Hello and welcome to the Altenew Celebrating Parents card drive hop. If you have been following along with us, you have just come from Seeka and your next stop is Dana Joy. If you would like more information or to start the blog hop over, check out the Altenew card blog.
What is the Celebrating Parents card drive? Altenew is collecting cards to be shared with people in nursing homes to help brighten their day. Your cards should be generic enough and include a small note and your name inside. Mail in your cards with an unsealed envelope and Altenew will distribute them to nursing homes. You can find out more information on the Altenew website. As a bonus if you purchase any of the items listed here, Altenew will donate $1 from every order to the Food Bank of Central New York.
To celebrate Altenew’s Celebrating Parents card drive, I made two cards using similar techniques and the Scalloped Ornaments stamp, die and stencil set.
This card features a background made from the smaller stamps within the Scalloped Ornaments stamp set. I stamped them in Morning Frost ink. I then selected a few of the images to be inked up using Minty Mist ink and the stencil. To color the flower, I used the stencil with Cherry Blossom inks, Lapis Lazuli inks and Sea Shore inks. The sentiment is from Script Words 2 and embossed with platinum powder.
This card uses a similiar technique as the first except that instead of stamping the whole background, I taped off a 2″ strip and stamped the images there in Morning Mist ink. The flower was colored in using the same inks as above and the coloring stencil. The coloring stencil is very quick to use and gives stunning variation in the flower. The sentiment is from Script Words 2 and is embossed in Rose Gold embossing powder.
Giveaway: $200 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, 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 03/30/2022 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 04/01/2022.
Thank you so much for spending some time with me on this blog hop. Your next stop is Dana Joy. Let me know in the comments below if you intend or have already sent cards to Altenew to Celebrate Parents! This card drive is a wonderful way to share love within our card crafting community. Thanks for being here and have a wonderful day.
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I love how you did the background. The colors you used for the flowers are gorgeous. Beautiful cards.
Thank you for noticing. I like to stretch my stamps and use them to make backgrounds.
Hi,
Two very nice cards. The use of the embossing powder just give the card a bit of extra jazz to it. Also, the coloring with the shading makes it look so real.
Thanks,
Erica K.
Thanks. The coloring stencils are so easy to use on this set.
I love the muted background and then the beautiful pops of color.
Love how you did the background. Very pretty.
Very pretty card and background.
Beautiful background and colors!
What beautiful colors!
Love the tone-on-tone background with the smaller stamps. Never thought to use them as a strip. Very effective. Thanks for the inspiration.
Beautiful! Thank you so much for inspiring us and helping us use our love of creating to give back to others!
Love the gold, beautiful colors
Love both the flower and the large “thank you” sentiment.
Wonderful color combo! I like the subtle background combined with the bold colors and large sentiment. Thanks for the inspiration Amy!
Very pretty cards, I love how they pop with such great colors!
Gorgeous cards and colors!
Love the subtle floral background
Your flowers are gorgeous! The Altenew Card Drive is great, so many seniors are isolated due to health issues and Covid concerns…
Your florals are stunning! The Altenew Card Drive is great, so many seniors are isolated due to health issues and Covid concerns…
Beautiful cards. Love the colors.
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Beautiful cards. Your color choices are perfect together…. I love it …. tyfs 🙂
Very pretty cards! The colors are wonderful! Terrific!
Your cards are beautiful. I love the colors. Thank you for the inspiration.
Lovely card. So great for anyone and every occasion.
Lovely cards!
Beautiful cards! I love the subtle stamped background!
Love the cards. Very asian inspired look to me. Love the colors.
Very pretty!
Lovely cards.
I really like your ink blending! Thanks for sharing your inspiration with us!
we always forget to use a classic old but goody technique with the little stamps to make our own background ! you inspired me to get some interesting colors out too with that minty color
Great card designs for the drive. I like the idea on how to create the background. Nice color combinations.