Cute, this votive, isn’t it?
And now, that’s getting warmer, we will hopefully be sitting on the terrace again :)
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Glass Paint Votive
Ok, ok, a votive again ;-), but I find this winter village votive really beautiful, too :))
If you try very hard you can make 24 of these and assemble as Advent calendar.
I think that today it’s too narrow for this, but I had the idea too late.
But then, this way you’ll have enough time to design the Advent calendar for next year ;-))
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The original site doesn’t exist any more and is now available through webarchive: Glass Paint Votive (WiCo* und Serviettentechnik) (German)
* Wico is Window Colours. These are those glass paints that come in plastic bottles and can be used on acetate sheets, I don’t know the exact English name.
Google translation of the article
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Glass-in-Glass Votive
The tutorial is now unfortunately only to be find in webarchive (without photos), but I found the idea so good that I wanted to present it here anyhow.
I think that it should work as well with taping thin paper on the glass instead of frosting it.
Nice, isn’t it?
Links:
The original site doesn’t exist any more and is now available through webarchive: Anleitung Votiv -Glas im Glas (German)
Indian Summer Votive
Recently I had a nice idea, inspired by the nature bracelet and the clip art candles or faux quilt votives, resp.: a quick autum votive.
It became more beautiful than I expected ;-))
That’s what you do:
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You need:
- a tealight
- some cardboard
- broad transparent tape
- colourful leaves
Tape the cardboard to a cylinder that has to be wider than the tealight but not especially beautiful.
Important note: my Votive was too narrow with this circumference and became warm very fast. I suggest strongly to make the cylinder wider!
Put the transparent tape around the cardboard cylinder with the sticky side outside(!).
My tape is about 5 cm broad therefore I put two on top of each other. The arrow shows where they overlap.
Now simply tape on colurful leaves. They may even overlap.
When you’ve finished you can decide whether you want to wrap everything with another layer of tape – this time sticky side inside ;-), then you simply pull your votive from the cardboard cylinder and put a tealight inside.
Another important note: The votive is very light and can therefore easily be blown into the flame.
When I will make this again, I think that I will put small tape stripes crosswise from side to side and weigh down everything with sand or a little plate.
Or I will work it directly around a glass, I think that’s smarter, because nothing can be blown away then ;-)
So don’t forget: Never leave burning candles unattended!
By the way, the leaves become brown as fast as ‘untreated’, but it is a beautiful decoration for an autumn table anyway.
Addendum: In the comments of the German entry Menoora writes, that leaves apparently keep their colours when gently ironed.
It’s worth a try, isn’t? ;-)
You can make it even more beautiful by taping a layer of packing tape transfers with interesting texts or comic pictures over the leaves :)
How about e.g. with a beautiful layed autumn table and the votives in place of name cards? The names could be designed in the style of the beautiful labels.
Anyway: Have much fun with this!
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Nature Bracelets
Clip Art Candles
Faux Quilt Votives
Packing Tape Transfers
Beautiful Labels for the Kitchen
Faux Quilt Votives
I find this idea really great, too: simply scan old quilts, print, sew a little and wrap around a votive ;-)
It’s a little bit as with the Fabric/Paper Place Mat.
And I think that it would look wonderful, too, with a paper Crazy Quilt!
By the way: the paper gets more transparent when you paint it slightly with oil.
It will smell a while, but then the smell disappears ;-)
On the page she also shows how to print the quilt picture onto inkjet T-shirt transfer and embellish leather with it – great!
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Faux Quilt Votives (Faux Vintage Quilt Fun)
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Fabric/Paper Place Mat
Papier Crazy Quilt
Ice Votives
At the moment we’re jittering from the cold here – what better time to make some most beautiful votives from ice for the balcony or the garden?
When it get’s warm again we will be making jewelry from ice again and at every time we can make a lot of things from the plastic bottles ;-)
Links:
Ice Votives (Video – How to Make Ice Votives) (Video)
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Stained Glass with Sharpie Markers
The stained glass with sharpie markers gives a nice votive, don’t you think? :)
Links:
Stained Glass with Sharpie Markers (Create the Look of Stained Glass with Sharpie Markers and a Jar)
via: DIY Sharpie Craft Ideas
=>scroll down to ‘DIY Sharpie Stained Glass from Happy Hooligans’
Toilet Paper Roll Lampshade
Toilet paper roll lampshade is a long name for a (as I find) really nice ‘thingy’ made from toilet paper tubes :)
However I wouldn’t make it with a candle but with a glass lampshade.
Actually you should also be able to make it as votive, don’t you?
Links:
Toilet Paper Roll Lampshade (Christmas Candle Redo)
via: Toilet Paper Roll Lamp
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Book Page Decorated Candle Holder
The book page decorated candle holder is cute, isn’t it? :)
I’ve also presented before other votives, some were coated with paper and you may like them, too ;-)
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Book Page Decorated Candle Holder (Book Page Candle Holder)
via: Lots & Lots Of Book Page Crafts
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Plaster Tea Light Holder
I find this plaster tea light holder cute!
Here is written ‘You make everything better’ on it, but of course you can write everything, from ‘I love you’ to ‘Merry Christmas’ – or also ‘Happy Easter’ ;-)
And should you not like your writing, you have enough place to sketch on the free place or to glue on nice paper napkins and so on and so forth :)
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Plaster Tea Light Holder (The Perfect Gift: Plaster Votives)
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