Papertrey Ink Blog Hop

It's time for another Papertrey Ink Blog Hop! This month's theme is creations using tissue paper. I've used tissue a few different times for my blog hop projects, so this isn't a new challenge for me. For this month, I used the tissue that came with my latest PTI order (and the new anniversary set, too) to create a set of stamped candles.

I stamped the flower image from the Round and Round set in Summer Sunrise ink on the white tissue paper from my order. I put a piece of plain copy paper underneath the images, then punched each one out with a 1 3/8" circle punch. I used a 1/8" circle punch to make a hole in the center of the circle, then threaded the wick of a tealight candle through the hole and set the stamped tissue on the top of the tealight. I heated the tealights with my heat tool until the wax melted the tissue into the candle. To hold the tissue in place while heating, I use a pair of craft tweezers. I also use the tweezers to move the candle once I've finished heating it--the metal wrap outside of it gets hot from the heat tool! Once they cooled, I glued strips of dotted paper around the candles to pretty them up a bit and hide the metal edges.

I put the candles inside of a slide top box made using a template I designed. Instead of using a stamped or patterned paper panel to decorate the top of the box, I used a craft knife to cut out a window opening. The opening is backed with a piece of clear acetate, recycled from a PTI stamp set.

To finish off the project, I stamped a quick matching tag using more images from the anniversary set. The matching flower pair is stamped in Summer Sunrise ink and the sentiment is stamped over the image in Pure Poppy ink. I added a Summer Sunrise button embellished bow to the circle and a big scalloped circle underneath the image panel to complete the tag, then attached it to the box.

Materials Used:

Round and Round stamp set, Summer Sunrise and Pure Poppy inks, Summer Sunrise and Pure Poppy cardstock, Bitty Dot Basics patterned paper, Summer Sunrise satin ribbon, Pure Poppy button, twine (Papertrey Ink); 1 3/8" and 1 3/4" circle punches (EK Success); big scalloped circle dies (Nestabilities); recycled tissue, acetate