Candle, Candle Burning Bright....

I was contacted a week or so ago by the local Cub Scout Pack Mother. We had worked together last year to create Christmas cards for the local nursing home residents and she was wondering if I could come up with a simple card design so the boys could repeat the service project this year. I set to work to create something simple, yet eye catching.

While sifting through my papers and stamps I remembered a card concept that I had seen before and decided to create my own "twist". I cut some 1 inch strips from some of the Merry Moments designer paper and decided to use those as candles. Then I needed a flame for each of the candles. My creative mind set to work as I opened drawer after drawer and searched for just the right stamp or stamps. Finally, I saw it....

Take a good look at those flames..... Don't recognize them??? They are the 2 buds from the "A Rose is a Rose" stamp set. We stamped the flame first in More Mustard and then topped it off with the second stamp in Ruby Red. A greeting was added on the front and inside using Garden Green ink and the wicks were drawn in with a Stampin' Write marker.

Now just imagine 10 to 12 Cub Scouts, ranging in age from second grade age through fourth grade age, ink all over their fingers, glue sticks in hand, gathered around 3 or 4 tables.... You get the picture! It took a while, but by the end of the evening, the boys had created 100 handmade cards that they will deliver personally to nursing home residents. It is being part of projects like this one that make me so glad to be a Stampin' Up Demonstrator!