Pressed Flowers and Stickers to a Candle

How to Add Pressed Flowers and Stickers to a Candle?

Candles with pressed flowers just under their surface are really beautiful to look at. You would really like to have them in your home. But the costs of these specialty candles are somewhat high. But don’t worry. You can make these candles by yourself at your home.

Pressed flowers are just the examples. You can add any visually attracting decoration under the candle’s surface to give it the beautiful unique look. Anything flat and malleable to some extent can be used for decorating the candles. Stickers are yet another good choice for this purpose.

Here we have detailed the method of adding pressed flowers and stickers to a candle. So, shall we see how to add pressed flowers and stickers to a candle’s surface?

Materials Required For Adding Pressed Flowers To A Candle

Let us take just two candles for this craft. One candle should be a pillar type of approximately 5” to 6” in height. The diameter can be round about 2.5” to 3”. The second candle should be a votive. Make sure that the two candles are of same color. White or other light colors are just the right ones. If the hint of the candle is too dark, it will impede your other directions-pressed flowers and stickers.

Of course you need some pressed flowers. You may need stickers as well if you wish.

Next take two pans. Use the smaller one to heat the wax in. This one should not be used again for cooking purposes. The larger pan, should be larger such that the smaller pan actually fits in, is to hold water.

And you need a small paintbrush with a flat tip for painting with the wax.

Method To Add Pressed Flowers To a Candle

First, take the larger pan and put about two inches of water in it and put the cookie cutter on the bottom. Put the votive candle in the smaller pan and put the smaller pan in the larger pan.

Wait till the votive candle melts. Heat slowly and do not over heat.

Take the pressed flowers and/or stickers. It is essential that you decide on the design of your decoration before hand.

With the paintbrush, take a small amount of melted wax from the smaller pan and place it on the pillar candle at position where you want to place your first flower.

Press the flower gently on the wax.

Repeat the above procedure for all the flowers and stickers. That is, you place melted wax on the pillar candle and you press the flower/sticker on the top of that melted wax.

Once pressing flowers/stickers is over, give a thin coating of melted wax over the entire surface of the pillar candle.

Another simple method to add pressed flowers/stickers to a candle is that you take a small spoon. Warm it. With the back of this heated spoon, you soften the candle spot where you wish to put the flower. Then you place the flower or sticker there. You do this same procedure for the entire lot of flowers and/or stickers.

Positioning the flowers/stickers with the back of a heated spoon is simpler. But this will work only for smaller flowers and minor decorations. For elaborate designing and decorations the procedure given in the first section of this article is to be adhered.

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