Candles and snowflakes

This is a variation on a card I made last year. I learned my lesson and, this time, I checked whether mum wanted me to make a card for her to give to her brother before starting work on it.

She did want one and, as last year’s candle card ended up being repurposed, I thought I’d recreate it. Only I didn’t want to do a straight copy, so I kept the candles, snowflakes and sentiment strip and changed the layout around them.

The area below the sentiment strip ended up looking a bit bare, so I die-cut some vellum snowflakes and attached them with micro glue dots, which seemed to work quite well.

All in all, I think I prefer the original… it’s just a bit cleaner. But the pine needle edging on this one does give it a bit more of the requested traditional feel, so I think it fulfils the brief.

Supplies:

• stamps:
  Create A Smile – with candles and glitter
  Create A Smile – snow flurry
  Altenew – poinsettia and pine
  Clearly Besotted – sentimental type
  Lawn Fawn – Smitty’s ABCs
• dies:
  Clearly Besotted – snowflake trio
  Lawn Fawn – stitched snowflakes
• inks:
  Delicata – silvery shimmer
  My Favorite Things – hybrid – black licorice
  Versamark
  Ranger – archival – leaf green
  Ranger – archival – vivid chartreuse
• embossing powder:
  Ranger – liquid platinum
• Copic markers:
  candles – YR30, E50, E51, E53
  band – G21, G43, G24
  flame – Y0000, Y00, Y17, YR07, E07
  shadow – W00, W1, W3
• embellishments:
  Wink of Stella – clear
• paper and card:
  Neenah solar white 216gsm
  scrap of black card
  Papermill Direct – plain – dark green
  Anita’s – white vellum