longer than the original and not painted)
 Then you're going to start with your hot glue, first start at the bottom, keeping hold of the cardboard, hot glue the cardboard to the glass (note: I actually tried starting the glue from the candle holder before putting the tube on, so you can do that if you want, but I don't think it did anything other than making a pop! sound...) Then go on to the top, the rim part, and trace it out. Make it bigger and bigger, and then make lines across so it looks like the 'candle's' wax has dripped inside the burned candle.
Then you're going to move to the 'dripping' effect. You're simply going to drizzle your glue down the sides, in straight lines, or zigzags. (Note: make the glue look bigger at the top, to make it more realistic.) Wait until it dries. You can also put your 'candle'  on a plate, to give it a nice touch.


That's it. I'd say it'd take twenty minutes, more or less, I didn't really count.
See you Saturday for a Clone Wars Review!

-Tegan

Before and After

The Crafts Special

Hey Everyone! Hope you've had a great weekend! Today I'll be showing you some of my favorite crafts that I've done!



1. A Wand

OK, so I've always been a Harry Potter fan, so what's a HP fan to do other than make their own wand?

What You'll Need:
Anything Wood; a stick, or in my case a drumstick, anything that can be made into a wand-it doesn't even have to be wood either. It's your wand, your choice.
Paint-any color, I stuck with the wooden colors, but it's your choice.
Hot Glue Gun, and Hot Glue-most people say to carve out your designs, but the easiest way is a hot-         glue gun.
Sand Paper



Step One: Getting Ready:
What you'll need for getting ready is simple, look at the list above. Get the stuff you need out first and foremost, then plug in the hot glue gun, wait until it's hot, and you're ready for the next few steps!

Step Two: Sanding Down
In order to make the paint stick, sand your wand down with Sand Paper, it's easy and fast, depending on how long you sand it. Tip: Sand over the trash can!

Step Two: Hot Glue
My three favorite characters are Hermione Granger, Luna Lovegood, and Ginny Weasley. So, going online, I found good pictures of their wands, using that, I used some of the designs from their wands into my wand (The handle is like Ginny's, the vines upward on the wand, Hermione's, and on closer look, I did the floral designs like on Luna's)
Using the designs you've decided on, simply take your hot glue gun, and work around the 'wand' (your choice of object). Once your done with your design, simply hold you wand until it dries (this usually doesn't take too long)

Step Three: Painting
When I first starting making my wand-this was a few months ago, this wand went through make-over after make-over-it was a pale white. After a while, I realized this wasn't Harry Potter enough. Later on, once I got the proper colors, I mixed red and black together, this took a while to get the part I wanted, and I painted the top most part. For the hot glue designs I used black. Simply pick your color(s) and paint it. After wards, once it dries, you have yourself a wand.


2. X-Button

So, I'm a Marvel fan, and so, an X-Men fan-though mostly Avengers-and going through the internet, I found not many crafts for X-Men. So here's my own. Here we go!

What you'll need:
Button
Paint
Scotch Tape (Optional)





Step One: Using your color-of choice paint, paint a large X in the middle-it's alright if it's not perfect, mine's not perfectly centered, but I still love it.

Step Two: What I did was I put scotch tape over the X, then painted the rest black, and thus gave it a glossy shine.

Step Three: Let it dry once your done.

Step Four: Wear It!


-Tegan