How to Make a Vintage Jewelry Candle Votive

This simple Vintage Jewelry candle votive is the perfect gift that you can make for the hostess who loves all things vintage. Almost anyone I know would love to get this beautiful and whimsical Vintage Jewelry candle votive.

Overall it should take about 30 minutes or less to make the whole project. The best part of this simple Vintage Jewelry candle votive is that it uses empty glass food jars you might have leftover in the kitchen.

To Make This Simple Vintage Jewelry Candle Votive For Christmas You Will Need:

Empty Spaghetti or Pickle Jar (no lids)

Vintage Jewelry (lots of them)

Hot glue or tacky glue

Ribbon

Candle (Pillar Candle or tea candle)

Now, the first step is to thoroughly clean your glass food jar. I like to use an ammonia base cleaner to make sure I get all of the sticky food label off of the outside of the empty glass jar.

Now, plug in your hot glue gun.

Go ahead and lay out your Vintage Jewelry. I find that clip on earring and pendants from necklaces work best. Simply remove the pendant from the chain. Any piece of vintage jewelry with a flat back works best.

The good thing about using hot glue is that you can easily pop the jewelry off if you need it back!

Now, Squeeze out some glue onto the back (bottom wide side) of the Vintage Jewelry. Press the Vintage Jewelry into the outside of the glass food jar. I like to start on the bottom edge of the glass jar and work my way up gluing on the Vintage Jewelry.

Now, work around and around the glass jar. Work up attaching the Vintage Jewelry pieces until you get about 2/3 of the glass jar. Leave the top few inches plain.

Now, tie your ribbon around the mouth of the jar. You want to choose a ribbon that covers the mouth of the jar where the lids screws on. This will create more finished Vintage Jewelry candle votive that makes a good gift.

Now, tie your ribbon offing a bow. Cut of the excess ribbon at an angle with your scissors or pinking shears.

I like the ribbon to be short.

Slip a tea candle or pillar candle into the Vintage Jewelry candle votive and you are finished.