Creating a custom pulled together outdoor space doesn’t have to be hard or expensive. I created a cohesive look for an evening of entertaining outdoors by adding some fun, coordinated DIY candles.

You’ll simply need a vase, colored sand, ribbon, double sided tape, and tea lights.

I dressed up tea light holders by wrapping ribbon around them and simply holding it in place with double sided tape.

For the sand candles I used two different blue sands and a white sand. I began by pouring the darker of the two blues into the vase first, then the lighter blue and then the white, to create a grated effect. Just before I was done the white, I set a tea light into the white sand and filled around it. Viola custom candles that are easy to make!