Roll Your Own Candles for a Card

Roll Your Own Candles Card Design

This is another of Aly Dosdall's card designs from Big Pictures Classes' "28 Cards in 4 Weeks" online class. The roll your own candles are really clever and the card is suitable for birthday boys and girls of all ages.

I made four of these cards - all for adults. Imagine the things you could write:

• I wanted to make enough candles for every year of your life but Michael's didn't have enough patterned paper; or
• I thought I'd make a card with a candle for every year but the card wouldn't fit through your door.

For children under nine, you could use fewer candles spaced differently.

I did a bit of experimenting to perfect the roll your own candles technique. Read more.