To The Moon and Back - Jane's view

Hi folks, hope you day is going well.  Time for me to share another Sweet Pea creation, this time a candle using the fabulous image Courtney McAnsh's To the Moon and Back.

To begin with I sprayed my tissue paper with a light adhesive spray and stuck it to some A4 paper.  I then printed my candle wrapper.  I know some folks use paper when covering candles but I find this far to heavy and suspect it it a bit of a fire hazard.

Normally I create my candle wrappers 100% digitally but many artist do not allow digital colouring of their digi images.  Recently, while in the UK I invested in the Spectrum Noir blendable crayons and wondered if it would be possible to colour on tissue paper with them as they are fairly soft.  Success :) :) After my wee practice I coloured this image with the SN blendable crayons.

Next I removed the backing paper and attacked my low tack wrapper to my candle.

After having wrapped it in wax paper I then used my heat gun to melt the wax from the candle through the tissue paper.  Once done, I then added some candle gold dust in areas on the background and then, finished off with some water based candle varnish for a lovely sheen.

And here is the finished candle.

Ingredients:-

• Courtney McAnsh's To the Moon and Back
• Background by me
• Candle
• Tissue paper
• Candle varnish
• Heat gun
• Gold dust for candle

Thank you for stopping by and hope you have a happy crafting day ahead of you :)