Fourth of July Decoration

I thought of this idea yesterday and went out to Hobby Lobby to get a paper mache number and some small wooden letters and went to work.  I spray painted the number blue and the letters white and red.  Once these were dry, I hot glued the letters to the side of the number.  The small stars are buttons that I added with mini glue dots.  Finally, I used glitter paper to cut the fireworks using the Stand and Salute Cricut Cartridge and hot glued them to the back.  I was originally going to have it standing up straight, but I really liked the slanted look, so I decided to keep it like that.

This is what I started out with to make this.

After the numbers and letters were painted they were attached first to begin the decoration and the the star buttons were added.

Finally, I added the firework cuts to finish it up.

I am entering this into the following challenges:
So Saturday at Card Creations and More: Patriotic: http://cardcreationsbyc.blogspot.com/
Alphabet Challenge: Half a Dozen (use 6 of the same thing, I used mini star buttons): http://alphabetchallengeblog.blogspot.com/
I am also linking this up at:
Decorate to Celebrate: http://decoratetocelebrate.blogspot.com/