22 days till Christmas - Candle holders and Candy Cane nails

Another crafty gifts one today, but BONUS POINT, there’s a cute nail art idea at the bottom

Candle holders

  

You will need:

A jam jar or something of that sort

Candle stubs

Sweet wrappers or cellophane

Glue, scissors, stuff like that….

How to do:

Cut the sweet wrappers or cellophane into little shapes of strips. If you have cellophane, cool, I want your art cupboard, but if not, then, oh poor you, you’re going to have to break into the Christmas sweeties! Stick them around the jar in any pattern you want, just don’t layer it too much because the light won’t shine through as well. Stripes of different colours looks cool, or little hearts and stars in Christmassy colours! Put the candle stub inside the jar. When you light it, all the light will shine through the paper and throw pretty light shapes over the room.

Candy cane nails

So the idea of this is that it looks like the red and green stripes of a candy cane (hence the name).
They are also going to be slightly glittery to Christmasifie it even more!

You will need:
Sticky tape
A pencil
Red nail polish
Green nail polish
Clear polish
Glitter

How to do:
Cut some thin stripes of sticky tape - about a few mm wide - and stick them firmly in a diagonal line across your fingernails with a space in between each stripe. You should be able to fit about 3 on each nail. Paint your nails as you would normally with the red polish. When they have dried gently pull off the sticky tape and you should hopefully have perfect red stripes. Make sure the red stripes are completely dry before sticking more tape BACK OVER the red stripes. Press down as hard as you can so the next colour doesn't leak through. Paint 1 or 2 of the gaps with green nail polish, leaving a few blank to represent the white. Again when these have dried, carefully peel off the tape. You should know have a few red stripes a few green and a few blank/white. Now paint all your nails with clear polish and sprinkle glitter over the top before it dries. You might want to put another layer of clear over the top of the entire lot, to keep the glitter in place.

For my red nail polish I used Rimmel London Double Decker Red 60 Seconds Super Shine.
This comes out in a gorgeously bright and shiny red, that really captures the Christmassy feel!
This range comes in so many cool colours but this was my favourite. Also featured in the pictures is Colin/Roger the cuddly reindeer. We're not entirely sure which to call him, so for now he is both!
Of course this is my own opinions and pictures.