Learn how to pretend the look of vintage Christmas tree candles with this step-by-step tutorial to make DIY candle holder clips utilizing battery lights.
Simply name me Clark Griswold as a result of in terms of Christmas lights, extra is MORE in my guide in the course of the vacation season!
I’m like Oprah speaking to all of our garlands, wreaths, and mini timber in our home this 12 months. You get fairy lights and YOU get fairy lights and YOU ALL GET FAIRY LIGHTS! No vacation decor is protected.
DIY Vintage Candle Christmas Tree Lights
This 12 months I wished so as to add, you guessed it, extra lights to our Christmas tree. And I wished to do it in an antique-y form of approach to associate with this 12 months’s rustic Swedish Christmas.
If you happen to love the look of conventional candles with brass holders however wish to keep away from a hearth hazard and messy candle wax, this Christmas candle holder concept is straightforward to make.
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So I discovered these battery powered distant managed candle lights with these plastic clips I might placed on its branches. However the clips have been plastic and never fairly in any respect.
Step 1 – Take a look at Battery Operated Candles
Put batteries within the candles first (one much less step you need to do later) and take a look at them to verify all of them work.
Step 2 – Bend Candle Clip Prongs
Take one of many steel candle clips and bend the prongs so they’re flat. (They’re so pliable that I used to be in a position to make use of simply my fingers. No instruments crucial.)
Step 3 – Fill Candle Clip With Sizzling Glue
Use your scorching glue gun (set on excessive) to fill the within area between the prongs with scorching glue.
Step 4 – Set Battery Candle in Sizzling Glued Clip
Place and maintain the tip of a battery powered candle into the new glue, ensuring it’s standing upright within the holder. Maintain it for a few minute till the glue is barely cooler and dried.
Repeat for nevertheless many candles you need. And that’s it!
Actually, this hardly might advantage a tutorial however there ya go.
Our Christmas tree has somewhat little bit of vintage type nostalgia now with out the hearth hazard of actual conventional German type taper candles.
UPDATE: 4 years later, these DIY candle holder clips are nonetheless going sturdy! In storage, the new glue does generally separate from the battery candle, nevertheless it’s straightforward to only add somewhat contemporary dab of scorching glue to them annually to place them proper again within the tree.
So fairly, proper?! I feel I want to do that to different wreaths and timber in our home. However there I’m going Griswolding/Oprah-ing once more. 😉
Assume you’ll do that Christmas candle DIY?
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