I am a candle person. I love to give candles, I love to get candles, but sometimes the plain jars that candles come in feel a bit boring when giving them as a gift. I was getting ready to wrap some candles that I bought for friends when I got the idea to make them look a little more festive and Christmasy. These easy DIY Christmas Candles, took me about 10 minutes to make and I am in love with how they turned out. I am kicking myself that I didn’t pick up some extra candles for myself when I was shopping to make one of these for our coffee table.
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This is a super easy DIY, and the best part is that I made with things that I already had at home. All you need is a jarred candle (mine are from the White Barn brand at Bath & Body Works), thick ribbon, twine, a few evergreen sprigs (which I cut right off the back of our Christmas tree), tags, scissors and a hot glue gun to help assemble it all.
I started off by measuring the thick ribbon by wrapping it around the candle and leaving about an inch and a half of overlap. Once I cut the ribbon to size, I hot glued it onto the candle. Next I took my evergreen sprig and wrapped with with the twine. I cut the twine long enough for it to go around the candle twice and tie a bow in the front. After securing the sprig in place with the twine and a drop of hot glue, I slipped the tag on, tied a knot in the twine and made a bow. On some of the candles the tag didn’t want to stay on with just a knot, so I used a drop of hot glue to secure it as well.
And in less than 10 minutes, you have a super cute and festive candle.
Since this is such a quick and easy DIY, it is the perfect last minute gift!
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