Gel Candle Designs: Springtime Flowers & Graduates

Springtime brings many new opportunities for exciting, creative gel candles ideas. Just as we watch the new re-birthing of the Earth, we also watch our children (not limited to biological) bounce through their different 'ages and stages', as they become the next generation of fresh ideas and new enthusiasm.

The Earth gives us colorful flowers to brighten our spirits, and something much bigger, gives us a new vision-- through gentle eyes-- as we watch our children blossom…. yes, these are true gifts of life. This month we feature our Springtime Daisy Candle along with our Graduation Theme Candle, which can be customize to incorporate high school and college color themes.

Please Don't Pick the Daisies…

We started our Daisy candle using a fresh green sand base...

...Remembering first to thread our glass bead onto the wick to snuff the candle flame within the last inch, for safety.

We poured a thin coating of melted gel on top of the sand to lock it into place… use multi-colors and shades of sands and glitters for added interest for your candle base. Customers love those unique looks.

Our next step is to drop those chunks of unmelted gel AROUND the wick.. remember we want our wick to remain super straight and professional-looking.

Using the 'chunk pouring method' gives several benefits… you can sprinkle nonflammable glitters and foil shapes to add depth and character, creating the look of suspension to your candle. The chunks also give you substance to hold wax and glass pieces in place . A third benefit is to save time; no need to melt ALL the gel. The gel chunks also give you a quicker cooling time so that you don't melt wax embeds.

We sprinkled our celestial gold glitter on the chunks and over-poured the liquid gel (scented with our Top-Rated floral scent: Flowering Laurel). This makes just a fabulous, yet a very simple and elegant look.

We wanted our candle to have a '2-looks-in-1'... so we selected a yellow daisy for one side and a pink daisy for the other, and chose some loose green wax leaves to position two leaves on one side of the flower for a realistic look.

After our gel begins to thicken, we can slide our flower down into the gel, pushing close to the glass surface.

Next we use our BET (embedding tool) to position the leaves where they are most attractive to the eye. We do a final 'tug' on our wick and we are finished with another masterpiece that will be a favorite for customers.

Graduation!! …Life is just beginning…... We have a very special family member graduating High School . She has been accepted to her First-Choice college so we have incorporated her college colors into her graduation candle.

You can also use the high school colors for the base of the candle and then use the college colors for the top half of the candle… perfect to show the transition.

We used purple stones, glitters and foils in the base of our candle, again installing our snuffing bead to insure the flame will self-extinguish at least 1" above the bottom. We poured a thin layer of gel to seat the color base.

Our next step was again to drop our chunks of unmelted gel around the wick.

We sprinkled celestial purple and gold onto the chunk and poured liquid gel scented with our newest Tranquil Nights FO, which is a special Wonderful new blend of lavender and vanillas plus more.

We then added more chunks and more glitters and fuchsia diamond shapes, and did the remaining pour of liquid gel. We allowed the candle to cool slightly because we have a glass Graduate and Diploma to add and they are somewhat heavy glass embeds.

Again, having our chunks in the body of the candle will give the necessary strength to help hold our embeds in position, but we still want to wait for the gel to thicken.

Then we install our graduate and diploma, using the embed tool to position where we want. Add the top 'Congratulation Grad' garland on the outside of the glassware, and you have a finished candle with a great theme, while also customizing for school colors.

We hope you enjoy these designs, and they will find their way to the very special people in your lives. The floral candles will be wonderful for Mother's Day… more on that and Wedding Candles.. coming next month.

Article & Design by Patti Smith, Design Artist
BioMax Candle Supply ~ www.biomax1.com