New Year's candles with their own hands

Very original look New Year's candles in the form of glasses with champagne. To make them you have to work hard, butbut the result will be very effective. These New Year candles are gel, so you will need a special gel wax. Manage with it is not easy, so it is better to make such candles, if you already have experience in making candles. In addition to wax you will need: a yellow dye, flavor for candles, wicks, glasses of heat-resistant glass, a knife, a spoon, scissors, a pencil.

First you need to prepare glasses. Wash them thoroughly and wipe them dry so that there are no stains on the glass. Then you need to cut off the wick, tie it with one end to the pencil and put a pencil on the glass so that the wick is located exactly in the center of the glass and touched its bottom.

Now you can start working with wax. Unlike ordinary wax, gel is not necessarily heated in a water bath, you can simply put it on fire. So crush the wax in a bowl or saucepan and put it on a small fire. While the gel is heated, it needs to be mixed regularly. Then there will be air bubbles that give candles a resemblance to champagne. Wax is easily ignited, therefore you can not be distracted for a second!

When the gel becomes liquid, you need to adddye and flavor and mix everything with a spoon. Without flavor, you can get by, but the dye is needed so that your New Year candles really resemble champagne. Then pour the gel into the glasses with the wicks and wait until it cools down. A few hours - and the New Year candles are ready, it remains only to trim the excess part of the wicks.

Very original look New Year's candles from half a citrus. For their manufacture, oranges, grapefruits, lemons of regular shape will suit. Fruits should be cut into halves and gently scraped out the flesh from them, so as not to damage and deform the peel.

Cut the edges of the resulting "cups" with denticleswith the help of a sharp knife. In the center, fix the wick or put the finished candle "pill", fill the remaining space with liquid wax or paraffin and wait until it freezes. It is best to make such New Year's candles shortly before the holiday, so that the peel does not have time to dry, lose shape and aroma.

If you do not want to suffer with wax and make candles from scratch, you can make New Year's candles out of ordinary, simply by decorating them in an original way. The simplest way is to wrap a candle inspiral strips of foil or serpentine. Instead, you can tie a bow on the candle. You can also use pins with multi-colored heads to decorate the candles. It is necessary to stick pins into the candle so that the remaining heads form different patterns.

To decorate candles, you can also use stencils and nail polish. Just make stencils of different shapes (snowflakes, asterisks, etc.), attach them to the candle and put a varnish on the candle.

You can still decorate New Year's candles in decoupage technique. For this, it is best to take candles of a largediameter. You will also need a napkin for decoupage with different motives. You can take the usual table wipes - just before the holidays for sale comes a lot of napkins with drawings. Such napkins usually consist of several layers, you need to remove the top and work with it.

Cut out the pattern you like and put it on the candle. Then heat over the stove a teaspoonful or a tablespoon. Keep it need the inside of the fire, t. from the outside, you will smooth the napkin, and the resulting soot can stain it.

So, gently smooth the napkin heatedspoon, pressing it to the candle. As a result, the paper is impregnated with wax, and the impression is created that the drawing is directly on the candle. Please note that Too long to keep a spoon in one place is impossible - there will be streaks. Instead of a spoon, you can use a hair dryer with hot air.

As you can see, there are a huge number of ways to make New Year candles with your own hands from scratch or turn ordinary candles into New Year's. It is only a matter of desire and imagination!! Ready candles can be used to create New Year's compositions.