Cards Blog Challenge - Candles

This week's challenge on Cards Blog was to create a card that has candles on it. I actually worked on this card for 3 days! The first day I had a complete different idea in mind that used felt but for some reason the felt was difficult to work with despite my success with the cloud card from last week. It kept tearing so I came up with the idea to stabilize it with some card stock. That still didn't work out the way I wanted and it ended up being way too much work for what I had in mind. So, what you see below is based on one of my other sketches. Lots of stitching involved which I love. I basically spent all of my free time yesterday stitching the candles. Today, I spent most of the time reworking the sentiment because the first time, it was FUGLY.

Anyway, enough rambling. I'm gonna enjoy the rest of my evening. Hope you guys like this one :)