Altenew Celebrating Parents Card Drive 2023 Blog Hop + Giveaway ($200 in Total Prizes!)

 Hello, crafty friends!

I'm delighted to be joining Altenew for an inspirational hop today, as a part of the annual Celebrating Parents Card Drive! Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are approaching and this can be a difficult time for seniors who are in nursing homes or shelters. We want these important people to feel loved, celebrated, and honored — and that’s where the annual Card Drive comes in!

Maybe you have a little bit of extra time in the next few weeks to create a few Mother’s or Father’s Day cards to send in for the drive. It doesn’t take much! 

If you arrived here from the remarkable, Karen Brown's Blog, then you are on the right track. If this is your first stop, then you will want to start at the beginning, the Altenew Card Blog. We've got tons of inspiration and giveaways for you on the hop today, so keep reading till the end of this post for more information.

You can have a look at few Altenew products that are perfect for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day cards (and other year-round crafting projects! Check out the collection HERE. Altenew will donate $1 with every order of the products included in this collection from 2/28/2023 until 5/14/2023 to the Food Bank of Central New York to support seniors in need.

Can you spot these sweet mini stamps that I used for my cards? Travel Boots stamp set and Bold Heels stamp set. I decided to use them and replace letters of my words.

One of my Favourite techniques to do with Alpha dies is to give them shadow and pop them up on Foam tape. Few of the words that you can die cut in similar technique for making generic cards is Hi, Hello, Sir, Ma'am, You, love and combine with small sentiments stamped with them on a strip. 

BOLD HEELS FOR MAM - CARD

This was the original card that I planned to make for this hop. The next card is inspired by this to be used for my Father, an Army veteran - for his 70th Birthday. For this card I used Alcohol markers to color Bold Heels stamp set and fussy cut it.

I die cut 2 Ms from Caps bold alphabet die set with white cardstock and maroon cardstock. Then I ran the white Ms through Charming Mandala 3 D Embossing folder, adhered them on Maroon cardstock leaving a bit on the left to create a shadow.

I used Mix and Match frame dies to die cut a frame from a white cardstock. Foam mounted the Ms and the heels and for the sentiment used a stamp from Rosa Floribunda stamp set that has lovely sentiments for Aunts and Nieces that I stamped and heat embossed with white embossing powder.

Here's a reel you can watch, on how I made this card. 

ARMY BOOTS FOR DAD

As I made the Heels card, I thought why not use the Travel Boots stamp set and make Army Boots for my Dad! I stamped the boots, made some camouflage pattern on the ankle area, as this is how my father's boots used to be and colored with Alcohol markers. 

The technique is the same as the previous card. I die cut 2 Ds from Caps bold alphabet die set with green cardstock and beige cardstock. Then I ran the green Ds through Connected 3 D Embossing folder, adhered them on beige cardstock leaving a bit on the left to create a shadow.

I kept the card base green and beige too and stamped Happy birthday as it is for my father's birthday.

Giveaway Prizes
$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 03/20/2023 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 03/21/2023.

Thank you for stopping by. I hope you are inspired and would join in at Celebrating Parents Card Drive. Your next stop is Claire Apostoloff.

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