How to Make Happy Valentine’s Day Candle Votives from Beeswax Sheets

Beeswax sheets are the perfect material to make Happy Valentine’s Day candle votives. You can use your beeswax candle votives to decorate the fireplace mantel or dinner table for Valentine’s Day.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Beeswax sheets
• Exacto knife
• Paper
• Pencil
• Scissors
• Hair dryer
• Hot glue
• Clear glass candle botives
• Tape measure

1. Measure how tall each glass candle votive is. Measure the circumference as well. You will need one glass candle votive for each letter in “Happy Valentine’s Day.”
2. Cut out one sheet of beeswax to the size of each glass candle votive. Make them ½ inch wider so they can overlap when wrapped around the jar.
3. Roll out more sheets of beeswax in accent colors. Cut letters out of the accent beeswax color sheet. You will need all the letters to spell out “Happy Valentine’s Day.” Cookie cutters in alphabet shapes cut easily through sheets of beeswax.
4. Lay out all the sheets of beeswax squares. Place one letter on each sheet of beeswax.
5. Plug the hair dryer in. Pick up the first letter and gently heat the back of it with the hairdryer. Heat the middle front of the sheet of corresponding beeswax as well.
6. Press the letter into place on the front of the beeswax square and press into place. Apply more heat with the hair dryer as needed.
7. Continue this process until each letter is attached to the front of its own square of beeswax.
8. Gently heat the first sheet of beeswax all over. Start to bend it around the glass candle votive. Continue to apply heat until you can bend the sheet of wax around the votive and overlap the back edges of wax.
9. Run a bead of hot glue down the back of the edge of beeswax. Overlap the other edge and press into place. Hold until the glue has cooled and the candle votive is wrapped in beeswax.
10. Continue covering each glass candle votive in one of the final letters to spell out “Happy Valentine’s Day.”

Tips & Warnings

• Pizza cutters will cut nicely through sheets of beeswax.
• Mix and match the colors using pinks, red, purples and whites to create the backgrounds and letters on the Valentine’s Day candle craft votives.
• You can eliminate the clear glass votive and wrap pillar candles in sheets of beeswax if you wish. Heat the beeswax sheets wax to apply it to the pillar candle; do not use the hot glue gun.