13 Days of Halloween - Day 10 - Black&White Bats Candle Light Shades

Happy Friday!!! :o

Today I'm bringing DAY 10 of the 13 Days of Halloween series with these B&W Bats Candle Light Shades. :o)

Although it's not common here in Croatia to celebrate Halloween, my honey and I celebrate it each year. I made these candle light shades (and other decorations) to decorate our apartment for Halloween night. I made 13 candle light shades, symbolic, as we started to date in the Halloween night 13 years ago. :o)

I made these kind of candle light shades in the past and shared a tutorial here on my blog (here). I went with same design, just used white paper this year and went with stamping instead of tracing stencils.

How I made these candle light shades...

I cut a white printing paper into rectangles measured 210 mm x 88.9 mm.

I randomly stamped bats from Jane's Doodles 'Haunted House' stamp set in black on each rectangle.

When the ink dried, I glued two shorter sides of rectangles together to form a cylinder shape and my super simple candle light shades were ready to use.

List of supplies:

• Jane's Doodles 'Haunted House' stamp set
• white printing paper
• Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• double sided self adhesive tape
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• scissors 

I really like how they look when tea light candles are lightened inside. :o)

Although they look amazing when candles lightened, I never leave these kind of projects unsupervised and never forget about safety when using candles of any kind (inside or outside).

If you decide to make your own and use them, please bare in mind that you are using these at your own risk. I can't and won't be responsible if anything goes wrong. NEVER ever forget about safety when using candles!!!

Safety notice:

• usage at your own risk
• for tea light candles only
• indoor usage only
• not for children of any age
• do not leave unsupervised 
• always be in the same room as your lighten tea light candles
• turn off candles when leaving the room

 

Safer option would be probably to use these light shades with LED tea light candles. I don't know if they give that dancing light as a regular tea light candles, because I never tried them.

Despite the fact that LED tea light candles are kind of safer than regular ones, I recommend all safety precautions when using them. Sadly, quality of products nowadays, especially electronics, can be very poor, so we must be careful when using them to avoid dangerous and unwanted situations.

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Enjoy and smile! :o)

Milka

Halloween ambience

Good evening everyone :-D

I finally managed to organize my photos and edit short video of ours Halloween ambience, which I want to share with you. 

I did want to do this last week, after Halloween, but it was very busy and exhausting week for me. I had a lot of job interviews and, finally, after long 18 months, I got the full time job. I started to work last Thursday. Yeiii, now I´ll be able to purchase all those tools I wanted for a long long time.

Meanwhile, I got so ill, that I couldn't do anything with myself. Horrible pills made me cranky and extremely exhausted, so my doctor had to subscribe me even more pills. Now I feel like pharmacy, but feel much better. I can think and write. (LOL) 

Back to Halloween... 

I created Halloween ambience using wall decorations, a lot of candles and candle light shades. 

Idea for wall decorations is not mine, as I wrote in my previous post Halloween decorations, where I gave all the credits and shared the details of how I made mine spooky decorations. I also provided links to original posts where I found templates. 

I made candle light shades last year and stored them. They were in great shape and still are, so I used them this year too and probably will use them again next year. These candle light shades are really easy and fast to make and are very cheap. 

Here is a short tutorial. 

List of supplies:

• orange card stock paper
• scissors
• stencils from the Internet 
• pencil 
• black permanent marker 
• glue

Stencils I used are not my creations and I give all the credits to the authors. 

I am really sorry I can´t provide links to original posts where I found those stencils, because I lost that data. I found stencils last year and had them stored on my computer, but at the beginning of this year my computer crashed and I lost that data. 

I will update this post as soon as I find original posts where stencils can be find.

How to: 

1. cut card stock paper on desired size (width must be at least 18 centimeters)
2. draw desired shape or trace out stencil on card stock paper with pencil 
3. color blanks with black permanent marker or any other desired color media 
4. glue together two sides of a rectangle to form a cylinder shape 
5. finished

Important notices: 

• for tea light candles only
• indoor usage only
• never leave it unsupervised 
• always be in the same room as your lighten tea light candles 
• not for children 
• usage at your own risk

Update (November 20th 2014):  

Much safer option is to use these light shades with LED tea light candles. I don´t know if they give that dancing light as a regular tea light candles (see video below), because I never had and tried them. 

Despite the fact that LED tea light candles are safer than regular ones, I recommend all safety precautions when using them. Sadly, quality of products nowadays, especially electronics, can be very poor, so we must be careful when using them.

 

Music:
"Evening of Chaos" Kevin MacLeod   

(incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Have a great week. :-D 

Crafty Milka