Julie Finn
Beeswax cut-outs take seconds to make, and can be used to decorate candles (even boring store-bought ones!), make candles of their own, or just hang out in your house and look pretty. Here’s how to craft them:
Start with a sheet of honeycomb beeswax. Lay it flat over a covered work surface, and press a shape into it with an ordinary cookie or clay cutter–I like to use cookie cutters for larger shapes, like hearts or stars, and the smaller clay cutters for letters and numbers.
If you’re using a plastic cookie cutter, you should be able to press all the way through the beeswax by hand, but if you’re using a metal cookie cutter (especially a homemade one) that would hurt your hands if you pressed that firmly against it, you can also gently thump the cookie cutter with a mallet to push it through the beeswax.
There are a bunch of ways to use beeswax cut-outs in your crafting:
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