AAA birthday challenge - DT card

Good morning friends and welcome to August.  Not quite sure what happened to July though even if I did have a busy month; it was our anniversary and my birthday, although they seem like a distant memory now lol!  

I'm back with my DT card for this month's AAA birthday challenge and this month our theme is 'anything birthday goes' so it cannot get any easier than that.  Our guest designer this month is Rosi so please pop over to her blog and show her some love.  

For my card I am using a new to me stamp from MFT called 'sending sweet celebration wishes' that I picked up recently.  I've gone fairly clean and simple with my card again this month.  Here is what I made:

here is a close up of the cute penguin:

plus I also decorated the inside:

I began by stamping the cute images and colouring them with Promarkers.  I don't have the dies so I fussy cut them out and placed them to one side.  I cut some very thin strips of card in colours to match my image and laid them at the very bottom of my panel; I then added the banner at the top left corner and the penguin in the centre.  I added the white panel onto a black panel so that I had a very thin border and adhered it to my card blank.  I stamped the sentiment in the corner and added some gold sequins as a finishing touch.  A simple card with not too many products but I am really happy with how it turned out.  

Please pop over to the blog and see the wonderful creations from the rest of the design team; you won't be disappointed.  

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

Krafty Chicks challenge - all occasion

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - ATG

Allsorts challenge - anything but square

Addicted to Stamps and More challenge - make your mark (coloured with Promarkers)

Creative Inspiration challenge - feathered friends

Cardz for Galz challenge - something beginning with P (penguin)

The Cutie Pie challenge - simply cuties (CAS)

Crafty Catz challenge - ATG option hot colours 

Pearly Sparkles challenge - spots and/or stripes (spots on hat, stripes of coloured card)

Critter Crazy challenge - ATG but must feature a critter

Crafty Animals challenge - ATG but must include an animal

Day of the Month Card Club challenge - national simplicity day (CAS)

I really hope you can find the time to join in with our challenge this month.  I cannot wait to see all your fantastic birthday creations.  

I really appreciate you stopping by; I love reading all your wonderful comments.  

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

MFT - sending sweet celebration wishes stamp set

Promarkers

Spellbinders - gold smooth disc sequins

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card

Limetree Crafts - white smooth 250gsm card

card from my stash

Sakura - white gelly roll 10 pen 

Versafine onyx black ink

Memento tuxedo black ink