Ooo look what I'm making!!!!

Hello I have some fab Monday news.............

 

Yesterday was a humid day James was off with his buddies and Kev was playing golf so thought I'd try out the goodies I bought last week!

 

A new craft for me to stretch my creative juices

 

It all starts with jug in a pan on the stove....

 

 

Yes I'm candle making. You have to be very precise with temperatures I stood over the pan watching the thermometer as though it was going to explode if it went over one degree hotter!!

 

I prepared my molds - as this is my first time I'm starting off small, the votive sized jars are molds and I then had an empty Yankee Candle jar so decided to try refilling that:

 

 

Once the wax had melted and reached the correct temperature poured it into the molds. I remembered at this point I had forgotten to add the scent and color. I could add Jasmine scent to the jars and give them a quick stir but as the wax had started to set I decided to keep these white and use color for next batch.

After 5 minutes the wicks are added and held in place with lolly sticks. They are then left for a further 30 minutes before topping them up to ensure there is no gaps around the wicks.

 

They are then left for 2 hours to set fully before removing from the molds.

 

Whilst waiting I designed a quick label for the jar candle. I printed it using Safmat

 

 

Butterflies remind me of a special person so first attempt has one on the front  and I've used my blog name for the back

 

 

 

I have used a So Suzy single flower swirl stamp to decorate one of the votive candles:

 

 

I just need to get some more supplies and there will be no stopping me now!

 

 

 

Birthday wishes from So Suzy

Good morning It's bright and sunny here on our travels although we are now heading back home!

 

I am here to remind you about the challenge over at the So Suzy Stamps blog. It is easy to enter you just need to post your card either using the link up on the So Suzy Stamp blog or head to the Facebook group and post it there. The prize is a fab $15 gift card for the So Suzy Stamp Store! Rules are simple and you can find them here.

The theme this month is birthday card and I have used some of this month's new releases to create my card.

 

 

The line leaf one stamp was used in the background. I have stamped it 3rd generation to give it a delicate skeleton look. Once dry I then used the single flower swirl stamp which I stamped with 2 colors, separating stem and flower, for the 4 corners of the card. I then did a 2nd generation stamp with just the flower head to give it a shadowed look. This was then matted onto pink card which matched the flowers as did the corner pearls.

The sentiment is from Lili of the Valley. I wanted to demonstrate the wonderful background you can make with the gorgeous collection of So Suzy Stamps and how these can draw the attention to the whole card instead of just the center.

 

Right now why don't you pop across to the Facebook group and add your makes or click April in the right hand column here to enter via a blog post.

 

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