hi I'm Sophie and welcome to my world today I am going to show you how to make
one of these adorable what I call sand art candles this is
made with granulated wax that comes in all these different amazing colors and
it is a cutest little craft it's so fun so easy and I'm gonna show you how to
make it right now for this project you'll need self-standing wicks
granulated wax a beeswax sheet votive or glass cups exacto knife
cutting board glue dots or putty scissors and a spoon so the first thing
we're gonna do is we're gonna put our wick in and this is where you would use
either putty or a glue dot and this is a self-standing wick what it has is a
little base it's got its own little base and then the wick comes out of the base
so that it stands up on its own these were all purchased from a company that
I'll give you the link down below called candle wick and they have everything
that you need for making candles okay I'm going to pull this off of here this
is my glue dot and just place that right down in the center of my votive so that
it stands and that's just gonna keep it in place there we go while
we make our candle now you can use your candles your granulated candles in a
bowl like this with a spoon it's very very easy the only thing is that if you
are doing with this with like a large group it could get very messy very
quickly and so what I like to do because I'm a party planner and I'm always you
know catering to a ton of people I like to make it a little neater and so I
actually use these saucing containers these little bottles these saucing
bottles are great and what I do is I just cut the top part usually the top
part is about like that tall I cut it right near the base and that makes a
nice big hole and then you can just have your guests pour it from here and it
just keeps it much more contained so now you see you can shake it
you can get little layers going here it's just like sand art and one of
fun things to do is you can put it in a goodly amount here and we
can go sideways with it so we start to get like a little angle give it a little
tap tap tap tap tap that always just kind of evens things out there and then
come back with your other color and that'll fill it in on the other side
there and you want to fill it up almost to the top and give it a little tap so
that everything kind of settles now here's something that I discovered when
I was working on these when I got my first kit it just came with the granules
and you were expected to then you know cut the wick light it and then let it go
right and it was awesome and great and super but the problem is I was doing
these at workshops where people were taking these away with them and you can
see what would happen if they accidentally dropped it everything would
come out or it would all get mixed up like that so to keep that from happening
what I discovered is if I took a beeswax sheet just like the ones that I used for
my rolled candles and then I just took an extra votive and traced around the
top here on the outside with an exacto knife and it's important to do it on the
outside because you want a little bit extra you don't want it to be tight in
there you actually want it to be a little bit bigger and then you can just
pop this off of here and then just make a hole right in the middle for the wick
so watch your fingers when you do this
just make a hole right in the middle slide the disc of wax right over
and then gently push it down in and as you push it in you can use your fingers
it'll warm up and as it warms up with your fingers it'll get nice and
malleable and you can get it right in there nice and tight there we go and
then we can cut off the candle wick like that and see even if I turn it upside
down it's totally fine it's not going to go anywhere and that's also going to
protect your beautiful design that you've made because it keeps it from
shifting and then when you light it no problems whatsoever it'll just burn
right through the top and then burns right through the crystals that's all it
takes to make your very own granulated sand art candle and as you can see
because of that beeswax it's not going anywhere for more great ideas check us
out at sophie-world.com and I will tell you they burn beautifully