Birthday card with rolled candles, ribbon and a font greeting

 A birthday card for my oldest grandson who will be thirteen at the end of the month!!!! How time flies!  I have admired these rolled candles on cards over the years and decided now was the time because this card will be mailed in a parcel so how thick it is will not be an issue.  I rolled blue paper scraps around a wood skewer gluing as I went.  I put them aside to dry and worked on the flames.  Quite a few candles online had just wicks but I thought flames would be better.  

I cut them from variegated orange yellow tissue paper and then twisted the bottom so it could be glued into the top opening of the candles.  I added red watercolour to the back to give them a bit of a glow and also added a black line (sorry, thought of this later) to simulate the wick.  I added glue glitter glue to the fronts to make the shiny and glittery.  While those were drying I cut a kraft card to fit in a large envelope and found this great decorative paper which worked perfectly for the look I was going for.  I found a strip of brown card stock in scraps and tore both edges.  

I embossed it with letters and glued it over the background paper.  The greeting is a fun font which I laser printed and then embellished with watercolour so it would better coordinate with my card.  I trimmed the outside edges with deckle decorative scissors and then used my distress tool to roughen up the edges a bit more.  I added four lines of paper piercing with my pattern tracing wheel.  I added a gray ribbon from the left to below my greeting and three little ribbon flags on the right hand side of the greeting. I added to my card using 3D foam tape.  Finally I adhered my candles using slim strips of double sided tape.  I am very happy with how it turned out!!  Therese