Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Beaded Wire Floral Candleholder

7:00 AM Gail @Purple Hues and Me Beaded Wire, candleholder, Creative Craft Hop 18 comments

Hello and welcome to our Creative Craft Hop for the month of May! We are delighted to have two hosts - Donna @ Modern on Monticello and Sara @Birdz of a Feather! They each take turns hosting every other month! Thank you ladies for hosting this awe-inspiring Creative Craft Hop! The lovely and talented Sara is our host this month!

Today, I'm going to show you how to enhance your decorative space with a lovely unique candleholder craft idea! A beaded wire floral candleholder! Made in the shape of flower petals surrounded by purple beads that look like pearls around the top of a DollarTree candleholder! It's surely a great embellishment to make for home decor! One with a color changing feature that's perfect for adding a vibrant look and touch to your color scheme - inside or out! And the best part, it's a super fun project to create - so gather the supplies listed and let's get started!

Supplies

8mm Purple pearl-like beads
Wire - 26gauge (DollarTree)
Bowl
Ruler
Needle nose pliers
Wire cutter
Scissors
Clear Craft Plastic Sheets
Hot Glue/Quick Hold glue (by makers of E6000)
Double sided tape
Porcelain Candleholder (DollarTree)
Decorative purple and gold trim
Colorful Flameless Tealight

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How To:

Start by cutting the wire 24" long. Because the wire is a thin 26 gauge from DollarTree, I'm folding the wire in half to make it stronger to thread the beads onto it.

It's easier to put the beads in a plastic bowl and gather them up from there - counting out 29 beads per petal.

Once you have 29 beads on the wire, fold it in half in the shape of a flower petal, twisting the ends together to close using needle nose pliers.

For this project, you will need to make 16 beaded petals.

Once all the petals are made, begin adding glue along one side of the beads (one petal at a time) . . .

and press each one down on top of the clear plastic film to dry. You may have to lay a heavy flat surface on top to make sure the beads are completely adhering to the plastic while drying. Not shown: I used a large cutting board placed on top of the petals that was weighted down with a huge book until dry.

Once the petals were dry, the clear plastic was cut off around the outside of the beaded petals.

Then give the petals a bit of curvature by slightly bending!

Measure the petal's wire on the side edge of the candleholder and cut off excess wire using wire cutters. Then begin gluing the petals onto the candleholder in a clockwise positions using hot glue first -

pressing the petal wire into the hot glue. Once the hot glue has dried, use a more reliable, permanent glue like Quick Hold glue by the makers of E6000 to hold the petals in place. Take my word that hot glue Will NOT hold the petals in place for any length of time. They will fall off if a permanent type holding glue is not used.

Continue adding the petals onto the side of the candleholder using clockwise positions 12, 6 . . .

3 and . . .

9 positions.

Plus the remaining clock positions of 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8 and in between too, for a cool open petals or flower look!

Once done, cover the petal stem wires with double-sided tape around the side of the candleholder.

A decorative purple and gold trim was added to cover the double sided tape.

What a gorgeous look!

With the colorful flameless tealight in place!

Giving off beautiful colors . . .

especially at night!

You know I'm especially loving this in purple!

I hope you enjoyed how I made this beautiful beaded wire floral candleholder!

Up next is Carol @Bluesky at Home sharing her easy and amazing paint project you don't want to miss!

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Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Plastic Soda Bottle Floral Candleholder

3:00 AM Gail @Purple Hues and Me candleholder, sustainable craft challenge blog hop, upcycle plastic soda bottle 18 comments

We all know plastic soda bottles are basically trash no matter that you toss them in the recycle bin. But who said plastic soda bottles can't be made into something decorative and useful at the same time! Something creative and treasured, too! Like a plastic soda bottle floral candleholder! Imagine one casting a warm inviting, colorful glow in the shape of a flower in your home!

Welcome to this month's Sustainable Craft Challenge Blog Hop hosted by Julie @Sum of their Stories! This month's theme is Trash to Treasure! The challenge is all about sustainable crafting with a different theme each month! The projects must have some sort of a sustainable element to them. This could be an upcycling or recycling element, or something that reduces waste, uses leftovers, etc.

Materials used:

Plastic soda bottle
Craft knife/scissors
Clothes iron
Flower petal template
White foam sheet - thin 3mm (19"x19")
Mod Podge
Parchment paper
Paint brush/sponge brush
Rolling pin (for shape)
Hot glue gun/glue sticks
Flameless color tealight

How to:

Let's begin by removing the label, and washing and drying a 2 liter, clear plastic soda bottle.

Once the bottle is dry, using a craft or utility knife, cut off the bottom portion following the ridge around the bottle or the imaginary line from the label that was once there.

I wanted the bottom portion of the candle holder smaller so I cut off . . .

a bit more, slicing it vertically and then . . .

horizontally around. Next, seal the edge with a clothes iron to give it a nice rounded finish. (I forgot to take a picture of this) Here's how to do it: First, set your iron on high. Then press the cut edge of the plastic bottle firmly on the flat portion of the iron for a few seconds until it starts to curve, giving it a nice clean finished edge. Doing this will not damage the iron in any way.

For the floral look, I found a flower clipart online which I copied and saved.

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Then I printed out one of the petals that I enlarged to about five inches. I estimated that I needed fourteen petals. So I was able to put two petals on a sheet of paper to print.

Next, I took a large foam sheet and painted on a layer of Mod Podge and . . .

laid the petals on top of the Mod Podged foam sheet, smoothing them out. Then added a coat of Mod Podge on top of the petals to seal and let dry!

Once all the petals were dry, began cutting out the individual petals.

Since I wanted the flower image on both sides of the petals, I flipped the image on my computer and printed out fourteen more petals to be . . .

mod podged to the back of the first foam sheet petals.

The front and back petals fit perfectly together!

Once the double sided petals were dry, placed the individual petals on a hot iron (not shown) and then wrapped each petal around a small rolling pin to get the curved shape for all the petals.