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'Let it snow' paper bands to decorate homemade candles

One more request from a dear friend: candles that she could put on the table as Xmas favours!

In particular, she wanted pillar candles with chunks on the white/turquoise hues. 


She also asked for decorations matching the colours of the candles and having snow flakes. 

It took me a while before deciding what to do (it's much easier to use red, green, silver and gold when it comes down to Xmas things,😂😂😂 ahahaha)...
...and then I thought it would have been fun to use the bubble wrap stamping technique to give the paper a snowy-like background!


For the white bubbles: Dovecraft Crystal White ink and Aladine jasmine white embossing powder.
For the light blue bubbles: turquoise ink (from ArtNic,#20) and Artemio clear holographic embossing powder. 

I've created the snow flakes with a puncher from white Bristol card stock, and decorated the paper band with Diamond Stickles glitters (from Ranger) and white/turquoise/blue sequins.


If you fancy to use this technique for card making, here you have a couple of nice videos from Dawn's Stamping Thoughts and from Jan Brown 



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