Bright flickering candle lights create a magical atmosphere and help you to be transported to winter's tale. And candlesticks made by yourself exude warmth and comfort. Here we have collected a few interesting ideas their manufacture.
Candlesticks in the Provence style look unusual. They can be easily made from glass cups, and natural materials: cones, cinnamon and birch bark. When a candle burns, cinnamon will emit a subtle aroma, filling the house with warmth and comfort.
Find a few cones and decorate glass jars with them and place candles inside. After sprinkling with glue, sprinkle all this magic with artificial snow.
The photo below shows a master class on making a candlestick decorated with nuts. On the base ring using glue gun nuts and small Christmas balls are glued on. In this case, it is necessary to leave space for candles. The product is coated with silver paint.
The birch bark decor looks very unusual.
If you have paints for painting on glass, then by decorating a small glass jar with them, you will get a magical candlestick that will not hide the flickering of the candle.
Children will like New Year's candlesticks in the form. Let little artists decorate the cookies themselves. This decor will become real.
Another option is to knit a New Year's outfit for glass jars.
If you fill a small jar with water, partially fill it decorative elements, it will turn out unusual unusual.
Magical and very delicate candlesticks can be made from lace.
You will need:
- inflatable ball,
- glue;
- lace.
Inflate the balloon, cover half of it with lace and leave to dry. When the fabric has hardened, pierce the ball with a needle or simply lower it, the lace will retain its shape. Be careful when placing the candle inside so that the flame does not light the candlestick. From a safety point of view, a more acceptable option is to cover a glass cup with lace.
The magical aroma of the holiday will spread throughout the apartment if you place a lit candle inside an orange peel.
If you can find small logs, they also make great stands for playful lights.
By covering the jars with colored paper you will get candlesticks that give different shades of glow.
Use any materials - pine needles, wood, fabric, paper! Experiment, create and let New Year will be joyful!
It's time to channel your creative impulses into a practical direction with a festive flavor: we suggest, with the help of the site's editors, to make a fabulously beautiful New Year's candlestick with your own hands.
Stores offer such a wide variety that the expected question arises: why decorate candlesticks if the candles themselves are amazingly beautiful? But not every person is ready to buy an unusual candle, but traditional New Year's wax products in white, gold, red and green flowers need proper design.
Paper candlestick with perforation
To do beautiful craft, often a minimum of materials is needed. IN in this case, this is a glass jar, a simple pencil, scissors and stationery knife. A cutting knife is best, but not every home has one.
Candlestick from a bottle
Glass wine bottles are ideal as a convenient and custom DIY candle holder for long candles.
The romance of floating candles
If there are no unnecessary careless movements near such a product, then the beauty of the resulting candlestick with floating candles can be enjoyed for quite a long time.
Candlestick made of pine cones
Those who were not lazy and collected some cones will be able to enjoy the gifts of nature in the form of a beautiful product. When working with cones, hot glue, a thick, acrylic or water-based paint, brushes, glitter, ribbons. The list of decor is not limited by anything other than the wishes of the creator.
The entire decor of cones is first painted and then glued with hot glue. You don’t have to paint the cones: pour PVA glue on the finished craft and sprinkle everything thickly with multi-colored glitter or colored sand.
Spruce branches and candles
Before you go looking for spruce branches, you should take into account that such a candlestick will not stand for long - spruce needles tend to crumble quickly. That's why beautiful products It is better to get from spruce branches directly under.
Making your own fruit candlesticks for the New Year
You can try placing a candle in the cut parts of the apples, coating the cuts lemon juice, but it’s best to add true New Year’s charm with an aromatic natural craft - we need an orange.
Salt dough candlestick
Decorate the house in a simple way possible using . Just 125 g of water, a glass of flour, a glass of fine salt and a little cream or sunflower oil - there are unlimited creation possibilities before human hands! To work with the dough, you will need a base for a candlestick, and the author’s idea will tell you which one.
To make patterns, use any molds that give imprints. Leaves can be made by cutting the dough with scissors, and flowers can be made by rolling a strip of dough between your fingers.
A beginner should not come up with a large-scale work with a large amount of dough: in order to obtain a product of rare beauty, skill is required, as well as the ability to dry the craft correctly.
The product is left unpainted or painted and varnished.
Making your own wooden candlestick
The tree pleases the eye with its texture and naturalness. To be able to place the candle in wooden candlestick, you need to make it first. And for this you will need a drill with a special attachment and a fire-prevention wood treatment agent.
The harmony of this world largely depends on the well-known elements: water, flame, air and earth. Each element has its own strength and energy, and each of them is vital for man. The author of this idea tells how you can combine seemingly two incompatible elements - ice and fire. As a result, you will get an unusually beautiful openwork candle which can get quite an original gift or a wonderful decoration for any festive table.
First, prepare everything necessary tools and materials:
1. Paraffin household white candles - 4 pieces.
2. Colored wax crayons.
3. Ice cubes.
4. Small knife.
5. Wooden skewer or stick for hanging paraffin.
6. Dishes for a water bath. You will need two saucepans or bowls of different diameters. Use dishes that you will not use later for cooking.
7. Candle mold. In this case, the author uses the most ordinary plastic cup.
8. Potholder.
9. A small terry towel.
10. Old oilcloth (if available).
1 step.
First, let's cover it work surface table with an old oilcloth, since in the process paraffin may drip onto the surface of the table. Then we take an ordinary household paraffin candle and cut off a piece from it that is equal in height to the previously prepared form. To do this, cut the candle from the top edge, where the wick sticks out. For now, put the cut piece of the candle aside.
Step 2.
Now carefully cut the remaining candles into pieces, while removing the wick.
Step 3.
Now pour water into a large saucepan and put it on fire. When the water boils, reduce the heat to low. Pour paraffin pieces into another saucepan and place this saucepan in hot water, located in a larger saucepan. Paraffin begins to slowly melt in a water bath. Do not forget that paraffin is a flammable substance and certain safety precautions must be observed when working with it. Never melt paraffin on open fire or in microwave oven. Don't leave paraffin on the fire unattended and keep a pack of open baking soda on hand. If paraffin catches fire, it should be extinguished with soda, not water.
Step 4
Now, using a knife, finely chop the colored wax crayon. How more chalk You add, the more saturated the color of your ice openwork candle will be.
Step 5
Now pour the crushed wax crayon into the melted paraffin, while constantly stirring the mixture with a wooden skewer.
Step 6
Now take the ice cubes out of the freezer. Pour ice onto half a towel, cover it with the other half and crush it. The size of the ice cubes determines what holes will be in your candle. The larger the pieces of ice, the correspondingly larger the holes. In order to get tender openwork pattern from fine lines, the ice needs to be thoroughly crushed.
Step 7
Then pour crushed ice into the mold and strictly in the middle insert the piece of candle with the wick cut off at the very beginning of the work.
Step 8
Carefully, using a pot holder, take a container with melted paraffin and wax crayon and carefully pour it into a mold filled with ice fragments. Fill the mold with paraffin to the brim.
Step 9
After the paraffin has completely hardened, remove the candle from the mold. In this case, the author simply cut a plastic glass and carefully took out the candle. This procedure must be done over a sink, since water from the melted ice will remain in the candle. If the wick is filled with paraffin, take a knitting needle with a pot holder, heat it over the fire and melt the paraffin a little in the place where the wick is located.
If the candle turns out to be unstable, then you can heat an old frying pan that you no longer need for culinary purposes and use it to level the bottom of the candle. Now let's leave the candle to dry thoroughly.
After all the water has completely dried, the candle is ready. The author recommends lighting it in a wide candlestick, as hot paraffin will ooze from the holes. You can experiment with colors, shapes, and sizes of ice chips.
You were able to combine two elements and at the same time you got an unusually beautiful openwork candle. A candle is a symbol of the family hearth and will definitely bring warmth, comfort and love to your home. Thanks to the author for the idea and advice.
Anticipating the holidays, we will tell you how to make candlesticks with your own hands for the New Year.
You don't have to be a professional designer to decorate your apartment in an original way for the New Year. We all have old stuffed animals, photographs, candles and other things that can be easily used to create holiday decor.
Christmas decoration is a fun activity that you and your children will love. This work will lift your spirits and prepare the whole family for winter holidays. We will tell you how to prepare your home for the New Year and Christmas with homemade candlesticks.
How to make candlesticks
Have you decided to decorate your home for your favorite holiday? Simple and effective method- playing with light. A living flickering candle will create a mysterious atmosphere and give good mood. In the flame of a candle, all problems and worries gradually disappear, and even a small mess is not so noticeable.
To create a mysterious atmosphere, prepare a lot of candles. They're also easy to make yourself. Consider the lighting in the room in which you are going to celebrate next year.
First, let's check out the old stock. Is it possible to do something with them? Enhance the look of old candle holders with snowflake napkins, draping elegant embroidered fabric or thin glossy paper. You can wrap them with ribbons, lace or shiny tinsel, and cover them with rhinestones.
It's nice to watch the floating candles. You should have an old transparent vase or crystal salad bowl that has long gone out of fashion. You can decorate the edges with toys or small pine cones.
Now pour water into the salad bowl and place the candles in it. Add small spruce branches, rowan berries and petals to the water so that your creative composition becomes the main decoration of the holiday table. Candlesticks can be made from unnecessary things that are uselessly stored on our shelves. They are even edible. Don't believe me? Then move on to the next sections of the article.
Fragrant from fruits
In search of scrap materials for our device, we go to the kitchen. We will try to make original candlesticks from fruits. Prepare them immediately before the celebration. Candlesticks made from fruits will give a beautiful, unusual glow and subtle aroma.
Take bright apples, grapefruits or oranges. Fruits should be bright, with a pronounced round shape. Cut them in half and use a spoon to carefully remove all the pulp.
Using a marker or pen, draw a simple pattern, cut out any excess along the contours, using nail scissors. There should be a lot of “holes” to allow light to escape.
Place a candle in the center of each half. Can be done closed version, covering it on top with the second part.
Decorate the fruits with small fir branches, buds, and rhinestones. Use toothpicks to attach rowan berries and tiny toys.
From unnecessary cans
We use any jar for these purposes - from the smallest (for baby food) to a liter. The originality of future candlesticks will be emphasized unusual shape banks.
The most basic way to use a jar is to simply turn it over, throw a piece of fancy fabric on top and place a small candle on the bottom.
Consider creative candlesticks made from jars that will become a work of art. Let's try to dress up jars with the children. Let's take:
- colored markers;
- gouache;
- nail polish of different shades;
- PVA glue;
- brushes
If you are decorating the jars with markers or nail polish, no preparation is required. Take and draw different Christmas stories on them - snowflakes, fir trees, garlands, snowmen or just intricate abstract patterns.
When planning to decorate jars with gouache, prepare them for painting. Cover the container with glue and let it dry, then the paint will “stick” to the glass better. Draw outlines and color the shapes in bright shades.
Entrust painting to your child and do not try to correct his creativity. The result will definitely exceed your expectations! After the gouache has dried, cover it clear varnish. If you don't have it, use hairspray. It is used to prevent the paint from peeling off and contaminating your hands.
Other interesting technique painting is stained glass paint. It is designed for drawing on smooth surfaces. This good idea and for Christmas decorations.
First draw a pattern on the jar with a marker. Then outline the outline with black paint, then leave it to dry for half an hour. Fill the space with any bright colors and leave to dry again (dry for several hours).
We insert the candle into our jar - the pattern begins to flicker with colored lights. A wide-necked liter container can be filled halfway with water. The candle will float, and the light from the jar will shimmer and fill the room with warmth.
Do you want to celebrate New Year outside the city? Place your glowing decorations along paths, on windowsills and trees. Bright colored lights will create a wonderful mood.
How to make a candle house
You might have seen small “houses” for candles on store shelves, but they are completely devoid of originality. Let's learn how to make such decorations using simple master class. To do this, prepare:
- empty square milk or kefir packaging;
- glue;
- gouache;
Prepare the salt dough: mix a glass of flour and salt, pour in a tablespoon of any vegetable oil and enough water to knead the dough. The final consistency should be like clay. To make colored dough, add paint to the mixture.
Now let's start building the house. Wash the paper container thoroughly to remove any remaining milk drink, dry it and cut off the bottom. Cut out a few windows and leave a hole for the pipe.
Next we lubricate external wall at home with glue and begin to roll small sausages from the dough. Here you can involve your child - he will cope with the task. We do this with all the walls, not forgetting to leave the openings for the windows uncovered.
Now we roll out a rectangle to make the roof. We attach it to the walls with glue. Next up is the door and shutters. Near the house you can install any figurine - the Snow Maiden or Santa Claus. For large objects we use glue, for small ones we lightly moisten them with water.
Dry the resulting composition in the oven at a very low temperature. When the work has dried, it can be decorated with any paints. Cover the top of the house with varnish. Place a small candle inside it, and it will glow with a soft light, and real smoke will quietly come out of the chimney!
The “house” for the candle is ready
Is not mandatory set, you can improvise and use whatever you find in your Christmas decoration box.
- We make a candle stand using a metal lid or a narrow glass. In the first option, glue a button onto the lid to secure the candle. The glass itself will cope with the task, supporting it with its walls.
- Now let’s create a stand for the entire composition. You can use a piece for it old board or plywood. We coat it with glue on all sides and apply foil.
- To make the cones beautiful and elegant, cover them with an aerosol and let them dry. Preparing the branches Christmas decorations and other available decorative elements.
- In the middle of our board with foil we install a candle stand. We lay out pine cones, twigs, and toys around. When the resulting composition takes on an attractive appearance, we begin to glue the objects.
- Trim the branches to the required size so that they fit in the glass and do not obscure the candle.
- Lay out the branches on paper and coat them with glue.
- Cover it with it outer walls glasses in a circle. Do this quickly so that the glue does not have time to dry.
- Place a candle of the desired size in the glass.
Method No. 1
You need to take a glass, a candle, glue, scissors, paper, small branches of spruce, fir or thuja.
Do everything step by step - the craft is ready
So autumn has come. As always, unexpected and unexpected. It's time for a cup of hot coffee, in terry socks, under a wool blanket by the fireplace. Or by candlelight in beautiful candlesticks. The flickering of a candle that shines with real fire will create an atmosphere of comfort and a romantic atmosphere in your home.
Today, a candlestick is not so much a functional as an aesthetic item in the design of space. Candle fire can make the atmosphere of any room more mysterious and exciting, but at the same time more calm and cozy. Even if the candle is not lit, an elegant candle holder will act as an excellent decor in your home.
Homemade candles and candlesticks not only please the eye, but also add coziness and warmth to the interior of the room. Making them is not at all difficult, and the result of the work can either be kept at home or given to someone close. We offer you several simple master classes on how to make candlesticks from jars with your own hands.
Such candlesticks would be appropriate:
- Inexpensive
The warm flickering of many candles in the garden will turn any ordinary evening at the dacha into a fabulous, cozy and romantic one. A minimum of materials, a little time and effort - and you can easily make garden lanterns - candlesticks with your own hands!
Beautiful, very cozy candlesticks for your home and garden can be made from small glass jars. You can put a finished candle in a jar candle holder, or you can pour wax into it. Everyone decides for themselves what type they need. How to do it?
Master class on a glass jar candle holder
You'll need:
- Pieces of wax.
- Saucepan.
- Wooden stick.
- Aroma oils.
- Dyes.
- Wick.
- Glass jar.
Step 1
To pour wax into a glass container, you must first prepare it. To do this, take a piece of material and cut it into small cubes. Place the crushed wax in a saucepan.
Melt the wax in a water bath
Step 2
Turn on kitchen stove and place a saucepan with water on the burner, and place a container of wax on top. Make a water bath. Stir the wax wooden stick. Until it completely melts.
- Then turn off the stove and, without removing the saucepan with wax, add necessary supplements: aromatic oils, dyes, etc.
- Mix everything thoroughly with a wooden stick. The wax is ready.
Remember that it can harden very quickly. Therefore, immediately make a candle out of it.
Pour the wax into the jar, carefully holding the wick
Step 3
- Take a jar and attach the wick inside it. To do this, drop wax on one end of the cord or use a special tablet clamp and lower it to the bottom of the container using a straw (see photo).
- Secure the other end of the wick so that it does not fall inward. To do this, wrap it around a wooden skewer or make a special clamp.
Slowly, so that the wick does not move or fall, pour the liquid wax into the glass container.
Step 4
When the wax on top has hardened, you can remove the wick mount. If there is a hole in the candle, pour the remaining wax into it.
If you want a striped candle, pour in the wax, alternating colors and letting each row dry.
Striped or gradient candle in a jar
This candle also looks original in small flat jars
Candle with lavender
There are also many options for other handmade candlesticks made from glass jars.
Flashlights - Candlesticks can be hung on hooks, nailed to a fence, hung on a veranda, terrace or directly on tree branches. If there wooden frame or a pallet, make an entire garden chandelier out of candlesticks!
It is advisable to pour sand, grains or fine gravel into jars for candles to stabilize the candle inside
Hanging candlesticks for the garden
Detail Master class on how to do it - follow the link.
Harness pendants
Wicker pendants
Very simple, but quite elegant and interesting candlestick can be made from a half-liter jar.
- Any glass jar, such as a mayonnaise jar, will do.
- Remove the label, place fir branches inside the jar and sprinkle generously with coarse salt.
This is a winter version of a candlestick, and our tree seems to be covered with snow. We place a candle in the initiated snowdrift.
Winter candlestick
Glass decor cans painted using dot or stained glass techniques will turn the simplest bottle into an elegant vase or candlestick. In the photo below, homemade candlesticks are painted with contour paints. Also try painting jars with stained glass paints, it will be very beautiful!
Dot painting of a candlestick
Made using a gold outline on glass
Moroccan candlestick from a jar - glitter painted
It is very easy to make a stained glass candlestick from cans:
- Using a glass contour, you need to apply a design to the jar. Instead of contour, you can use glitter. Then paint the jar with stained glass paints.
- Allow the drawing to dry for 1-2 hours. Then insert a candle into the jar and you can admire the result.
Such a special glass contour can be found in any “decor” store.
Contour painting technique
You can also use the tote technique to paint plates -
Candlestick decorated with semolina from glass jar looks very impressive.
- You need to start working from the bottom of the jar. It must be thoroughly greased with glue and rolled in semolina.
- Then use glue to draw arbitrary patterns on the walls of the jar and also sprinkle them with semolina.
- When the glue has dried, the pattern must be covered with paint and allowed to dry again.
- You can fix the result using hairspray.
There can never be too many candlesticks - every romantically inclined person knows this, as well as everyone who loves evening gatherings with friends by candlelight. Using a glass jar is an original and affordable way to decorate your home and give it a cozy atmosphere.
The jars are decorated with glitter
If you decorate a jar with glitter, then such candlesticks are an excellent decoration for a wedding or New Year's table.
How to do it? See the article ““ - the execution technique is the same!
A structural candlestick will turn out, if you wrap a rope around a jar. Its size does not matter; here you can focus on your own imagination and preferences.
- We cover future candlesticks with paint. To do this, you can use a brush or washcloth. While the paint layer dries, prepare the candles.
- We attach the twine and color it. At the final stage, remove the rope. IN ready product place the candles and install it in the chosen location.
How correctly and evenly? See article.
In fact, making a candle holder from a glass jar is not at all difficult. Your imagination is important here. An ordinary jar can be decorated in different ways, and you will get an original candlestick.
Canvas hearts are attached to the jar using silicone glue
Decor with linen and lace
floating candle
Decor with an old fishing net
For example, you can cover a jar with stars cut out of foil. You can crochet it and use an unusual pattern to give it a unique and inimitable look. Or you can cover the jar with colored pebbles.
You can also paint the jar with paints and draw a picture on it. Some even decorate with lace and it also turns out very beautiful and looks unusual. In the photographs you can see some options for homemade candlesticks.
Master class on a candlestick made from a jar and decorative stones
To do this you will need:
- glass jars;
- silicone glue for glass;
- decorative glass pebbles of different sizes.
- Candle.
- Take a glass jar and peel off the label.
- For decorative glass stones Apply glue one at a time and stick it to the jar. So carry on glue each pebble in a checkerboard pattern, starting from the top of the can.
- Insert a candle inside the jar. Your magnificent candlestick is ready.
Pebbles are also attached with silicone or “Moment” type glue.
Instead of glass pebbles, you can use sea or decorative ones for flowers! It will turn out very impressive
Master class on a candle holder made from a glass jar with a window
To do this you will need:
- glass jars;
- painting livestock;
- acrylic paint or spray paint
- twine, ribbon.
- candle.
Step 1
Take a glass jar and stick a piece of masking tape on its wall. If the stripes are thin, then make several rows overlapping each other.
Step 2
Glue adhesive tape or masking tape in the shape of a heart
Cut out a silhouette from the pasted tape. In our example, this is a heart. Remove excess tape from the jar, leaving only the silhouette of the figure on the wall.
Step 3
Paint with acrylic paint using an aerosol can
Cover the jar with paint. It is most convenient to use a spray can. To do this, roll several newspapers into a tube and put a jar on them. Cover the entire surface of the glass container evenly with paint. If necessary, make another layer. Instead of a spray can you can use acrylic paint. But it takes longer to dry.
Step 4
When the paint is dry, use something to prop it up masking tape and remove it. Decorate the neck of the jar with twine or ribbon. Place a tablet candle inside. The original glass jar candlestick is ready.
Candlesticks made from small glass jars. Many people think that the best candlesticks are made from tall or wide jars. After all, they can accommodate a lot of decor and, thanks to their size, there is a large field for creativity. But in fact, you can make a very beautiful candle holder from a baby food jar. Sometimes just a couple of touches are enough and a wonderful decor is ready.
Stencil for an openwork candlestick
How to make a candlestick from a tin can?
Small tin cans can be an excellent material for a beautiful New Year's candlestick.
This beauty is made from an ordinary tin can and paper lace, which can be made DIY from ordinary wallpaper and a hole punch.
Country style candlestick
- First, the jar is painted with acrylic paint.
- Then you can attach a thin strip of fabric lace to the paper lace. The resulting tape is glued to the painted, dried surface of the jar.
- When the lace is dry, all that remains is to decorate the jar according to your discretion. Additional elements decoration can include buttons, old keys, small souvenirs.
The resulting candlestick will decorate any table and will look impressive on a snow-white festive tablecloth.
Also similar candlesticks from tin can Can be hung on the wall as wall decor.
You can make tablets from tin cans, hangers and candles. original decor for an empty wall