Good morning! I am super excited to be participating in a secret birthday blog hop celebrating the 6th anniversary of Lil’ Inker Designs and the birthday of LID’s owner, the fabulous Laura Pryor!
The design team decided to surprise Laura with a blog hop and I really hope she enjoys it! The team is highlighting some of their favorite cards from previous releases or creating a new card for her birthday. I haven’t been on the team very long so I decided to create a new card using one of my FAVORITE Lil’ Inker Designs stamp, Inky Flowers!
I wanted my card to be bright and cheerful and just a tiny bit messy! 😉 I started by stamping the Inky Flowers all over a piece of watercolor paper with versamark and heat-embossing them with white embossing powder. Next I wet a few flowers at a time and loosely watercolored them with the Mijello Mission Gold watercolors. I let it dry for a few hours and then added a second layer of color to darken the background. Next I die-cut the Happy Birthday Border on a diagonal from black cardstock. I cut my card panel on the same angle and trimmed an 1/8 of an inch off the bottom. I slid the black cardstock between the two parts of the background panel and adhered them together before mounting them on a white cardstock base.
So that’s it for me! You can hop along with the design team by following the links below! I hope you’ll help us celebrate Laura’s birthday and the anniversary of Lil’ Inker Designs!
Heather Hoffman
Jessica Frost-Ballas —-> You are here!
Stephanie Gold
Joy Taylor
Angela Rivera
Lisa Henke
Amy Kolling
Jennifer Carter
Chrissy Larson
Karen Baker
Sarah Jay
And we have some more exciting news!! Laura is celebrating her birthday with a BIG sale today!!
Thanks so much for visiting and have a wonderful day!
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Great card! I love the cool stamped design & the gorgeous colors!!
Beautiful card–colorful and free form. Thanks.
Beautiful colorful card….love it!
Very pretty card!!
The floral water color card is gorgeous!
OH MY GOODNESS!!! I am beside myself right now!!! When you said I hope you enjoy your surprise in the morning I thought you meant the fact that the sale didn’t go live, LOL!!!! Moments later I discovered this hop and saw Ariana’s post first. I can’t even believe this right now!!!! I’m so……HAPPY!!!!!!!!
Your card is amazing!! And I love that it’s bright and cheerful and just a tiny bit messy…………just like me! LOL!!!!
Thank you, Jess! You are wonderful!!!
Love,
Laura
Love the beautiful colors!
Just what a 40th birthday card needs to be. Bright and cheerful and beautiful.
Hi Jess, so pretty! I love all the bright colors, great birthday card. Thanks for sharing and inspiring.
Absolutely gorgeous card! I’m enjoying all the blog hop creativity…so glad I found y’all!
Jess, this card is beyond gorgeous! I love the vibrant color and the white embossing!
Gorgeous! I love the stamp, the white embossing powder technique and those beautiful bright and happy watercolors you used. Fantastic!