Birthday card with Gladys - You are a star

Hello everyone, I'm here with a card that I made for my friend who likes to sing and who still improves her voice. Actually, it's her birthday card because she is a real star.

First, I took a watercolour paper and I started to blend different blue and turquoise colours using Distress inks. I started with Tumbled Glass, then Broken China and Peacock Feathers. In the end I added Uncharted Mariner to the edges. 

The pieces of Gladys were cut out from white watercolour paper too and I painted them with Distress paints like Saltwater Taffy, Spun Sugar and Scattered Straw.  

The curtain is an MFT (Die-Namics) die, called Take The Stage. I cut the pieces from watercolour paper and coloured with Distress inks: Mustard Seed, Fossilized Amber, Wild Honey.

The text also from MFT, the name of the stamp set is: Friendship Rocks. I heat embossed with a gold embossing powder from the Ranger Ink.  

I coloured a piece of paper with gold paint and when it was dry I cut out a few tiny stars to decorate the background with them. I think I used the MFT (Die-Namics) Stars In The Sky background die.