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DIY Fall Candle Wraps: Autumn & Thanksgiving Table Decorations with Cricut

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A three-paneled picture of candles of different sizes, all wrapped in Autumn motifs. Image text in the center of the photo reads “DIY Candle Wraps For Fall” and “Free SVG Files”

Holiday Table Decorations with Fall Candles

Recently, I shared an easy way to dress up your faux pumpkins for autumn and Thanksgiving home decorating. I fell in love with the textured metallic vinyl used in that craft. It inspired me to create more fall crafts, and I came up with these stunning DIY vinyl candle wraps!

The fall season brings warm blankets, apple orchard visits, and brightly colored leaves. Autumn creates a desire to be cozy, and candles are a great way to make your home feel snug and comfy. However, the candles don’t always look pretty, or they don’t match our current fall decor.

The good news is you can change the outside of some candles to fit your style. Candle wraps are the best way to add custom elegance to your table or home for the holidays.

This tutorial shows you how to make fall candle wraps that harvest the autumn spirit, but you can absolutely apply this concept to Christmas, Halloween, or other holidays, too! This is an easy craft for beginners and comes with six free fall candle wrap SVG files!

LED pillar candles decorated with fall candle wraps of gold, orange and metallic blue make great decorations for any Autumn gathering.

How to Choose Candles to Wrap

You can use candle wraps on actual pillar candles if you do not light the candles and use them only as decoration and not as a light source. Lighting wrapped candles is a fire hazard.

My fall candle wraps are made to be illuminated. For safety reasons, I recommend using LED pillar candles, sized either in 4”, 5”, or 6” glass pillars like the ones linked in my supply list. You can also use hurricane glass or mason jars with real tea light candles. Avoid votives, as they can leave a mess.

LED Tealights and Candles

The benefit of tea lights is that they are safe because the glass doesn’t get too hot, the flame doesn’t come near the candle wrap and the adhesive, and they are easy to replace once they have burned out. Most craft stores carry an abundance of tea lights in various colors and scents and many types of glass pillar candle containers to hold them.

If you want to add wonderful fall scents to your holiday trimmings, you can get scented tea lights, or if you’re using LED candles (recommended), you can purchase essential oils for use in a diffuser. Everyone loves the delightful smell of warm spice, vanilla, and apples.

A glass candle jar with a flickering LED candle flame is wrapped in a golden fall leaf design candle wrap. A large leaf in the center of the jar has the words “be thankful” carved into the vinyl.

Supplies for Making DIY Fall Candle Wraps

Grab Your 6 FREE Fall Candle Wrap SVG Files

These six FREE SVG cut files load quickly and easily in Design Space. I chose to design a couple of fall leaf wraps, pumpkin wraps, a berry vine, and my favorite, a sunflower design candle wrap.

If you are already a member, log into the Craft Vault and search the keyword “candle” at the top to download these designs!

A screenshot of the six free and colorful Autumn and Thanksgiving candle wraps in Cricut’s  Design Space.

These take a little patience to weed but are worth it! All in all, these designs only took me about 3 hours to weed. Not too bad, and you can use them year after year!

DIY Fall Candle Wraps Tutorial

Step 1: First, you need to measure your candle circumference. Remember to use that handy unlock button at the top center of Design Space to scale and stretch as necessary to adjust your candle wrap SVG file to the correct size.

A screenshot of a yellow-gold Sunflower candle wrap SVG file uploaded into Cricut Design Space, showing how to scale the template to fit a pillar candle.

Step 2: Cut your design out in vinyl. Use the appropriate custom setting. For example, I used the textured metallic vinyl setting and changed the default pressure to ‘more’ for a cleaner cut.

Step 3: Cut a piece of white vellum to match the size of your candle wrap. You will be overlaying the vinyl onto the vellum. Use the shapes tool in Design Space to create a rectangle cut out of vellum. Use that unlock button to change proportions.

Step 4: Weed your design. Weeding is the longest part of the whole process. Each candle wrap took me about 30 solid minutes to weed.

Step 5: Once your design has been weeded, cut a piece of transfer tape and burnish the vinyl onto the tape (I use the Cricut scraper for burnishing). Lift the design carefully.

Step 6: With the vinyl design on the transfer tape, lay it sticky side up.

Step 7: Line up your vellum rectangle cut-out on top of the vinyl design.

Step 8: Turn the whole thing over (non-sticky side up) and burnish well.

Step 9: Carefully remove the vinyl and vellum wrap from your transfer tape.  

Step 10: Wrap your candles in your finished design and secure them with double-sided tape.

I was delighted with the way these DIY fall candle wraps turned out! I’d love to hear your thoughts below too!

What other candle wrap designs do you want to see? Tell me below in the comments!

More Crafts to Love

Fall candle wraps with six free SVG cut files. Golden-lit LED fall wrap candles in gold and metallic Autumn colors, used as a centerpiece.

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DIY Fall Candle Wraps

DIY Fall Candle Wraps

Active Time: 1 hour
Total Time: 1 hour
Difficulty: Easy

Celebrate autumn with these DIY fall candle wraps. Using your Cricut machine, learn how to make candle wraps with vinyl and paper as fall decor!

Materials

Instructions

  1. First, you need to measure your candle circumference. Remember to use that handy unlock button at the top center of Design Space to scale and stretch as necessary to adjust your candle wrap SVG file to the correct size.
  2. Cut your design out in vinyl. Use the appropriate custom setting. For example, I used the textured metallic vinyl setting and changed the default pressure to 'more' for a cleaner cut.
  3. Cut a piece of white vellum to match the size of your candle wrap. You will be overlaying the vinyl onto the vellum. Use the shapes tool in Design Space to create a rectangle cut out of vellum. Use that unlock button to change proportions.
  4. Weed your design. Weeding is the longest part of the whole process. Each candle wrap took me about 30 solid minutes to weed.
  5. Once your design has been weeded, cut a piece of transfer tape and burnish the vinyl onto the tape (I use the Cricut scraper for burnishing). Lift the design carefully.
  6. With the vinyl design on the transfer tape, lay it sticky side up.
  7. Line up your vellum rectangle cut-out on top of the vinyl design.
  8. Turn the whole thing over (non-sticky side up) and burnish well.
  9. Carefully remove the vinyl and vellum wrap from your transfer tape.
  10. Wrap your candles in your finished design and secure them with double-sided tape.

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11 Comments

  1. I absolutely loved the candle wraps! Easy to make, I’m sure my daughter and daughter in laws will love them! I’m sure I’ll be making them some as well.Thank you very much! Love all your hard work!

    1. Oh, Abbi! Your designs and the project are beautiful. I can’t wait to try it. How about adding some angels?

      1. Great idea! Taking notes!

  2. Is the vinyl on the inside of the vellum, so it goes vellum, vinyl then candle?

    1. The vinyl is on top of the vellum. 🙂

  3. I love this idea! I will making some soon. I would love some Christmas wraps:)

  4. I don’t know what vellum is so I’m trying to figure out the purpose for using it. I don’t want that to sound rude because I definetly don’t mean it that way!! These are amazingly adorable and I want to make them I just need to know who, what, why about the vellum lol. Please and thank you!

  5. These are gorgeous
    and I would love for
    you to create some
    for Christmas!
    Carla from Arizona