Decorative candles with their own hands: a master class
Gorgeous interior decoration and excellentA gift is a candle made and decorated with own hands. You can make them from wax and from a special gel. The first method is traditional and will always be in place, but the second one allows you to show more imagination - in gel candles you can add a variety of items that will be visible, because the gel, most often, is transparent.
Candles made of wax
Striped candles
In order to make candles in one's own handsa beautiful color strip, you can simply paint ordinary candles of white color, but then the color will be just outside - looking from above, it will be seen that in fact the candle is white.
To have it striped in fact, you need to fill the wax with colored layers.
You will need:
- wax for candles,
- dyes (as much as the colors you want to make in your candle),
- water bath (by number)
- wick, a form for wax,
- flavoring (if you wish. In general, it can be theoretically done so that each layer has its own flavor, but in practice the whole candle still heats up, and the smells mix, and not "lie" like colors);
- as well as a thermometer for wax. Melt a little wax in a water bath. This will be the first layer.
Add the colorant. Measure the temperature - the temperature of each subsequent layer should be slightly higher than the previous one, but never - above 180 degrees (dangerous threshold for wax). Now pour the resulting layer into the shape with the wick (or the pin for the future hole under the wick) and immediately put the second one.
The first one should dry up a little, but not completelyharden, otherwise the second will not "stick together" with it. Pour the second layer and repeat to the top of the mold. Remember the temperature. If you want to make the strips not horizontal, but slightly inclined, put something under one edge of the mold, and with each layer move this thing - the wax will solidify "obliquely". Make sure that the form does not fall off.
Gel Candles
Gel candle for the New Year with their own hands
Take a gel for candles (you can buy it, andyou can make yourself from gelatin, glycerin, tannin and water), a wick, a shape and everything for a water bath. The form can serve as any glassware with thick walls - because the gel will become hot when the candle is lit, and the glass will also heat up.
And, of course, the contents of the candle that youadd in the gel - all the decorative elements. Most often make candles, similar to aquariums, with shells, sand, fish figures, but you can do anything else - a thematic candle for the New Year, for example, in the form of a glass with mulled wine, a winter drink.
In this case, you will need two stickscinnamon, red, yellow and brown dye (mix them for the right shade), clove flowers and small pieces of dried lemon. You can make a candle-wood: then you will need snow-decorations made of hard material (best of all red), a few short twigs with needles and a white dye (to make a part of the gel "snow").
Attach the wick to the bottom of the cookware. Put in it the items that you want to add to the candle - they will stay on the bottom; if you want them to "hang" in the gel, add them after you start pouring it. They will not drown, the gel is thick enough. Melt the gel and fill it. To turn a part of the gel into "snow", drip the dye several times during the pouring process - the drops will become stiff with bizarre shapes. Done!
And you can make other candles - for example, in the formglasses of champagne. Attach the wick to the bottom of the glass, and tint the gel light yellow. The gel bubbles will make the candle similarity with a glass of this festive drink almost indistinguishable!
Author: Masha Larina
