Poured Soy Candles | The Crafter's Box | Craft + Foster

Poured Soy Candles | Craft + Foster | The Crafter's Box

Poured Soy Candles Premium Workshop

$175.00

Enjoy a cozy night in by making your own custom candles. Our soy candle making kit comes with everything you need to create not one, not two, but seven one-of-a-kind candles. It’s the perfect craft for an at-home spa night, intimate dinner, or gift for your loved ones. This workshop, led by husband-and-wife team Melissa and Chad Burgess of Craft + Foster, walks you through each step of building hand-poured soy candles. You’ll learn everything from choosing your vessel and wick size, to preparing and pouring your wax, all the way through to completing and curing your candle. If you’re interested in fragrance blending, you’ll learn expert tips on exploring scent combinations, too. This workshop includes:

Tools and materials to make at least seven hand-poured soy candles (with extra wicks, stickers, and fragrances for more candles)
A detailed, digital workshop by Melissa and Chad Burgess
A live and recorded Maker Chat Q&A for our community to join in creative conversation

The specialty tools and materials in our soy candle making kit include:

1.5-pound capacity candle pouring pitcher
3 pounds of soy wax
Thirty 6-inch pre-tabbed wicks in various thicknesses
32 large wick stickers
20 fragrance blotter strips
1-ounce fragrance oils of sandalwood, vanilla, amber, and vetiver
2-ounce fragrance oils of blue spruce, cyprus and bayberry, fireside, and leather and teak
1 dropper
10 wood clothespins
Two 6-ounce glass jars with gold metal lids
Two 9-ounce glass jars with gold metal lids
Three 4-ounce gold steel screw-top flat tins
Candy thermometer
Ten 7.5-inch wood coffee stirrers
16-ounce digital scale
Custom labels

NOTE: For those who have previously purchased our Scent Blending Hand Poured Soy Wax Candles Workshop and already have a pouring pitcher and thermometer, click here to purchase the ‘reduced tools version’ of Craft + Foster’s masterclass in poured soy candles.

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Difficulty:: Beginner
Make Time:: An afternoon
Kit Type:: Premium Workshop

Utility Objects Ceramic Vessel

We’ve partnered with ceramic artist Aleisha Ellis of Utility Objects to bring you this limited edition, hand-crafted ceramic vessel—perfect for a special candle project. Aleisha’s unique and minimal designs truly showcase the beauty of the natural clay. The finished piece looks elegant on its own, or pairs beautifully with the apothecary jar and gold tin candles from the kit.

More About Our Collaboration with Utility Objects

We’re so excited to introduce you to Aleisha Ellis, the talented ceramic artist behind our stunning candle vessel—created especially for The Crafter’s Box as an optional add-on for our Poured Soy Candles Premium Workshop. Aleisha’s unique designs are minimal yet whimsical and organic, truly showcasing the splendor of the clay. Since 2018, she has been creating natural stoneware ceramics for the home under the brand Utility Objects. Aleisha’s passion for her craft shines through in every one of the ceramic forms she molds in her Atlanta-based pottery design studio. Her inspirations range from Scandinavian design to the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi.

Her ceramic artworks are not only elegant to the eye, but also functional for the home. Form meets function in these stylish pieces and it’s no wonder that Aleisha and her work have been featured in places like Dwell Magazine, New York Magazine, Architectural Digest, and Ceramic Review Magazine.

More About Our Poured Soy Candle Workshop Artists: Melissa & Chad Burgess of Craft & Foster

Husband-and-wife team, Melissa and Chad Burgess, have been creating custom soy candles for six years. The couple grew their business, Craft + Foster, from a local candle pop-up to a nationally recognized brand featured in Neiman Marcus, GQ, FabFitFun, and many more.

Melissa Burgess, wife, mother of four, and military veteran, received her first DIY candle kit in the spring of 2015 and quickly fell in love with the candle-making process. She found that it gave her a creative and therapeutic outlet while juggling the demands of motherhood and processing an ongoing journey with PTSD.

After signing up for a handful of local maker's markets, Melissa's unique blends, strong fragrant throws, and muted packaging quickly gained the attention of San Diego consumers and retailers alike. This early success eventually led to her husband Chad leaving corporate America and joining her in this "accidental candle company" full-time.

Materials included in this listing:

Utility Objects Ceramic Vessel, 2.75 W" x 3.75H"

Note: This listing is intended to accompany Craft & Foster's full Poured Soy Candles Premium Workshop. Purchasing this add-on listing by itself will not allow access to Craft & Foster's digital workshop video or include all the materials sent in the full Poured Soy Candles Premium Workshop.

Add for $55.00

Clear Glass Apothecary Jars (Quantity of 4)

Whether you’ve found your signature scent combination or you just enjoy the aesthetic of candles, these 6 oz and 9 oz clear glass apothecary jars are a great option for your next poured candle creations. Continue experimenting with techniques and fragrances as you create four additional candles in these jars, featuring gold metal lids and a standard plastisol liner.

Materials included in this listing:

Two 6 oz clear apothecary jars with gold metal lids
Two 9 oz clear apothecary jars with gold metal lids
Custom labels for apothecary jars

Add for $18.00

Gold Tins (Quantity of 3)

These charming 4 oz gold tins are excellent for using up the last bits of your wax and wicks. The gold steel screw-top flat tins make especially fun gifts and travel nicely. Set them up together as a trio or place them near your apothecary candles to create a calming atmosphere.

Materials included in this listing:

Three gold steel tins with screw top lids
Custom labels for gold tins

Add for $12.00

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Poured Soy Candle Wax, 3 lbs

More candles, please! Once you’ve fallen in love with candle pouring, you’ll certainly want to keep creating. Refill empty vessels or make all-new candles with three extra pounds of soy wax. Compared to paraffin wax, soy wax burns cleaner (less soot) and slower (which means your candles will last longer).

Materials included in this listing:

Three pounds of all-natural soy wax

Add for $14.00

Candle Making | The Object Enthusiast | The Crafter's Box

The Object Enthusiast Candle Vessel

Emily Reinhardt of The Object Enthusiast customized a special batch of her beautiful black clay + gold tumblers for our candle makers.

We are over the moon to offer a beautiful handmade tumbler in collaboration with Emily of The Object Enthusiast. This is the sort of vessel you can build candles in again and again, it will become a piece of art for the home. These tumblers are made of pure black clay, the inside of the cup and top portion of the outside are finished in a glossy black glaze with 22k gold dash accents. The bottom two thirds of each cup are a beautiful matte black.

This materials kit includes:

a small handmade black clay + gold dash tumbler from The Object Enthusiast's exclusive collection

This materials kit is available to those that participating in our Scent Blending & Hand Poured Soy Wax Candle Workshop with Kristen Pumphrey to be sure you have the tools & video access to explore this materials kit.

We recommend the Build Your Own Candle Kit if you'd like to pair this vessel with wax, wick and fragrances.

Add for $27.00

A Handthrown Ceramic Vessel by Paper & Clay | Scentblending & Candle Making

A Paper & Clay Candle Vessel

Brit McDaniel of Paper & Clay has designed for us a beautifully hand thrown vessel to build a set of candles around. Kristen Pumphrey’s Fragrance Blending & Candle Making Workshop was an incredibly popular month and we’ve appreciated the opportunity to continue to share wonderful collaborations aligned with this original workshop for our Marketplace!

This listing includes:

one speckled pale pink hand thrown clay vessel handcrafted by Paper & Clay

We recommend our Build Your Own Candle Kit if you'd like to pair this vessel with wax, a wick and fragrances.

Add for $20.00

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POURED SOY CANDLES

Explore the art of custom soy candle making. This workshop immerses students in the cozy craft of personalized scent blending and candle pouring as you learn the technique essentials with husband-and-wife team, Melissa and Chad Burgess. They share their expertise and passion in their workshop, teaching us how to choose the best pairings of materials and scents to make exquisite and aromatic poured soy candles.

We begin with an overview of fragrance, learning how to identify top, middle, and bottom notes. Chad and Melissa walk us through each step of candle making, from choosing your vessel and wick size, to preparing and pouring your wax, all the way through to completing and curing your candle. For those interested in fragrance blending, they share tips on getting started and exploring your preferred scent combinations.

Not only will we learn the step-by-step process of creating candles by making them together, Melissa and Chad also set you up for future success by examining the intricacies of fragrances, wick sizing, and scent blending—and how to pair them all together in the best vessel. Once you complete this workshop, you will have the skills to fill any vessel suitable for a candle with your own creative scent blends.

Yes, you’ll be making gorgeous candles, but you’ll also be treating yourself to creative therapy. Melissa developed a passion for candle-making after receiving a DIY kit in 2015, and it quickly became a therapeutic outlet for her. The act of creating will soothe the soul, and the candle itself will add a sense of calmness and joy to your home each time you light the wick.

More About Our Artists: Melissa & Chad Burgess of Craft + Foster

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Husband-and-wife team, Melissa and Chad Burgess, have been creating custom soy candles for six years. The couple grew their business, Craft + Foster, from a local candle pop-up to a nationally recognized brand featured in Neiman Marcus, GQ, FabFitFun, and many more.

We’re so excited to have you join us, Melissa & Chad.

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More About Our Collaboration with Utility Objects

Share with us! We can’t wait to see all of the beautiful poured soy candles you create using Craft + Foster’s skills and techniques. We hope you enjoy this workshop and we’d love to see how you are inspired to create. Be sure to share with us by tagging @thecraftersbox, our featured artist @craftandfoster, and use #thecraftersbox so all can follow along in your creative journey. Happy candle-making!