Make an Autumn Candle

Celebrate the Fall season and make a decorative candle by embedding autumn leaves on its surface.

First flatten your leaves by placing some heavy books on top of them for a couple hours.
Snip off thick parts on stems of leaves.
Arrange your leaves on the candle using the hot glue gun to affix leaves in place. Note: one tiny dab on a single leaf should be enough. Too many big big glue bumps will affect results.
When you have your design finished, take a piece of wax paper that is large enough to go around the candle plus some extra for holding.
Tightly grab the wax paper from behind as shown in the photo and hold in place.
While holding the wax paper turn on your heat gun and blow it evenly on the design until you see the wax soften and cover the leaves.
Turn off heat gun and continue to hold wax paper in place to let cool a minute or two.
Remove the wax paper.
My surface isn't perfectly smoothly, but you have to look pretty close to pick up on that!
Enjoy your candle!

Tips for best results:

Don't go thick on the botanicals or things get globby.
Heat evenly on the surface to avoid overheating in certain places resulting in an uneven surface from too much melting.
If you find some parts aren't covered repeat the steps with the wax paper and heat some more.
The surface will likely not be perfectly smooth, but smooth enough.