DIY Glitter Candles - Easy Christmas Decoration
Create sparkling magic this Christmas with super easy DIY glitter candles. Add a touch of whimsy and fun to your holiday decor effortlessly. Let’s light up the festivities!
Equipment
- scissors
- Pencil
- Foam brush
- Hot glue gun and glue sticks
Ingredients
- Small Christmas ornaments – I used gold and red you can use your favorite colors
- Christmas faux greenery garland
- 3 Candles 1 taller than the rest
- Glitter – I used gold and red again, you can use your favorite colors
- Mod Podge
- Pipe cleaners
- Cardboard
- Contact paper or vinyl
- Ribbons – I used white and red
Instructions
- Start with the contact paper or vinyl depending on which one you will use.
- Roughly decide how much of the candles would be glittered and how much would not.
- Based on those calculations, draw with a pen a wavy line all along the contact paper edge.
- Cut the wave line with a scissor making sure you get a straight side and a wavy side.
- Measured how much of the contact paper strip is needed to go around the candles.
- Cut it and apply the straight side to the top edge of the candle.
- Spread mod podge all over the un covered candle.
- Sprinkle abundant glitter all over it. Use a piece of paper or a tray underneath it so you don’t spread glitter all over the place.
- Let the glitter sit for a few minutes.
- Remove the excess glitter by tapping the candle gently against the table on a piece of paper.
- Remove the contact paper stencil and let it dry for at least 2 hours.
- Repeat the same process with the other two candles and change the glitter color if desired.
- Now to make the centerpiece, make 3 circles with the cardboard a little bit bigger than the candle’s diameter, like ½ inch larger.
- When the candles are dry, draw a circle around the candle on the cardboard.
- Apply hot glue along the inner side of the drawn circle and quickly glue the candle.
- Set aside.
- Now let’s work with the greenery garland.
- Cut a strip of greenery garland, long enough to make two loops on each candle.
- Then cut small strips of pipe cleaner wires like in the pic below and insert them through the ornament’s cap hole.
- Tie each ornament to the greenery garland. I made it one red, one gold, one red, one gold an so on.
- With hot glue, stick the garland to the cardboard around the candle.
- Repeat with the other two candles.
- Now the final touch…
- Make 3 cute ribbon bows and glue them to the garland.
- Tadaaaaaa!!!!! You got some really cute DIY Glitter Candles centerpiece to decorate your mantel or dining table.