eastern script candle

 I am a sucker for script stamps, so the letter stamp on the paisley elephant stamp sheet from Chocolate Baroque immediately caught my eye!

Having a small candle sitting on the shelf waiting to be used solved the question of what to do with it - decorate with the script stamp.

I stamped the image twice onto white tissue paper with black versafine ink, tore carefully round the edges once the ink was dry then fused them to the candle using a heat gun.




I then made a box to fit the candle using an envelope punch board and black card and the handy calculator from the crafty owl.
Before gluing the box together I stamped the script stamp on the sides using versamark ink and white embossing powder.

Once the box was assembled, i needed something to fasten it, so a trip to my local craft shop was needed. What I was hoping to find was an elephant charm, but they were either tiny or way too big - what was the right size was a pack of elephant buttons -thanks for hunting them out Jane! They were decorated with printed flowers , so I covered them with a few layers of versamark ink and gold embossing powder and then pressed them onto the stamp while the powder was still hot. A strip of plaited embroidery threads was looped and the ends sandwiched between two buttons to make the fastening.




I used what was left of the sheet of tissue paper to wrap the candle inside the box, simply repeat stamping the script in black and grey versafine ink in a fairly random pattern.