Birthday card featuring runners on a fun tag, a distressed background and ribbon

A birthday card for one of my grandson's with a birthday in February.  We have not seen them in a few years and we are looking forward to seeing them this summer.  The runners is a digital image from FLYCLIPART.  I designed the tag in Corel Draw and added the runner and the greeting then laser printed it.  After trimming I chose a fun distressed background for my large blue card.  I embossed a strip (CB) of brown cardstock with torn edges added a yellow ribbon and added it to my card using double sided tape.  The tag was quite stark in comparison to my background so I decided to distress it.  I cut a mask for the runners and then sanded the surrounding are.  I added yellow watercolour and let it dry.  Then, I stamped the area with a homemade stamp cut from scrap rubber which gave it a nice distressed look.  I removed the mask and smudged on some gray, green and blue watercolour to finish off the background.  I used black watercolour to add a shadow and surface below the runners.  Worked out really well!!  I punched a hole in the tag.  To add it to my card I ran a short piece of the same yellow ribbon behind the one on the tag and pulled both ends to the front of my tag.  Worked so well!!!  I trimmed the ends of the ribbon and then added 3D foacm tape behind the tag to keep it where I wanted it.  So happy with how it turned out!! Therese