All you need to do is initially choose a picture you would like to make!!! I chose a Chinese women!!!! You can also draw you own design like I did for the borders and for the top and bottom design in my paper cutting!!!
Be careful in choosing what part of the paper you would like to cut!!! you take time for the same.. !!! all your skill lies in the part you choose to cut to show your design to reflect on the paper cut!!!
All you need is:
1. Paper( Choose your favorite color paper and size)
2. Choose you design
3. Blade and a scissors to cut( Children must take the help of elders while cutting )
Here are the pictures of the paper cutting I made.
Hope you like it!
As you can see I drew the part I would like to cut to make my job easier!
Be careful while cutting sharp edges
This Project takes extreme patience and some seriously steady hands. If u happen to have those I'm sure you will end up having the best paper cutting piece
here are the pictures of another paper cutting I did.. hope you like it!!
Though, there are certain formulae to follow while candle making yet candle making is also considered as a creative art. One must pursue certain procedures but candle making is at its best when it involves creative ideas and great imagination. It is a wonderful hobby and also offers a gateway to a promising business. Candle making business requires minimal investment. As far as ways to make candles are concerned, you will be surprised to discover different ideas that produce wonderful candles. A candle can be moulded, fused, layered and what not and yet the final result can always surpass your expectations.
Candle making is an innovative art and now a day we see different types of candles being prepared using creative ideas. Colored candles, jelly candles, scented candles, floating candles etc are some of the new types of candles. There are few things that will always be required to make candles, no matter what type of candle you are trying to create.
The following are the things you might need for Candle making...
= Wax(paraffin wax, soy wax or bee wax)
= Wick
= Melting system
= Molds(you can use egg shells too.)
= Colour dyes(crayons, any kind of dye, food colors or ink also would serve the purpose
= Oil (preferably coconut) for greasing.
= Glitters, ribbon, flowers for decoration
= Fragrance-herbs like rosemary, lavender, or lemon verbena, different aromatherapy oil, or you can use cooking ingredients like peppermint, vanilla, or spices from the kitchen.
Instructions
1. After you finish collecting all the ingredients for candle making, take a container say saucepan. Fill up the saucepan with water and let the water
2. Put wax inside another container(prefer some metal containers). Now place the container into the saucepan containing water
3. Now boil the water and watch the wax melting in the container.
4. Heat the wax till it reaches to aprox 140 degrees of temperature. In between keep stirring the wax gently using a wooden spoon. Let the complete wax in the container turn to liquid State.
5. When the wax melts down completely, put one teaspoon of fragrance and a teaspoon of color to it. Keep stirring the wax so that the fragrance and color blends up completely.
6. Grease the moulds with the oil.
7. Pour the molten wax inside the mould, allowing a margin of at least one inch on top of the mould
8. Now tie one end of the wick to the middle part of the pencil and gradually drop the other free end of it inside the molten wax.(see to it that the wick is dipped at the right place where you want it to be) Allow the pencil to rest on the top of mould to prevent the whole wick to fall into the wax all at once, as it hardens.
9. To decorate put some glitters on top of the hardening wax.
10. Allow the wax to harden(possibly for about 3-7hrs.)
11. Once the wax gets hardened break open or cut out the mould, if you are using an egg shell or thin plastic dolls for making the candle. And in case you are using a glass or cake mould, then run a sharp thin knife around the inside edges and then tip the mould upside down to slide out the candle.
12. You can further decorative the candle using glitter glues, artificial flowers, wax flowers, sequins etc.
