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.


Great site very informative!!!!!!
i love the lace hardened over the balloons definitly going to try it
love this site! totally helped me with making mercury glass.
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?
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?