To kick off the Halloween crafty season, how about decorating
Votives and candles for your Halloween displays.
When I created the Pretty Potions & PoisonsApothecary two years ago, you may have noticed that I used decorated candles as
part of the overall display. To decorate
the candles I used rub-ons from my stash.
Unfortunately I’ve had a hard time finding good Halloween rub-ons. Since Alpha Stamps can produce their own
sticker sheets from any of the collage sheets they carry, I decided to make a
Halloween Silhouette collage sheet that would be east to cut-out and work great
for decorating things like Votives, candles, bottles and as backgrounds for layered artwork. And in case you want to take the images in
some other direction or scale them up for really large projects I have also
created a digital image set of the images.
This sheet is
filled with spooky silhouettes. Many of
the images are sized to fit the Votives.
The digital image set contains all the images from
the collage sheet plus 4 more images (cat, coffin, spider & a different
tombstone).
The Details
For all of the
samples I used the sticker sheet version of the collage sheet. Cut the image out from the sheet and carefully separate the sticker from the backing as to not damage the ink
on the image. Apply the sticker
and smooth to remove any bubbles.
You’ll notice all the Votives are on stands as I think it dresses them up and it looks more
interesting for them to be at different heights..
The bone trim
around the bottom of the green Votive is from a Gothic Lace Border set of
stickers. The image of the bones is
raised from the transparency to give it dimension. The base of the votive is made from a wooden
egg cup.
On the purple votive, I have used black lace to trim the
bottom and a wood
candlestick holder as a base. The
holder is trimmed with beaded fringe and another of the gothic lace borders.
For the orange Votive, I trimmed the bottom in
sweeper fringe. The base is made from
gluing a wooden knob into the grove of an egg cup. The knob fits perfectly into the grove.
Another option for the sticker version of the sheet
is to apply them to candles. I used the
ghost images on the tall candle and a couple of the tombstones at the bottom. I tied black tulle around the base of the
candle holders. For the larger candle, I
used glitter bat stickers in addition to the images from the collage
sheet. I used a box top as a stand
decorated with paper and pumpkin pods.
