Primitive goodies have become quite the rage lately. These candy corns are super easy to make and turn out super cute!

Things you'll need

Elmer's or tacky glue
White, orange, and yellow acrylic paint
Cheapy sponge brushes, the small ones
Sewing machine
Pencil
tin foil
baking sheet
oven
1/2 yard of muslin fabric

Step 1:


Draw yourself a candy corn, or print out mine if you like and cut it out. I drew mine on lined paper so I could judge where to put my lines for the colors. Figure out how much you want to space the colors on the candy corn and draw them on your template.

Step 2: The muslin I used was the cheapest one from JoAnn's. Its the 36' wide natural stuff, 1.99$ a yard. Iron your fabric, fold it back half to match up your ends. Fold it in half again (hotdog like) Now you should have enough fabric to make bunches of candy corns! I make four at a time. Pin your template to the muslin and cut them out. Make 2 sets of four.

Step 3:
Once you have 4 candy corns cut out (8 single pieces) Line up your fabric candy corns with the lines on your template. I used the dvd case in the background to make straight lines across 4 candy corns. Pin the lines on the inside of your other candy corn piece.

Step 4: Time to start sewing! I start not quite in the middle of the bottom, a little closer to the rounded end. Make sure to round off your candy corn ends or if your making pointy ends i suggest sewing a V on the points and carefully cutting in between the V so when you turn the candy corn it points. leave a small opening in the center of the bottom to turn and stuff.

Step 5: Once all your candy corns have been sewed, turn them right side out. I usually use the end of a pencil to poke the edges out. Stuff them and whip stitch or ladder stitch the bottom closed. Take your pencil and work your lines from the front to the blank side and connect them in the center.



Step 6: At this point you can do two things, you can mix some coffee grinds and hot water together and paint over your candy corns with a lot of coffee grinds on your brush to make them look more grundgey or you can just begin painting. I did not coffee grind these. Wrap your baking sheet in tin foil and begin!



Mix your paint and glue together in equal parts. I started with white at the tip, then orange, then yellow. Use the edge of your sponge brush to line along the lines, use a thick line of paint on the lines so when it drys they dont show through.





If you have used coffee grinds, wait for them to dry before you paint over them.

Step 7: This is an optional step. Preheat your oven to 250 and place the sheet with the candy corns on it inside. Monitor constantly. once the glue paint is no longer shiny on the top, flip them over, be careful to lay them back on the same color if the paint smeared onto the tin foil. This should only take a few minutes.

Step 8: also optional, I dust mine with ground cinnamon using an old face powder brush. It didn't show up very well in the picture though.

And there you have it! Have fun making your candy corns!

These candles are so easy to make! You can use any image you like on them including color ink. I choose sugar skulls becuase Im doing my living room in day of the dead.

What you do:
1. Find an image you'd like to put on a candle. This can be anything from a photo or a picture you find on google.
2. Size your image to your candle. I saved the pictures and then pasted them in a word doc. I kinda eye balled it, and had to cut small pieces off of my image to fit on my candles, so this may be some trial and error.
3. Figure out which way your printer runs paper through the printer if you dont already know. I typed a few "aaa"s on a new word doc., put a piece of paper in my printer, wrote up on the paper so i knew which side i put face up, and printed. whichever way your letters com out is the side you want the image to be on.
4. carefully tape a piece of flat tissue paper that is as wrikle free as you can make it and that matches your candles color onto a piece of printer paper. I just used small pieces of tape and taped down the edges and corners.
5.Print your image out on the tissue paper side. cut them out as close to the outline as you can get.
6. Lay your image ontop of your candle where you want it to be, then wrap a piece of wax paper around the image and crumple it up in the back so you have a hand hold.
7. Take a heat gun (like an embossing gun, you might be able to get away with a hair dryer set on high heat) go over the candle in an up down motion with the heat gun. When the wax paper gets shiney you'll know the tissue paper has melted into the candle. After its all shiney over your images, its finished and you can turn the heat off and unwrap and enjoy!

Let me know when this happens! I organized the last one but I have to much going on right now to organize

So I have this wallet made by iron fist, http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517b-AD8lfL._SL500_SS500_.jpg , I've had it for a really long time and the the image has worn out pretty bad, (the black outlines). So one night I sat down and colored it all back in with sharpie and it looked great! I started using it again and the sharpie started to rub off on everything it touched! My question is, can I remove the sharpie with alcohol? Will it take the whole picture off? And what kind of marker/paint do you guys think might work to go over it again and stay?

I wish I would have made another to keep. I miss him

What stitch did you use for the blanket? Lol I can't tell on my phone

I think so too. How soon is everyone interested?

Doesn't have to be ACTUAL candy sugar skulls, just wanted a pic

I've really been fancying all the popularity sugar skulls have been gaining latley, anyone else feeling it? I'd like a 5 point swap thow with a fair amount of craft time.

Your welcome! If you need help shoot me a pm

you made the moons from paperclay or did you buy them? sorry, paper crafts is a whole new world for me lol they look so amazing!!!