Candle swirls: my Achilles heel!

I tried to make swirls many many times... of course without succeeding!

I don't know whether this time I can be satisfied with the result, but at least I prepared some nice candles that a french friend described as 'des morceaux de ciel' (literally 'bits of sky').

How to do this?

Once I've seen a video (or maybe it was a blog/webpage) in which someone was using the following technique but with many colours all at the same time.

1) Melt and pour plain (no colours, some fragrance if you fancy it) soy wax in your containers

2) when the wax is firm, make some holes with the help of a wooden skewer or anything pointy. Holes should be as close as possible to the container's walls, and should be running along 3/4 of the candle.

3) drop some candle-specific liquid colour in the holes

4) heat the container's wall with a heat gun or a hair dryer. This will partially melt the wax allowing the colour to blend in.

5) Pour another thin layer to cover the holes and wait...

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Card making and papercraft magazines

Last month I had the chance to get, for the first time, a couple of Cardmaking & papercraft magazines: Papercraft Inspirations and Make Christmas card magazine. Papercraft Inspiration December issue had a Christmas window build-a-scene embossing folder and stamp free gift, as well as free festive papers . Make Christmas cards was offering: 2 embossing folder borders , 13 stylish stamps , 32 Christmas papers , 12 découpage sheets , 117 toppers & motifs and 73 festive greetings. Here you have some of the cards and tags I've made with the magazines' gifts All cards have been donated to hospitals

One more way to combine soy wax and gel!

The followings are all two-layered candles with the bottom layer made of gel and the upper part made of soy wax . Why combining the two of them? Because gel is transparent and allows you to embed objects and soy wax has an incredible scent throw and a long burning time ! Few simple rules for embedding objects: ideally they should be non flammable (like glass animals, shells or stones)! ...but if you do not exaggerate with the amount, you also can potentially use cinnamon sticks, dried flowers etc... To be on the safe side: if you use flammable objects I'd anyway suggest you to pour the thinnest layer of gel as possible (just to cover the embeds) and avoid burning this layer. And remember: never ever leave lit candles unattended! Let yourself be inspired and give it a try! Gel embeddings: glitters (blue candle) or sea shells (peach candle). Soy wax: caramel-scented. G el embeddings: cinnamon sticks G el embeddings: cinnamon sticks (left) or star

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