Personalized gift ideas, such as these homemade heart candle holders, are always a hit with family and friends.
Personalized Candle Holders make a unique handmade gift idea for family, friends, and lovers that kids and adults can make. Personalizing hand-painted faux stained glass hearts on candle holders is a fun and easy craft idea for children (preschoolers, kindergarteners, grade-school students, and teens) or adults.
Learn how to make personalized gifts with the simple heart candle holder DIY project tutorials below. Or check out our thumbprint heart magnet crafts and our DIY personalized picture necklace tutorial for more personalized keepsake gift ideas kids and adults can make. You might also enjoy this list of homemade gifts kids can make.
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DIY Personalized Votive Candle Holders Gift Idea
Creating gorgeous faux stained glass decorations is easy for kids, teens, and adults. This DIY, quadruple heart votive candle holder makes a beautiful wedding centerpiece, a fabulous homemade gift for someone you love, and a lovely piece of home decor.
Friends and family love custom homemade gifts with a personal touch. This fact makes DIY personalized heart votive candle holders a lovely keepsake gift idea for Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Grandparent’s Day, Christmas, an anniversary, or a birthday. In other words, any time is an excellent time to make a personalized candle holder for someone that means the world to you.
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Personalized Candle Holders Supply List
- 3-inch clear square votive holders
- Glass paint
- Glass paint outliner (black)
- Paintbrushes
- Small heart outline art template (We used the smallest horizontal heart in this printable pack of heart outlines for arts and crafts. Alternatively, you can draw a heart straight onto the candle holder without a template to trace.)
How to Make Personalized Faux-Stained Glass Heart Votive Candle Holders
Follow the step-by-step instructions below to learn how to personalize hand-painted heart votives and candle holders.
1. Hand paint faux stained glass heart (or heart) onto candleholder(s).
- First, hand-paint one heart onto a candle holder to make a single-heart votive, or paint four hearts to make a quadruple-heart votive candle holder.
- Click on either link above to see the complete DIY instructions for each type of faux-stained glass heart candle holder.
- Allow hand-painted faux-stained glass hearts to dry before returning to this post to learn how to personalize them.
- A link in both posts will lead you back to this tutorial once they are dry and you are ready to personalize the DIY faux stained glass heart candleholder(s).
2. Write a custom personalized name, word, date, phrase, or message in the center of the heart(s)
- Once the faux-stained glass heart(s) painted on the candle holder(s) are dry to the touch, it’s time to personalize them with names, words, and phrases.
- Use a black glass paint outliner, or another color of choice, to hand paint a custom name, word, date, phrase, or message in the middle of the faux-stained glass heart(s).
- Personalized gift ideas like these custom candle holders make great gift ideas for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, a wedding anniversary, Christmas, or a birthday. Click the links to see fun ways to personalize them for mom, dad, grandma, and grandpa!
- Allow personalized names, words, phrases, or messages to dry completely.
- Scroll down to see photos of different ways to personalize them for various people and occasions.
3. Place a votive or tealight candle inside each personalized candle holder.
- Next, put a beeswax tealight or a votive candle inside each personalized gift.
- Or, place a pretty bag filled with candy inside each one, with or without a candle, to make homemade personalized gifts for Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, or any day, to give gifts with a sweet touch.
4. Give personalized candle holders as gifts, or keep them for yourself.
- Personalized candle holders make a great gift idea for Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Grandparent’s Day, an anniversary, or a birthday!
- Give these beautiful personalized candle holder gifts to family, friends, lovers, co-workers, classmates, or your child’s favorite teacher for any of the holidays on the list above–or just because.
- Or, keep them to add them to your DIY home decor. They look lovely displayed on tables, shelves, windowsills, counters, and more!
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Personalized Candle Holders Examples
Personalized candle holders look stunningly gorgeous! The faux-stained glass heart candle holders will even cast colorful glowing hearts upon the walls when lit–scroll down a bit to see the photo–aren’t they beautiful!? And there are so many creative ways to personalize and decorate them. Gather inspiration with the ideas shown in the photos below!
Name + Name DIY Personalized Candle Holder Gift Idea for Lovers
Here’s a simple yet classic way to personalize a heart for the one you love. Write names (name + name) on a faux-stained glass heart candle holder to make this beautiful DIY Personalized gift idea for lovers on Valentine’s Day, an anniversary, or just to say I love you any time of year!
Glowing Faux-Stained Glass Heart Candle Holder gifts Personalized with the Word “LOVE.”
When a candle is lit inside these candleholders in dim light, they will cast colorful glowing hearts upon the wall. Look at the gorgeous heart behind the votive candle holder in the photograph below. Quadruple heart candle holders are best for this purpose.
DIY Personalized Candle Holder Gift Ideas for Mom
- The photo below shows a single red heart with the word “Mom” written inside, but mum, grandma, or nana look just as lovely. And are just as simple to make.
- Click here to see more DIY personalized candle holder gift ideas for–> Mother’s Day.
Personalized Heart Candle Holders for Dad
- Here’s a picture of a personalized candle holder for Father’s Day with the word “DAD” written in the middle of one of the four faux-stained glass hearts on the candle holder.
- Or, write Pops, Papa, Pop, Grandpa, Gramps–or even Grumps–depending on which type of dad you are personalizing it for–lol. Please look at more ways to personalize these gorgeous candle holders for his birthday or Father’s Day–>HERE.
Personalized Heart Candle Holder Gifts and Home Decor with Inspirational Words
- Inspirational words make a great personalized candle holder gift any time of year.
- Faux-stained glass hearts with inspirational words also make lovely DIY home decor.
- And they are a fun DIY project to make for yourself if you like to choose a word for the year.
- Get our printable list of inspirational words here–> Inspirational Words Printable.
- For example, the image below shows a candle holder with a lit tealight candle inside and the word “Focus” written in the middle of a purple faux-stained glass heart, with a blue heart cast upon the wall behind it.
Here’s another example of a DIY personalized candle holder with four multicolored hearts painted on it and the word “Dream” written inside a green heart.
Personalized Candle Holder Gift Ideas
Creating gorgeous stained glass heart decorations with glass paint on square votive candle holders is an easy DIY craft project for older kids, teens, and adults.
So they make a great homemade gift idea. Because DIY Personalized gift ideas are always a favorite with friends and family.
And we have only shown a few examples of ideas you can use to personalize a faux-stained glass heart candle holder in the photographs, but there are several other fun ways to personalize them. The only limits are the limits of your imagination.
You may also like our ultimate family gift guide with DIY and ready-made gift ideas for the whole family!
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