Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Fall Vinyl Embellished Candles


Sharing a project I did for the Expressions Vinyl blog last week.

I’m having a long overdue lunch with some girlfriends and I always like to take them a little gift. I love embellishing these tall glass candles . I downloaded the image for the vinyl from the Silhouette online store and cut from gold metallic vinyl on my Silhouette Cameo.


Gold Vinyl Maple Leaf Border

Here are my images after peeling away the extra vinyl. For images with lots of detail, like these swirls, I like to use transfer paper to get my images cleanly off the backing and onto my project.

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This made it easy to center the image and place it on the candle.  I used a Canvas Corp damask print paper ( white on kraft) and Mod Podged the paper to the candle, then applied the vinyl image.

Leaf Vinyl Candle

Then I just poked around in my stash and embellished with some complementary rhinestones, plain old twine, beads, and paper flowers.

Fall Vinyl Embellished Candle

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What's a gift without a gift tag? Since I have an abundance of paper scraps, I found a coordinating scrap from another project, covered a plain white tag and finished with a K&Co fall leaf scrapbook border, a giant eyelet, and coordinating baker's twine. 





3 comments:

Unknown said...

Ohhh...I love the metallic vinyl! So cute!

lindalou said...

I don't know if you remember (I highly suspect that you do) but I used these type of decorated candles for my grandson's to decorate for their muma and daddy last Christmas. I can't thank you enough for the inspiration and seeing these candles reminded me of how much fun we had. They are lovely.

Unknown said...

Absolutely gorgeous! Beautiful idea :)