Paper Smooches combined with Taylored Expressions

The son of a distant relative of mine - his name is Adrian is celebrating his 7th birthday and I wanted to make a card for him - he gets one every year. And what is better than to use those fabulously cute stamps from Paper Smooches for it? This weeks challenge is Anything Goes - what could be better?

I also just discovered a new challenge - its by Taylored Expressions and they are celebrating their 6th birthday with a big birthday bash (see below) - I had to play and used their sketch for this card:

I used a Memory Box stencil tp make the side strip and the "water" in the "aquarium" . The fish and sentiment are from the Paper Smooches set - Birthday Buddies. The "water plants" on the right are cut with a Memory Box die (NBUS).

Here is a close-up - you can see better here, that I partially filled my aquarium with microbeads - got them on sale years ago and have never used them... 

Part of the Taylored Expression requirements is to take a Selfie with your card - so here it is:

And I am entering this in Darnell's NBUS challenge (the old microbeads and the Memory Box leaf die) and with Stempelkueche - Birthday
and Seize the Birthday - Anything Birthday
Bizzy Becs - Anything Goes