How to Make Colorful Candle Holders.

by chloemakenziemingot in Craft > Clay

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How to Make Colorful Candle Holders.

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How to make colorful candle holders with clay.

Supplies

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  • Air dry caly
  • paint
  • paint brushes
  • some thing to cut clay with ( you can use an exacto nife, a clay knife... )
  • some paper and pencils
  • rolling pin
  • varnish(opcional)
  • pallete
  • sand paper(optional)

Drawing the Flower

You can use any shape to do this i used a flower. You can draw it by hand, or fold your paper in 4 quarters and draw part of the flower on one then just cut it out and there you go a perfect flower (I added circle the size of my candle in the middle)

Cutting the Pieces for the Flower

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I rolled out my clay and traced my flower on to it i made the cicness around half a centemider. And then measured my candle and cut.


Scorring the Clay

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Score the clay and add some clay on the outside and inside then smooth it out.

Prepping to Paint

Once the clay is dry sand your pieces down till smooth.


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You can really paint them how ever want. I decided to paint them with the colors of the rainbow. You can add dots lines wathever you want. After they have dried i would recomend putting some varnish on top to protect them.