Beautiful Gold Candles Made Using Spray Paint and Sea Shells

We live next to the sea so every time we go for a walk I come back with some sea shells... I just think they are so lovely. I have a bag full at home and as I love to upcycle and re-use materials and things I already have I decided to make a little craft project using these.

Clean and dry the shells

I spray painted the seashells in gold colour (my favourite!)

I took some old tealight candles and removed the wicks and the aluminium cover. I put the wicks in the bottom of the shell, there is a little glue dot on the bottom which stuck nicely, poured the melted wax and let it cool down.

Once the candle had cooled down it was ready to be used.

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Carol Leader
on Dec 2, 2015

Isn't paint flammable?

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- From Evija with Love
  on Dec 2, 2015
  
  @Carol Leader The flammable volatile parts will have evaporated when exposed to the air.
  
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Emma
on Sep 4, 2016

what spray paint did you use?

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Lyn
on Jan 21, 2019

How do you clean the pot you melt the wax in??

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- Lyn
  on Mar 10, 2019
  
  Oh ok!!! Just keep an old one for wax melting!!! LOL. DUH!! Thanks for the info. Can’t wait to try this!!!
  
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