Medallion Trays, Part II

Earlier I showed the gorgeous Medallion Trays I made using simple wooden trays. I also told you that I was going to do something special to spruce them up for the craft fair next month! Wait no longer! Here are the gorgeous candles I made to put on top of the trays!

Stamping on candles is very simple! You need:

White tissue paper
Ink
Stamp
Waxed paper
Heat Tool
Candle

Stamp your image on the tissue paper. Cut it out, close to the edge of your design. Then simply put the tissue paper where you want on the candle, cover it with waxed paper, and heat with your heat tool! That's it! It's really neat to watch as the wax melts and the image goes onto the candle. Remember that each time you will need a new sheet of waxed paper.

Recycling Thursday

Last month, I did a "recycling" day where I posted a card made from my scraps and pieces of paper from my "reuse" drawer. I absolutely love how that card turned out! So for today's post, I wanted to have another Recycling Thursday card!

In my "reuse" drawer I had a lot of pieces of paper that I was experimenting with. I don't know if it is real technique or not, and I definitely haven't perfected it, but here's what I came up with:

 To make this, I used glossy card stock, reinkers, and a plastic drinking straw. I simply put a few drops of reinker in random spots on the cardstock and blew with the straw. You can also use the Color Spritzer Tool, but I just couldn't get enough air out of that before the reinker started to dry.

I loved how my different color combinations turned out. Some I even added shimmer paint to add sparkle to my project! However, I couldn't think of what to do with them that night. So, the pieces went into my "reuse" drawer.

However, they were just too pretty to sit idly by! So here's the card I made using the Hostess Level 1 stamp set, Silhouette Sentiments.