Wednesday, April 04, 2012

Happy Birthday Korin!

I'm a day early with a very special birthday surprise....tomorrow is my dear friend Korin Sutherland's birthday! A group of her friends are getting together today for a fun early birthday party, since tomorrow is the fantastic April Release Blog Hop for Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps, and we didn't want to take the spotlight from that. After all, our sweet girl deserves her OWN day in the spotlight! So please join us as we celebrate Korin's birthday a little early! After all - you can never have too much celebration, can you?!?!

If you just happened on the blog hop because you're a regular reader of my blog, and you'd like to view the entire hop, you can start back at Taylor's blog... if you've been hopping already and you've just come from Chrissy's blog, you're doing just fine. I used several SNSS sets to fill my focal panel - You Tags, Butterfly Flourish, Vintage Postcard, and Friendship Script Background. The panel is watercolored using Derwent watercolor pencils, and the frame area is actually part of the panel, not layered on. That gorgeous ribbon is from Really Reasonable Ribbon - perfect for my color combination!

I masked the butterflies with a Sakura glaze pen so I could ink up the background, and added some dimension with a Viva pearl pen - I got a new brown one.... ♥

Below is the whole birthday party train.... from here you'll be hopping on to Leslie's blog!! Enjoy the hop, and feel free to leave Korin some early birthday love, either on her blog, her Facebook page, or the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Facebook page!


Thanks for stopping by!

23 comments:

  1. Beautiful! Love the pop of the color with the butterflies and that delicate ribbon is the perfect embellishment!

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  2. Stunning Dina! Yet another amazing creation!!

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  3. GORGEOUS card! Your creations are always amazing.
    Hugs and smiles

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  4. Wowza - this is stunning - your colors are amazing. I've never tried masking with a glaze pen!

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  5. This is really gorgeous, Dina - this company is new to me, and I love what you did with the butterflies! A very special card!

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  6. This is so gorgeous Dina!! Love the butterflies!!

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  7. Oh MY! This is just beautiful!!!
    audrey

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  8. Dina, this is beyond gorgeous!!! I love how the image overlaps onto the greeting block. Brilliant!

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  9. wow!!! this is unbelievable gorgeous!!! love it!

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  10. WOW, Dina...what a gorgeous blending together of several beautiful stamp sets! The teal butterflies just pop off the background of neutral tones! Korin is sure to be blessed by this fabulous work of art!

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  11. This is so pretty Dina!!! Lovely card!

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  12. Fantastyczna praca:)) Motylki śliczne:))

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  13. Wow, this is just beautiful!!! I love that stamp set!

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  14. Wow, this is just beautiful!!! I love that stamp set!

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  15. Preciosa!!! Es una tarjeta delícadísima, me enamoró

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  16. Absolutely Beautiful. I love those Butterflies. They are the perfect color. Great job. Happy Birthday Korin...

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  17. I'm sort of speechless...WOW! This is beyond beautiful! Thanks so much for joining the fun celebration for Korin :)

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  18. Gorgeous card Dina. Love the flourishes stamped over the greeting panel... and the colors are lovely!

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  19. Oh Dina! This is spectacular!!

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  20. Stunning! I love those colors! Your colors are so great for each other... love those butterflies. I haven't seen the Viva pen in brown. And that gorgeous ribbon sets everything off so perfectly.

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  21. SO gorgeous, Dina! I love these tranquil colors and swirling images...and what perfect ribbon! This is breath-taking!

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