Thread: PVC Flicker Candles

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I had my best luck avoiding glue strings by starting at the top and doing a full run to the bottom, keeping the tip immersed in the glue all the way down.

only my first day on this forum and theres so many good things.. i jus thope i have time to do this too. thx for the tutorial. definitely bookmarked

I've bookmarked so much since I joined the site as well. I don't know where I'm going to get the time (or money for that matter. lol) to complete all the awesome projects.

Here are some of the candles I made this year; I want to do a bit more with them before I put them away until next year.

OH! I love the black candles, I tried a few different things this year for our yard, one of the things was to use coffee creamer containers and then just spray paint them, they looked cool because they had that weird shape. Then we used card board ULINE tubes and just taped the battery LED tea lights. We had the most success with this it made our yard have these little twinkle looking lights.

I have a big problm w/glue strings too. Perhaps its my glue gun? Ill have to see if my smaller glue gun also produces a lot of strings. I like to do my candles in about 3-5 layers. I just do 1 side of the candle then let it cool. I also check for strings bc they are a lot easier to remove while warm. I found that if I try to do 1 layer on the pvc then put it down to cool, I end up burning myself & getting a lot more strings in the process. They are such a pain!
I also found when I did the top layer, it looks much better if I only do a 1" sectn at a time. Its a better look than trying to do a bigger sectn, or the whole rim at once. I notice a big improvement over the first candles I have done. So I use them for outside in low light. I also like a dry brush technique, then wiping it off. It hides a lot of inperfectsions. I used some old wood stains I had from doing a bucky corpse. They worked great & didnt have to spend more $.
Im trying to figure out how to hide the inside of a big 3" pillar pvc candle, to make it look more realistic. I sprayed the outside black & it looks great. A 11/2" pvc candle looks fine w/a tea light stuck in it, but its harder to hide in a 3" pillar candle. I can paint the tea light black, just would like a way to insert the tea light from the bottom, & have that pooled flat melted candle wax look on the inside of the pillar.

Oh yes James B lov ur candles! Lov that they are sitting on top of skulls too, & the wax is dripping out the eye sockets. Great look!!! Lov the collectn of black candles too. Where did u get the red lights for them? Are they reg tea lights or something else? Also like the religious candles on the table too great touch!