Happy 18th

I have made this card for a close friend of my eldest son, we are all going to his birthday party at the weekend.  The boys have grown up together, and although sometimes their paths have drifted apart, they always seem to come together again.

I got the idea for this card from one of the YouTube videos by Simon Says Stamp, I think it might have been Kristina Werner but I'm not positive.  I used some My Mind's Eye paper scraps and some dark blue card stock that I think came from Joanna Sheen, it's been in my stash for ages.  To make the panel on the left of the card I cut different sized strips from several of the paper scraps and stuck them onto some plain paper diagonally to form the pattern.

The sentiment is from a Hot Off The Press pack that has also been languishing in my stash for ages, I made the frame for it using two Spellbinders Large Labels dies.  The stars have been cut using an X-cut die and the number 18 using a Die-namics die.

I have decorated the inside of my card to complement the front:

I also decided to make a matching gift tag using the same method of layering the paper strips and cutting it out with the largest X-cut star die, the only addition is a couple of smaller stars cut from the dark blue card stock.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Crafted With Love Challenge 17 - Birthday with Number
The Perfect Sentiment Challenge 56 - Piece it Together
Cute Card Thursday Challenge 243 - Starry, Starry Night!
Moving Along with the Times - Seeing Stars
Crafty Cardmakers Challenge 79 - More Than One Punch and/or Die Cut
Word Art Wednesday Challenge 54 - Anything Goes
Shelly's Images Blog - Oh SCRAP!!!
The Pink Elephant Challenge 174 - Punches/Dies
Fussy ad Fancy Challenge 76 - Feeling Blue
Forever Friends November Challenge - Anything Goes

Thank you for joining me today, I hope you enjoyed your visit.

Pauline
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