These stemmed my previous post, Ghost Candles. Once I got started making ghost faces on the white ones (one below in second pic), I just had so many other ideas for them. Pumpkin faces, cat silhouettes, ghosts in a moon, the list goes on and on.
I bought a pack of 24 votive sized candles at the local Big Lots for around $6.00. And that’s not really a high price I know. But when I buy them to make and resale them at my booth, every penny counts.
Then I painted some of them a base color of orange. I chose cinnamon color but it came out way more bright than I thought, which was okay. Left some white also, for the ghosts faces. Next I google’d “pumpkin faces” and choose images, so I’d have an idea of what some looked like to draw. Painted them on with basic black craft paint.
And then, here’s where I got a little different with them. Instead of simply sealing them with a paint on sealer, I thought it’d be cool to set the faces in wax. How you ask? Well, I keep a candle melted on my candle warmer at all times. I use it almost daily. It happens to be a yellowish-brown color, flavored butter-rum. So I dipped each candle down in it, kinda quick, so that the paint wouldn’t melt away from the hot wax. Then set them on a sheet of wax paper to dry. And that’s it.
Oh, if you have noticed the grubby candle with the eyes, I simply grubbied it up a bit with some melted wax and cinnamon. Dipped that in the wax to set. Then continued on with painting the face and re-dipping him.
Booth #555 
