Create Aquatic Gel Candle As Gifts

Candle creation can be the right gifts for somebody, just use your imagination to make the shapes  as you want. Here below some useful tips as craft project ideas to create a gel candle using aquatic as theme:

The first step you should ascertain a container that would best hold into form the candle you have in mind. Be sure that you’ll be using non-flammable containers. Better use material from glass if available, they could show the gel, select something with a touch of blue aqua.

Project to have the wick like around 1.5 inches from the sides and dribble a spot of hot glue on the bottom of the container you used.

Adhere the wink on the hot glue and allow it cool off for a couple of minutes. Here, zinc is the best choice, don’t use cotton cloth as core wick, .

For the gel, cut off the gel wax into pieces or small cubes and place it into a container and heat it up. Be sure that the heat is not too cold or too hot. You can melt it well in 200 degree Fahrenheit.

Keep up the advised temperature until such time that the wax would melt and turn into a smooth and a little thick liquid. For more attractive essences, you could use colorizing materials that would create better effect to the product.

Don’t use colorizing materials that would cause the gel lose its transparency. Ignore use of water-based and paste dyes as a combination. They do not complement each others components.

Pour ¼ of essential oil or gel scent for more effects that would make the candle “marketable”. When pouring such, add more wax cubes if there is a “cloudy” effect on the liquid.

Scents you use must be alcohol-free. For the aquatic theme, choose a “cool” scent than those which are fruity or musky.

When you’re about to pour the candle liquid on a container, set a level mark and make sure that the liquid will not pass over it. Put some seashell beads, aquarium gravel, sand, aqua blue glitter, pebbles, and others. Do it by layer.

Make it a point to preheat the container (150 degrees). This would minimize the presence of bubbles that may ruin the form of the finished product.

Then pull up the wick and be sure that it goes up in the center of the candle. Let the candle cool down for 3-4 hours. Trim the wick at about ¼ inch.

You could vary the designs of your aquatic candles by mixing and matching colors and objects like starfish and clouds, sand and stars, boat prints and pebbles are just a few of the numerous possibilities.