Simple Candle Covers

Here is a very quick and easy project that costs almost nothing and gives your house a little Halloween flair.

• Take any glass candles or candle holders and measure the height of the label.
• Pick some paper you want to cover them with.  I chose several from a package of scrapbook paper from the Lime Twist line by The Paper Studio.  I scrapbook and had this on hand.  You can use magazines with cool print or pictures, plain colored paper, any scrapbook or printed paper, wrapping paper.  Old books look cool too.
• Cut the papers a little more than the size of the label so you have several long strips to wrap around the candles.
• Use tape, glue or other adhesives to affix the ends of the paper to the glass.  You can print or write labels with macabre names if you want to.  I liked mine without the labels because I think they looked nicer because my hand writing is awful.  Usually the names are on the bottom of the jars so you know what you have.
• Be sure you do not put the paper directly on candles you plan to burn, the paper will burn and cause a huge fire.  If you plan to use the candles as decoration only you can obviously cover them to match.  I used 4 different papers for 7 different candles so that I had a variety but you could cover them all the same so they match.

liz