Spray Paint Galaxy Candles


Last week I turned some old composition notebooks into pretty galaxy (nebula/space) notebooks. In the past I have covered the plain white glass altar candles from dollar tree in tissue paper and mod podge and napkins and glitter and even alcohol ink, so I thought, what the heck, why not give them the space treatment.


I started by taking the sticky label off of the candles. The fastest way I have figure out for doing this is to run the hot water in your kitchen sink until it's good and hot, run it over the label until it's good and saturated and warm (probably about 30 seconds), and then use a plastic dish scraper and scrape the label of. If any sticker residue is leftover, use goo gone to remove it. Then I dried off my candles and put them in a cardboard box outside to start spraying.


I filled the top of each candle with a napkin to keep the spray paint from getting inside the candle. Then I started spraying a black and blue base coat. I sprayed a thin coat and let it dry. We've been having some nice warm weather, so it dried pretty quickly.


Then I flipped it over and covered that side with a thin coat of black spray paint and then blue spray paint.


I waited a minute or so (again good spray paint conditions--warm but not hot and fairly dry) until they were dry to the touch and then sat them up to dry a bit better before spraying on additional coats.


Then back in the box they went and I started spraying stripes of teal, purple, chrome silver, and even a bit of old white spray paint. Just like with last week's composition notebooks, these spray paints were all old leftovers and as long as you have a black and a silver, you could get away with lots of different shades of purple, pink, green and blue--whatever you have in your stash should work. I layered colors until I the colors were less stripey and more muted, but still visible.


It's hard to get a good photograph of these that really show the depth of colors and how shiny the silver is. They turned out really neat, and I can't wait to see what they look like burning. Spray paint is pretty flammable while it's wet, so be sure to wait until the candles have thoroughly dried (which can take 24-48 hours) before you light them and keep an eye on them to make sure they don't get too warm.

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