DIY Halloween City Skyline Luminaries
I love scented candles. And being of the crafty sort, I felt the need to create something fun to go along with them. After all, you can’t have candles without something fun to hold them. Right?
These pretty City Skyline Luminaries are easy to make from recycled glass jars and are absolutely beautiful when lit by candlelight. And I’ve even included the free pattern for you!
Want to know how to make them?
For this project you will use:
Recycled jars (cleaned and dried)
Multi-Surface Paint
Permanent Markers
(Click the link below for the pattern!)
Free City Skyline Pattern
Begin by printing out the City Skyline pattern. Cut off the blank top of the pattern so that it will fit easily in your jars.
Slide the pattern inside your jar and position it to your liking.
Use a permanent marker to trace the City Skyline Pattern onto the outside of the glass jar.
I completed three jars using the same pattern.
Place some multi-surface paint into the bottom of the jar, adding a few drops of water to it to dilute it just a bit. Swish the paint around in the jar and turn it on it’s side to coat the sides of the jar, adding drops of other colors if you would like to create a variance of color.
Turn the painted jar upside down onto a disposable pan or paper plate. Allow the paint to dry.
The finished luminaries are beautiful just sitting on the window sill!
Add some candles and enjoy! I love the beautiful stained glass look!
Candle crafts are a common theme on the Sitcom. Here are some of my favorite candle themed tutorials:
DIY Miniature Ice Candles
Floating Candle Votives
Halloween Witchy Poo Votives
Scented Jack O Lantern Tea Lights with Oranges
DIY Mosaic Candle Lantern
Ice Candles
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I love the mixed colors in the jars. I’m going to try this with all my collected jars to put out front.
Óla Suzy, parabens pelos lindos trabalhos em artesanatos, amei todos eles, virei sua fã, vou ficar sempre visitando sua pagina.
um grande beijo, e que deus te abençoe.
Arizanete.
ps: Sou brasileira
What a great idea to put the printable inside the glass to trace with Sharpie! Thanks for sharing at the #HomeMattersParty – hope to see you again next week.
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Love candles all year long around my house. This is a really cute idea that can be done with a lot of different scenes.
I like the ice candles and the yellow city scape. I think even I could make them.
Aww..they are all so cute! I really love the scented Jack O Lantern tea lights made with oranges! You are very creative!! Thank you for the giveaway!
Suzy,
You light up my life. Can’t wait to try this with my great-granddaughter. I will try to make some Halloween outlines too.
Love you Suzy, thanks for inspiring me.
Joy
I really loved the scented Jack o lantern tea lights with oranges, but I also really liked the city skyline luminaries.
I like the skyline luminaries. I teach craft classes in a retirement community and I was just given several dozen jars. This would be a perfect, and easy, project for the ladies to do. Would love to add a candle in their project.
I love the Witchy Poo Votives. And the ones you did turned out amazing!
Hey Suzy;
Thank-You so much for posting this. I Love what you have done. The Patterns are Lovely.
I made Ice Candles once when I was a child. I would enjoy making them again I am sure!
Thank-You for all that you share! 🙂
My favorite is the mosiac candle holder. I am a fan of sea glass projects. Thanks for the tutorial along with the hint of painting the inside of the glass.
The Ice Candles is my favorite project.
I like all of them but I think I like the City Skyline the best.
Despite your floating candles bobbing in PURPLE, I LOVE the bright colors of your MINI ice candles the best. (And yes, I DID click the links to refresh my memory of what each of your creations looked like.) Making ice candles is a memory from childhood, but your MINIs were cooler and cuter than mine ever turned out.
I love the skyline luminaries!! I am going to make some of those! Thank you for the giveaway!!
I like your ice candle idea the best and i WILL try it one day. But your Skyline Lumineres are beautiful too. Thank you so much for the giveaway. Hugs! deb
I think all of them were great (I am going to download and make the oldest daughter a few for Halloween as she loves luminaries). But I think the witcheypoo and the skyline are the favs
I like the city skyline best. I have already downloaded the instructions and template. Thanks so much for this giveaway, I love to light candles in the house and in my backyard. You always have such great craft ideas.
I love these City Skyline Illuminaries and plan to make them but I love them all! My favorite is the Halloween Jack O Lanterns made from oranges. What a neat idea and they make my home smell heavenly! P.S. They are much cheaper than Pumkins too and smell much better! 🙂
Yes, I would love all of these beautiful candles.
I’m going to try these luminaries, my fav so far are the Witchy Poo votives.
Hahaha fave not face, dang phone
Floating votives are my face. Thanks for the giveaway! Love them all.
I’m having Hard time choosing I ‘m going to try them all! I think I would like to start with the skyline jars first, Thanks for sharing!!!!
I’m having ad time choosing I ‘m going to try them all! I think I would like to start with the skyline jars first, Thanks for sharing!!!!
City Skyline is the best!
I love the city skyline ! I am going to make them with my 14 year old!
Very pretty. I like the luminaries and there are many possibilities to expand on. Thanks.
Halloween is a time I am especially focused on safety and these re-purposed jars make a beautiful and safe candle holder, I love them. It would be fun to use the kids art work to decorate the painted jars.
Perfect! I have come halfway across the world to visit my granddaughters and opened my email to see these fun, crafty easy-to-do jars (plus a great give-a-way!). I will be doing these with the girls for an afternoon of fun and then get to enjoy watching them each evening while I’m here!! Thanks so much!!
Love this idea!!! ????I am going to trace Christmas Trees ????????on the jars and use Christmas colors in side the jars! Thanks for sharing Suzy. ????
I like the little ice candles the best. This is a great tutorial, but you can’t use the jars for anything else after you are done with ths project.
Love the luminaries!
I like all of your candle projects, and my favorite is today’s City Skyline luminaries.
I like your City Skyline Luminaries. They look like fun to make.
It’s a 3 way tie for me, I like the Luminaries, Mosaic, and the Ice Candles! Guess I’ll have to make all three!
My favorite, to date, is the City Luminaries. My husband wants to help me make them! Will wonders never cease?!?! I have some questions: would you use the votive candles in these luminaries? Tea candles? Larger candles? BTW, your description of the Dickens Christmas makes me yearn for Christmas!
I really like the scented jack candles.
Reminds me of my Grandfather, who Always had oranges and spice cooking on his stove top! The original potpourri!
So I’ll share with you my sand candle craft!… you need foil and sand , then follow your ice candle directions… kinda. That’s all I’m giving up!
You can email me… or go with what info. I gave you, to figure it out…
They are beautiful and totally 70’s!
Love, love, love the mosaic lantern. 🙂
i love the pumpkin/orange votives. I will definitely make these with my granddaughter. We made the sun catchers with glue and glass. They were abig hit!
I love them all but I think my fav is the orange pumpkin. Thank you for sharing.
I really like the city skyline luminaries. i am going to make some of these for my porch .
These city skyline ones are so pretty and my favorite. But the orange Pumpkins are adorable and I’m going to have to try both!
Definitely the City Skyline Luminaries! What a fun idea! I am going to make some for Halloween and then change it up a little and make some for Christmas as well. Thank you!
My favorites are the ice candles. I love the lacy look it gives.
The luminaries
Hard to pick my fav. I’m going to try the mimi ice candles which I love, the tea light oranges will be a wonderful project with my grandson, and I will have to do the luminaries for Halloween. It’ going to be a busy week.
A couple of weeks ago, I bought a couple of bags of frosted glass pieces at the dollar store. I had no project in mind, but you know – they were only $1 a bag. Now, I have a Mosaic project to complete. I will also complete the skyline project – so simple but so perfect for illumination. Thank you! Thank you!
OMG you want me to choose which pattern I just love absolutely NOT~ I love love them all so to pick a choice gawd that is like asking me which chocolate bar I love the best ummm sorry not gonna happen sheesh …..
I love the luminaries. Thank you