With the help of beautiful candles, you can create a romantic atmosphere or simply decorate the interior. The modern market presents many options for candles of different sizes, colors and aromas. But why spend money on something that can be easily done at home? After all, almost everyone has ordinary paraffin candles.
Today we will tell you how to turn an ordinary candle into a work of art. This is a very exciting activity, and there is something magical about it. Feel free to involve children and other family members to create a colorful miracle.
Colored candles
You need
- paraffin candle
- paper cups
- glass beaker
- colored wax crayons
- wick
- a small piece of glass or metal
- favorite essential oils
Working process
Prepare the wick. Usually it is sold with a ready-made base, but if you don't want to buy, then do it yourself. Place a small piece of paraffin in a paper cup and melt in the microwave (if there is no microwave, just hold the paraffin in a water bath). Make a small hole in the piece of glass or metal and stretch the wick through it. Place the resulting structure in a glass beaker and fill it with prepared paraffin. 
Cut the crayons of the desired color into small pieces. 
Place the paraffin and crayons in paper cups. Melt everything in the microwave. Stir the contents of the glasses thoroughly until smooth. Add essential oil. Pour the mass of the desired color into a glass with a wick. You can tilt the container to get the shape you want. 
Wait until the first color hardens and pour in a lot of a different color. Do this with each color until you get a full sized candle. Each layer can be made with a different flavor. 
If you add essential oils to the mixture, try making candles with the smell of Christmas tree and tangerine before the New Year holidays. You can also decorate a glass cup with coffee beans, shells or beads, the main thing is not plastic.
This way you can make a variety of candles. The whole process will take very little time, and the result will greatly delight you and your loved ones. 
Modern artists use the most unusual techniques and strange objects to paint pictures. Today you will not surprise anyone with pictures from, and even. Instead of paints, artists use,.
Wax pencils are no exception. It turns out from them you can make not only, but also create masterpieces. The article will discuss several techniques for creating paintings from ordinary drawing objects.
Method number 1 "Shavings". Prepare different colors of wax crayons to create the painting.
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Remove the paper wrapping from them.
There are two options for making pencil shavings. With a sharpener. She peels off a thin layer of colored wax from the pencils.
Or, you can grate the pencils. You will end up with a smaller crumb. Both sizes of fine wax are required to create a painting. This will make the patterns more varied.
Prepare the canvas for the painting. For the drawing to have rich colors, it is better to use a cloth. Colors will appear faded on paper. Sprinkle pencil crumbs onto the fabric. These can be stripes or other shapes.
Cover with parchment, which the housewives use for baking.
Preheat your iron well and iron the paper. At high temperatures, the wax will begin to melt.
When you have covered the entire surface, slowly peel off the paper. Do not make sudden movements, otherwise the drawing will be smeared.
Leave the wax to harden. Optionally, you can decorate the sides of the canvas.
Method number 2 "Paintings using a hair dryer". A hairdryer can help melt the wax from the pencils. With this option for creating paintings, you do not need to remove the wrapper from the pencils and grind. Glue them onto the canvas.
Lift it up so the pencils are on top of the base.
Turn on the hair dryer and blow hot air onto the wax. It will gradually melt and flow down.
When using this technique, original paintings are obtained.
Wax pencil drawings can be anything you want. If you arrange the colored wax in the shape of a heart, the interior will be clean on the canvas.
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Or glue the stencil to the material before melting the wax.
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Then take it off after using the hair dryer. Additionally paint or decorate the empty space with sparkles.
With this option for creating paintings, a pattern is obtained in the form of stripes. There is another way to make bright spots on the canvas. Cut the pencils into small pieces. Attach them to the canvas.
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Heat the wax with a hair dryer. If you slowly turn the hair dryer around the pencil, you get a round drawing.
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Choose the colors and their placement depending on the desired composition.
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Method number 3 "Glue gun". Often in needlework, a glue gun is used to join parts of the decor. It can be used to paint pictures with colored wax. This device has a heating device in its design. It is he who can melt the wax crayons.
Prepare pencils instead of glue sticks. If necessary, then trim off excess wax. Insert the pencils into the glue gun, and plug the device into a power outlet.
When the wax begins to melt, bring the device up to the canvas and press the lever. The wax will drip onto the paper, creating fancy patterns.
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Gather the remains of colored wax together and make colored crayons out of them for children's creativity.
It's easy to create pictures from wax crayons. You can make such an original masterpiece with your own hands if you use these techniques.
Paints, felt-tip pens, pencils, pastels, wax crayons - such a variety of materials that our children use for creativity. Each of them has its own properties and features inherent in this particular material.
Today I would like to talk about how you can use wax crayons and what you can do with them unusual.
Surely every mother has come across the fact that the remains of painted crayons are scattered throughout the house. It is already inconvenient to use them, but it is also a pity to throw them out. How to give these crayons new life?
Take a silicone mold, crush the remaining crayons into it. You can scatter it in shades, or you can make a mix of different colors.
Place the dish in the oven 180 degrees.
The crayons will melt in about 10 minutes, then remove them. If you notice that the melted chalk has split into two layers (a transparent layer has formed at the top), or air bubbles have formed in it, just stir the contents, for example, with a toothpick and leave to cool.
When the crayons are frozen, remove them from the mold and you can draw!
Such crayons can even be made specifically for small children, it will be more convenient for them to hold small pieces of this shape than long thin ones, and even constantly breaking from falls.
While we were melting the crayons, the thought occurred to me that you can draw with melted crayons too! If you do not wait for them to solidify. Since my little things were in a form with many cells, we got this kind of mixture, but if you take, say, cupcake tins and melt the crayons there, then when pouring the contents, the colors will not mix and you can draw real drawings, and not abstraction. For example, flowers where the petals are made from drops, and the stem will surely take on a bizarre shape. In addition to the fact that the process itself is interesting, the result will also be unusual, because the drawing will turn out to be voluminous.
And it is also interesting to make such pictures, melting the crayons with a hair dryer.
Glue crayons on a sheet of paper, let the glue dry.
Then take a hairdryer and, turning it on to the hottest mode, blow on the crayons, hold the sheet with crayons almost vertically. My advice is to blow in the middle, or even on the top of the crayon, not at the very tip. The chalk will begin to melt and drip in straight lines. If you blow on the tip of the chalk, then the melted wax will fly in different directions due to the strong air flow. Actually, that's exactly what happened.
After the smudges dried, we peeled off the crayons and began to fantasize. We've got a holiday with gifts and colorful balloons!
Then I accidentally damaged an incompletely dried blot of melted chalk and a notch formed in it, and then the thought occurred to me that wax crayons can be easily used as a background on which you can scratch something interesting.
And a little later I remembered that my friend told me how she and her brother made prints as a child. They took a candle, rubbed a sheet of paper with it, poured ink on top, let it dry and scribbled a drawing with a needle.
Instead of a candle, I took wax crayons and covered them with black gouache on top. When the gouache was dry, we enjoyed this technique a lot, using a regular toothpick to paint. A little later it turned out that I had not invented the bicycle and this technique is called scratching.
Crayons are soft, so they blend well. Cut different shapes out of paper and lay them out on a blank sheet of paper.
Holding the shape superimposed on top with your finger so that it does not slide out, circle the outline with crayons.
Then, use your finger to blend the line away from the center.
Here is such a funny result.
And, finally, how to decorate a house with wax crayons. Are you planning a children's party and are you thinking of how to decorate the room? Invite your child to take the most direct part in the decoration.
This requires wax paper, a sharpener, and wax crayons. Cut out flags of any shape from paper, cut so that they fold in half, like a postcard.
Sharpen the crayons, cover one half of the flag with shavings, cover with the other half and iron the flag with an iron through plain paper. Then secure the flags with thick thread or braid and you have a wonderful homemade garland!
Happy holiday to you!
Share your experience, if there is one: how long you could go without face cream, and how many years you decided to apply it. At the same time, do you think the skin is worse / better or on a par with those who have been using creams for a long time and constantly?
Why am I asking? But I don’t have this cream. For hands only. And I just wash my face with water. No soap. And I don't use tonics.
So I want to know the opinion and experience of people like me. Happy New Year everyone!
Anonymous
Hello everyone. I was always amazed at spoiled teenagers who scandal with their parents over an iPhone of that color, but the following story happened to me: This year my husband and I had a lot of spending: buying a house, furniture, renovating a kitchen, having a child ... In general, I did not count on a New Year's gift, although I stuttered several times that I wanted a new iPhone 11 pro. Well, yes, yesterday I found the same phone under the Christmas tree, but ... in gold, and I really wanted Midnight Green, which is trendy this season. In theory, it can be changed to green, but I'm afraid of offending my husband and seem ungrateful. What should I do?
110Anonymous
I decided to write here because it is very annoying, but I don’t know what to do and how to react. Thanks a lot in advance for the advice.
I have a daughter of 11 years old, and my colleague's daughter is 13 years old. For a very long time she could not get pregnant from her husband, divorced and gave birth from a random man who sometimes helps them. I gave birth in marriage, then my husband left for another.
A colleague all the time talks about her daughter in a superlative degree. That she knows English perfectly and speaks with a British accent, even the English teacher is amazed at her innate abilities. She has been dancing since she was five years old and in the dance circle she is always put on the first part or solo. She swims like a little mermaid, holding her breath for six minutes. Rides like a real rider. All the boys in the class run after her in herds, the girls line up to sit with her at the same desk. And, well, what a beauty is by itself. The photo does not show that we, the envious aunts, do not jinx her.
And so my sister transferred her son to the class where this girl is studying. After a while, we accidentally started talking about her, and it turned out that this girl is very timid, stutters with excitement when teachers or classmates speak to her. She is tall and plump, she has very thick legs and a long, slightly horse-like face with a heavy lower jaw, she is terribly awkward, she walks waddle. She doesn't go to the pool with the class at all, she is allergic to bleach. She studies so-so, because of shyness, she often does not answer, even if she knows the topic, and those teachers who do not regret it, often give three. In general, she studies between 3 and 4. No one of the boys runs after her, but, on the contrary, teases and laughs at her. And the girls don't want to take her into their company, they snort. She sits alone, she never participates in any class activities, the very last one always resorts to physical education.
And now, when at work my colleague starts telling tales about her daughter, I always want to react somehow, but I don’t know how. If she just talked, otherwise she always speaks as if against the rest. Someone says, "I completely got out of my hands, does not do my homework, walks, does not drag home", she immediately: "and my clever girl does all her homework as soon as she comes home from school, then she studies English on Skype for two hours, then cooks for my the arrival of the soup, vacuums, embroiders with satin stitch, then at leisure sews aprons, potholders and hemming curtains. " they put six in her diary with delight. And so always. I would like to somehow let her understand that I know how things really are with her daughter, but I don’t want it to look like I’m out of envy I do it.
What would you do?
104tatiana Konyukhova
Happy New Year to the members of the forum! Interested in the opinion of those who gave birth in the Lyubertsy maternity hospital. What are the pros and cons. Are the pros (or cons) of paid births obvious in this RD? I understand that reviews can be very subjective. Therefore, if it's not difficult, what exactly did you like and what did not. All health, kindness and love!
82Actually what is the problem. As far as I know, in such cases, some kind of payment is due. Insurance or something similar. How do I get it? What is required for this? It is clear that the leadership can resist, it is his own fault, they say, and all that. Is there a chance to achieve anything?
81Share your experience, if there is one: how long you could go without face cream, and how many years you decided to apply it. At the same time, do you think the skin is worse / better or on a par with those who have been using creams for a long time and constantly?
Why am I asking? But I don’t have this cream. For hands only. And I just wash my face with water. No soap. And I don't use tonics.
So I want to know the opinion and experience of people like me. Happy New Year everyone!
Anonymous
Hello everyone. I was always amazed at spoiled teenagers who scandal with their parents over an iPhone of that color, but the following story happened to me: This year my husband and I had a lot of spending: buying a house, furniture, renovating a kitchen, having a child ... In general, I did not count on a New Year's gift, although I stuttered several times that I wanted a new iPhone 11 pro. Well, yes, yesterday I found the same phone under the Christmas tree, but ... in gold, and I really wanted Midnight Green, which is trendy this season. In theory, it can be changed to green, but I'm afraid of offending my husband and seem ungrateful. What should I do?
110Anonymous
I decided to write here because it is very annoying, but I don’t know what to do and how to react. Thanks a lot in advance for the advice.
I have a daughter of 11 years old, and my colleague's daughter is 13 years old. For a very long time she could not get pregnant from her husband, divorced and gave birth from a random man who sometimes helps them. I gave birth in marriage, then my husband left for another.
A colleague all the time talks about her daughter in a superlative degree. That she knows English perfectly and speaks with a British accent, even the English teacher is amazed at her innate abilities. She has been dancing since she was five years old and in the dance circle she is always put on the first part or solo. She swims like a little mermaid, holding her breath for six minutes. Rides like a real rider. All the boys in the class run after her in herds, the girls line up to sit with her at the same desk. And, well, what a beauty is by itself. The photo does not show that we, the envious aunts, do not jinx her.
And so my sister transferred her son to the class where this girl is studying. After a while, we accidentally started talking about her, and it turned out that this girl is very timid, stutters with excitement when teachers or classmates speak to her. She is tall and plump, she has very thick legs and a long, slightly horse-like face with a heavy lower jaw, she is terribly awkward, she walks waddle. She doesn't go to the pool with the class at all, she is allergic to bleach. She studies so-so, because of shyness, she often does not answer, even if she knows the topic, and those teachers who do not regret it, often give three. In general, she studies between 3 and 4. No one of the boys runs after her, but, on the contrary, teases and laughs at her. And the girls don't want to take her into their company, they snort. She sits alone, she never participates in any class activities, the very last one always resorts to physical education.
And now, when at work my colleague starts telling tales about her daughter, I always want to react somehow, but I don’t know how. If she just talked, otherwise she always speaks as if against the rest. Someone says, "I completely got out of my hands, does not do my homework, walks, does not drag home", she immediately: "and my clever girl does all her homework as soon as she comes home from school, then she studies English on Skype for two hours, then cooks for my the arrival of the soup, vacuums, embroiders with satin stitch, then at leisure sews aprons, potholders and hemming curtains. " they put six in her diary with delight. And so always. I would like to somehow let her understand that I know how things really are with her daughter, but I don’t want it to look like I’m out of envy I do it.
What would you do?
104tatiana Konyukhova
Happy New Year to the members of the forum! Interested in the opinion of those who gave birth in the Lyubertsy maternity hospital. What are the pros and cons. Are the pros (or cons) of paid births obvious in this RD? I understand that reviews can be very subjective. Therefore, if it's not difficult, what exactly did you like and what did not. All health, kindness and love!
82Actually what is the problem. As far as I know, in such cases, some kind of payment is due. Insurance or something similar. How do I get it? What is required for this? It is clear that the leadership can resist, it is his own fault, they say, and all that. Is there a chance to achieve anything?
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