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We’ll continue on our theme for making homemade holiday gifts again this week for this Weekend’s Project: a DIY Beeswax Flower Mason Jar Candles Tutorial.
The beauty of these candles is that you can screw a lid on them, decorate them up, and they’ll surprise the lucky person who gets to open them. They are also wonderful for out-of-town friends and family as they can safely be shipped without damaging the flower.
Materials:
- soy & beeswax jar candles
- various colour of beeswax sheets
- tacky wax
- popsicle stick
- cookie cutter
- box cutter / knife /scissors
- pen with the ink cartridge removed
1. Make some soy & beeswax jar candles in wide mouth 250ml / half pint jars like these. Fill jars so that they are only 3/4 full (note: they are too full in the photo shown) as this will allow you to have space for the beeswax flower and also be able to screw the lid on the jar for wrapping / shipping.
2. Now you can begin decorating! Using a cookie cutter, cut out a flower like shape from a sheet of the beeswax. We used both honeycomb and smooth sheets for different textures. Using the pen, punch a hole in the centre of the flower then slide it over the wick onto the top of your candle.
3. Cut a second colour of wax with the cookie cutter. Using the knife or scissors, separate all the petals. Then spread some of the tacky wax (a sticky wax that acts as glue for the petals) with a popsicle stick around the centre of the flower. Arrange and press each petal around the wick. Carefully bend the far tip of each petal upwards to create a 3D effect to the flower.
4. For the third layer of the flower, cut out smaller petal shapes with the knife or scissors. Generally 6 petals will do. Again spread the tacky wax and adhere the petals gently bending each tip upwards.
That’s it! No really, it’s that easy.
For bonus points, you can decorate the jar and the lid. For some cute printable labels that will fit mason jar lids click here.
We will leave you with a photo of a pretty black one that looks lovely on our night stand next to an Anthropologie ring holder.
These are gorgeous. Far beyond my capabilities, but just beautiful.
These are absolutely gorgeous and the tutorial is very easy to follow! I’d love it if you shared these at my party that I have going on at Project Queen. If you’d like to link up, here is the link:
http://projectqueen.org/christmas-gifts-and-ornaments-for-10-or-less-blog-hop-3
I’m a new follower.
Beautiful candles
~Mrs. Delightful
ourdelightfulhome.blogspot.com
TY for a very inspirational ideas.
Happy TTT…
Greetings from chilly Stockholm,
/chie
Wow, you’re really good at this, your candles are definitely a keepsake!
Thanks for this great tutorial. They would be nice Christmas gifts and i´m shure i´ll be make some of them soon.
Hi Stevie – I’m featuring your Beeswax Flower Mason Jar Candles tomorrow morning that you shared at Project Queen’s Blog Hop – “Christmas Gifts and Ornaments for $10 or Less”. I LOVE THESE! The tutorial is awesome. I think I can even manage it :-).
Thanks so much for sharing these at the party. I hope you come back next week!
Mandy
Oh I think these are simply gorgeous! And this has always intimidated me but this tutorial makes it feel so doable! Wow, my friend. Truly.
love these!!
Thanks for linking up to Serenity Saturday!!
Hope to see you there again tomorrow!
http://www.serenityyou.blogspot.com
Natasha xxx
What a charming gift. Thanks for the show and tell.
wow! these are amazing! I’ll have to give it a try someday. You are certainly talented.
Thanks for visiting my blog,
Kristen
you are so talented~
these are AWESOME! great tutorial!!! would make beautiful gifts — feel free to link them up to my SPEND LESS. GIVE MORE. Homemade Holiday Link Party — would love to have ya :)
Lauren @ http://www.SummitstreetJoy.com
These are really neat! Thank you for joining me at Home Sweet Home!
Sherry
What a fabulous idea!!! Thanks for sharing it with us! :)
Love this- how darling!! Thanks for linking up at Feathered Nest Friday!
Thanks so much for linking up to Summit St Joy!!! :)
Thank you for sharing another lovely project at Potpourri Friday!
I wish you a healthy, prosperous and sparkling New Year!
Good Blog These are gorgeous. Far beyond my capabilities, but just beautiful.
Good Blog i m feeling smell like flower
I’ve been trying for weeks to decide on a candle to make for friends and family this Christmas. Thank you so much for this great idea that makes me truly excited about making 4 dozen candles this weekend!!