Twine Wrapped Candle Holders....

Such a great idea! I was gonna wrap these in thread, kinda like I did HERE but, then I saw this tutorial at Brown Paper Packages and wanted to do this instead!! Here's my outome!

 Lovely..... What else can I wrap in twine???

Romantic Looking Hurricane Candle Holder

This was very easy and I LOVE the outcome!

All you need for this project is a glass hurricane, or vase wide enough to fit a votive candle in, a spool of your choice color of thread, and Mod Podge. On a piece of newspaper, I turned my vase upside down and spread a thin layer of Mod Podge on a couple inche section of the vase. I started radomly wrapping my thread around and around until it was the effect I wanted. Do the same thing for the next part until your whole vase has a layer. After you've gotten the effect and thickness of thread you want, cover another layer of Mod Podge over the entire vase smoothing out any clumps. Let it dry, then add your candle and light it!! PRETTY!!

Add your own inspiration to this project! Use a unique looking vase, or different colors of  thread, etc.!!! Have fun and enjoy:)

DIY Ruffled Candle Holder From Dollar Store Materials~

It was time to switch out the holiday/winter candles and bring out the fresh, spring/summer ones!! That includes the holders! I've been wanting to do this project for awhile, and it's a great scrap buster!! Also, I found the styrafoam forms at the dollar store. They have alot of styles, but I went with the tapered circle. Next time I'll do a square one!

For this project you'll need:

A Glue gun

Floral styrafoam forms

Plenty of your scrap fabric, in whatever color, or mix of colors you want

It's a slightly legnthy project due to the fact that half of it is spend cutting! Begin by cutting your fabric in cirles. Mine ended up not so perfect,  and not all the same size (I freehanded). That will actually give it dimention!! But I didn't cut them larger than 2 inches in diameter. I used three different fabrics in the white family for texture, and I love the linen throughout it.

Start placing your cirles on by folding the circle in half and placing a drop of glue in the center on the fold. Go all the way around leaving 1/4 space between each center of each cirle. You want the edges to stick up, thus creating the start of your "ruffling" effect. Go all the way around, and you will have this:

Starting another row by lifting the eges and gluing and tucking more cirles on. I only leave the first row 1/4 inch spaces, but as I go along I tuck them in closer togther to build more ruffle.

Keep going until all the stryrofoam is covered. Don't do the top and bottom. If you wish you could cut some fabric to cover the top if you will have exposed edges you don't want to see. But in the end, the bottom will not be seen...

This technique I used for The "truffle mirror" as my hubby calls it!! I does look like truffled chocolate!! (the mirror was 99 cents at the thrift store)

Hope I made sense!!! Let me know If I didn't. Have a great day!!