Hello and welcome to Altenew’s Celebrating Parents Card Drive Blog Hop! Our goal is to send cards to the elderly that live in nursing homes or shelters to let them know they’re not forgotten. Please check out the Celebrating Parents Card Drive and join this great cause by sending in cards. All of today’s artists are featuring stamp sets in our Celebrating Parents stamp category, of which 20% of all proceeds earned will be donated to the Food Bank of Central New York to support seniors in need.
My first card features the Best Dad stamp set and coordinating dies. I’ve also used the Inline Alpha Dies and Pegboard Canvas Cover Die.
I watercoloured the tools and hung them on the pegboard, just like in a workshop. Then I die cut ‘dad’ from foil and black cardstock to create a shadow. I heat embossed the sentiment on a black strip and adhered everything to a strip of vellum.
I also sponged around the edges of the pegboard to give it the illusion of being light brown, like many pegboards, without it being completely brown and making the background too dark.
Altenew is giving away $50 gift certificates to THREE lucky winners. Be sure to leave comments by May 6th, 2018 at 11:59 PM EDT for a chance to win! Winners will be chosen at random from the comments left on any of the blogs listed above and will be announced on the Altenew blog on Mother’s Day, May 13th, 2018.
I’m also drawing ONE $20 gift certificate to the Altenew store. The deadline for comments is the same as above and the winner will be announced on my blog on May 10, 2018. Please leave a comment below for your chance to win and be sure to check back to see if you’re the lucky winner!
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What a wonderful cause. I really love these cards. They are so cheerful. Thank you
I love all of the new ideas!
Wonderful designs and inspiration.
I love the designs you have come up with!
Very nice cards!!
Awesome designs! Thanks for sharing.
Great cards. Love the dad card and the fun background. The Mother's day card is so pretty and I also love the minecraft cards. Very clever!
Your cards a interesting and very different from every one else's. Good job.
I LOVE the DAD card!!! Make me one too! LOL
These are wonderful cards. Love the cube card too.
Your cards are beautiful, I love them very much !! The "deadly ninja by night" one is absolutely gorgeous (and I love this stamp set very much also).
Wonderful cards…esp. love seeing the masculine dad cards.
I love the fresh crisp look of the 1st Dad card. Nice layout and choice of colors & materials
A great cause for a blog hop! Love your cards, especially the last one for your mother-in-law. So pretty.
great cards
love the dad one
Wonderful cards you created. My fave is the first one with the tools and the pegboard–reminds me of my dad.
Love your cards. The layouts are beautiful.
Really great work!
Fantastic cards! Thanks so much for sharing. 🙂
Lovely card ideas! Love everything you've showcased. The cube builder card is awesome! so unique, love it. Great job on your color combinations too.. the lavender birds are so beautiful
Fabulous Cards!
Cool cards!
Beautiful job-so unique.
Beautiful cards! I love those sweet birdies.
Fantastic cards. I am amsuming these are for Mother and Father. A2 size and envelop too? I would like to send some. Where do I send them. I used to send cards to Operation Write Home and totally enjoyed it ' Please tell me where to send then, and the deadlines. I would like to help.
Nancy
What great cards! I think they will truly bring joy.
How great are your cards. Thanks for sharing.
What fantastic cards Emily. My absolute fave here is the tools on the pegboard. Oh my goodness that is amazing. Such a fabulous card and great idea.
L♥VE IT! TFS!
Adorable cards! I love the way you added gold to the dad card.
wow tour cards are so creative – thanks for the ideas:)
Love thes dad cards so much. Funny and unique
Your cards are amazing! Love your peg board idea!
I really love the cards you made!!!! You have a good mix of humor and beauty in your cards and that is what makes a good parent: a mix of both serious qualities and the ability to be fun, too. I found both of those in my parents and I know I've been greatly blessed to be their daughter.
Wowzer!! Your cards are all amazing…I can't even pick a favorite! Although your minecraft card is really unique..I think your husband will love it!!
This is such a lovely idea from a super stamp company & I'm glad to be a part of this blog hop. Thanks for the beautiful inspiration!
Terrific cards! Beautiful designs and I love how you arranged the elements for the fathers cards.
Such fun and cute cards.
Emily, your cards are amazing! I really love how you made that canvas die look like a pegboard with tools hanging on it…so creative! Your bird card is really beautiful and makes a great Mother's Day card! Thanks for the awesome inspiration!
Thanks for sharing your wonderful cards. They are amazing..
Fantastic cards Emily. Super cool masculine cards. The pegboard background looks great with the tools. I also love those cubes with the sweet images! What a great designs!
Love all the details on the first card
Each of your cards is just so amazing ! I love your designs on all your cards so much..They are just perfection!
Wow, Em, all of these cards are gorgeous! Of course I love the engineering/Minecraft one, because it's so inventive and has tiny ninjas on it! 😀 But the bird card is so very pretty with the colours and perfect design.
Great cards but the bird one, oh yaah I love it
What a great bunch of cards! I love how you thought to create a peg board out of that die for the first card – very nice! Thank you for the inspiration!
Oh my, these are all amazing!! Love them!
Oh, what a fabulous bunch of cards!!! Really lovin' all the Father's Day cards; they can be so hard to make!
Great cards! LOVE the design and texture in the first 2 ♥
Wonderful set of cards!! Each one is unique and so beautiful! <3
The vellum in your 'dad' card and the birds in your 'mom' card – AMAZING. The sentiments in the Altenew parents collection are so great; I wish my experience with their customer service team recently match. I am still waiting on a re-send of products that did not arrive from my order in February! 🙁
Your cards are very unique and fantastic! Love the subtle background texture on the flower mothers day card. The cubes are awesome!
Love your cards. Thanks for sharing.
So many wonderful cards, love them all!
I LOVE the bird card! It is so simple yet so cheery. I think your mother-in-law will love it too. Thank you for sharing it.
Such a fantabulous set of cards. Live them all. Thanks for the inspiration.💕❤️
Love your cards! Thank you!! 🙂
Wonderful cards – love the clean, crisp look and the colors.
Each card is so unique and perfect in each detail. From the gold embossing to the sweet birds. Your family will love getting these! Thanks for sharing!
Lovely and unqiue cards..especially the Minecraft Ninja card! Thanks for sharing.
Fabulous projects. I love your Father's day card. The peg board idea is very cleaver. Thanks for the inspiration
Great cards – these are such neat ideas – love your backgrounds!
Wow! These are all amazing!
These are great. I love how you used the pegboard to display the tools.
Such clever and inspiring cards! Loved the first one with the "dad" tools are organized on a peg board!!! You are ingenious!
Such fantastic cards!
Fabulous set of cards! Love those cubes! I really appreciate the idea of this Celebrating Parents hop!
I love all the texture you have behind your focal images. It just makes your cards so interesting! I also love the idea of using the cube stencil as a place to put small images. I'm definitely going to have to try that in a future card. Thanks so much for sharing and supporting this great cause!
This is a wonderful cause to support. Thanks for sharing your lovely cards and creativity.