80th Birthday

My Aunt Catherine commissioned me to make some 15, but later became 20 invites for her husband, my Uncle David's 80th birthday. So I set to work and came up with the above design. 

Then I needed to come up with a birthday card, so I cased one which I saw posted on Splitcoaststampers. It involved cutting strips of coloured cardstock, one good way to use up scraps to make the candles, 80 candles which mean't I needed 8 panels with 10 candles each. For the front of the card, I stamped the background using one of the paint splotched from the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set and then stamped the "Celebrate your Big Day with Cake" on to whisper white cardstock and die cut it using the balloons die cut. Die cut the number 80 using glitter cardstock and used washi tape and bakers twine to embellish.