Square glass votive from Michaels filled with string lights (battery operated ) felt cut-outs for the face and wrapped in orange tulle and topped off with a black bow and black pipe cleaners, corkscrewed. CUTE! :)
A Clear glass block from Michael's or any craft store, paint or glue black fabric on for the face, add battery lights or a candle, then a bit of tied up orange tulle or chiffon.
light block jack-o-lantern. Clear glass blocks at Michael's or any craft store.
This looks like a great do-it-yourself project. And it very well may be a great project, but the pins with this picture (so far) do not lead to a tutorial. The links in those pins lead to....nowhere.
For the first pin I found, the link returned "Blog not found."
For the second pin I found, the link returned "Page not found."
Same result for the third as the second. It's as if this picture is cursed!
Even when I eventually tracked this picture down to an Etsy seller, that page disappeared after I bookmarked it for use in this post. I'm guessing that Etsy's new business plan was unsavory to this seller and she decided to move her shop. She's set up at 805 Design Co now, if you're interested in her creations.
Those broken links bother me. They bother me because I suspect that those bloggers are the type of people who take pictures they don't own and pretend to have done a project that they have never actually attempted. If that's the case, then I'm glad their sites/pages are gone.
I mean, what happens? You do a Google search, find something that looks cool, and then just pass it off as your own with a little creative writing? That sucks.
Plus, they're just wrong. That is not a "votive" (nor is it a "votive holder"). It's not using black fabric or felt cut-outs for the face.
That is an acrylic block with vinyl on it.
Let's have a little more honesty in our online crafts. I'm not saying it would be impossible to reverse-engineer this project, but give 805 Design some credit for coming up with it and also creating a picture that apparently appealed to everyone. Not everyone can photograph their creations in a way that inspires others. Not everyone can come up with the idea for a craft like this, so it doesn't matter how easy it looks to you - you didn't think of it. Give the person who DID think of it their due.
Okay, rant over. Have fun making your acrylic block jack o'lanterns. Me personally? I'd go with the thin acrylic block, battery powered LEDs, vinyl mouth and eyes, orange tulle, and some decorative Halloween ribbon. Maybe a few black and orange pipe cleaners wrapped around a pencil to coil them nicely.
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