Candles and altered art...

Whenever there is a celebration like Hallowe'en or Christmas

 I find such lovely serviettes around, that I just have to use them to decorate candles. 

You just separate the layers so that you have just the one with the printing on,

 wrap this around the candle with a layer of greaseproof paper on top

 and heat set it with an embossing gun.

This is a candle I decorated at Easter while staying at my Mum and Dad's -

 in this case I had to resort to the hairdryer which is OK but not quite so good!!

When I got home to Abu Dhabi, I decorated another to go in this lovely

 'candle lantern' that I won in a raffle!!

Still on with candles, some friends were doing an altered wineglass challenge -

 I couldn't take part but this was my example -

 just a little posy and some matching ribbon...

And that got me thinking about wine and corks - and an altered cork!

I found this teeny tiny cork - that is a shirt button alongside.

With a few beads, ribbon and pins and a little time, this is what I came up with...

Initially I put in a brown bead in the middle. but decided I preferred a bit of mother-of-pearl.

We are in the process of packing up to leave Abu Dhabi -

 whilst 'sorting' I came across a pair of blue glass tea-light holders.

I thought they would look rather nice with a bit of adornment!

I glued an assortment of blue buttons all around the edges...

I am going to enter this in Kelly's Button Challenge for Sketch'n'Scrap

Happy Crafting!!