One of the best parts of home candle making is take on the challenge to your creativity by making candles of different shapes and sizes.
Do you want to make jar candles to give away for hostess gifts? Or maybe some pillar candles? How about trying your hand at scented tapers for the holidays? These candles all have different functions and they will require different molds.
Fortunately, as the popularity of candle making has grown the amount of candle supplies that you will be able to find at your local craft store has grown, too.
Aluminum, plastic, polyurethane, and silicone molds are the most common molds that you'll find in your craft store and on the internet.
These are great places to start and offer the candle making hobbyist a safe place to begin to experiment.
However, you aren't limited to molds that you can buy.
Many items that you already have at home, or even found items, can be used as molds for your candle making.
For safety's sake remember it's always best to put a baking tray or a pie plate under the mold before you start working.
But we're getting ahead of ourselves.
Let's take a tour of the kitchen first and see what items we might be able to use for molds:
I'm sure that these will help spark some additional ideas, too, as you experiment.
Remember that you'll need to make sure that the type of wax you've chosen to work with is suitable to the type of candle you want to make and the type of container you have chosen and these ideas are just meant as a way to help expand your creativity as you get further along in your candle making work.
At first you might want to keep track of this in a notebook so that you'll be able to track your successes, especially so you can recreate them for ecstatic family and friends or for when you decide to move your candle making hobby into a business.
And then it'll feel like second nature.
Enjoy!
Do you want to make jar candles to give away for hostess gifts? Or maybe some pillar candles? How about trying your hand at scented tapers for the holidays? These candles all have different functions and they will require different molds.
Fortunately, as the popularity of candle making has grown the amount of candle supplies that you will be able to find at your local craft store has grown, too.
Aluminum, plastic, polyurethane, and silicone molds are the most common molds that you'll find in your craft store and on the internet.
These are great places to start and offer the candle making hobbyist a safe place to begin to experiment.
However, you aren't limited to molds that you can buy.
Many items that you already have at home, or even found items, can be used as molds for your candle making.
For safety's sake remember it's always best to put a baking tray or a pie plate under the mold before you start working.
But we're getting ahead of ourselves.
Let's take a tour of the kitchen first and see what items we might be able to use for molds:
- yogurt cups
- empty metal can [from soup, vegetables, etc]
- frozen juice canister
- paper milk carton
- Chinese take-out container
- Pringles potato chip can
- bowls
- drinking glasses
- foil cupcake wrappers
- baby food jars
- jelly jars
- cookie cutters
- toilet paper roll
- paper towel roll
- previously used votive holders
- you can even make your own mold out of heavy duty cardboard
I'm sure that these will help spark some additional ideas, too, as you experiment.
Remember that you'll need to make sure that the type of wax you've chosen to work with is suitable to the type of candle you want to make and the type of container you have chosen and these ideas are just meant as a way to help expand your creativity as you get further along in your candle making work.
At first you might want to keep track of this in a notebook so that you'll be able to track your successes, especially so you can recreate them for ecstatic family and friends or for when you decide to move your candle making hobby into a business.
And then it'll feel like second nature.
Enjoy!
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