ALTENEW CELEBRATING PARENTS CARD DRIVE BLOG HOP | GIVEAWAY

Hello everyone and welcome to the Altenew Celebrating Parents Card Drive Blog Hop!

Today we’re celebrating parents and spreading the word about Altenew’s card drive to collect cards for seniors living in nursing homes or shelters to let them know they are not forgotten.

If you arrived from Virginia Lu’s blog, you’re right on track. If you want to hop along from the beginning, visit the Altenew Card Blog. Check the bottom of this post for the full blog hop list!

I hope you will check out the Celebrating Parents Card Drive and join this great cause by sending in cards if you have a little spare time or a spare card. Altenew will be collecting handmade cards between March 4th and April 20th, and each donor is eligible to win one of FIVE $30 Altenew gift certificates! If you use #AltenewCardDrive when you share your Celebrating Parents cards on social media, you are entered to win one of THREE additional $15 gift certificates! The winners will be announced on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 10th, 2020.

• 20% of the profits from these products (Thanks, Dad Stamp Set, World’s Best Dad Stamp Set, Best Mom Stamp Set, Extra Special Stamp Set, Beautiful Lady Stamp Set, Painted Butterflies Stamp Set, Sweet Bow Enamel Pin, Stay Awesome Enamel Pin) until Father’s Day, June 21st, 2020, will be donated to the Food Bank of Central New York to support seniors in need.

Projects

I have four cards to inspire you to get your stamp sets out and create some cards of your own for this Card Drive! My first duo features basic stamping.

To create the Dad’s card, I stamped the image from the Faceted Stars Stamp Set onto a card base. I used a combination of inks: Arctic, Caribbean Sky, Persian Blue and Sapphire. I cut the letters for the word DAD out of a dark blue cardstock several times using dies from the Caps Bold Alphabet Die Set and glued all layers together.

I glued the letters onto the card. I colored them on the bottom with the dark marker. Next, I stamped a sentiment onto a white strip of cardstock and glued it onto the word. For the Mom’s card, I stamped flowers onto a card base from Simply The Best stamp set with Altenew Obsidian Pigment ink.

I cut the letters for the word MOM out of a rose glitter paper using dies from the Caps Bold Alphabet Die Set and glued them onto a piece of vellum and mounted it onto the card base. I stamped a sentiment onto a white strip of cardstock from  Simply The Best stamp set and foam mounted it.

The next card is a simple floral card. I was inspired by one of my favorite card makers Agnieszka Malyszek. I stamped images from the Dainty Bouquet Stamp Set using several Altenew inks: Cotton Candy, Peach Perfect and Dark Chocolate. For my sentiment, I used Tall Alpha Die Set and Ornate Foliage Stamp Set.

My last tall card features pencil coloring on dark cardstock. This is one of my favorite techniques. I adore using colored pencils on dark card stock. It always looks so gorgeous. This time I decided to use dark green cardstock.

I gold heat embossed the images from the Engagement Wishes Stamp Set onto green cardstock. I then colored the flowers and leaves using Prismacolor colored pencils.

I used the following colors:

Once my coloring was done, I ink blended the borders of the panel in Altenew Aqualicious ink. For my sentiment, I used Tall Alpha Die Set ( I used negative die-cut from my previous card ) and Wonderful Wycinanki Stamp Set.

I hope these cards inspired you to create some cards for the Card Drive!  Thank you for spending time with me!

Supplies

Below you will find links to the supplies used to create the project(s). Click on the letters to go to a favorite store: Pinkfresh Studio (PS), Scrapbook.com (SB), Ellen Hutson (EH), Altenew (AN), Amazon (AZ), The Gray Muse (GM). Where available I use compensated affiliate links. This means that I receive a small commission when products are purchased through links I share here (at no additional cost to you). If you enjoy my projects you see here, I would be so grateful if you would consider using the links/banners listed when you are heading off to shop. Your support helps me to keep bringing you new projects and videos.

Thank you!

Altenew Dainty bouquet stamp set Buy from: AN | EH | SB	Hero Arts Embossing Powder, White Buy from: EH | SB | AZ	Neenah Cardstock Buy from: EH | SB | AZ	Ranger Emboss It Ink Pad Buy from: SB | AZ	Hero Arts Embossing Gun Buy from: EH | SB | AZ
Ranger Ink Blending Tool Buy from: EH | SB | AZ	Altenew Crisp Dye Ink Cubes, Four Scoops Buy from: AN | EH	TONIC STUDIOS Tim Holtz Stamp Platform Buy from: SB | AZ	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue, 0.88 oz Buy from: EH | SB | AZ	Altenew Ink Cubes, Glacier Caves Buy from: AN | EH
Altenew Ink Cubes, Cool Summer Night Buy from: AN | EH	Altenew Embossing Powder, Antique Gold Buy from: AN | EH	Mini Die Cutting Machine Buy from: AN	Powder Tool Adhesive Deactivator Buy from: EH | AZ	Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencils Buy from: EH | AZ
Engagement Wishes Stamp Set Buy from: AN | EH | SB	Altenew Obsidian Pigment Ink Buy from: AN | EH	Simply the Best Stamp Set Buy from: AN | EH | SB	Wonderful Wycinanki Stamp Set Buy from: AN | EH | SB	Gold Cardstock Buy from: EH
Nautical, Hero Arts Cardstock Buy from: EH	Altenew Faceted Stars Stamp Set Buy from: AN | EH | SB	Altenew Tall Alpha Die Buy from: AN | SB	Altenew Caps Bold Alphabet Die Set Buy from: AN | EH | SB | AZ

Prizes

Altenew is giving away a $30 gift certificate to 6 lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog for a chance to win. We’ll also draw a winner to receive a $15 gift certificate from the comments left on each designer’s blog on the blog hop list below. All winners will be announced on the Altenew Card Blog on 4/5/2020.

Blog Hop

The next stop on the hop is the Gayatri Murali‘s blog.
Check out the full list below:

• Altenew Card Blog
  
• Kristina Pokazanieva
  
• Jaycee Gaspar
  
• TaeEun Yoo
  
• Virginia Lu
  
• Alex Syberia
  
• Gayatri Murali
  
• Hussena Calcuttawala
  
• Aya Elsheshtawy
  
• Nicole Watt
  
• Vicki Finger
  
• Laura Volpes
  
• Norine Borys
  
• Arjita Sepaha Singh
  
• LauraJane
  
• Seeka
  
• Terri Koszler
  
• Michelle Murray

Thank you for stopping by!