Hello there, I hope you’re having a lovely weekend!
Today we’re celebrating parents and spreading the world about Altenew’s card drive to collect cards for seniors living in nursing homes or shelters to let them know they are not forgotten. If you arrived from Kristina Pokazanieva’s blog, you’re right on track. If you want to hop along from the beginning, visit the Altenew Card Blog. Check the bottom of this post for the full blog hop list!
To read more about the effort and learn how you can participate, please be sure to read Altenew’s Celebrating Parents Card Drive blog post.
For my card today I chose the Best Mom stamp set.* I really love this beautiful branch of flowers and reach for it often.
I started by stamping the blooming branch in Copic-friendly black ink. Because of the angle I chose for the image, the end of the branch didn’t quite reach the edge of the card so I filled the gap using an 0.3 black Copic Multiliner pen. Then I used R81, R83, and R85 to color the flowers. For the leaves, I used YG21, YG25, and YG17.
I had originally intended to add a frame, or some other embellishment, but in the end I decided to keep the card ultra clean and simple. So, I heat embossed the sentiment on to strips of black cardstock and then adhered them with foam tape. To finish the card, I adhered the card front to an A2-sized card base.
In addition to collecting cards, Altenew is donating 20% of the profits earned by 6/19/19 from selected stamp sets, including the one I used for today’s card, to the Food Bank of Central New York to support seniors in need. Here are the sets in the collection:
Thanks so much for visiting! Please be sure to check out the giveaways below before you head on to visit Heather Hoffman!
Giveaways!
To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $30 gift certificate to 6 lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog.
Altenew will also draw a winner to receive a $15 gift certificate from the comments left on each designer’s blog on the blog hop list below. All winners will be announced on the Altenew Card Blog on 4/17/2019.
Blog Hop List
- Altenew
- Svitlana Shayevich
- Virginia Lu
- Agnieszka Malyszek
- TaeEun Yoo
- Seeka <– You are here
- Heather Hoffman
- Nancy McClelland
- Laura Jane
- Ashlea Cornell
- Anna Komenda
- Amber Rain Davis
- Tania Ahmed
- Aya Elsheshtawy
- Patricia Roebuck
- Alex Syberia
- Vicki Finger
- Laura Volpes
- Michelle Murray
- Terri Koszler
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Lovely card for a very dear cause. Yes, Mother’s Day should be everyday 🥰
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Lovely card. 🙂 I really like the colors you used.
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This a beautiful card. And the sentiment is perfect.
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Pretty coloring!
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Good choice of colors.
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Oh wow, the flowers are so lovely and beautiful!
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Lovely card. Very pretty coloring and beautiful design. Thanks for sharing your art.🐧
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Lovely card. The Best Mom set is beautiful and your coloring is amazing.
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I love your CAS card- beautiful coloring!
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Lovely card and idea! Thanks!
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Lovely card
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Gorgeous card. I love your colouring and the colours you chose. Beautiful
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Your flowering branch is lovely. Great card. Thanks for the inspiration!
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Beautiful coloring and detail! I love the CAS look!
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Very pretty card! Thanks for sharing.
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Love the clean, simplistic design of this stamp set, beautiful card.
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Such a gorgeous design Seeka! Love this CAS card, is sure to make someone smile. Thanks for the inspiration!
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Perfect card for Mother’s day. Very pretty
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A very nice card and wonderful that you all are giving back to your community.
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Love the card and the colours, and yes I agree it should be Mother’s day every day !
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Lovely card. You’re going to make someone’s day happy!
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Lovely card with these beautiful flowers!
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Simple but so pretty! Love the layout of the flowers.
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Such a beautiful CAS card! Love it.
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The way you colored the floral branch, gives it so much dimension. It is a simple, but very beautiful card.
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A beautiful, classic Altenew card – so very pretty!
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Beautiful card for a great cause. Love it.
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Such a lovely stamp set! Your card is so sweet!
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This card is so sweet and pretty. And I love the beautiful sentiment!
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Dear Seeka
love your CAS style card and i love the sentiment too but alas mothers are not loved as they should be. Love and Hugs
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I love this stamp set too!! It’s beautiful. Your card is gorgeous. You always make such spectacular cards. Thank you for your Inspiration.
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Love the simplicity, it makes such an impact. Beautiful job. Thanks for sharing your creativity!
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Just right for Mother, and many other occasions. Great coloring ! Thanks for the inspiration.
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This is lovely! I’m definately going to have to get this set out again. I think it was the first Altenew set I bought.
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Lovely card and wonderful cause.
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lovely card, simple and striking
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so pretty. I like your coloring.
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Such a pretty card, with the lovely floral spray and soft coloring. Easy enough to replicate a few times to make cards for this project, too. Thanks for the idea!
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Such a beautiful card!! Lovely colors! 🙂
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Beautiful card
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Beautiful card! Any recipient will be delighted to receive this card!
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really clean and simple-very nice
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