Let it burn! Let it burn! Let it burn!

A quick little Festive Friday post from me - the last one before the big day - so I just wanted to show off a a couple of projects I made for the Left of Center Challenge blog. Firstly, here is my festive evil snowman candle - just light it and watch him melt. Mwwah hah haaa.

To make the candle, you're going to need a nice chunky white candle, some white tissue paper, and an image. I used the evil snowman from Delicious Darkness who are sadly closing down (although there is still time to get 50% off all their images before they do).

If you're using a normal rubber stamp, then you would just stamp your image onto the less shiny side of the tissue paper and colour as desired. If you're using a digi stamp or any other printed image, you will need to iron your tissue paper and then tape it, shiny side down, onto some regular printer paper as below. Make sure that there are no bits of tape sticking out - you don't want to jam up your printer.

Colour your image (I used Copic pens) and cut around it. You can leave a small border - it's not a problem.

To fix the image onto the candle use a small amount of glue from a non-toxic glue stick just to hold the image in place, then use a heat gun and gently run it over the image to slightly melt the wax underneath. This will seep through the tissue paper, binding it to the candle. Any of the tissue paper itself, such as the border, will also melt into the candle to become invisible. If you heat too much, the candle will distort, so start gently!

I'm entering the candle into the Altered Eclectics Challenge Blog and the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers for naughty Christmas.

The other project is just a wee card for a friend who always found Santa a little, well, creepy. I used the Skully Santa from Smeared Ink as it was the perfect creepy Santa Claws. I used the music from "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" - he sees when you are sleeping, he know when you're awake. Creepy or what! I hope they like it.

Anyhoos, have a lovely Christmas everyone, and we will be back soon with more weirdness for ya!

Bex

Let it Snow!

Fantabulous projects from Lou and Jas. Thos lights are stunning and I am so going to use one of the products I've used here to make me some skullflakes.

Excuse the poor pictures but this is a bit of a rushed post as I have not been nearly as productive as my weird sisters when it comes to the Christmas preparations.  The only thing I've managed to do so far are snow globes with a little twist.

Now, there are loads of instructions out there on how to make your own snow globes so I am not going to reinvent the wheel by giving more. All I will say is make sure you have strong waterproof glue, some nice jars (mine were mayonnaise), a few drops of baby oil if you haven't got glycerine, and florescent Fimo clay. For the first globe, the Dr Who snowman (thanks for the inspiration Jas), I modelled it from the florescent Fimo, used a cocktail stick to rough up the surface and make the mouth and eyes, then dipped the cocktail stick in a little black paint to get it into the holes and baked. Thankfully it's a very simple shape as I am no Fimo artist! It's not as sinister as I would have liked but because of the florescent Fimo it has a wonderfully eerie glow in the dark quality when the lights go out and in no way will it induce sweet dreams!

I have tried to capture the glow, but my camera says no. However, the picture below was taken in the dark with no flash and you can still make it out, but the effect in real life is sooooo much better.

The second globe requires no modelling skills at all, other than making a base of the florescent Fimo so that it too glows in the dark.  I sacrificed a couple of Star Wars lego minifigures  to have a stormtrooper in the snow trying to help his buddy who seems to have fallen in head first.  Play around arranging the minifigures, then press their feet into the Fimo before you bake it so you have a better setting for the glue.

I did make a third as an homage to Calvin and Hobbes eggplant casserole snowmen but sadly in my impatience to let the glue dry, one of the snowmen became detatched and is now floaing around in a rather strange fashion! Do experiment and have fun making snow globes with something a little more off the wall than the normal Christmas ones but do wait for the glue to dry too!

I am entering this into the Corrosive Challenge Blog for anything goes. This is also entered into the Altered Eclectics Challenge for the countdown to Christmas.

See you soon.

Bex