When I made the box using the window box thinlits dies recently, I really liked one of the dies that is designed to add a pattern to the side of the box. I thought it would be perfect for a birthday card so that’s what I’m sharing today. I wanted a really clean, mostly white card to really show this off. I intended to have all my candles the same size to start with but that morphed into three different colours.

I started by running the die through the big shot with a piece of whisper white and then started cutting strips of coloured card about 1/4 inch wide. The flames are so saffron and about 1 1/2 inches long whereas the candles are just over an inch long. I’ve got pear pizzazz, sweet sugarplum and calypso coral on the card. I used snail to add glue around the edges of the white card since they don’t need to be firmly stuck down, just held in place long enough to get the pieces onto the card base. Here’s what the back looks like – as you can see, there’s nothing holding down the tops of the candles:

I stamped the sentiment from Dragonfly Dreams in pear pizzazz and then used more snail over the back of the candles to glue it down. Here’s a close up showing the candles a little better

It’s definitely a fun die to play with.

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