Making candles at home. Decorative candles with their own hands

At one time, the candles were an important source of light, and they illuminated the rooms. Today they are mainly used for the decor of the room, exuding a pleasant aroma and bringing comfort and coziness to the atmosphere. As an ornament, craftsmen create products of various shapes and colors, while decorating them with all sorts of additional material, both artificial and natural. Making candles at home has become for many a fascinating hobby. Following the advice of this article, even a beginner can do this process.

What do you need to create a candle?

Buy special material in order to make a candle at home, not necessarily. Everything you need can be found in the kitchen or children's lockers. First of all, collect the cinder from the used candles or buy the simplest paraffin in the hardware store. Prepare small molds and multicolored chalks from wax for staining. Forms can serve as cups from yogurt, silicone cups for baking, children's sets for playing with sand and various figured capacities. You can pour the composition into transparent glasses of glass. But keep in mind that you can not remove the finished candle. You need to fully use it to empty the glass. Dyes can be not only crayons, but also acrylic or oil paint, and even decorative cosmetics. You also need a cotton thread, stirring sticks and a wick, a container in which you will melt the wax. A saucepan that performs the task of a steam bath. If desired, you can add essential oils to the candle, making it flavored. Decorative trifles will give the products originality and attractiveness. When all the materials are collected, making candles at home will be simple and entertaining.

How to make a wick?

The wick must provide high-quality combustion. To create decorative candles with your own hands that will not smoke, it is important to choose the correct thread. It should be made of natural fiber, which, burned, crumbles into ashes. If, during ignition, the filament turns off leaving a solid ball, then this is a synthetic material.

The choice of wick is influenced by the size and shape of the future candle, the type of wax and dyes. If you use a glass beaker, the wick on the metal stand will keep the bottom from overheating, preventing the fire from reaching the bottom. The diameter of the candle determines its thickness, which determines the size of the flame.

To make the wick itself, you need to take yarn from natural yarn or mulina and soak in a solution of 1 tablespoon of salt, 2 spoons of boric acid mixed with a glass of water. Withstand the threads in the liquid for at least 12 hours. After drying, the cord can be crocheted or weave threads together.

Variety of molds

Ways and options, how to make candles with their own hands, a lot. They differ not only in color and internal content, but also in the variety of forms that they use in their manufacture. Craftsmen create products in orange skins, in large shells, in cardboard constructions made by own hands.

Candles in sand form are very interesting solution. Thanks to sand, you can get any shape of the product. Candles, photo of which is given below, the girl creates on the beach. Of course, you can repeat this process at home. For this, moistened sand is taken and placed in a wide container. Then we remember the childhood and modeling of kulichiki in the sandbox. We are busy with the sand, squeezing various shapes in it. Then you need to fill the grooves with liquid wax, which is poured using a spoon. Wax slowly flows down the metal, which prevents the destruction of the form in the sand. We are waiting for the contents to cool down, after we remove the finished candle.

Transparent gel candles

Transparent products look very impressive. Consider the manufacture of candles at home using a gel. To create them you need tannin, glycerine and gelatin. To prepare the mixture, it is necessary to dilute gelatin in water and add glycerin in a ratio of 20: 5: 25. Then the mass is heated in a water bath until it is transparent. At this time, you should mix the tannin with glycerin 2:10 and also heat and add to the first composition. Continue heating until the mixture is clear. Prepare the molds for filling the mass. They must be transparent and resistant to high temperatures. These can be glasses, wine glasses, wine glasses or glasses. The shape can be decorated with shells or glass beads placed on the bottom. Take the wick and fix it on a pencil, located across the opening of the glass. Do not lower the wick close to the decorations of the candle, raise it by 1 cm. Then slowly inject the solution into the molds and wait until it cools. In the end, we get the original transparent candles. The photo (for example) is shown below.

Struggle against bubbles

Making candles at home using a gel is overshadowed by the formation of unwanted air bubbles. If the presence of air is not designed specifically to create a realistic carbonated drink, then consider several ways to get rid of bubbles.

The air from the gel goes out faster when it is not frozen and is warm. So do not remove the gel from the steam bath until all the bubbles come out. The warmer the composition, the faster it will be freed from the air. If the candle is already filled, hold it near a warm oven, in the sun or wrap it in a warm kerchief. Warm gently the glass itself, into which the product is placed.

If, by creating decorative candles with your own hands, you use trifles, such as shells, fill them with a gel and let it freeze. Then use them for decor, without releasing the gel mixture.

Decorative candles with coffee beans

Above we considered how to create a candle using a gel. Next, we will describe an example of how to make candles made from wax with the addition of a decor made from natural materials. To make a shell of coffee beans, you need to prepare two shapes of different sizes. The main thing is that the smaller form should fit in the form of a larger size and at the same time provide a wide space between them. Geometrically, shapes can be any.

We paste one form into another and fill the gap with coffee beans in our case. If desired, you can place any decor, beads, shells, dried flowers. Then the space with the contents is filled with wax and put off until it dries. After some time, the form inside should be removed and placed in the empty area of the wick. Then pour the interior space with a candle mass. A candle of wax is ready!

Flavored candles

In some cases, to create a romantic mood, you can use natural ingredients that emit fragrance. Such products are short-lived and can be used once.

To create a scented candle, take an orange and cut it in half. We remove the pulp with a spoon, trying not to damage the skin, which will serve as a form for the future candle. The edges of the peel are cut off decoratively, leaving the denticles. Install the wick and pour the painted wax inside of both halves. Waiting for the wax to harden. The candle can be used. When heated by flame, the peel will emit fragrant substances and give the atmosphere a special comfort of warmth and romanticism.

Candles cone-shaped

Beautiful and original look candles in the form of a cone. Wax can be painted green and decorated, giving the appearance of a New Year tree. And how to make a candle-cone house? Yes, it's very simple! To create, you need white paraffin candles and cinder, colored crayons of wax, glass container, sheets from the magazine, beads or beads, toothpicks.

First, break the candles, remove the wick and fold the pieces into glass containers. Add grated chalks and place the container in a saucepan with hot water to melt the wax. At the same time, twist the magazine sheets with a kulk and fasten the edges with adhesive tape. At the base of the cake, fix the toothpick with plasticine and fix the wick on it. Put it in the bag and take it out of the hole formed on the top of the cone. Next, the bag must be placed in a container with a narrower neck width than the bell on the folded sheet. Then, melted and colored wax is poured into the inverted bag. After hardening, the wick at the base must be cut off, and the paper must be removed.

To decorate the candle, the beads must be heated in hot water and using tweezers, gently press into the wax (you can optionally, and you can lay out a beautiful pattern and inscription).

Marble candles

To create marble candles you need pieces of wax. You can make them yourself. Having melt the wax of the necessary color, pour it into a wide container and cut into pieces, without waiting for the full hardening. Put the hardened pieces into shape, relying on your imagination. Pieces can be laid, creating a mosaic on the walls, or in layers in several colors. Next, fix the wick and pour molten wax of a different color into the mold. A very hot mixture can lightly melt the pieces, if you pour a little cooled down mass, the pieces will look brighter. After pouring, tap on the surface of the container, causing the wax to penetrate into all voids. After complete cooling, remove the candle from the mold.

The creation of candles is a very fascinating activity, which does not require excellent knowledge and extensive experience. By creating such products, you not only decorate the interior with a new decor, but also free yourself from finding gifts for loved ones and friends. After all, each candle is the fruit of your imagination, which will have its own individuality and creativity.