Wine Glass Candle Holder Process

Hello craft lovers!

Remember these candle holders that I made 

for Christmas?

Today I'm going to give you a quick tutorial on how

they are made..

I started out with a plain wine glass.

I get them at the Dollar Tree.

I created a pattern with my 

Silhouette Studio Designer Edition software.

This picture shows how it looks on my computer,

I have color coded all the pieces to the colors of glitter

I will be using. I cut all the pattern pieces from vinyl.

Once the pieces are all cut, they are layered onto the

wine glass. You need to figure out which colors you will be doing 

last and layer up from there.

On the penguin, the last color I was applying was the orange, 

so those pattern piece went on first.

The feet were first, then the white belly.

We then used Mod Podge to cover the glass,

then poured on the black glitter.

We waited until the first coat was good and dry,

then applied a 2nd coat.
Different colors may require more applications, 

use your judgement and do what you like best.

Once the black was done, we removed the pattern

piece where the white would go and added that.

And so on until we were finished.

The trickiest part was the eyes.

We had to remove the large white circle and

before putting on the white glitter, we laid down

a smaller circle for the black of the eye.

The little white dot in the eye was added last with

a little bit of Liquid Pearls.

Once all the glitter was applied and had all dried,

we sprayed them with a glossy spray sealer

If the Mod Podge you have is a glossy one,

you can use that to finish them.

DO NOT use a matte Mod Podge!

(don't ask me how I know)

This final seal will prevent the glitter from flaking off

your project.

This is the pattern I used for my Grinch candle holder.

We used the same process as with the penguin.

When we removed the different pieces, 

we used a fine paint brush to apply the Mod Podge

since the areas were so small, 

but it was worth the effort.

I have seen some very cute ideas for Valentines Day

using this same process and supplies and I'm thinking of

making a couple for that holiday also.

If I do, I'll post them for y'all to see.

Thanks for stopping by today,

I hope you've learned something 

and been inspired in some way.

Come again soon.

QKR Blog Challenge for November 30th

Hi everyone and welcome to my post for the

QKR Stampede Blog Challenge for this week.

Our theme is

"It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas"

I decided to use

"Med. Winter Moose" (#22302) and

"Tree" (#14501)

from QKR Stampede.

Both of these I have in rubber,

but they are available in digital format,

so you could make them whatever size you would like.

Each Christmas I receive some kind of moose

 from my husband.

I think moose are the cutest ever

and one day I will see one

when we are traveling in New England. 

 I say I will see one every time we are there

and it hasn't happened yet. 

So I will have to be satisfied, for now, with this cutie.

For the background I stamped

"Tree" randomly on a piece of white card stock.

I then used a blending tool and Distress inks

 to color the sky and trees.

A little Liquid Pearls was added as snow.

For my moose friend,

I stamped him onto white card stock

and colored him with FlexMarkers,

fussy cut him and adhered him with foam tape.

I hope you will take the time

to visit the other design team members,

 leave a little love along the way

and be inspired to create something for the challenge.

For all the particulars pop on over to the

QKR Stampede blog.

Thanks for stopping by today,

I'd love to hear what you think of this little cutie,

so feel free to leave me a comment. 

Then come again soon.

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Gift card holders ~ Polkadoodles Week 49 challenge

Joys of the season to you all!  Today I'm showing you a couple gift card holders that I made for Christmas gifts.  They are for the same person, just from different people.

 This first one is one that I made for my Mom to give to her bestest friend in the world, Aunt Marilyn!  They have been friends since they met in 4th grade and since they are 85 & 86 yrs old, you can see they have been friends for a VERY long time.  The image is from QKR Stampede and titled In the Manger (#16701)

I stamped the image onto kraft card stock and colored it with water color crayons, trimmed it out, rounded the corners and used foam tape to attach it to the front of the card holder.

 The inside of the holder is stamped with the word Rejoice, which I think goes very well with the Christ Child on the front. 

The holder itself was very simple to make.  If you are interested in making one yourself, there is a video tutorial here. 

Now on to my 2nd holder.  Aunt Marilyn lives in North Carolina and loves to take herself out for quick lunches.  She goes walking and then stops someplace for a quick and inexpensive lunch.  A few years ago I started sending her gift cards for Christmas, to a variety of fast food restaurants.  This year I saw this idea on one of my favorite blogs, Going Buggy, and decided this would be perfect for Aunt Marilyn.

 This cute little gift card book is made with toilet paper tubes.  First, I flattened them, then I covered them with papers from a DCWV Christmas Stack.  I had forgotten that I had this 6x6 stack and I'm so glad I found it.  The papers are adorable.  I'm pretty sure this stack has been discontinued as it has been in my stash for a couple years.

I then used my Bind It All to make them into a little book.

Each "page" has it's own tag with a gift card or certificate on the back of it.

The first tag is covered with paper from the same paper stack and says Merry Christmas. All the others I used QKR Stampede images that were stamped onto kraft card stock. 

The Santa is Santa Snowman (#16704) and was colored with water color pencils. I used Liquid Pearls on his beard, hair and the fur on his hat to make them a nice shimmery white. 

The next tag is Pine Sprig (#15702) was colored with water color pencils, I used gold Stickles on the bells. 

Holly (#15701) was used for the next tag, colored with water color pencils again and red Stickles were used on the berries. 

This picture shows where I used the Liquid Pearls and Stickles.

The last image I used was Trees (#21704), this one I stamped with Moss Green VersaFine ink and used a white gel pen to add the 'snow' to the image. 

I then added an eyelet to the top of each tag, using my Crop-a-dile.  Then threaded a ribbon through it and added the gift card or certificate to the back.  The gift cards I attached with a small amount of ATG tape.  For the gift certificate, I attached a loop of ribbon to the back of the tag, folded the certificate and slid it under the ribbon.

I know Aunt Marilyn will enjoy the gift cards and certificate and I'm pretty sure she will like the little book I made to send them to her in. 

Thanks for stopping by today.  I hope you have enjoyed your bit of time here and I hope you have been inspired to make something yourself.

Come back again soon and see what else I have to show you. 

Leave me a comment and let me know what you think!

Until next time, Happy Crafting!