I tried printing on tissue paper once and it didn't work. I
thought I would give it another go with this project and it worked like a
charm. Can’t remember what I did the last time that could have gone wrong but
this is what I did this time.
I knew I wanted a heart shape and I knew the approximate
size that I wanted it to be. I cut out a piece of tissue paper larger than that,
trying to get as few of the folds as possible.
I placed the roughly square piece of tissue paper on top of
a piece of regular printer paper and taped it down with masking tape. I have
read how some people recommend placing the printer paper on top of the tissue
paper, and Cutting the tissue paper so that it is a bit larger than the
printing paper. They then recommend folding the tissue paper around the
printing paper and taping the borders down. But that’s not what I did.
I was not particularly in the mood for serious measuring and
my quote was quite small so I created a text box in word and placed it in the
middle of the page. I then played around with fonts and size until I was happy.
I removed the border of the box and placed the paper/tissue sheet into my
printer. I printed the page as I normally would. There was a moment when it
sounded like the paper was going to jam but just before I jumped up and rescued
my printer it sorted itself out and printed my quote quite nicely on the
paper/tissue sheet. Unfortunately I was so happy that I completely forgot to
take pictures at this time. Oops!
With the tissue paper still taped to the printing paper I
carefully traced a heart shape around the quote with a permanent marker. I
suspected the permanent marker would “bleed” through the tissue paper a bit so
I drew the heart a little bigger than I wanted it so that when I cut it out it
would be the approximate size I was hoping for. I cut out the image, cutting
through all the sheets of paper as I figured that this would help prevent the
fragile tissue paper from tearing as easily. 
Very carefully I applied a layer of candle podge to my cut
out tissue heart, and stuck it on the candle. Here I worked quite carefully and
gently because the tissue paper is quite fragile and I didn't want it tearing
after all this. The paper had a tendency to curl a bit but it just happened to
be one of those days where everything you do just works out. Once the heart was
stuck onto the candle I applied another thin layer of candle podge over the
tissue paper and waited for it to dry. It didn't take too long. Once it was dry
I applied another thick layer of podge to the candle, just to seal it properly.
And viola!
