hi I'm Sophie and welcome to my world today I'm going to end my three part
series in candle rolling with what I call a staircase candle and as you can
see it goes Stepity, stepity, stepity,
stepity it goes from skinny to fat and I'm gonna teach you how to make it right now
for this project you'll need beeswax sheets candle wick scissors exacto knife
hairdryer and a ruler so we've already cut this straight down the middle and
with a staircase candle I mean you can make it big and long if you want to it
gets really really fat though in that case and so what I like to do is cut
these in half and so I'm gonna just measure about eight inches here and
using my ruler just cut straight down to make two sheets so just like with my
skinny candle I can get four of these thin staircase candles out of one sheet
I'm gonna be measuring two inches down and making a little cut and then I'm
gonna be measuring an inch and a half up excuse me an inch and a quarter up
you're making a little cut and from the cut here to the cut there I'm gonna use
my ruler and just cut straight on down so that I make a triangle now I'm gonna
cut my wick just like I did the other tutorials one inch longer than the width
of the candle and I'm going to make sure that that's right and I'm going to at
this point cut my embellishment and I'm gonna be using just one honeycomb width
of this so I've got my yellow here cutting one tiny little honeycomb width
and I'm gonna actually place it ahead of time on my candle as with my
other tutorials I'm warming up the beeswax just to make sure that it stays
nice and secure that it's nice and malleable and I'm just lining this up
all the way along that edge there see that all the way along the edge and I'm
just going from one end all the way down and as you can see I gave us a little
extra up here so that I didn't end up with a rough edge because I can come
back and cut these little edges off here just cut this one here and cut this one
here there we go so now we've got our pretty line and then what I'm gonna do
is flip this over and I want to give this a little warm up again it's very
fast now I'm gonna take my wick and I'm going to like I did with all the other
ones lay it right at the very end push it down in and start to roll once again
I want to make sure that I'm keeping this very very tight as I roll and I
also want to make sure that I'm always keeping that bottom in line and straight
as I go I want to make sure that my embellishment stays so I just want to
run my finger across as I'm rolling making sure that that's staying in line
as I'm rolling and if it rips a little bit don't worry just use your fingers to
smooth it down keep going keep rolling making sure that that bottom is not
sliding out and there we go now once you get to the end here
I'm gonna take your hairdryer like we've done with the others
warm that up a tiny bit seal it off and I should have a tiny little bit left
over that we had cut off and we can just take that and smooth it in so that it
goes all the way down now if you have your candle base you may need to taper
it just a tiny bit with your fingers and if it's not going easily heat it up a
little bit with that hairdryer but it should be pretty malleable and you're
just gonna taper that end just like a regular candle like a real candle they
will get in the store it has the tapered end and then you can make sure that it
fits right into your candle holder like that and there you have it your very own
staircase candle now the product that I used once more is this fabulous beeswax
candle making kit from Amazon and as I said it comes with everything you need
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