Light up someone’s life this holiday season with this Christmas candle card! The recipient of this 3-D craft will be aglow with excitement.

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What you'll need:

How to make it:

Step 1: Card and Mantel and Flower Pattern

1. Cut out a 5" wide x 14" long rectangle shape using design cardstock and fold in half.
2. Trace and cut mantel pattern on color cardstock.
3. Trace and cut flower pattern on color (large and small flower) and design cardstock (small flower only).

Step 2: Candles

1. Cut one toilet roll in half so they are two separate pieces at the same height.
2. Cut another toilet roll to measure 3-1/4" tall.
3. Glue all around toilet rolls with glue stick and wrap colored paper around each roll.
4. Cover and glue the top of each roll with cardstock and cut around toilet rolls trimming off excess cardstock.
5. Cover top and top edges of candles with 3-D gold fabric paint.
6. Sprinkle with white glitter and let dry.
7. Brush on a thin layer of watered-down white glue over candles and spinkle more glitter.
8. Pierce a small hole in the top centre of each candle.
9. Push a small pieces of yellow tissue paper into the holes and glue them onto each of the candle.

Step 3: Mantel

1. Score and fold the cardstock for the mantel as indicated in the template.
2. Glue the corners of the mantel together and glue the back edge of the mantel on the bottom
   centre edge of card.
3. Glue candles on top of the mantel.
4. Hot glue gold bracelet rings behind the candles, slightly overlapping each ring at the top of the candles.

Step 4: Flower

1. Glue a colored paper flower and a design paper flower on top of each other.
2. Glue the small color paper flower on top of the design paper flower.
3. Hot glue a small pearl in the centre of flower.
4. Brush on gold leaf glue on mantel and tissue paper and let dry.
5. Brush on gold leaf on mantel and brush off excess gold leaf.
   

Tips:

• Substitute gold leafing for gold paint or gold marker.

Claudine Casault is a craft developer living in Ontario, Canada.