DOLLAR STORE PRIMITIVE CANDLE Makeover

I picked up these cute, Fall themed candles today at the Dollar General.

These are 3 oz Jars for only $1.00 each

And this is how they turned out:

Their scents are Creamy Pumpkin Pie and Candied Maple Sugar!

Ummmm right?

I knew I could throw a touch of prim on these to spruce them up somehow.

Especially with such yummy scents.

And so here is how I did them.

For the more brown colored candles, the Candied Maple Sugar, I used some closely colored construction paper in a similar brown. I cut a strip wide enough to cover up the existing label.

Like so, and just wrap it around the candle and overlap just enough to cover it.

Cut off the excess. 

Then I decided to get out my black ink and stamps

and my letter stamps.  

 Don't worry, if you don't have stamps and such, you could always use a black permanent marker and free hand some on. Or maybe print out cute words onto the brown paper beforehand! Here's one lable I free handed with an inkpen.

Two pics up, you will see I also used the letter stampers to stamp the candle name onto a Grungy Hang Tag that I made with this recipe.

Here, I stamped the paper strips with the willow tree stamp (that I bought on eBay.)

 To attach the brown stamped paper to the jars,I used E-6000 glue instead of hot glue.

 The reason I used E-6000 glue was if the candle is used, when the wax gets hot, if you use a glue gun, chances are the hot glue dobs will come off. And with the E-6000 it kinda holds forever.

Then for one of them I had a bit of cute fabric. I cut it the size to cover the label and also e-6000 glued it on.

Once I had it on, I thought about stamping the name of the candle onto a smaller piece of brown paper and then ripping it to fit.  

To give the label a worn and torn look like so.

 I REALLY like how that torn label turned out.

Then I just used a bit more e-6000 glue to stick it right onto the fabric.

And then I finished it off with a little rusty brown star that I tied to the top with some brown and white bakers twine. Jute brown string would work or just about anything.

And then here is another that I was working on with the willow tree stamp.

I ended up putting the hand written label on as a hang tag.

So if I used something you don't have on these Dollar Store candles, just improvise and use something you do have on hand.

When it comes to making things primitive style, you really can't go wrong!

I have to say, I really like the plain, brown, stamped labels!

Which ones do you like the best?