Decorative Dress-Ups for Fall, Part 2

In Decorative Dress-Ups for Fall, Part 1, found here, I shared a couple of ideas on how to dress up candles to create fall decorations that are personalized to your style. Using scrapbook papers and free printables, you can create any decorating scheme in the colors you prefer, literally for pennies.

Another idea is to dress up tin cans for candle pedestals or flower vases.  Glass jars would be great too.

These graphics all came from The Graphics Fairy.  You can find a link on the right side of my blog.

The orange and candy cane cans were old advertisements printed on scrapbook paper.

This pumpkin was one of The Graphics Fairy's Halloween designs printed on white paper.

Wouldn't this be a cute container to hold candy?

Cut the sticky portion off of a sticky note and use as removable tape to prevent damage to your candle wraps.  So far it is working great on the candles, but not the cans.

To dress up this glass hurricane, I printed one of the monograms featured in Part 1 onto transparency film, and then just slipped it into the container.  I think this would look great with a rusty orange candle or a bunch of mini pumpkins.

This is the product I used.  I have had it for a while.  Do they even make this anymore?

A few final thoughts:  The candle wraps I made were about 4" x 9.5".  To wrap candles that might actually burn, consider making the wraps thinner and don't cover the candle completely.  Also, there are so many fun things you can do to embellish them.  I'd love to hear some of your ideas.

These wraps actually have more tea staining on them and match the candles better than what shows in the picture.  Bummer!  They look much cuter in person. 

 I almost can't bring myself to post this picture.  This is what my dwarf spruce looks like today.  We've had it for 10 years, and it's sad to see it go.  While it received enough water, the high temps were just too much.  Sadly, it looks like we've lost many trees and shrubs in Oklahoma this year.

Now you can see why we are tired of summer and ready for fall.  Thanks for stopping by,

Ellie