InStyle Stamps November Blog Hop

Its time for another InStyle Stamps blog hop.  The theme this month is holiday songs, and there is a $25goodie bag up for 1 lucky person who votes for their favourite project on the InStyle Stamps blog.  If you are following the hop you should have arrived here from Cyndi, if you have arrived her from elsewhere and want to join in the hop you need to go back to the InStyle Stamps blog.

My holiday song is Oh Christmas Tree ... it was one of my favourite hymns as a child, and I even learned it in French!!!  InStyle Stamps digi image Christmas Tree Chick is a perfect image for the song, and I decided to do another candle, but this time use tissue paper like I do when I use rubber stamps.

I thought I would show you how I did it ... hubby was convinced I would break the printer LOL!!

1. iron out some tissue paper onto A4 paper/thin card and attach with masking tape.  It should go through your printer, as long as everything is really somooth, especially the masking tape on the feeding edge.  Print your digi image out.

2. cut round it, I keep the A4 paper under it to help show the colours.

3. colour the image .. I always colour from dark to light, but on tissue paper it is better to colour light to dark as the ink is removed by the next colour ... .if you see what I mean.

So it will look like this ...

4. Put your  tissue paper image on the candle where you want, and wrap a peice of greaseproof paper around it ... this helps set the image into the candle without too much candle wax running.  Get your heat gun and in a circular motion heat the candle over and around the image.  The wax will melt slightly and the tissue paper sink into it.  You shouldn't be able to see any edges to the tissue paper.

So it should look like this ...

And here it is finished ...
I added some gold stickles to the Christmas tree, and some gems and organza ribbon to the candle.

And now you need to hope along to Patti and don't forget vote for yor favourite project.


Recipe:
Stamp(s): InStyle Stamps Christmas Tree Chick
Colouring Media: promarkers
Papers: none
Embellishments: gems and ribbon