Description
Pre-mixed candle dyes, white candle blanks, and lots of fun. 🍄
With my “Lucky Mushroom” craft kit, you can transform white candles into small, personal lights of good luck. Dip the bell-shaped tops of the small pillar candles into bright fly agaric red and then decorate them with white dots. The taper candles can also be transformed into cheerful lucky charms with a red tip and white dots.
The additional forest green invites you to try out wintery color combinations and your own ideas. This creates candles to keep, give away, and design together – for Christmas, New Year’s Eve, or simply whenever someone could use a little luck.
Free shipping according to our shipping terms. Your color tins, candles, and instructions will arrive carefully packaged.
Your Lucky Mushroom Workshop with Two Candle Dyes
This kit is designed for small lucky lights and fly agaric candles: You receive two pre-filled color tins in fly agaric red and forest green with refills, 50 white candle blanks, a white candle pen, and wrapping paper. The small bell-shaped candles and doll lights complement the taper candles – for personal lucky charms to keep and give away.
Would you like to try more colors and other candle shapes? The larger “Rainbow Times” Set contains four color tins, double the amount of prepared color wax, and 50 candles in four shapes. Both sets include a short paper instruction sheet, safety instructions, a video tutorial, and the detailed practical workbook as a PDF.
Pre-mixed – Melt and Dip
The two dyes are already pre-mixed and ready to use in the melting tins. You don’t need to weigh out or mix any colors yourself: Heat the candle dye in the water bath according to the instructions and start dipping your candles.
For the mixture, I use high-quality dipping paraffin and carefully selected oil-based dyes. The shades are prepared for you – for bright fly agaric red and natural forest green.
When dipping, only a thin layer of wax adheres to the candle. This makes the candle dye particularly economical: The prepared amount of wax is enough for at least 30 to 60 candles without refilling. How many candles you can decorate depends on their size and how often you dip them.
If the wax level drops after many dips, you can easily add the included refill in small portions and melt it in the water bath.
What’s Included in Your Craft Kit
Two Pre-Mixed Candle Dyes
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Fly agaric red: Candle dye in the melting tin and refill, together 400 g
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Forest green: Candle dye in the melting tin and refill, together 400 g
The pebbles in the tins help weigh down the melting tins in the water bath.
50 White Candle Blanks in RAL Quality
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10 small bell-shaped pillar candles, approx. 40 × 30 mm – ideal for your little lucky mushrooms
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20 taper candles, approx. 190 × 22 mm, burn time approx. 8 hours each
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20 doll lights, approx. 50 × 7 mm, burn time approx. 0.7 hours each
For Decorating and Giving Away
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White candle pen for the typical fly agaric dots
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Brown wrapping paper for your self-designed lucky lights
Instructions and Accessories
How to Make Your Lucky Mushroom Candles
Heat the red candle dye in the water bath and dip the bell-shaped top of a white pillar candle. After it has cooled, you can apply the small fly agaric dots with the white candle pen.
You can also decorate the taper candles with a red tip and white dots. With forest green, you can create more wintery candles or your own unique color combinations.
Please let the dots from the candle pen dry for 2–4 hours before you package or further process the candles.
Your Alternative: Wax Dots
Would you also like to create the white dots from wax? Then you can alternatively shape them from a white wax sheet and attach them to the candle. This is a bit more involved, but then the decoration is also made of wax.
The wax sheet is not included in the set. A white candle pen for the dots is included in your set.
What You Need in Addition
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A cooking pot with a diameter of approx. 25 cm
- Water for the water bath
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A suitable electric stove – no gas stove
Important: Heat the wax exclusively in the water bath and follow the included safety instructions. Ensure good ventilation while dyeing the candles.
Dipping Wax – Not Recommended for Pouring or Rolling Candles
The pre-mixed dipping paraffin is intended for dyeing finished candle blanks. Although it contains oil-based dye and could generally be used in other ways, I recommend it neither for candle pouring nor candle rolling: using the ready-made color mixture for these techniques would be very wasteful. Other formulations are better suited for these techniques.
A Gift Full of Creative Possibilities
Give the complete set to someone who loves being creative – or surprise your loved ones with self-designed lucky lights. Every candle carries your own idea and a little piece of your time.
With a love of wax and the experience of our family workshop, which has been in business since 1973, I carefully put together your craft kit for you.
Please note: You receive a craft kit with white candle blanks and materials for creating your own designs. The pre-dyed candles in the photos are design examples and are not included in the set.
Want Even More Candle Dyeing Fun? 🌈
Would you like to learn more about candle dyeing before you start? Then feel free to download my free guide. It contains helpful tips to get you started.
Would you like to try more colors besides red and green? Then discover my “Rainbow Times” candle dyeing set – for colorful gradients and many of your own ideas.
👉 Free guide
👉 Discover the “Rainbow Times” candle dyeing set
Detailed workshop knowledge included: The 16-page practical workbook on candle dyeing as a PDF is already included in the price of your Lucky Mushroom set. You do not need to buy it separately. The PDF is available separately for €10; the short paper instructions and safety instructions are still included in your set.
I wish you lots of fun dyeing, decorating, and giving away good luck!
Your Dinah
Lichtermacherin & Candle Elf 🍄
P.S.: Why no gas stove?
I am often asked this question. When dyeing candles, we work with hot wax – and that is not compatible with an open flame.
If wax accidentally drips over the edge of the tin or wax vapors come into contact with the gas flame while working, the wax can ignite. Therefore, do not use a gas stove, but use a suitable electric stove and heat the wax exclusively in the water bath.
Never extinguish burning wax with water! Please follow the included safety instructions.
P.P.S.: Watch out for hot water vapor!
The steam from the water bath can also become very hot. Therefore, pay attention to your hands when heating and removing the melting tins, and do not touch the hot tins unprotected.
Do not let the water come to a rolling boil, and make sure the candle dye has reached the temperature specified in the instructions before you start dipping. Please also follow the included safety instructions for this.
