I love the little “Christmas Doggy” from My Creative Time<\/a><\/span> and the sweet poodle from the Penny Black “Mimi in Paris”<\/a><\/span> stamp sets that I wanted to make custom candles with them as a little prezzie for my hubby for Valentines.<\/p>\n

<\/a>I colored up the poodle with the following Copic colors:\u00a0E51, E21, E11, and E93,\u00a0and the\u00a0fluffy spotted dog\u00a0in:\u00a0W1, W3, E33, E23 and E25<\/p>\n

Then I scanned in both images into my computer and taped\u00a0some tissue paper onto card stock to run through my printer. \u00a0I printed out several images of each pup onto the tissue paper and then loosely cut\u00a0them out.<\/p>\n

I adhered the tissue paper images of the pups onto fragrant white candles from the Dollar Tree by covering them with wax paper to hold them in place as I slightly melted the wax of the candles with my heat tool. \u00a0This light melting embeds the tissue paper into the surface of the candle wax, and voila! Custom candle!<\/p>\n

Then I created sturdy chip board candle bases and had fun decorating the bases and the lower part of the candles with loads of paper flowers. \u00a0I used hot glue to adhere all the roses and then added a finishing touch of small pearl heart stickers, also from the Dollar Tree. This was a new-to-me technique, and I’m so pleased with the results.\u00a0I’m made\u00a0a set of poodle ones for my sister (she has 2 poodles) so she can have them by her soaking tub. \u00a0She and I are kindred spirits when it comes to our pups, and I know she’ll love the ones I made for her.<\/p>\n

The following is a process video of making these custom candles:<\/p>\n