Watercolour Votives

Happiness is Homemade Watercolour Votives

I once painted paper with watercolours and made it translucent with oil (without taking pictures), but I’d never have thought of making watercolour votives from.
They are high on my list now :)

 


Links:
Watercolour Votives (Solstice Lanterns {Tutorial})
via: Gorgeous “solstice lanterns”: a tutorial describes watercolor paintings made translucent with oil and fastened around mason jars

Wire Votive

unikatissima Wire Votive

At last a new votive ;-))

 
    What you need:

  • a high drinking glass where a tealight easily fits in,
  • wire (I used plain garden wire) and
  • a tealight of course ;-)
 

That’s what you do:
First you bend a loop where the tealight will rest later on.
I made it here slightly triangular.
unikatissima Wire Votive

 

Then you bring the wire to a height of about the half or two thirds of the height of the tealight, put the tealight on the loop bent before and bent the wire once around the tealight.
unikatissima Wire Votive

 

You see that the tealight and the wire around it still fit in the glass.
unikatissima Wire Votive

 

Now you only have to bring the wire straight up and make a sharp bent to suspend the tealight at the rim of the glass.
Subsequently you can embellish the end. I only bent a spiral, but of course you can thread on beads or similar.
By the way, it’s best if you let the tealight ‘float’ a little bit above the ground.
unikatissima Wire Votive

 

So, the beautiful summer evenings may come now ;-)

 


Links:
Here at unikatissima:
Entries containing the word ‘votive’

Owl Lantern

SirLadySketch Owl Lantern

After having presented another owl yesterday, I found it convenient to present the owl votive today: isn’t it beautiful?

 


Links:
Owl Lantern (Halloween Paper Lantern Tut.)
=> there you find among others also the link to the complete lantern (Happy Halloween 08)

Here at unikatissima:
Owl
Entries with the tag ‘owl’