To begin with I sprayed my tissue paper with a light adhesive spray and stuck it to some A4 paper. I then printed my candle wrapper. I know some folks use paper when covering candles but I find this far to heavy and suspect it it a bit of a fire hazard.
Normally I create my candle wrappers 100% digitally but many artist do not allow digital colouring of their digi images. Recently, while in the UK I invested in the Spectrum Noir blendable crayons and wondered if it would be possible to colour on tissue paper with them as they are fairly soft. Success :) :) After my wee practice I coloured this image with the SN blendable crayons.
Next I removed the backing paper and attacked my low tack wrapper to my candle.
After having wrapped it in wax paper I then used my heat gun to melt the wax from the candle through the tissue paper. Once done, I then added some candle gold dust in areas on the background and then, finished off with some water based candle varnish for a lovely sheen.
And here is the finished candle.
Ingredients:-
- Courtney McAnsh's To the Moon and Back
- Background by me
- Candle
- Tissue paper
- Candle varnish
- Heat gun
- Gold dust for candle
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