Here’s a nice assortment of crafty tutorials for making decorative glass votives, you’ll find plenty of creative ideas in this collection using a variety of materials (such as paper, lace, cinnamon sticks even an artichoke). Enjoy!
Lacy: Pieces of lace are shaped with fabric stiffener and molded over filled balloons until they dry. Once dry, fit a small glass votive inside.
Pine Cone Scales: Layer pine cone scales with hot glue to achieve this look.
Printed Paper Votive Luminary: Print chosen design on cardstock then fold and shape around a glass votive.
Paper Napkin Covered: Apply one layer of decorative paper napkin to a glass votive with a 50/50 mix of water and PVA.
Easy Fabric Covered: Cover glass votives with bits of fabric and mod podge.
Cornhusk: Wrap votives with dried cornhusks and tie in place with ribbon.
Colored Glass: Pint-sized canning jars, glazed with paint to match a garden’s decorating scheme, provide pretty, low-cost candle lanterns. These blue-hue jars enhance the garden scene while protecting the votive candles from breezes.
Three adorable little cozies to make that cover jars of all sizes.
Sweater Cozies: Simple crochet pattern to make votive cozies using worsted weight wool.
Birch Tree Bark Candles: Votive candles are slipped inside hollowed out birch branches.
Origami Wraps: Squares of decorative origami paper are folded and taped around clear glass votives, the paper is thin enough for the light to shine through.
Faux Gilded Cups: Small frosted cups are decorated in a lacey pattern using a paper doily, spray adhesive and Sharpie metallic paint pens.
Photo Memory Candles: Black & white photocopies and transparent contact paper are used to make these glass candleholders.
Fabric Lined Glass Jars: Should only be used for battery-operated tea lights for safety reasons.
Concrete Tealight Holder: Made with fine mixed concrete, small silicone molds, oil and some tealights…great for the deck!
Easy Vintage Style: Decorated with old book pages, bits of ribbon and lace and flowers.
I want to wrap decorative paper around votive holders (using LED candles) but because the holders graduate in size from bottom to top I cannot figure out how to cut the paper to make it fit around the glass evenly. Any solutions?
I am thinking about doing the ones with fabric and/or paper..How safe is that? And what is the best adhesive to use? Any other ideas? What about rolling them in beach sand?
love this site! totally helped me with making mercury glass.
i love the lace hardened over the balloons definitly going to try it
Great site very informative!!!!!!