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Moving on with my experiments.
Today, I am sharing some pretty diy dyed candle votives with rit dye and elmer’s glue.
If you missed my first rit dye elmer’s glue experiment you can check that out.
I have done many rit dye projects this past year, but mostly with mod podge.
Essentially mod podge and elmer’s glue are a similar entity. I think, but not sure what the difference is in ingredients.
I bought cheap little votives to start.
Dollar tree of course is the best place to find these.
I used the Quick Elmer’s glue.
It really does dry quickly.
Like in 5 minutes quickly.
I painted each votive with ONE coat of quick dry elmers on the OUTSIDE only.
Let it dry
Then took my color choices
sunshine orange
royal blue
yellow
and painted on one coat of rit dye. I used a smaller artist brush.
After those dried completely, which was not long.
I went and painted over each votive with Martha steward metallic glaze Just for a little shimmer.
Embellished each votive with a ribbon and a cute button
This was so easy and so fast, I feel like painting all glass in sight!
These little votives will look so cute on a Spring table.
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Very cute! I see a lot of these in my near future! Did you paint the inside or outside of the votive?
Outside only!
Those look really nice!
lovely jewel like tones the dye has and the finish is lovley and muted
You NEVER cease to amaze me Debbie!!! I love all the projects that you share with us!! Thank you, for never being afraid to chart “new territories” when it comes to DIY projects!! You ROCK …. Juanice
Thank you Juanice!
Very cute and there are so many situations and possibilities for these! You’ve done it again!!~~Angela
These are super cute!! The metallic glaze really makes them shimmer and look like something expensive. So the Rit paint is sold in craft stores? I was thinking you meant the old fashioned dye you find at the grocery store! Thanks so much, Debbie!
XO,
Jane
Hi Jane, this is the good old fashioned Rit dye. They do have it now in liquid form and most crafts stores sell it like this. You could also use the tablets and mix it yourself.
These look really cute – they would make great moving in presents.
These are adorable, Debbie! The dye and glue combination seems to work quite well on the glass votives creating an awesome look!
You and your creative ideas with rit dye. I have to try that on something. I went to the dollar store yesterday for a collar for my little dog. I noticed all the glassware and vases. Good idea to dye them. 🙂
Your votives are so pretty Debbie. I bet you could do this on chandelier crystals.
I love the metallic glaze,,,,you are just so creative!
JP
How do you come up with all these ideas? Wow!
These are so cute, Debbie! I’ve got these sweet things already pinned to try very soon.
They turned out beautiful, Debbie. And I love the touch of the glaze on top…you are so creative!
Debbie 🙂
Those look great, Debbie! They seem to have almost a crackle-type look in the photos (which I like). This is a fun idea to match votives to a party’s color theme. I’m pinning this so I don’t forget. Thanks for sharing the tutorial with us.
Hi! Love that orange! I’m wondering, though, if there is a way to give a grunged, dirty lantern look, over the orange, for Halloween, like a creepy, orange glowing dirty Mason Jar glow to it! Do u think a stain or brown wash would work? And, for something like that, would u paint the inside, instead? I love that orange, but wanted to make a grungy Halloween lantern, and think, if I can figure out to make it look dirty, too, it’ll give that orange just the right creepy feel! Thanks for posting! Love it!
Yes! I would take a little stain or dark wax and simply wipe it on and wipe it off for the grunge look.