~Making Grubby Candles~

As you can tell by the title of my post…I’ve been busy making plain candles into grubby candles and I wanted to shared this project with all of you. I love how they turned out and it was so easy to do.

I found this product from DecoArt called Texture Fierro at my local craft store. It is a textured paste  and comes in different colors. I purchased the Iron Brown as I wanted that grubby look for my candles.

Then I gathered up some candles…

either battery operated ones~

or wax candles will work…I did up some of both.

And this is how I did it…

I used an old small paint brush…dabbed it into the texture paste and then dabbed it on the candles.  I let them dry completely and then added more texture paste in spots that needed it. You can put this on as thin or thick as you want. I did my first coat thick  and did the second coat thinner to touch up some places. It was as easy as that!!

(I do want to say that the wax candles I did are not ones that I plan on burning. I would not recommend doing this to a candle that you want to burn!!)

Here are what my finish candles look like…

the battery tea light~

the waxed pillar candle~

and the battery taper candle~

This was really a fun and easy project to do with great results. I also found that the texture paste comes in a crackle finish and I have some projects that I want to try it on. I’ll let you know how they turn out. Until next time…   blessings, Cindy

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