Bring warmth to a home with hand decorated candles

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Creating elegant candles is easier than it looks. The rich texture and patterns are created with rubber stamps, embossing powders and a little tissue paper. Candles are perfect for gift giving this holiday season or simply to decorate your own home.Supplies:Light colored pillar candleWhite tissue paperScissors Rubber stampInk pad - blackPurple embossing powderEmbossing gunLuminarte Twinkling H2Os watercolorsPaintbrushParchment paperSmall scrap booking eyeletsCandle paint pen (we used Candle Decopaint by Marvy)Steps:1. Cut a piece of tissue paper that is large enough for your stamp. One side of the tissue paper will be slightly glossy. Ink your rubber stamp and stamp onto the glossy side of the tissue paper. 2. Sprinkle embossing powder on the image on the tissue paper and tap off the excess. Heat the powder on the candle with an embossing gun until the image is embossed. 3. Swirl a wet paintbrush into the Twinkling H2O and color in the background of your stamp. (If you don't have Twinkling H2O watercolors, any other type of watercolor will work.) Make sure your paintbrush is not too wet or your tissue paper may tear. Allow to dry (drying takes 10 to 20 minutes). 4. Cut a piece of parchment paper large enough to cover your image and wrap all the way around the candle, plus an extra piece several inches long. Trim the excess tissue paper around the edges of your image. Place the image onto your candle. The embossed side of the image can face in toward the candle or outward, depending on your preference. We placed the embossed side inward for a more antiqued look. Wrap the parchment paper tightly around the candle, using the excess parchment paper in the back as a handle.5. Move your embossing gun over the image to melt the tissue paper into the candle. You will be able to see the wax melting through the parchment paper. Once you see the wax melt in one area, move the embossing gun to another area so as not to melt the candle too much. When the entire image has melted into the candle, carefully remove the parchment paper.6. Add details to the candle using scrapbooking eyelets and candle paint pens. While the candle is still warm from step 5, press eyelets into the candle at the corners of the image. Add dots and lines with candle paint pens and allow the candle paint to dry for 24 hours.Cathie Filian and Steve Piacenza, created and co-host Creative Juice and Witch Crafts on DIY & HGTV. Visit www.cathieandsteve.com for more information.