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Altenew Celebrating Parents Card Drive Blog Hop + Giveaway

Hello Friends, T.G.I.F. ! Are you as happy as I am that it’s Friday … it was one of those long weeks.

Altenew is celebrating parents with a blog hop and I am thrilled to take part in this hop. To start at the beginning of the blog hop go to the Altenew Blog.  (you can find the full list is at the bottom of my post.)

I love that Altenew ‘s goal is to send cards for the elderly that lives in nursing homes or shelters to let them know they’re not forgotten. I hope you will check out the Celebrating Parents Card Drive and join this great cause by sending in cards if you have a little spare time or a spare card.

I inked up this Best Dad stamp set with some distress ink and set out to do some more watercoloring.

These images are so fun. If I had more time I would have made anther card using the tools and color them with flowers and pinks for a girlfriend who is a tool.

Lots of green & blue distress inks were used & mixed on my acrylic palette.

When the images were dry I added details with a 0.03 super fine tip marker. Later I decided to put some coffee & cream in the mug to ground the mug on my card.

For the background I used two of  Altenew’s inks randomly stamping the sentiments in the stamp set on some neenah.

Special Offer: 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.

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.

20% of the profits earned from the following sets (Best Dad, Painted Rose, Penned Rose, Extra Special, and Best Mom) by 6/17/2017 will be donated to Food Bank of Central New York to support seniors in need.

NEXT on the hop is the talented Kristina Pokazanieva . Thank you very much for your visit today it’s always appreciated. Hugs, Kathy

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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

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Comments

  2. Connie says

    This card is great! I love how you arranged and used so many of the stamps in this set. So creative.

  3. Kristen Osborne says

    This is such a cute card. I love the orange and green shades together. Great job!

  10. Crystal Muirhead says

    Great card! I’m going to take the inspiration from this card drive but keep it local. I’m going to take cards to the residents of the nursing home here in my home town!

    • Kathy Racoosin says

      Yay Sheri! That’s wonderful you created for this drive! #sharehandmadekindness

    • Kathy Racoosin says

      Whooo hoooo Ronnie! It was such a good sale and this bundle is just fabulous for masculine creations! Happy stamping!

  16. FD91354 says

    As always, I love your coloring.. You asked before, does anyone else cut first then color, no, I usually color first then cut it out 🙂 I live having the scrap area around my image to test colors on. Thanks for sharing your creatively. It’s fabulous!

  21. Jan Arnold says

    What a great hop! Such a kin and thoughtful idea! As usual, you have a wonderful card! Love the background ! The detail on each of the tools is so incredible! Thanks for always sharing your amazing talent with us!

  26. Jane Sirak says

    I too like the basis of the hop. Your card is beautiful and might just make the day for someone who has not received a card in several years. Of course it’s beautifully colored after all it’s your card right? Thanks KATHY

  28. Pauletta Smith says

    Just blog hopping by to say hi! Love your watercoloring of the fathers day stuff! Nice!

  30. Crystal says

    Such a wonderful card…whoever receives this will know they are loved! Such a wonderful cause, too.

  31. Sheri K says

    Very cute card and a terrific stamp set! I think this is a great cause–both of my parents are in different care centers, my Dad has Alzheimer’s and is in Memory Care, my Mom in an Independent living facility. I make lots of cards for the elderly, have many aunts and uncles in that category as well and I make sure they get handmade cards for their Birthday and , all the holidays . Thanks for spreading the love!

  36. Lynne Ingram says

    I purchased this set last year for Father’s Day. Your card is a great inspiration to use it again for my son and son-in-law. The colors you chose are perfect.

  41. sherry butcher says

    As a senior I want to thank you for the help to Food Banks.
    Great job on the card too. Thanks for sharing.

  42. Lisa Says says

    Your card is really gorgeous, and I love how this tool box pops-out thanks to the way you coloured it ! Well done 🙂

  58. Patt H. says

    Totally awesome, Kathy! I’m always looking for more guy cards & yours is wonderful!

  59. Mary MacFadyen says

    Hi.. LOVE this card. The colours, layout, and idea are perfect. Thank you for teaching me distress inks make great paints. Too cool.

  60. Nora says

    Oh I LOVE this card!! That background is fabulous and I LOVE how you did the coloring of the stamps. Great design!

  63. Teresa Doyle says

    Another awesome card Kathy and I am sure one day you will get that card made for your friend. LOL
    Have a great weekend and try to relax a bit.

  64. Ellen P De Matos says

    Your colouring is wonderful. It gives so much depth to the stamps. Well done!

  66. Linda Grady says

    Love this great card for a guy; would love to see it down in colors that might work better for a girl.

  67. Heather DePasquale says

    Love the best Dad stamp set. So much fun! What a great blog hop! Love your card. So creative!

  70. Gail Plaskiewicz says

    Yes, I am glad it’s Fri. We had some cold weather this week so I am glad it’s warming up this weekend. I’m also glad tomorrow is my birthday but I’m not glad to be “64” like the Beatle song.
    Your card was so totally my dad except for the dumbbell. When he was alive last year in 2017, my dad had a work shop in our basement. He couldn’t use it for the last 3 or 4 years of his life, but he had a tool box, the tools, and almost all the stuff in your card. I love the way your card is colored. I miss my dad so much seeing your card that I have tears in my eyes. He loved to make things and fix things around the house and he was good at it. I’m almost glad I don’t have this stamp set because it would make me cry seeing i I have one stamp that I used for my dad one Father’s Day that makes me sad to look at. It’s not an Altenew stamp but it’s a dad and his child, even though it’s a male child, going fishing, which I did with my dad only once. I won’t go into what happened because then this will be a really long post but my dad never took me again. He did take my nephew a lot though when my nephew was younger (he’s 19 now) because my sister was divorced and her ex lived across the country. I have to make some cards for the Celebrating Parents Card Drive.
    Thank you for showing us your card and for giving us the chance to win something. Tomorrow on my birthday I will make some cards for this drive.

  72. Dana M says

    What a fantastic card. Coloring and composition are spot on. I just LOVE the muted color palette.

  78. Mary Holshouser says

    My husband was very handy with tools.
    If I wanted something built (from a special
    sized stitching frame to a cabinet) – he
    could always produce whatever I asked for
    and it was perfect. He would have loved
    getting cards using this stamp set.
    He’s been gone 14 years and I’m so
    sorry he didn’t get to see all of the cards
    I’ve made since that time.
    thanks for the trip down nostalgia
    lane. txmlhl(at)yahoo(dot)com

  80. Kathy McCluskey says

    Love your card, Kathy! I think it’s hard to find cute masculine cards and this one is perfect and like you said would also make a great card for a gal who is handy with tools (or is a tool!)!

  82. Denise Ward says

    Thanks for sharing this fantastic card! The images from this Altenew set remind me so much of my dad. He wore a tool belt every day as an appliance repairman. I can’t see one without thinking of him. He’s an amazing man and I miss him every day.

  83. Carol Rossouw says

    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!

  85. justasiam says

    What a fun card! It’s disappointing to realize that shipping and handling from Canada to send cards for the Card Drive is so expensive!!

  86. Lagene says

    Awesome card, your coloring is so amazing! Awesome idea and great blog hop! My friend & I are making cards to deliver to a local nursing home before Mother’s Dan & will do the same again for Father’s Day.our

  90. Lauryne Cunningham says

    I love everything about this card. The stamps and colors you chose are awesome!

  92. pam edwards says

    I love the idea of sending cards to Seniors. So many are lonely and have outlived much of their family. I will be hopping along with this one. Is there a limit to the number of cards we can donate? I will be checking here in my town and gathering my ladies night gals to help me make some love for Moms and Dads. Thanks for the inspiration.

  93. MandaLJ says

    I love this card, especially the “endless love” tape measure! What an apt image for a parent!

  101. Charly says

    Super creative way to display the sentiments – love the look of this card. The Altenew stamps are awesome… I only wish their customer service was better – I placed an order back in February and am still waiting for the replacement items (stamps and a dry ink) that were never shipped to me. I have even received another of my orders in the meantime. 🙁

  102. Aimee LaCroix-Slocum says

    great card, great background! Masculine cards are hard to do and this is a great set!

  103. Tonya Baccus says

    Great Cards for men or hard to find. I love this card. My favorite part of it was the cup. LOL… My dad and I are big coffee drinkers and it’s something we share. This card brings to mind the saying my dad can fix anything, with all the things for dad’s on it. I truly loved this card.

  104. pam edwards says

    This is such a cute card. Manley cards are hard to make. I really love this stamp and die bundle. It’s a great buy.

  105. Raga Senthil says

    Your cards are so adorable . Love your colouring with distress inks . Thanks for sharing with us.

  108. Karen Page says

    You did a great job on this card! And how sweet is the idea behind this blog hop?!? Father’s Day cards are my kryptonite. I struggle with them so much because there are no stamp sets that have images or sentiments that fit my quirky dad or hubby. I usually end up making them from scratch with digital images or my own sketches, or just going with a geometric background and a computer generated sentiment. I wish there were more Father’s Day stamp sets!

  109. Donna L Flowers says

    What a blessing this card drive will be to all the seniors fortunate to receive a card. I belong to a Facebook group named Random Acts of Cardness and I’m blessed to be able to provide a smile to someone with my cards. Thanks for the opportunity to win a prize and thanks to you for participating in the hop.

  111. jen forster says

    Absolutely fantastic card! I love the colors and texture on the paper you chose!

  112. Annalisa says

    I love the thoughtfulness of this hop. I like the color palette you chose for this card. I don’t often go to orange as one of my main colors, but you really made it work (this is my not-shocked face, in case you were wondering). Thanks for sharing your creativity with us!

  114. Dawn Jones says

    I lost my father a few years ago and felt the loss of my superhero. My husband is my daughters ‘ superhero and they love this set. We can’t wait to make some cards for him.

  117. Denise Bryant says

    Awesome card! I really appreciate the idea of this Celebrating Parents hop!

  118. F. Andre says

    This is a fab layout, combining the various images and sentiments. Thanks for the inspiration.

  119. Yasmine Omar says

    Gorgeous card! I love how you mixed between the green & blue colors, and the background is so fabulous.

  120. Melanie Amaya says

    This set and card are so perfect for that handy father. I love what you did with all the tools in the box.

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