World's Best Dad & Best Mom Ever Greeting Cards

 

Hello! Welcome back to my blog. I mixed several techniques in today's cards. I did the eclipse technique on a panel created with cardstock strips. I also did my all time favorite technique which is paper stitching. 

I created a dad card and a mom card which can be given any day, not only on Father's or Mother's day. That's why my subsentiment is a non-holiday/occasion sentiment. 

I started of with planning my color combinations for each card. I usually do a search online for color combos that will appeal to me. After going through my cardstock stash for the colors that I need, I trimmed these cardstocks into strips at 4 1/4" x 1/2". 

I adhered a double adhesive sheet on a printer paper cut at 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". I created two pieces of this panel. I adhered the cardstock strips to this panel making sure that each strip is butted to each other. After filling the whole panel with the cardstock strips, I burnished the panel with a scoring tool just to make sure that the cardstock strips are adhered well to the double adhesive sheet.

I die cut the letters from the Spellbinders Stitched Alphabet Etched dies on the panel. I kept every piece that fell off with the die cutting. I added stitching to these letters using DMC embroidery floss. I die cut two more pieces of each letter on black cardstock which I will use to add dimension to the stitched letters. 

I adhered another scrap piece of typing paper to the back of the striped panel. I pieced in the black die cut letters to the negative space on the striped panel. I pieced back the drop out pieces of the striped panel. I pre-treated the striped panel with an anti-static powder tool. I stamped a floral background to the mom panel using Versamark ink. The stamp I used is from Honey Bee. For the dad panel, I stamped several stars using stamps from the Altenew Halftone Stars stamp set. I used Versamark ink in stamping. I poured clear embossing powder to the sticky ink then heat embossed it.

I trimmed an 8th of an inch from each side of the panel. I adhered this striped panel on a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" cardstock.

I adhered the rest of the letters to the panel by aligning the letters to the letters already pieced in the panel.

I stamped a subsentiment on a cardstock strip using dye inks. I adhered this to the panel.

I hope you like today's cards. Thank you for visiting my blog. Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!

Maria Giselle B.

Altenew is holding its annual card drive which aims to send homemade cards to the elderly who lives in nursing homes or shelters, and let them know that they are not forgotten. After losing my parents, I feel this is the best way to honor them by making other parents feel special. I hope you consider joining this drive. Please visit the Altenew Celebrating Parents Card Drive 2025 post for details.