Craft Gossip

The largest independent craft review site since 2007

Christmas Candle Project Gift Ideas

by

Ice cream candleCraftbits has some wonderful project ideas for handmade candles that would be perfect for gift giving. The holidays are approaching fast and creating baskets full of gifts you made yourself is fun.

Here are three easy candle projects from Craftbits:

Pinecone candle1. Ice Cream Soda Candle

You’ll need a soda glass, wax, dye and wicks. You can make any colored soda you like. See the Ice Cream Soda Candle project page for more.

2. Christmas Pine Cone Candle

You’ll need:

Small Decorative Pine Cones, large cylinder candle mold, wax and wick.

See the Pine Cone Candle Project page for more. It’s fairly simple in that you simply add pine cones before pouring the wax, although I wouldn’t burn it down to the bottom.

waxed teddy bear3. Scented wax dipped teddy bears are popular now. I don’t get it but a lot of people love them as air fresheners. See Scented Wax Dipped Teddy Bear project page to make your own.

Looking for Christmas candle fragrant oils? Check this one out it is our favourite.

Read These Next

Have you read?

Back to School Cross Stitch Patterns

Back to school time is right around the corner where I live as I write this, and school-themed cross stitch patterns are super cute to make as a teacher gift or to personalize something like a pencil bag or backpack tag. 

This school supply cross stitch design from 7StitchesTN is meant to be horizontal, but I think you could turn the letters the other direction (or not) and make this into a bookmark. It can also be repeated to make a border around a project. As shown it is 64 by 30 stitches, which is 6.7 by 2.1 inches/17.1 by 5.4 cm on 14 count fabric. It uses 15 colors. 

Italia Print has a little set of school themed cross stitch patterns you can make as a single design as shown, or use individual patterns on different projects. The full design is 76 by 66 stitches, which is about 5.4 by 4.7 inches, or 13.8 by 12 cm, and it uses 18 colors. 

Speaking of designs that can be worked separately, there’s also this pattern from Bella Rose Craft, which could easily be divided into its different parts or you could use some of the pieces as a border on another project. The full design is shown in a 4-inch hoop and measures 2.71 by 2.64 inches/6.8 by 6.7 cm on 14 count fabric. 

This lovely set of teacher themed cross stitch patterns would be lovely to make as a teacher gift at the beginning or end of the year or for the holidays. From The Stitch Patterns, it is a set of five designs that includes books, flowers blooming from a book, a tulip, pencil cup and pencil drawing a heart. Each one is about 7 inches/17.78 cm square. 

This cute class in session design from Plaid Online would be another cute one to make for a teacher. It uses seven colors (including black for the back stitching on the ruler) and is about 2 inches/5.08 cm square.

And Craft with Cartwright has this funny and cute worm and apples design that would be cute for back to school. It uses seven colors and is 78 by 52 stitches, or 5.5 by 3.7 inches/14.15 by 9.43 cm on 14 count fabric. The apples by themselves would be cute on a project, too.