Wooden tray with house and candle

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Wooden tray with house and candle

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Instructions in 8 steps Just perfect as an original gift: self-cast Raysin light-up house and a candle adorned using the gorgeous dip-dye technique.

Besides the articles listed below, you also need: Glass jar for dipping candles, wooden sticks, mixing container for Raysin, scales, cord as desired (1 m)

And this is how it works:

Step 1 - Raysin house

Take Raysin and the "Lichthäuser" casting mould to cast your little house to a thickness of around 1.5 cm. Once the house has dried, you can demould it.

Step 2 - Dip-dye candle

Fill the glass jar with wax pellets. The glass jar should be filled to about ¾ with wax pellets for each colour pigment. Heat the filled jar in a bain-marie until all the wax pellets have melted. However, care must be taken to ensure that the water only gets hot and does not boil. Crush the colour pigment with a knife, pour it into the glass jar filled with liquid wax and mix it evenly by stirring with a wooden stick.

Tip: The more colour pigments are added, the more intense the colour shade.

Step 3 - Dip-dye candle

Now take a candle, dip it into the dyed, liquid wax and let it dry. By dipping it several times and allowing to dry, the colour shade becomes more intense.

Step 4 - Dip-dye candle

Once the coloured wax on the candle has dried, decorate the candle with the motif from the transfer foil.

Step 5 - Tray

Arrange the wood pen blanks on the wood plank and affix them firmly by means of the glue fix pen.

Step 6 - Tray

Make two cuttings from the kraft paper (20 × 3 cm and 12 × 3 cm). Place the long cutting in the middle of the front panel and stick the short cutting on the rear panel over the long cutting to join the kraft paper strip.

Step 7 - Tray

Thread 3 wooden beads onto the cord. Wind the cord twice around the kraft paper strip, attach the tag on and tie the cord with a simple bow at the front.