Altenew Celebrating Parents Card Drive!

Join Altenew for the Celebrating Parents Card Drive, and a TON of GIVEAWAYS!! 

Hi all!

I'm so excited to be a part of Altenew's Celebrating Parents Card Drive this year!  If you don't know what it's about, you can find out more about the program here.  But the short part of it is, as Mother's Day and Father's Day draw near, it can be a challenging period for seniors residing in nursing homes or shelters.  Altenew will be collecting handmade cards between February 26 to April 19!  Check out the details at the end of the post for ALL the giveaways you can enter if you donate cards.  In the meantime, be sure to hop along today so you can get entered in the blog hop giveaway!  Comment and follow the designers to be eligible to win a part of $200 in total prizes! To celebrate the event, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $20 gift certificate to 5 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by March 27, 2024, for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 7 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on March 29, 2024.   

For this blog hop, I created a few cards!  I wanted to keep the projects simple, beautiful, and not holiday-specific so they could be used for either a mom or dad.  Altenew's products absolutely are the perfect items to use while creating beautiful cards for anyone.  First off, this calm serene card features the gorgeous stencil, Majestic Mountains.

This gorgeous stencil does all the work for you, with 4 layers and their graduated color system, it's really fool proof!  The sky background was created with ink left over on a large ink blending brush, it was rubbed across the top of the card panel which was perfect for the sky.  

Next, the Tropical Forest Crisp Dye Ink set was used with each color one layer of the mountain stencil.  With the large blending brush, it took all of 5 minutes to create this gorgeous scene!  Once it was completed, the stenciled image was then passed through the Better Press with the new Rustic Burlap cover die.  It adds some lovely texture to the panel don't you think??

The card was finished off with a widow panel created using their Ornate Nesting die set and the sentiment from the Bold Bouquet stamp set heat embossed with white on a strip of vellum.  Simple and elegant....makes a perfect statement!

This next card features my go-to Mother's day stamp set, Best Mom.  This set has a beautiful floral stamp that is perfect for coloring, but it was used here in a neutral color tone to brighten anyone's day. 

The card front was first ink blended with Buttercream and Warm Sunshine Crisp Dye inks to create a halo effect.  Next, the floral stamp was added using Permanent Black dye ink.  To keep the card monochromatic and make the flowers pop, coordinating alcohol markers from the Mediterranean Terrace marker setwere used.  ***BONUS WAY TO HELP***   Altenew is donating $1 with every order from the Alcohol Markers collection from 2/26/2024 until 4/30/2024 to the Food Bank of Central New York to support seniors in need.  So get those markers now to help!!

Finally, since the sentiments from the Best Mom set are geared toward moms, and I wanted to keep the card not holiday-specific, I used a sentiment from the Reason to Smile stamp set.  It was stamped on white card stock and then layered atop a piece of Caramel Toffee trimmed to size.

This last card used a tiny stamp set called Thanks Dad which features a bow tie!  Bow ties are one of my hubby's favorites to wear, so this is a set I get to use often for him, but also for cute girly cards for my daughters.  It's incredibly versatile!

This was kept very simple, with the base card panel embossed with the new Natural Wicker Pattern 3D and trimmed to 5.25x4".  Next, a tag was cut from the Terrific Tags die set with an added touch of yellow ink blending to the center using Citrus Burst ink.  The sentiment was again created from the Reason to Smile stamp set with Permanent Black ink.

Atop of the ink a fussy cut, Sea Glass and Volcano Lake stamped bow was placed with foam dimensional tape.  A couple black enamel hearts and some embossing floss finish off the tag, which was added to the card front with foam tape.

MORE GIVEAWAYS!!!

These cards were incredibly easy to create, and although simple, they would make someone feel noticed and special!  What about you?  Do you have some cards in your stash that could be put to good use for someone feeling forgotten?  Check out all the details here at Altenew on how you can donate cards, I know I have a ton I'll be sending their way!  When you donate, 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 12, 2024.  This is an AMAZING program with or without the giveaways!  We all love to share our craft, let's share them with someone who could really use some love.

Now finish the hop and go make some cards! 

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Have a colorful day!