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How To Make Teacup Candles. Use a microwave safe dish to melt the candle flakes.
Once the wax has melted carefully take off the heat.
How to make a teacup candle. I love candles and I love vintage tea cups so I thought it would be perfect to do a crafts fusing the two togetherCandle Making Kit - httpfaveco1f7mQOfM. How To Make Your Teacup Candles Melt 500 grams of wax in a double boiler until it is clear. Be careful not to let the wax overheat.
Once the wax has melted carefully take off the heat. Using a ladle carefully pour melted wax into the teacup trying your mightiest to keep it from sloshing against the sides of the cup. To keep the wax from shrinking away from the sides of the cup as it hardens pour about 13 of the wax into the teacup let it set then another 13 let it.
With your teacup scoop a heaped cup and a half of paraffin wax into the saucepan on a low to medium heat using a wooden skewer to break up any lumps. Step 5 Once melted remove the pan. What youll need.
A selection of porcelain teacups Wax we recommend soy wax because it burns without smoke but you can also use paraffin or beeswax. This is also a. Wax wicks Wooden skewers Candle-making dyes and scentsessential oils optional Cooking thermometer if.
How To Make Teacup Candles. Melt old candles in nested pans. Gather ye gather ye ye old candles.
Or something like that. All of the old distorted warped half-burned candles youve been saving in a disorganized cabinet grab them. They have a use now.
Melt them down in nested pans. Tape two bamboo skewers to the candle wick and place it in the teacup. Add a dab of hot glue to the candle wick metal circle and secure it to the bottom of your teacup.
This will help keep the wick straight while you are adding the hot wax. Use a microwave safe dish to melt the candle flakes. Pre-waxed wicks for candle-making I used 80mm length and cut them down a little once the candle had set 2-3ml natural fragrance oil make sure you do not use alcohol or water-based fragrance.
I chose jasmine but you could choose any scent you wanted and you could also combine 2 or 3 scents together. How to Make a Teacup Candle Step 1. Dab some hot glue on the bottom of the wick and glue it inside the bottom center of the teacup.
Cut up your block of wax if necessary so that it will fit inside the large mason jar. Some wax comes in chips. Fill a saucepan.
In this video I make a soy wax teacup candle I got the cup at a thrift store and the other stuff I used will be listed down below. Grab your intended teacup for the candle and fill it to where you would like your candle to be with water. Then pour this into a measuring jug and round up to the nearest ml in the jug.
You then want to write this number down and do a little calculating. Find a teacup in a charity shop or at a car-boot sale check its not cracked. And stock up on wicks and wax at HobbyCraft.
Cut a wick 2in longer than the depth of the cup. Tie one end to a pencil and rest the pencil across the cup so the wick hangs down in the centre. Click SHOW MORE to see written instructions for this projectIf you like our video be sure to click subscribe.
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