Decorative candles with their own hands New Year, Christmas, wedding of orange mandarins, coffee beans. How to make and decorate gel, coffee and openwork candles?

In this article we will share with you a variety of shapes and colors of decorative candles, and also tell you how to make such beauty with your own hands.

And do you know that, according to statistics, a lot of people have used candles for decor in recent yearsher? To explain this in part can be a constant stress, which we have to face in modern vanity. So let's fight this stress, including making candles with our own hands!

Candles made of tangerines and oranges by your own hands: forms, ornaments

Oranges and tangerines are a firm association with winter holidays. Let's see how they can be entered into the manufacture of candles:

• Cut large mandarins and oranges into two parts. Remove from them pulp

IMPORTANT: Try not to touch the skin.

• Now, carefully cutting ordinary candles, remove the wick
• On the water bath, melt the wax. You can add to it with or colored wax crayons.
• Meanwhile, the wick is located in containers of citrus peel. Fasten it as you like - with clothes pegs or some other method.
• Pour melted wax , wait for it to cool

Candles made from oranges or tangerines

Orange and tangerine candles will perfectly fit into the Christmas decor

You can cut out such beautiful unique candlesticks from the citrus peel

You can make an interesting orange-tangerine candle in an ice candlestick. You will need:

These are the items you will need to create an ice candle with oranges

IMPORTANT: It is extremely important that the glass containers are different in size.

Place the smaller container in the larger pre- filling with larger water. Fix these containers with an adhesive tape.

Place the smaller candle container in the larger

Fill the space between the containers with the decorative elements. Including pieces of oranges, tangerines.

That's how you can fill the candle holder with bits of citrus

Now you need to cool the crafts. You can put them on the balcony, for example, but it is best to place it in the refrigerator - it's more convenient to monitor their condition.

IMPORTANT: Water should not freeze - ice will turn turbid. And it is recommended to use gloves - glassware is sometimes capable of bursting.

Containers with blanks for future candles should be placed in the cold

After all is frozen, return the containers to heat, remove the adhesive tape. Do not be afraid to hold the products under the stream of warm water for a while - the will be more convenient to remove from ice.

But how to make sure that candlesticks do not melt away quickly? It is recommended to use not ordinary wax candles, but decorative with LEDs.

Here you can get pretty ice candles, including those with orange decor

Openwork candles with coffee beans by your own hands:

molds In order to make a delicate coffee candle, it is only to pour the grains in already melted wax. Or put them in a mold, and top with wax.

By the way, if you want the candle to attract coffee aroma, also grind some grains. Add them to the melted wax before pouring into the mold.

Coffee candles

Openwork coffee candle

Openwork candle with melted coffee wraps your house in a stunning fragrance

Beautiful gel candles with their own hands: shapes, ideas

Gel candles are amazing with their extraordinary beauty and lots of decor options.

IMPORTANT: The candle holder must be transparent, otherwise the decorations will be poorly visible.

These transparent should be a container for candles

Gel wax can be bought in ready-made form. This is very convenient, because the package even has instructions on how much it should be added to the candle blank.

However, you can also make this material yourself , for which you will need:

• Gelatin - 5 g.
• Tannin - 2 g.
• Glycerin - 35 ml.
• Water - 20 ml.

Glycerin with tannin is heated in a water bath and mixed. Later, gelatin and water are added. The mixture boils until until the water evaporates.

IMPORTANT: Do not worry if the mixture gets turbid - eventually it disappears.

The gel is then poured into a fire-resistant glass mold and is decorated. Please note that those ornaments that will fit on the bottom, there and remain after the gel filling. If you want to make the figures "hang", add them as you fill, but quickly - gel quickly freezes.

Adding decoration in the process of filling the gel for the candle

It is recommended to warm up a little form before starting the design of the candle - it is the bubble formation prevention .

Here are such stunningly beautiful gel candles are obtained as a result of

As for the decor of , everything that your heart desires: beads, beads, pebbles, shells, small toys, sequins, pieces of dried fruit or flowers, twigs, grainscoffee, buttons. Thus, whole pictures are created!

In gel candles you can create whole pictures

Bright beautiful flowers in a gel candle.

Gel candles burn very beautifully

Gel candle in the form of an aquarium

Gel candle with Christmas decorations

Stunning gel candle with flowers

Gel candle with one large flower

Gel candle with a marine theme

Gel candles with oranges

Gel candles made in a Christmas

Candle-tree with your own hands

For it will need :

• Wax or the remains of candles. Their color, by the way, does not matter
• Pencil wax green
• Wick or thread twisted many times

IMPORTANT: The thread is suitable for cotton, dense. For example, a mulina.

• Glass jars - 2 pcs.
• pan in which water will be heated
• Decor for herringbone
• Cardboard
• Thick sheet from the category of those used for the covers of magazines
• Adhesive, glue, tweezers, scissors, tail pins

Even such candle holders

can come:

• Fold all the cinders in one jar and put it in pre-boiling water in the saucepan water.
• Add a shiny colored chalk, stirring occasionally.

Green wax for a Christmas tree candle is heated on a water bath

• While the material for a Christmas tree is being prepared, you need to make the a mold. To do this, twist the journal sheet with a cone and fix it with adhesive tape. Pass the wick through the cone and secure.
• With the sharp end down place the cone in the can. You can put the last layer of foil on the bottom - a little paraffin can pour out, which will spoil the jar.
• Pour the melted green wax into the cone-shaped and leave it there until it has solidified.

IMPORTANT: Do this carefully, because at the bottom of the jar can be larger pieces of wax.

Here in such a mold, the candle wax should cool

• The cooled wax get the and trim it if necessary.

Here is a cone of candle wax to get

• Before decorating the Christmas tree , place it on a circle of cardboard. It is recommended to slightly melt the bottom of the candle - so it can be glued to the cardboard.

Install the future candle on the

• cardboard. Let's start the most interesting - decoration of the !Beads and bumps can be attached with glue. And you can plant bumps on pins, hold the last over the fire and attach it to the candle. Beads, then, take a pair of tweezers and hold them over the fire as well - so they will exactly stick to the wax.

Here's a candle-tree you will get

Candle with cones your own hands

In order to make this wonderful winter craft, , prepare:

• Cones
• Candles. Either buy small ones ready, or create them yourself according to the classical scheme described earlier. They should be small and round.
• Aerosol paints for gold and silver
• Nippers, scissors
• Lace
• Adhesive pistol

IMPORTANT: Not every cone is suitable - we need extremely stable. Remember that they will serve as candle stands.

With the pliers neatly remove the top part of the cone - it should turn out to be an even platform.

These are the candles for candles

. Cover the cones with with paint.

Cones for candles are covered with aerosol paint

Measure out how much lace is needed in order to wrap a candle without overlap. Glue strips of lace to the with a gun.

Glue the lace to the candle

With the same glue gun , glue the candle to the bump.

The candle is glued to the cone

The final touch is applying aerosol paint to the lace of the candle.

IMPORTANT: Try to avoid getting paint on the candle itself.

These are the nice candles-cones

However, design of candles-cones can be anything:

Christmas candles-cones

No many candles for candles

A set of candles-candles will definitely decorate the interior

Beautiful New Year and Christmas candle compositions: decoration, decoupage

Candles for winter holidays can be designed as your heart desires. We present to your attention several options:

Cozy candles in knitted cases

Bright positive candles with cones, Christmas tree, reindeer

Green festive candles with deer

Small candles-cones for New Year or Christmas dinner

Candle for Christmas interior in the form of a Christmas ball-toy

Cozy candles made from cinnamon sticks and twigs

And here the accent is on the fairy-tale New Year candlesticks from glasses

Festive candle with Santa Claus

Decorating candles with beads, paillettes and coffee beans

Even a string of twinecan beautifully decorate candles, and next to put a bump and something of wood

Conventional colored candles can be beautifully inscribed in a composition of fir branches, cones, ribbons

Wedding candles with their own hands: clearance

Candle is an excellent wedding accessory because it symbolizes the warmth of the hearts. But to decorate this warmth of heart will clearly not be superfluous. With a successful decoration similar candles can be presented to guests, decorate tables and hall, use in the ceremony.

IMPORTANT: The trend to be adhered to is delicate jewelry. And, of course, focus on the main tones of the event.

Which candles to choose for decor? As a rule, smooth and white. The diameter can be either large or small.

Whatever you choose to decorate, must be stocked with scissors, double-sided scotch, threads with needles, glue gun. Convert the same candles tapes, beads, beads, pendants, beautiful cloth and even fresh flowers! Also very popular are figures from polymer clay.

We bring to your attention several wedding decoration options:

Wedding candle with white flowers and gold rings

Wedding candles with fresh flowers - gently and freshly

Male and female candle versions - with butterfly and flower

Delicate milky-golden bows almost in tonewith candles

Bows, beads and flowers on candles in white and gold color

Beautiful bracelets of beads on wedding candles

Candles with satin ribbons, bows of frills and crystals

Simple but elegant bows for svcandle lit candles

Elegant gold patterns and simple white bows on candles

However, the red flowers on the wedding candle also look great

veche in tender white and purple tones

White beads and airy skirts from candle-lit ribbons also look great

However, wedding candles canto be in such beautiful candlesticks

It is possible to make such candles in cute little skins

Carved wedding white and pink candles

Carved candles with figures of newlyweds from polymer clay

Candles are,would alos, a small part of the decor. But they are able to comfortably soothe, raise the mood, create a solemn and at the same time cozy environment. And having mastered the art of creating candles, you can also acquire an exciting hobby.