Christmas offers countless ideas and opportunities for great crafts. Whether you spruce up your home with homemade decorations to suit the Christmas season or make individual handmade gifts for your loved ones, almost no one can avoid crafting in winter. And your own works of art always have something very special about them. Decorating candles at Christmas is a great way to beautify your home with a warm and cozy light. In today's article we would like to give you great ideas and suggestions for decorating. Browse through our picture gallery and find beautiful Christmas motifs. Be inspired by the various decoration techniques and try them out.
DIY ideas with wax plates
You can decorate the simplest, round pillar candle with various ornaments to suit the season or a specific occasion. Decorating candles with colorful wax plates, for example, is a fun activity for young and old and promises wonderful results. Handling wax plates is easy, so you can also involve your children. In addition to a beeswax candle and decorative wax, you will also need a sharp knife or cookie cutters.
Design a star
Children especially enjoy working with usTemplates and stencilsand later are particularly proud of their own creations. Stars, for example, are popular Christmas motifs for candles. In order to imitate the great winter decoration of the candle in our first picture example, you must first remove the white, dusty coating from the beeswax candle. Simply rub the candle with your fingers or lightly with a soft cloth.
For this beautiful Christmas motif, you first have to cut out 6 triangles of the same size and then attach them in a circle and with a little pressure. The arrangement should create a hexagon in the middle of the candle. Then cut six figures that resemble a tie from the dark blue wax and place them between the triangles. Finally, take a small piece of red wax and warm it in your hand. Then break off small pieces, form small rays and glue them between the six points of the star.
Using this technique, you can add any other Christmas motif that appeals to you and creates a great festive atmosphere. If you're worried that the punched out figures won't stick long enough, you can soften the wax cutout slightly with a hairdryer. You are also welcome to heat the candle in the desired location and hold the wax plate figures there for a minute.
Decorate candles with poinsettias
Designing pretty little stars and using them to decorate candles for Christmas can of course be even quicker. Cookie cutters in different sizes can serve you well for last minute decorations. Get decorative wax plates from the craft store in colors that harmoniously complete the rest of the decorative arrangement. If you want to give the room a noble and luxurious touch, you can use thistrendy color goldwork wonders at the most contemplative celebration of the year.
Use cookie cutters
You can design Christmas candles with a whole range of motifs that are a small foretaste of the coming celebration. If you want to ensure some Christmas happiness, a mistletoe decoration is the right choice. You've probably seen the little green bouquets above doors. If you want to continue the old tradition of using evergreen mistletoe as Christmas decorations, you can use the great winter motif to decorate candles at Christmas.
Sweeten the pre-Christmas season by cutting out mistletoe leaves from a green or white wax sheet and sticking them on the candle. You can also easily paint and cut out twigs and berries if you don't have a cookie cutter at hand. The beautiful candles then look simply enchanting when arranged on an elegant plate. Accompanied by natural materials such as moss, cones, fir green, etc., they form a harmonious ensemble that brings nature into your own four walls.
Artful ideas with candle liners
If you would like to decorate candles with your children, there are various acrylic paints, paint markers, glitter pens and candle liners that you can use to create the design you want. A deer with large antlers on which Christmas balls or fairy lights sparkle can be painted directly onto the candle with the liner. To create the candle decoration, you can apply the desired Christmas motifs to foil, then simply peel them off and stick them to the candle with suitable glue.
If you want to surprise friends and relatives with a personalized gift for Christmas, you can be sure that a hand-painted candle will melt the recipient's heart. Names, hearts, dots, Christmas greetings, etc. are lovely gift ideas. All you need to do is wrap the party bags with cellophane or put them in an organza bag and decorate them with an elegant ribbon.
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