Light My Fire

 

     One of the projects I made to sell at the store, shortly before it closed, was a line of candles with a variety of artwork on them. The candles themselves are not ones I made. I bought them at a discount store, mostly with the intention of melting them down, as they cost less than an equivalent weight of raw wax at the time. For many years I had the idea of making custom pillar candles with some sort of decorative applique, but I was envisioning more of a 3d applique. However, after several years of failing to come up with anything on that front, I decided to try just painting a design on some pillar candles.

     The first one of these I made was done with a vinyl stencil, cut on my new Silhouette Cameo 4, and then painted, but I only made one of those. It was a time consuming and tedious process. Then I thought to try a water slide decal, printed on a laser printer. This was much, much faster and also allowed for a much higher level of detail in the image. I ended up making 50 or more of these in about a dozen different designs. I thought they turned out rather well. This isn't much of a blog worthy project, but it was meant to be a fast turnaround high margin product, not art.