Gnome Heart Candle

Create this easy to make Gnome Heart Candle

Holiday candles are one of my favorite things to decorate with. Although I don’t use real candles to decorate with, instead I use flameless candles with timers.

Flameless candles are safe as you don’t have to worry about them being knocked over and starting a fire. The ones with timers you can usually set them and forget them for a month or two.

After creating my Valentine Gnome Card, I decided to use the gnome and create a flameless candle. I will show you how to resize the gnome to add it and the hearts to the candle.

Some places you rent do not allow real candles, flameless candles are a great substitute and you can customize them to fit your decor by adding vinyl designs.

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To get started you will need to download my Valentine Gnome Card.

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Gnome Heart Candle

Course: Valentine’s Day

Author: Carla Arlene Creations

Equipment

• Cricut Maker
• Light Grip Cutting Mat (Blue)
• Brayer
• Spatula

Materials

• White Vinyl
• Purple Vinyl
• Green Vinyl
• Light Brown Vinyl flesh tone
• Dark Medium Red Vinyl
• Yellow Vinyl
• Red Vinyl
• Pink Vinyl
• Black Vinyl
• Transfer Tape
• Flameless Candle

Instructions

Cutting Out the Gnome Heart Candle

• Upload the Valentine Gnome Card in to design space. Check to make sure the size is correct.
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• Select all and ungroup
• Then select the wording and hide it
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• Click on the card (white rectangle) and dotted line and hide them both
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• You can use both pieces of the gnomes hat or select the solid or the one with hearts cut out and hide the other one.
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• in the photo above I hide the solid hat.
• Next select the heart and wording and ungroup them
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• then select the heart and duplicate it
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• You can change the hearts to make the different colors by selecting the heart and clicking on a new color
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• I duplicated the heart several times and changed the colors of them
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• Next select the gnome and resize him to fit the candle you are using
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  Next you will click on "Make It" and the prepare mat screen will appear.
• Being we are not using iron-on vinyl you do not need to mirror anything.
  
  Now if everything looks correct on it, click on the continue button
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  The next screen will be where you will select the type of vinyl you are using. If you do not see the material in your material favorites, click on "browse all materials" to find the type of vinyl that you are using.
  Once you have Design Space set, you are now ready to prepare your mat. I used a brayer when placing the vinyl on the mat, this helps in making sure that the vinyl is adhered to the mat and will help in keeping the vinyl from moving when it is being cut. 

Assembling the Gnome Heart Candle

• Starting with the gnome body
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• Using transfer tape and a scraper put the gnome body onto the candle
• ****note before doing this you can add the hands to the back of the body of the gnome before you put it on the candle
• put gnome body on candle. I used the hat and body to figure out where I wanted them on the candle.
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• once you have the body where you want it use the scraper to go over the body to make sure it sticks to the candle, then gently peel away the transfer tape.
• Next add the feet to the gnome on the candle
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• place the feet at the bottom of body in the center
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• Next add the beard to the body
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• align the beard to the top of the body
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• If you haven't added them prior, add the hands
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• I didn't use transfer tape to add the hands
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• Next add the other hand to the gnome
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• Next you will weed the hearts from the hat
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• continue weeding the hearts from the hat, I put the hearts on another sheet that I had taken the beard off of to save the hearts to use later
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• once you have all of the hearts weeded from the hat
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• place the hat on the top of the gnome
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• next take the gnome nose
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• and add it to the gnome
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• now your gnome is done
• I cut out two of each color of hearts
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• to add them to the candle cut the hearts apart
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• now using transfer tape add the hearts to the candle
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• once you have all of the big hearts added to the candle you can start adding the little red hearts we saved from the hat
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• once you have added all of the hearts your candle is complete
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Happy Crafting!

Carla