All occasion cards featuring a trio of candles on handmade paper, eyelets and gold thread and a hand decorated background

The little candles are really the star of the show on this card.  They are a stamped image (white tissue paper) layered onto white handmade paper in the process of making the paper which incorporates it seamlessly.  I watercoloured them to coordinate with my card and background and added a little bit of clear glitter using a gel pen.  Once it was dry, I added four rows of paper piercing with my pattern tracing wheel and adhered it to a piece of dark purple cardstock.  I trimmed the bottom of the cardstock with a scallop border punch (SU) and added clear glitter dots to each scallop.  I embossed a line just above them using my score tool and then tied on a piece of gold embroidery thread after wrappin it around several times.  I tore my background paper (hand decorated iwth acrylic paints) and inserted a piece of colour printed decorative paper which coordinates well with the candles.  I glued my pieced background to my dark purple card front and mounted my candles element over the torn gap using 3D foam tape.  A versatile card!!  Therese