Monday, November 2, 2009

Personalized Votives by Violette Clark

Do you sometimes feel stumped when it comes to giving a hostess gift or when you want to give a little something to a friend to show them you care but don't know what? Fear not! You are a lean mean crafting machine and that means you'll be able to whip up these delightful personalized votive candle holders in no time at all. All you need is a picture of your friend/s – I printed mine in photoshop and altered the mode to grayscale but you can do the same at a photocopy shop if you like. You also might have to shrink the image down to size to fit nicely on your votive holder.

Supplies:

#724 No moon transparent microfine glitter
#740 Raspberry transparent microfine glitter
#263 Bright Gold Ultrafine opaque glitter
Sticky paper
Designer Dries Clear Adhesive
• book text, computer text
• tiny black feather
• votive candle holders
• photocopy or computer generated prints
• pencil

Directions:

1. Choose a photo of your friend and alter it in photoshop making it into a grayscale image. You could also bring your photo to the photocopy center and print it out in black and white. Print your image and cut out.


2. Cut a rectangle of sticky paper. For “music man” you will also be cutting out a crown shape and heart. For “2 creative chicks” you will be cutting out a heart and thin strip for a headband.
3. Print out text for your votive creations. I chose “music man” and “2 creative chicks”. I could have chosen to print out the names or nicknames of the recipients. Clip and outline in pencil.
4. Tear a piece of book text for each holder.


5. For the “2 Creative chicks” I removed the paper backing of the sticky paper and laid down the book text and image. I adhered the words “2 creative chicks”. I then dipped the sticky back paper and image into the bright gold ultrafine opaque glitter. I then removed the backing from the headband and dipped it in No Moon transparent microfine glitter. I glued the tiny black feather down and then adhered the headband on top. I cut out a heart shape from the sticky paper and dipped it in raspberry transparent microfine glitter. I then adhered it to the image.
6. For “Music Man” I removed the paper backing of the sticky paper and laid down the book text and image. I adhered the words “Music man”. I then dipped the sticky back paper and image into the bright gold ultrafine opaque glitter. I then removed the backing from the crown and dipped it in No Moon transparent microfine glitter and adhered it. I cut out a heart shape from the sticky paper and dipped it in raspberry transparent microfine glitter. I then adhered it to the image.
7. I adhered both images to the votive candle holders with Designer Dries clear adhesive.



Add a candle and a glittery gift tag and VOILA! You have a fabulous personalized gift for that special friend.

1 comment:

  1. I have this site on my google reader, I was surprised to click on it and find our faces. Excellent job, nice tutorial!! These are really sweet house warming gifts too!! I imagine you could use some recycle glass to make colored ones, or bigger ones....I was packing up my glass wall units so we can paint them...this has inspired me to keep ones I planned to give to charity. This project would do well on a recycle website too!! Also could change the glitter color to match decor....oh man you got me thinking....Great job Violette!! Very exciting!!

    Hugs Giggles

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