Altenew Celebrating Parents Card Drive Blog Hop + Giveaway

 

Hi Everyone!

I'm so excited and honored to be part of Altenew's fantastic Blog Hop called: Celebraiting Parents, to honor and raise awareness of the Celebrating Parents Card Drive: "Our goal is to send cards for the elderly that lives 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.

This card will make a Beautiful Mother's Day card or a monogrammed Thank You/ Birthday Card. I used the Lovely Peony set to create my wreath. I used watercolors to color the flowers and the M is diecut with my top favorite Inline Alpha die set. For my ordinary watercolors I Always use Arches but the paper I used for this is Canson's student paper wich is great and very affordable for cardmaking when you want the cardbase to match too.

 

20% of the profits earned from the following sets (Best Dad, Painted Rose, Penned Rose, Extra Special, and Best Mom) by 6/17/2018 will be donated to Food Bank of Central New York to support seniors in need.

For my next card I mixed some stamps from the two sets Best Dad stamp and die bundle and

Hug Me - Stamp and die bundle. I used copic markers for my coloring and the DAD is diecut using the wonderful Inline Alpha die set.

Don't miss that you get save 35% Off on the Best Dad Stamp & Die Bundle from 4/20/2018 until 4/23/2018 at 11:59 pm EDT. No coupon code needed to enjoy this deal.

 

This Peony here is stamped on Arches light weight paper and colored with watercolors. The background is inked and spattered with watercolor. And once angain I used the Beautiful Inline Alpha die set for my diecut letters. The stamped sentiment is from Best Dad stamp and die bundle.

Once again I combined stamps from the awesome sets

Best Dad stamp and die bundle and Hug Me - Stamp and die bundle to create a sweet Father's Day card - The bg stamp of Boston - My favorite city in the World! (I was an Au Pair in Lexington MA when I was 20 and fell in LOVE <3 a="" from="" href="https://altenew.com/products/sketchy-cities-america" is="">Sketch Cities America
. I used kraft cardstock and Derwents colorpencils.

Can you tell that I LOOOOVE the Hug Me set!!!!???!!! It is such a great set for so many occasions.

Hug Me - Stamp and die bundle
Sketch Cities America


For my projects I used the following wonderful AltenewProducts:
Best Dad stamp and die bundle
Daisy stamp set
Hug Me - Stamp and die bundle
Sketch Cities America
Inline Alpha die set
Peony
More than Words

If you are doing the hop you should have come here from my amazingly talented friend Emily Leiphart and continue on to the fabulous Marge Yoon. But befor you do, don't forget to comment here below for your chance to win one of two generous prizes from Altenew:

 

Prizes:

Altenew is giving away $50 gift certificates to THREE lucky winners. Be sure to leave comments by May 6th 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 below and will be announced on the Altenew blog on Mother’s Day, May 13th, 2018.

+ I am so lucky to also get to draw a winner from those of you who comment here on my blog for a $20 gift certificate to the Altenew store -YAY!!!!. I will announce the Winner by 5/10/2018 !

Here is the full list of blog hop participants:

Altenew

Kathy Racoosin

Kristina Pokazanieva

Svitlana Shayevich

Vicky Papaioannou

Rubeena Ianigro

Olga Moss

Reiko Tsuchida

Laurie Willison

Laura Jane

Erum Tasneem

Barb Engler

Nina-Marie Trapani

Enza Gudor

Isha Gupta

Laurel Beard

Mayline Jung

Emily Leiphart

Karin Åkesdotter

Marge Yoon

Heidi Jakobs

I also share my cards and watercolors here:  My Instagram and  in my PINTEREST FOLDER

 

Have a great day, hugs, Karin