Benna

I am gonna give cut and carve candles a try:yay: and I need some 6 point star molds. A while back a link was posted for place that had candle molds at great prices. Anyone remember what it was? Or know one near TN that has them? Also how much difference would useing a 5 point instead of the 6 point make? TIA

Where is the site that has what colors to mix to make different colors? I have searched and cant find it. I am attempting to make smelly jelly and the colors are kinda sad. I have a pack of neon and a pack of basic colors of food coloring. Anyone have any suggestions for a mixture to get a color for mulberry?

Carved candles (like the ones Bruce does) is my goal! I ordered me 6 star shaped polyurethane molds and I was gonna make me a bunch of core candles before I started to dip and carve. When I poured them they had air bubbles, I tapped on the sides but the air bubbles weren’t coming up fast enough to suit me. So here I go with THE HEAT GUN! Bubbles started flying to the tops and I was so proud until a mold’s bottom melted and fell over. No problem, I cleaned the wax and mold up and propped it up with wick sealer. I was oh so careful not to melt the rest . I poured them, left them by a cracked window so they could cool. Next morning, 5 of the molds were cracked and none of the candles were coming out. I had to melt the wax in the one that wasn’t cracked. The oops I do most is hold molds with paper towels, heat them with my GUN, wipe out the melted wax, lay that towel down that I wipe with and grab the mold with that hand to sit it down. A few other oops I have done is: went wick happy and put 5 wicks in a candle that needed 3 used a 3” wick pin in a 4” mold and had it way off center poured repours in votives too cool and had the repoured part fall off when I took the wick pin out My oops for today is running out of glue sticks and not wanting to stop and go get more. I found one that had red dye on it. I cut the red parts off and I have been using about a forth of what I usually use.

Thanks Pam!

I have everything ready to make sweet pea candles but.......the color! What color are they and how many drops to get the color? I have red, blue, yellow dye drops. Also isnt there a place that has color suggestions? Anybody got the link? Thanks Bunches!

Strawberry Shortcake and Cucumber Melon flavored hotdogs!

I melted some candles down and made these today.

All was melted and new master pieces were made. No fire! If it did catch on fire I WAS going to check the temp of the wax before putting the fire out and report back to yall!

LOL and why not?

I am remelting some of my master pieces gone wrong...I just checked and the melted part is 175 degrees. Is there any chance of the melted temp getting high enough to set fire before all of the candle is melted?

What size font do yall need? It looks bigger on my computer than the other fonts in post.

I have gone candle making crazy! When I get time to slow down I will post some pics in the gallery. I made a mold out of a cake pan. This mold holds 2 pounds of wax with 4 oz of FO. This gets the cold and hot throw that I want. This candle I made with my new mold came out so perfect! It set on my kitchen table until to day when I decided to burn it. I lit all 5 wicks and it was gorgeous! I had my back to it while I was working on other candles and after about 30 min I turned around to check on it and it was awful. The whole top looked like a bowl of wax about to pour out on the table. I am going to try smaller wicks because I like the look with 5. I might have to go to fewer wicks. Can I remelt this candle instead of using fresh wax and FO to make another candle to test wicks with? I also have an oops candle that I wicked with pretabed wicks, stucked the tab in the wax just when the bottom was hard enough to hold the tab. Well when I took it out of the mold…for some reason I cut the wicks off even with the candle on top thinking I was trimming the wick on the bottom. I would like to remelt and reuse that wax also.

I am new too! You will need lots of paper towels and a heat gun is also a great thing to have to fix mess ups with.

Now you know I dont know what titanium dioxide is. Sounds like something I might blow up the house with:undecided

Candle making is more fun than when I partied til the sun came up! Today while I test burned the container candles from yesterday I made votives in Dixie cups- they turned out ok, carved a candle – it kinda looked like I chopped it with an ax and I made a pillar. Well….it looks like its kinda puney. Whats the spots and what can I do to fix them? The white thingy isn’t a tape worm it’s the wick that I should have cut or hid before I took the picture.