You can make cutout tapers from regular taper candles fairly easily. Do this by dipping your taper in one color of wax until it is approximately ½″ in diameter (or, depending on the size of the finished candle, thicker). Next, dip the taper into a second color until you have built up the wax to another ½″ thickness (or more).

You can make a simple two-color cutout taper by cutting through the outer layer of colored wax with a sharp knife, incising any design that suits your fancy — such as squares, triangles, circles, or flower shapes. Or, you can make a multicolored cutout taper by continuing to dip the taper into different colors of wax (you will need a separate container for each color) until you have built up several layers of different colors. This will make a thicker taper than the usual. Then, using the same procedure, cut through the colored layers so that all of the different colors show through.