Star Blast Birthday Greetings Easel card

I needed a birthday card for our oldest Grandson who is now working and in college.  Oh my where has the time gone? Lol

For this card I carefully chose some fun colors to make it a cheerful one.  I started by making an Easel card base in white and covered the front in a recollections teal cardstock. After scoring the center for the Easel mechanism I then decided to run the whole card front thru my Darice Chevron embossing folder.  I then went over the score line once again and creased for the Easel base.
I took a piece of mirror cardstock and cut it the full size of the card front, I then took my star blast die and cut it twice, once at the top and then once at the bottom.  I layered a couple of colors of orange cardstock behind it and attached it to the card base only below the fold line.  I layered a lighter orange pattern paper over the center mirrored piece leaving a slight shiny border around the edges.  I then took an acetate oval sentiment from HOTP Cardmaker's Birthday Clear & Frosted overlays book and placed it over a scrap of the matching orange cardstock only adhering under the bottom blue colored section.  I then used a stitched rectangle die to cut through both pieces attaching the acetate even more with the stitching. I added that to the center of the card.  I took three of the small stars that were evacuated from the main die cutting and colored them orange with a sharpie marker, so cute.... they look like custom star brads.

For the inside I covered the entire inside with matching designer paper.  I used a sentiment block from HOTP Cardmaker's Instant Card Art Book, I backed it with another scrap of matching teal cardstock.  I popped up on foam squares to act as a stopper for the Easel mechanism.  I added a couple of evacuated stars to the sentiment block this time leaving them silver to match the front.

I made an envelope for this card on my WRMK 123 punchboard using designer paper from Recollection's Neon & Kraft Paper Pad.

It is very hard to get good photos of this card because of the reflections from the mirror card and the acetate sentiment.

I will be entering into these fun challenges:
Die Cuttin Divas Ch #382 ~ Birthday Wishes
DiesRUs Challenge #103 - You are a STAR!
Always Happy Birthday August Challenge: Birthday Anything Goes
CARDZ TV ANYTHING GOES CHALLENGE #61
Jo  FFC #247 Always Anything Goes
HIMCR #366 - Use Die Cuts!

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today to see what I am making.