Birthday card featuring watercoloured candles, lots of texture and a really fun decorative paper

A special card for my oldest grandchild!!!!  Where does the time go!!    I watercoloured the candles onto a special paper and it took the colour very well.  Not sure where it came from but it may have been packaging of some kind.  I had saved it because it seem very similar to watercolour paper and it is "lost" in my craft room somewhere.  I used a round brush and started with the candles.  I went over them several times to get the depth of colour I wanted and then used a fine brush to sharpen the edges on the tops.  I added yellow flames and then added clear glitter to them when they were dry!!  A row of paper piercing on each side with my pattern tracing wheel.  I chose the background paper and then the card colour.  This is a large card.  I trimmed a strip from this double sided paper and flipped it to the other side which was orange.  I used tape to tape the ends back in place.  I trimmed the stamped greeting, added paper piercing and then adhered it to the strip.  I added two pewter eyelings and then tied some colourful fiber around the edge and to the front and a double knot.  I slipped the candles under the strip and secured everything to each other.  I added this large element to my card front.  I really like the watercoloured candles and will make a better effort to find my watercolour paper for next time.  Therese