Wednesday, November 3, 2010

HoneyBee Showcase-Candles

Welcome to our first ever HoneyBee Showcase! It's Wednesday, and our Bees have been Busy creating their own version of Monday's Motivation! They would like to share them with you, and then it's your turn!! We will post a LINKZ below, and when you have finished creating your take on the project, take a photo, and post it here at the hive!!!

Here's Beth!


Today I would like to share my version of Rosemary's gorgeous candle, like Betty, the last few weeks I have been traveling along the Blue Ridge Parkway and the picture I chose to use on my candle was of The Mabry Mill that is located along the parkway.



This was such and easy project to make and Rosemary's tutorial was awesome, also I tried a tutorial that I saw at Jill's Card Creations where she made a gift box and decorated tealights by stamping on them and infusing them into the candle. Here is my version of that one.



On the tea lights I stamped on the tissue, colored with markers then used my heat gun to infuse into the candle.
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I am so excited about this candle! I have never made one before. I did mine a little different. I used a digital stamp from Digital Delight. It's a brand new stamp set that also comes out today! I printed it out on regular typing paper and colored it with Bic markers and Kor-i-nor pencils and OMS. With the typing paper you need to cut the design out close to the image and cut out your negative spaces.



So after I had so much fun with this my DD who is 9 wanted to make one too!


She wanted to use her Halloween picture. LOL
She also choose to use one of Digital Delights new Digi Stamps

She colored it with Kor-i-nor pencils and OMS. I helped her with melting into the candle. But that's all that I did! Added the ribbon to finish it off. What wonderful presents she's going to make for the Grandparents this year! The possibilities are endless. Next I'm going to have her do her own drawings
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Hi! I am HoneyBee June Houck and I am buzzing with inspiration after reading Roe's Motivation Monday post: Giving that old candle a face lift.

I found this frosted glass candle in my closet and I decided to dust off some of my old SU rub-ons to make it a little more festive! I am excited to use this candle again.

I also found this tall rectangular candle in that same closet. I stamped on tissue paper with various stamps and die inks. Then I used my heat gun to adhere the tissue paper to the candle. I placed this on my kitchen table today...I think we will eat by candlelight tonight :)
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Betty Brett

I made this with tissue paper, and it was so easy, and it didn't even have to have the wax paper, because the candle itself melted and incorporated the tissue paper. I stamped my images, which I colored with water-based markers. It smells so yummy! If you burn your candles, please be very careful!
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OK, head for the cabinet, and find those poor orphan candles and give them a face lift, and come back and show us what you've done!!!

Happy creating ~

Photobucketand the HoneyBees!!!

7 comments:

June Houck said...

Beth, great photo candle and I never thought to do tea lights! So pretty and a GREAT gift idea.

Wanda, your dd clearly gets her beauty & talent from you. (Apologies to your dh!) Both candles are adorable :)

Betty, you know Autumn is my favorite season. The warm colors make me happy...my whole house is done in warm colors and accented with jewel tones. So of course I think your candle is un-BEE-lievably beautiful!

Rosemary said...

Ladies, after seeing your awesome projects, I now have to try stamping!! I am so glad I went with my project so I can learn something new from all of you!!

Court said...

Your candles are amazing!!!! GREAT job ladies!!!

Anonymous said...

Those projects are simply fantastic!! I'm going to check out the infusion tutorial because OMG, I know very few people who don't like candles. And even if someone regifts a candle I give them, cooooooool with me, someone should get some relaxation out of it!! Thank you for the inspiration!!!

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lauren bergold said...

oh WOW!!! every single one of these are amazing...and now i am really inspired to get some plain candles out and start experimenting!!! there is no way i could pick a ♥FAVORITE♥ idea here...but...i have to say my lovely friend june's idea of decorating a votive holder is AWESOME...b/c then i know i'd really USE the candle inside (whereas i would NEVER be able to burn one of those amazing stamped creations!) ♥♥♥

Sandy Ang said...

Such prettily decorated candles - I'd never bear to use them.