Jcandleattic

It's super easy. I believe the tutorial is on Candletech and I just followed their directions. Just use straight pillar wax so you can get the mottling look and done. Also, it says to use beeswax for the seeds, to color it black and then stragecially place them inside the mold and pour around them. I couldn't get that to work to save my life, so I just bought a candle paint medium and some acrylic paint and painted the seeds on. For the candy corn pillars, these aren't the ones I made yesterday but they look the same. My camera is dead and I won't get pics until after I get back from my parents, so I'll show you some I made either last year or a couple years ago. I make them every year around this time. Everything else I made yesterday I'll take pics when I get home and my camera is charged, ETA: more information

I used the double boiler method exactly once. ONCE. and said FFFF that. LOL (that was a candle that actually went sailing across the room - it's amazing I stuck with it as long as I did) eventually went and bought a presto and haven't looked back. Of course when I started there was no forums like this, no facebook, or yahoo groups so I basically bought candlemaking books and through trial and error, figured it out. I'm so thankful boards like this started popping up and people when willing, would share and help. It made all the difference to the "newbies" that came after me and to this day still help me a TON.

C&S Candy Corn/Honey Vanilla is the only candy corn scent I've used. I've tried others, but they just seem too sweet, or not IDK candy corn scented to me. I embellish my packaging with colored pipe cleaner with a real candy corn hot glued to it (I'll try to find a pic) and to me the C&S scent is just like opening a fresh bag of candy corns. Well, I can't find a picture of my candy corn packaging, so when I package these up, I'll show you. Anyway, here is a completely off topic picture, but it's the type of pillars I make in spring with my tall skinny pyramid mold.

Here's the description for Volcano: Tropical fruits, sugared oranges, lemons and limes, redolent with lightly exotic mountains greens. That's right up my alley. I love scents described like this. Hopefully the description fits it well.

It's described as a fruity scent. I've never smelled the Blue Cibri it's supposed to be a dupe of, so I have no idea...

Personally I don't think it would completely mix properly. You could end up with FO pockets, etc., Also you want your test atmosphere to be as close to the actual technique you are going to use for reproduction purposes. One variable can throw the whole thing off, and then you have to retest. Can you explain why you want to experiment with doing this? I also don't think it will actually save much time if that's the main factor. If you go ahead and try it, let us know how it turns out.

I just ordered it on Friday, and they are closed for the holiday weekend. They will probably not ship it until tomorrow which means I will probably not receive it until Friday or Saturday. When I get it I'll definitely let everyone know. It has gotten good reviews on all the other boards and groups I frequent.

that should say "Each layer uses .5 oz of SCENT" Not wax. LOL

OHhhh! LOL Sorry. Some I did, some I didn't. For the most part, yes, I do make the same scent in all different formats of candles I make, however, for the votives they are just a hodge podge of uneven layers of the scents I poured in containers. I make a pumpkin pie scent that I cannot keep when made in containers - sells out every time, however I couldn't GIVE it away in a pillar so I only made container candles of that scent. But like my Amish Harvest sells no matter what format, so I made up containers, pillars and will end up making some melts in that scent. I haven't made any melts yet because I use a completely different wax blend for that and didn't feel like blending wax yesterday other than my typical additives. LOL So, I guess to answer your question, it's a "it depends" sort of thing. I've been doing this for over 15 years so I sort of know (haha it always changes) what my region and customers want. What sells here though might be completely different than what sells where you are. Good luck!

Yes, and I'm exhausted. LOL I haven't put in a full day of creating and making in a LONG time. I'm glad I got so much done. I'll do a little bit tomorrow but not near as much as today because I have to go to my parents house to help them around the house get some things taken care of.

Not sure I understand the question? Do you mean, how did I scent the layers? Or? If it's how did I scent the layers, I have 3 conical shaped molds that will make an approximate 7.5 oz pillar. What I do is for my first (white) layer, I pour 8oz wax and scent it, - I will have a bit of left over wax because it's the smallest layer so I pour the excess in an embed mold. My second layer - same thing, colored orange. this layer uses all 8oz of wax across the 3 molds. Then my final layer I pour 8oz of wax again and then put the excess from the first pour into the pot and melt it along with the wax - any left over gets used for my final repour. Each layer uses .5 oz of wax. If that's not what you were asking, let me know. I'll answer better once I understand.

Oh yes, I will post pics. I've unmolded all the candy corn Pillars and most of the regular pillars. The containers are still setting up and I need to trim wicks, label and lid them.

Neither. It's a hard container paraffin blend. Both the 4630 and the 4627 are very soft - like vaseline.

I didn't get much more done after the last little burst. But it was fun working with wax again... I don't work with it near often enough...

yeah, no soap got done. I son't have any seasonal soaps ready for my October shows since it's already September and my first show is Oct. 4th. *sigh* I may have some made up and ready for my November shows, but it might be too late by then. IDK. I think I'll make those next week and see... LOL I'm in the middle of taking a break right... But I really need to get back to it...

Well, in between laundry and cleaning, I've been pouring. So far I've made 6 candy corn pillars, 4 regular Christmas scented pillars, 20 Christmas container candles, and 10 votive holders filled with the extra container wax. I do this every year when I'm pouring Christmas scents, and just any left over wax I have, I pour into a Christmas votive holder in layers, and call them "Christmas Present votives" then I explain that each will have it's own unique Christmas scent and with each layer a different scent will emerge. I do try to keep complimentary scents together so it won't be a pumpkin and then morph into say a strong pine or something. LOL People seem to love them, and I usually sell out every year. It's a great way to get rid of that last little bit of overflow that happens when I pour containers. I still want to make up about twice this before the days done, but not sure it'll happen.

You can buy sample slabs, and 2lb block samples of the 4786 wax at Peaks. HTH

Very very pretty!! I love the white/blue Christmas M&P/CP? one. Very stunning.

If I'm testing for wick alone, I burn when the candle is completely cool. Sometimes this can take a full day. Most of the time I won't test for at least 3 days, to make absolute sure it's cool and hard enough. If I'm testing scent throw I usually wait at least 5 days.

Personally for me, there isn't a scent out there worth $30 a lb. Not a Fragrance Oil anyway. I'm afraid I will have to stop crafting when the time comes that everyone goes that route. So far my favorite suppliers for the scents I carry are sill around or below the $20 mark. Even the ones that are slightly more than $20 I have to really think if I absolutely need them in my line before paying that + shipping.

Ignore the flame on the one I'm burning. The wick on that one was way to small. Just a basic sample. I think the heaping T refers to a heaping T of Stearic yes, slosh it around a little, pour it sloppily up against the sidewalls of the mold, etc; cool enough to stick to the sides of the mold but not slushy - HTH

Ah, thank you! I had no idea. I tend to find a wax I like and stick with and not research much else. LOL

On the first sniff, Smoke & Mirrors does smell similar to Cracklin' Birch but has more and deeper undertones and is a much richer scent. When you smell them side by side they are similar but do smell different. I honestly do not think JoAnn would mislead anyone by just renaming and reselling scents. I mean I'm sure a lot of FO suppliers get scents from the same manufactures, but have them change the scent up just enough to be unique. JMO

I use, a pre-blend pillar, IGI 4625, and IGI 1343. 1343 is a straight paraffin, where as 4625 and pre-blend are both blended paraffin's. You can get really pretty rustics with the 1343 but that wax doesn't hold as much scent, but the scent load it does hold throws great and you really don't need much more. (it will hold more with additives, but eh - I only use stearic when making rustics with 1343) The trick with rustics is to pour cool and pour sloppy and in layers. You can get rustics with the 4625 but it's not as easy, IMO you have to work hard to achieve the look than with the 1343. And with my pre-blend (it's actually called Pre-production blend and is a granular wax I get from C&S) it's practically impossible to get any rustics in that. But it makes a beautiful straight color, or layered pillar. It's practically fool-proof for regular nothing too fancy pillars. I love it for layers. I've never used your 1274 so have no advice or experience to share with you for that. HTH - anything else I can help with just ask...

I don't think it would make that huge of a difference - I would start your tests using the same wick you use currently and go from there. HTH