Christmas Candle and Candle wrap tutorial

Good Morning Everyone! I hope you are having a good week so far. Today, I (Jane), have a tutorial to share with you to show you how to make a Christmas candle using the adorable Christmas light image from the latest Whiff of Joy stamp release.



Supples needed to decorate the Candle:

Whiff of Joy Christmas Light stamp and sentiment
White or cream candle
White Tissue paper
Greaseproof paper
Heat Gun
Sheet of Vellum paper
Whiff of Joy Button Twine
Stick on pearls
Snowflake border punch
White pom pom trim
Colouring medium
Holly die cut

Step by step instructions:

1.Stamp the image onto the smooth side of the white tissue paper

2. Colour the image using your chosen medium. Place the tissue paper onto white card before colouring to show the colours better. Colours will not be as vibrant on the tissue paper as when colouring onto white card or paper.

3. cut the image out leaving a small border

4. Place the image on the candle leaving a larger gap at the bottom of the image


5. Wrap the candle with greaseproof paper, holding at the back firmly

6. Apply heat evenly with the heat gun moving over the image to melt the top layer of the candle

7. When tissue paper has been absorbed into the candle, the image will show more clearly through the greaseproof paper

8. Remove paper, if image has not been fully absorbed, wrap with greaseproof paper and heat again

9. To make the wrap, cut a piece of vellum to fit around the candle and 5cm wide. Punch the edge with a snowflake border punch

10. Stamp the sentiment with Stazon

11. To finish the candle, wrap with punched and stamped vellum fixing at back with double sided tape. Add pom pom trim around bottom of candle with double sided tape. Wrap with twine and tie in a bow above the image, add die cut holly leaves and finish with stick on pearls.

Make sure you remove the wrap before lighting the candle!!!

I hope you have enjoyed my tutorial.
Have a great Thursday!
Jane
x

Stamping & More #36 Video–A bookcard

Hi everybody, it’s Katharina. Today’s video shows how to create a “book card”. Super fun and exciting for the person who will receive it. You can either stamp inside, add a photo or fill it with chocolate :) Enjoy watching!
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Hallo, hier ist Katharina mit einem Anleitungsvideo, in dem ich euch zeige wie man eine “Buch-Karte” bastelt. Das macht viel Spaß und auch die Beschenkten sind jedes Mal wieder erstaunt :) Viel Spaß beim Zusehen!

Make your own candy canes

Hi there! I (Ingrid) have made a card on which I used little selfmade candy canes, as you can see on the picture above. I made a tutorial about it for you. It is very simple, but I hope you enjoy it :-)

 You need 2 pipe cleaners, 1 red and 1 white.

 You hold them in your hand and with your other hand you wind them around each other until the end.

 To make the bow on the top you use a pencil. Cut them to desired size.

 Here is the whole card on which I used the candy canes.

The image I used is called "Christmas Treasures" and comes with a sentiment. It is also included in the winterstampkit.

For specifics about my card and my coloring, I refer you to my blog "Leukgemaakt".

I hope you liked my little tutorial. Have fun with creating!

Pocket Gift Card

Hi, its Colleen here today. I am so excited to be sharing my first tutorial with you, I have a Pocket Gift Card to show you today. Its perfect for popping a stamp inside to send to your loved ones and bloggy friends!!!

You will need:

WOJ stamped image - I used Penguin's First Snow
Cardstock and patterned paper
Stickles - Tumbled Glass and Crystal
Lace and embellishments

Lets get started:

Cut 25cm x 24 cm cardstock and fold in half (25cm is the height and 24cm is the length of the card). On the 'front' half measure 8cm in from the bottom and trim this piece, it should look like this.



The 'back' half, measure 8cm in from the bottom, score and fold in.



This forms your pocket so stitch the sides as close to the edges as possible - this will allow more space for your stamp.



Cut 8cm x 12cm patterned paper and stitch around the edges. Adhere it to the front of your pocket, you might need to trim it slightly but you want it to hide the stitching on the pocket.



Cut a border from the same patterned paper as your pocket and adhere it to the bottom of 11.5cm x 16.5cm patterned paper.



For the front of your card, cut 23.5cm x 16.5cm patterned paper, adhere your lace first and the stitch around the edges. Then adhere to the front of the card.



Add your sentiment to the inside of your card and this is it finished with a stamp inside.



To finish your card off, adhere your stamped image and embellishments and now you have a gift ready to go!



Christmas is just around the corner so this will be perfect and can be popped into the post easily!!!

Colleen x

Introducing–Whiff of Joy’s November release