Shabby candle stand – The tale of an up-cycled pizza box

The first Monday following the launch of our challenge will continue to be a stop at 'Destination Inspiration' and I’m honoured to take the first ticket!

Like many others, I adore scented candles, they make fabulous gifts, especially when you make a presentation stand to give with them!

Here is the timetable to my destination...

I started by measuring the candle jar and determining the size tray I would need and then set about drawing a box template onto one side of the pizza box:

Next came a layer of stamping of a floral spray with black archival ink followed by some resist stamping of a small bird. Both stamps are from the CMS069 - Artful flight collection:

All four sides of the top and bottom of the template were treated with simple blending of Scattered straw, Spiced marmalade and Walnut stain Distress stains then misted with water to blend. Once dry, the box was formed and glued:

The tray needs to take the weight of a glass candle jar so I cut a base a few millimetres smaller than the box, covered it with using the butterfly paper from Tim's Kraft resist 12 x 12 stack and then used the DIs & mister again to treat it:

The base was glued inside the box before adding Idea-Ology Box feet. A little lace was added too:

So far:

Out came matching Distress stains, Tattered florals die, book pages, kraft card etc and, using the wrinkle free distress technique, the flowers started to take shape:

I cut Tattered leaves from mount board and used the same technique to colour them. Each of the flowers was edged with the Walnut stain DI then Diamond Stickles added accents to the flowers before finally adding various buttons, pearls, studs and ironware to their centres:

So far:

Now the thing about a candle stand is that it really doesn't matter how it's decorated on the otside when it's lit because you only see the inside! Strong, instant drying glue was used to add the flowers and leaves (vertically) inside the box:

So far:

Add the candle:

And when it gets to twilight - light it!

This candle stand and candle is going to a friend for her birthday - I hope she enjoys it as much as I enjoyed making it!

That's it for my journey today, I hope you all have a terrific week!

Chris xxx

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