Christmas Candles

I made these candles a little while ago but thought now would be a good time for them to appear on my blog as they are quite Christmassy. They were actually made because my daughter is a figure skater and I thought they would make great gifts for other skaters. Here in Melbourne we have been challenged in this sport with only 1 undersized rink for quite a while - but we have a great community who get a little obsessive about anything skating related!! These are made from a retired SU set that I bought on ebay called Snowy Play - I couldn't help it - it's ICE SKATING and cute too!!!! I coloured the snowman in using my son's pencils the snowflake on the tag is from the Season of Joy set. I have also found that time sitting at the rink is great for taking along some colouring in - when I'm not chatting with other mums - LOL.

Tea Light Candles Holders

The idea for these came from a candle holder designed for Halloween. I had a workshop today and wanted to take along something new and seeing that we were making things in a Christmas theme I decided to go with the flow and create Christmas candle holders. These are really simple and yet soo effective - the link to the tutorial is below. I used Real Red Cardstock and cut the scallop using the corner punch. (Watch for the Scallop Punch release in the next mini - it will make this job a breeze!!). I also added some extra detail by punching the small holes along the scallop using the small hole punch in the Cropodile - one of my favorite tools! The Stamp sets I used were Festive Favorites and Lovely as a Tree. The tree is the small lone pine in the middle of the group of trees, I used my black marker to color it and stamp it as a solo tree. I popped on a few rhinestones for Christmas sparkle - this looks great when the candles aren't alight but they don't really show up on the lit candles - you can see the difference in the photos. I'm off now to enjoy my dinner by festive candlelight - hope you give these a go if you like candles as much as I do!

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