Sunday Snippets - another Christmas Candle!

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For my homework this week, I made another hand-drawn candle card!

As mentioned last week . . . . I was inspired to draw the candle after seeing Tina Cox’s designs at Clarity Stamp.

5.5” x 3.5” card

White snippet that I scribbled some red Tombow pen on in order to
die cut some berry shapes (I used the larger 3 berries!) 

White snippet that I scraped my VFC Spruce
ink pad on so that I could stamp and cut
out the holly leaves in a dark green.

I stamped the holly leaves first, then drew the candle.
(You can still see my pencil marks on the flame!)

Details:

• Magnolia holly leaves stamped 3 times onto a white snippet for the main panel, and again onto a further white snippet that I had scraped a VFC Spruce green ink pad across. I then cut out the leaves and adhered them to the panel with foam pads. 
• Hand-drawn candle, coloured with a mixture of Tombow pens and Distress Inks.
• Berry dies - probably Sizzix(?) which came as part of a foliage set.
• The Merry Christmas sentiment comes from a PaperArtsy JOFY set of stamps.
• Main image mounted onto a red snippet of card.
• The originally A6 sized card was cut down to give an even border around the main panel.