Hello and welcome to Altenew Celebrating Parents Card Drive Blog Hop!
The goal of this special blog hop is to support an annual Celebrating Parents Card Drive that Altenew run every year. During this drive Mother’s and Father’s Day cards are collected to be sent to seniors in shelters and nursing homes. Card drive participants besides serving this great cause also have a chance to win an Altenew gift certificate. You can check all details here.
I made three cards for this blog hop to give you some inspiration and ideas.
I always try to make more Father’s Day cards as masculine designs can be challenging for many while for me they’ re a lot of fun to make.
FATHER’S DAY CARD – TEXTILE
One of probably more common masculine design is using some “men textile” on a card. For my first card I decided to go this way showcasing shirt, jeans and leather.
First I made a panel out of a Solar White Cardsrtock and blended Ultramarine Dye Ink onto it. Then I stamped the Pinstripe background onto it with the Azurite Ink.
For the “jeans” pieces I blended Persian Blue Dye Ink onto a white panel and then stamped Rustic Linen with Sapphire Dye Ink. I cut triangles out of this panel, distressed their edges using my paper distresser and added “stitching” with a white pen. After that I adhered them onto the pinstripe panel. Which in turn got adhered onto a Parchment card base.
I cut a rectangle piece out of a Parchment Cardstock and stamped a sentiment from the Best Dad Stamp Set onto it using the Espresso Dye Ink. Then I stamped the same sentiment with a slight shift using the Rocky Shore Dye Ink (to create a look of embossed in a “leather” words).
After that I blended Rocky Shore Dye Ink onto the piece and distressed its edges.
I added antique brass fasteners in the corners of the “leather” and popped it onto the card.
FATHER’S DAY – INDUSTRIAL
Another classic masculine design is what I call “industrial”. Saying this I’m referring to metals, oil stains … you know what I mean, right?
So for my second card the color combo of choice was black, gray and silver. I used a Silver Mirror Cardstock. It may seem looking like a gold one some photos, but it’s silver. Mirror cardstock is very difficult to take photo of as everything about gets reflected in it AF!
So first I dry embossed the Grid Stencil into a Pale Gray Cardstock panel. Then I blended Industrial Diamond Dye Ink onto it to make the grid looking more defined.
I added splatters of a Jet Black Ink Spray onto the panel. And then I “colored” with Ebony Black Nuvo Crystal Drops on top. I did splatters first to get a “perfect imperfection” as far as splatters size and position go. Adding Nuvo on top was made to add them more slick and “car oil” look.
I adhered the panel onto a Silver Mirror one of a bigger size, which in turn got adhered onto a Jet Black card base.
Next I moved to making a “plaque”. I die-cut letters for the best dad phrase out of a Silver Mirror Cardstock and adhered them onto a Jet Black rectangle. I added antique nickel fasteners in the corners and popped it onto the card.
By the way – on this photo you can see the silver cardstock in it’s best.
MOTHER’S DAY
For the Mother’s Day card I wanted to make something elegant and light and floral (of course:)). Here I used the Best Mom Stamp Set.
I white embossed two floral picks onto a Montval Watercolor Paper and colored them with Altenew watercolors. Then I die-cut them using the matching dies.
Next I white embossed a sentiment in the bottom part of a Pale Gray panel and popped it onto a white card base.
I adhered one flower piece onto the card flat and foam mounted the second one on top.
Lastly I added several Snow Crystals.
PRIZES
Altenew is giving away a $30 gift certificate to 6 lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog for a chance to win.
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.
GIVING BACK
20% of the profits earned from select stamp sets (Best Dad, Painted Rose, Extra Special, Lotus, Cross Stitch Flower, and Best Mom) by 6/16/2019 will be donated to the Food Bank of Central New York to support seniors in need.
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Adorable textile father’s day card. I really thought they were jeans w/ leather 🙂
These are so great. Love the look of jeans on the first card. Great job.
Love your cards – the first two are perfect for a dad!
Great cards! I always love seeing masculine cards as it is difficult to come up with fun ideas.
Love your cards. 🙂 The colors you used for the flowers on the Mother’s Day card are really pretty.
I love the Father’s Day cards especially the denim one!
Industrial … steel and oil stains … yep, I know what you mean! Factories and cars. LOL. Mom had Dad wash his clothes separately! Love that card the best , it is so masculine.
Really like the denim texture!
I love this card drive… and your cards! The denim is a great idea! I may need to CAS that one!
Love these cards! Especially the denim one!
Absolutely stunning Mother card. Really like the Dad card, so masculine, love them both!!
Great cards! Mother’s Day cards are easy but it is harder to think of Father’s Day cards.
Wonderful card, especially the Father’s Day ones.
Great cards! Great card drive!
Darling card!
Love all the great textures you used for the Father’s Day cards. Really good ideas to try. Thanks for sharing your art.?
All of these cards are amazing. Your choices are just perfect…the masculine cards are especially great. Thanks for the inspiration!
Love love love your brown and blue father’s day card – love that faux denim look!
Love your cards. I’m participating in this drive and I have lots of cards for Mother’s Day (I have a lot of floral products), but I’m struggling a bit on Father’s Day cards — I appreciate your inspiration.
Both cards are beautiful. The father’s day card is amazing. Love how you achieved the denim and leather looks, complete with stitching. Wow. TFS.
Great cards! What awesome examples for masculine cards! I love the denim one- very creative!
Wonderful cards, techniques, and idea! Thanks!
I love all your cards. The first one is my favourite because of how much work it took to create all the texture. It is amazing. I would never think to do what you did. Thanks so much for sharing.
Great cards! Thanks for the chance to win and sharing.
Beautiful designs! I love the gray, silver and black dad card!
Love all your cards Svitlana! The faux denim patch work and craft is sure to become a classic combo around here,thanks for the inspiration!
It’s great to see some masculine cards – all of your cards are very nice
Very nice cards. My favorite is the tulip card. So wonderful that you all give back to the community.
Really lovely cards, I always find making masculine cards hard! TFS
Beautiful cards!
Carla from Utah
Beautiful cards for the hop! I was involved at an assisted living facility for several years while my aunt lived there and I know how much these cards mean to the residents.
Lovely cards!
Such beautiful cards! Thank you for the inspiration!
Oh what lovely cards to celebrate fathers day. love it. It’s so beautiful.tks for the inspiration
Your cards are very pretty, i like the male cards cause you are right those are the most difficult to make for me at least.
Your cards are perfect for Moms and Dads!! Love them all.
All of your cards are fabulous! But I am especially fond of the Textile card. Any Father would be happy to receive that card.
The texture on the masculine cards is quite phenomenal – really cool!
Beautiful cards to help support a beautiful cause ?
These are some of the best masculine cards I’ve seen. Of course Mom’s card is lovely also, but Dad’s knocked it out of the park!
The blue card is so special. I love the look of the center piece. I really looks like leather. Your mom card is beautiful.
Gorgeous cards, Svitlana! I love the father’s day cards, so classy. Your floral card is beautiful.
Really like the denim and leather look card. Great ideas.
Wonderful cards!
Thanks for sharing…
I love the Father’s day cards! What a fabulous idea this is to send cards to nursing homes.
The Father’s Day cards are absolutely fabulous! Great concepts executed so beautifully. I also love the Mother’s Day card. It is so bright and cheerful!
Wonderful Father’s Day cards!! I love the denim look. The Mother’s Day card is very pretty!! I love that stamp set!!
These are absolutely perfect. At first glance I thought the Mother’s Day card used vellum. That light gray is a beautiful touch to set off the embossing and die cuts.
Absolutely love your first Father’s Day card. Love the blue and stamping. Great job as always. Thanks for sharing your creativity!
These are fantastic! I really like that second masculine card and your floral card is beautiful!
Great cards. I really like the masculine one with denim.
Love the floral spray on your Mother card, and the other two have such a wonderful masculine design! They will be wonderful for the card drive, Svitlana!
Thank you for the inspiration Svitlana – all your cards are wonderful.
Beautiful cards!! Great takes on the masculine creations! I love the floral one a lot! 🙂
Awesome cards
You always do such great work in creating your cards. My favorite is the men’s textile background with the sentiment on a leather looking rectangle. Always a challenge to create unique men’s cards, and you accomplished that!
Fantastic cards! I especially like the two Father’s Day cards. It can be difficult to come up with great masculine cards but you hit the nail on the head with these. Thanks for sharing!
You have created some wonderful cards here. The blue textile is a great idea with the leather, denim, and pinstripe shirt! Really a great idea and the silver foil cardstock is so fun to look at and see the reflection in. Hehehe, I think it’s the kid in me! Love the flowers you watercoloured! So soft and pretty!
All cards are great,
especially the industrial card, I own the alpha you used, it´s so cool to maybe recreate?