Welcome to the Lily Pad Cards’ first Birthday blog hop! You should be joining us from Latrice Murphy’s blog!! I am so honored to be a part of this blog hop!!!!
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Here is the birthday card I created for this challenge!!!
The chevron/zig zag background was created by heat embossing the zig zag background image and then water painting with distress inks! The fun cake was colored with copics!
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WONDERFUL card for the hop! LOVE it!
Hugs, Karin
super cute card I love it =)
What a super idea and a fantastic card…thanks for sharing
Fantastic background. Adorable image. Love it 🙂
This is BRILLIANT!! love it!
CUTE Laurel!!!!
Perfect card!!!! Freddie says he loves your card! Thank you Laurel for celebrating with us!!
What a super cute card, Laurel! The background is gorgeous and I love the fun cake topped with the frog!
Great card, I love the coloring of the cake =) TFS!
Perfect card for the blog hop! LOVE how you colored in the bottom of each cake layer to look like grass/moss… Too cute!
What a great background! Love this birthday card!
cool background! I love the way you colored it.
YUMMY CAKE AND THE CUTE FROG IT IS SO CUTE
Perfect birthday card for Lily Pad!! Love it!
Super card – king of the cake! Love it.
So cute! Lovel the multi layered cake!
Sorry for the type, you see, I’ve got cake on my mind! LOL
Ahhhhh…. I meant ‘typo’…and ‘love’….I need cake!!! 😛
haha, love the frog on top of the cake!
Yummy cake, Laurel! So cute with the frog on top! Perfect way to celebrate! 🙂
How cute!
I WANT THAT STAMP lol…soon I swear…gotta have it..your card rocks! ty for sharing…congrads LP
So cute! Love the way you ombred the background and the colors you chose. Always enjoy looking at your projects cuz you’re so creative.
hello crafty lady! I love the water colored background! Fun cake too!
Fun card! I love the chevron embossed resist background and the
frog on top of the cake.
Your little frog is perfect for this hop and I love the background you created.
What a great idea. Thanks for the chance to win!
All sorts of perfection; the frog king at the top is awesome! Thanks for the chance.
I must try that background technique!! It makes for a gorgeous card. Great to celebrate with you on the hop!
Love the heat emboss/ watercolor combo! Cute card.
Such a cute card! Love the background!
Cute card!!
Way to rock the Lily Pad Birthday blog hop, Laurel! This is fabulous!!
I never thought I’d think a cake with a frog on top could be so cute! 🙂
Fun card!
I perfect card to celebrate Lily Pad’s birthday! A clever design!
The card is very nice. Especially love the chevron background
Super cute!
We were both thinking Lawn Fawn for this blog hop. I’m loving this colorful birthday card…especially your perfectly colored cake. So happy you hopped with us, Laurel.
adorable! The chevron background is one of my favorites! Love the frog too!
Love the fading in distressed background, really makes the images pop.
Jan
I love the design with that “King of the Cake”.
Laurel: You are SO talented. Thanks for sharing your beautiful work to help celebrate Lily Pad Cards 1st Birthday! I always love seeing your lovely creations!
Hugs,
Karen L
karen-mycuprunnethover.blogspot.com
Nice!! TFS 😉
Happy 1st blog-aversary to Lily Pad Cards! 😉
Too cute!! 😀
Cute card, love the frog and lily pads on the cake.
Just a darn cute card. I always love the Lawn Fawn Critters. Wonderful job!
Your card is lovely, the bg is so fun too !!
Such a sweetdesign!
Great card.
Hi Laurel, As always, your cards are absolutely darling! I love how you added the froggie to the top of the cake…so cute!
what a great card! i just love your style of creativity! hugsxx happy birthday too!
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Laurel you always have such fantastic ideas and lovely cards. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Love the watercoloring with distress inks ~ neat effect!
Love those background colors! Cheery and birthday ready!
great card! Thanks for sharing!
Fun gradient background and wonderful coloring on the cake! Sweet card!
Love the background and your colorful cake is great!
Can’t wait for my zigzag stamp to arrive so I can try this idea. thanks for sharing
So Cute and Fun…..
Beautiful card, love the zig zags and the water color effect
So fun!
love the background.
Beautiful as ALWAYS Laurel.
Such a fun card, Laurel! Love your colorful background!
Sweet card! Love the frog on the cake!
DeniseB
Such a fun card…love the background.
Marie
love the background of that card – great cake too
thanks for sharing
Barb Housner
Hi Laurel: Just stopping by on the blog hop and wanted to let you know I just love your card. I love your color combo and the froggie on top of that cake. Love the coloring on that cake. TFS. Happy Birthday LilyPad.
these are so cute
So darn cute!!!
Really, really cute.
A very effective background with great colours. Nice work.
Very cute card Laurel! I love that watercolor background 🙂
such a cute card!
The cake looks fantastic with a frog on top 🙂
Beautiful card!
I really love what you did with the chevrons! Such a sweet card. I am thinking I need to dig out my frog stamps!
Wow super cute birthday cake what a fun design!!
Super cute! Love that background!
That card made me giggle, Love it! Great colours!
VERY cute..love it!
Lovely card!
Lovely card Laurel. Beautiful background. TFS
Love the card too cute!
Love that frog!
This background is hoppin’ and love the whole concept! Darling card and wonderful coloring.
The frog on the cake is so cute!
Wow love how you did the watercolour background…very stunning.
A beautifull matching card for the occasion! Congratulations
Lovely card. the background is so colorful! the frog on top takes the cake.Thanks for sharing.
love that frog on top of the cake!
This card is just precious!!
What a cute card. I love the smug look on the little frog’s face.
Amazing cards and I really like how you created the background color and the placement of that sweet little frog
Love that cake and the little frog looks so cute right on top of it.
King of the cake! Such fun.
Cute card, love how you colored the cake…great idea.
beautiful! love the chevron stamping w/ diff colors.
You have me giggling here! I couldn’t help but think about what frogs do when they sit for more than a few seconds in one spot! ooops!! Sorry, Frederick! I know, I’m a sick puppy! LOL! Happy Birthday, Lily Pads!
Love your rainbow chevrons. Thanks
i think your card is just perfect for lily pads!!! i LOVE how you made the cake like a lily pad for that little frog!! 🙂
so adorable!!!
Fabulous card
Lovely chevron & watercolor technique!
Love how you paired the stamps for this special occasion, Laurel! Great card!
WONDERFUL card Laurel!!!
cute stamping
super cute Laurel!
Very cute card. Love the cake and frog and can’t wait to try your chevron technique!
Cute card. Love the chevron background!!
Love that background! Nice card!
I love that Freddy is the king of the birthday cake! lol The background is gorgeous, wonderful card!
Very cute.
Green “frog” cake…love it!
What a great card!
What a totally sweet card Laurel! That froggie sitting there is the cutest!
Love the zig zag background. The frog cake topper is awesome!!
I like how the frog is king. 🙂
Very cute!
Such a cute card! Great job!
Great card- love the look!
great card..love the graduated colour…
What a fun card! I love the frog on the top of your cake.
Cool to put the frog on the cake! Fun card!
Very fun card and I like the chevron background.
Love this cute frog with its crown!
What a cute card. Frederick deserves a crown!
What a great card for the Birthday Hop. Thanks for sharing.
Super cute card, Laurel! Love the background. 🙂
Great card! Love the background…thanks for another awesome idea with using embossing and inks!
This is such a wonderful card! I love the chevron background and the cute little frog on top of the cake!
very cute. the frog is a perfect choice for this hop!
Adorable card. I love the background
Happy birthday Lily Pad cards!Thank you for your lovely giveaways!
The frog prince, what a great card!
Beautiful background, and I love the frog on top of the birthday cake! 🙂 Ann Y.
Cute card! I love the water colouring over the embossing for the background. The little frog on the cake looks quite pleased with his perching spot! 🙂
This is so cute! Love the frog sitting on the cake!
I absolutely love the shapes used to draw the eye up to the frog! And he is SO regal! Gorgeous card. Thank you for sharing! 🙂
Preciosa tarjeta!!!!
I love that zig zag background stamp. It looks great with your distressed colours. Cake and frog looks great too.
I love this card! The zig zag background stamp looks great with the distressed inks!
I like your birthday hop card, but I LOVE some of the designs I’ve seen on your blog! Beautiful! We have a lot in common. Do you live in Florida?
Love the background on your card 🙂
Love the background stamping. Great colours.
Laurel, I’m making the rounds on day four and love what I see! This card is great – and Freddie will be so pleased to be the centerpiece – lol! Thank you so much for celebrating our one-year-anniversary with us!!!
love this card!
marie-anne
Adorable card as ever Laurel – the graduation of colours is fab and that froggy is fun 😉
Rx
Hi Laurel, sweet card, love the colors and the serious little frog!
Greetings from Spain
I love it! That Zig Zag stamp is the best background ever.
Happy Birthday Lily Pad Cards! Cute card!
I love this card! The frog on the top is so fun!
I love the card, Fred will be so happy that he has other froggies to hand out with for a little while. Good Job.
your card reminded me on my cake when I was little. I had the same frog on the top of the cake 🙂
NICE FROGGY PRINCE!
Super cute card. Love the frog as the king at the top of the cake. Perfect!
That is so cute, better get hopping on my way there is a lot of hopping to do on this Birthday Blog Hop….lol
Awww this is super cute. Love the design and stamping.
This is too cute–I love how you placed the frog on top of the cake. Very creative.
So cute and colorful!
Just love the background – and just love the whole card!
Wonderful card! Love the colors and that cute lil frog atop that big cake!
Lovely card!
That is so cute. I love the feature of the frog being a cake topper. Perfect.
Love love LOVE LOVE LOVE it! All the colours, the zigzags, and of course the Frog Prince waiting for a kiss on his cake 🙂 Awesome!
Super cute card. Love the froggie.
Super cute!!! Love that frog on top of the cake!!!!
Love the little frog.
Love it! The chevron background looks awesome!
Beautiful card! Love the technique you used. I will have to try it out.
Love this card. Chevrons are so in right now.
What a perfect spot for the king froggy! This is just soo cute and I love the frog’s expression! 🙂 Lovely.
What a great green cake, just right for a frog!
This is such a CUTE CARD!
Great card for the birthday hop.
I really like the water coloring with distress inks.
Clever card. Wonder what a lily pad cake tastes like?
King of the cake. Very cute.
Cute idea putting the frog on the top of the cake! Your cards are awesome!
Love the frog on the cake! So cute!
Wow, this is super-cute!
Super cute card! Happy 1st birthday Lily Pad! I better get hopping if I want to be in the running to win some of these great prizes =)
I’m going to have to try to do a background like that. It’s fantastic!
Goreous coloring, adorable stamp and card!!!