DIY Flower Tea Light Candle Holder
Looks Beautiful & Fun To Make!
Inspired by the Spring, I decided to make a flower tea light candle holder, here's how I did it!
After searching the web, I picked up a few ideas and chose to create my own using some items that I had around the house including an artificial flower I bought from the dollar store.
I had some gesso that I bought some time ago to prepare some canvas for painting, but never did use it. Gesso is usually white, though it can be bought colored and is easy enough to tint to whatever color you want. It is available in pretty much any craft store, usually in the artist supplies section and is very inexpensive.
In addition to gesso, I used:
- Faux flowers: you can pick whatever flower your heart desires; however, the inside diameter where the tea light sits should be a little wider than the LED tea light. I picked these flowers as they looked nice and had large petals.
- Bowl for the Gesso
- Acrylic paints (if desired).
- Any inexpensive paintbrush.
- Battery operated tea light candle.
First, I separated the stem and leaves from the flower head. Then poured gesso into the bowl (just enough to cover the flower). Now, I had white gesso, but as I mentioned it can be bought pre-colored or is easy enough to tint it yourself. The trick when you dip the flower into the gesso is to make the coverage very light, otherwise, the petals will get heavy and hardly manageable...gently squeeze the flower as to remove all the excess gesso. After that, let the flowers completely dry out (around 8 hours). Shiny parts on the surface of the flower are a signal that the gesso is not yet fully dry.
Occasionally during the drying process, I was separating any petals that had stuck together, so they wouldn't stay stuck together and make the flower look flat. If you want, you can add more body to your flower by applying more gesso with a brush as a second layer.
At this point, if you're happy with the one color, you can stop and use it as is. I went a little further and used my acrylic paints to add some color to the entire flower and on the edges of some of the petals. It can be left as is or you can add some color to the petals.
And that's it... easy and inexpensively make your own unique led tealight holder!
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