
Hi friends and Happy World Cardmaking Day!! Yay!!!
Simon Says Stamp celebrating our holiday today with a fun blog post where you can find cards from cardmaking all around the globe!
I was honored to represent Ukraine in this party and you can find one of my cards there as well.
The first one is cute and funny and very Ukrainian;)
There is a holiday tradition in Ukraine which is called – Vertep. It can be translated to English as Nativity Play. Initially Vertep was a puppet play theater, but with time it had evolved into a live theater played by people.
These street theaters can be played by real actors as well as “regular people” 😉 During holiday times you can meet many oversteps on the streets. Some of them do it for free, some ask for a small donation.
There are two parts of the play, a religious and secular ones. And as far as characters go there are some which exist in any, other can vary and the number can be as small as 5 people and as big as 40. Star of Bethlehem is the must attribute of a vertep as well.
In my vertep I have angel (which is carrying the Star of Bethlehem), demon (the cow :D), Herod King (dog), shepherds and sheep and goat. I used the cutest My Favorite Things Birdie Brown Stamp Sets: You Make My Tail Wag, The Whole Herd, Ewe Are The Best, Hog Heaven. And I made the star using Lawn Fawn Puffy Star Die and a circle die.
I cut a circle out of masking paper and applied onto a white card base. And I also die-cut a couple of snow drifts using MFT Stitched Snow Drifts Die Set and applied them below. And I created a night scene by inking over these masks with distress inks.
The sentiment say Merry Christmas in Ukrainian, stamped using a stamp from Altenew Peace On Earth Stamp Set stamped with Altenew Starlight Ink.
My second card is more classy, elegant and what I call – business style (it reminds me the style of holiday cards businesses send to their clients)
Here I used amazing Christmas Sweater Background stamp from Simon Says Stamp and cut out kind of embroidery Christmas tree out of it.
So I simply stamped the background using SSS Schoolhouse Red Ink onto a white cardstock and cut a triangle out of it.
And I also cut a “star” from this pattern. I then foam mounted the tree onto a white card base and stamped the sentiment below.
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
Simon Says Stamp Blog – http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/blog/happy-world-card-making-day-from-simon-says-stamp/
Australia – Gayatri Murali – https://handmadebyg3.com/
Belgium – Laura Sterckx – http://makingcardsisfun.com/2017/10/winter-wonderland-sequin-shaker.html
Canada – Sarah Moerman – http://sarahjmoerman.blogspot.com/2017/10/simon-says-stamp-world-cardmaking-day.html
China – Scarlet Liu https://paperlovercrafter.blogspot.com.au/?m=1
Colombia – Bibi Cameron – http://www.bibicameron.co.uk/2017/10/happy-world-card-making-day-with-mixed.html
England – Jo Nevill – http://bootsblogspot.blogspot.com/2017/10/world-cardmaking-day-2017.html
Germany – Maria Fischer – http://rieslingmama.blogspot.com/2017/10/happy-world-card-making-day.html
Greece – Vicky Papaioannou – http://www.clips-n-cuts.com/2017/10/world-cardmaking-day/
Italy – Barbara Schiassi – http://yayascrap.blogspot.com/2017/10/happy-world-cardmaking-day.html
Malta – Lorraine Aquilina – http://loraquilina.blogspot.com/2017/10/celebrating-world-card-making-day-with.html
Poland – Marzena Ziuziakowska – http://macarena-creativa.blogspot.com/2017/10/world-card-making-day.html
Russia – Svetlana Pavlova – http://svetlanaskrapit5.blogspot.ca/2017/10/world-card-making-day.html
Scotland – Debby Hughes – http://limedoodledesign.com/2017/10/watercoloured-plaid-for-world-card-making-day/
South Africa – Anna-Karin Evaldsson – http://layersofink.blogspot.com/2017/10/happy-world-cardmaking-day.html
South Korea – Marge Yoon – http://margecrafts.blogspot.com/2017/10/world-card-making-day-at-simon-says.html
Spain – Amanda Korotkova – http://www.littlecraftypill.com/2017/10/world-card-making-day.html
Switzerland – Isha Gupta – http://hobbyandideas.blogspot.ch/2017/10/happy-wcmd-merry-christmas.html
Ukraine – Svitlana Shayevich – http://craftwalks.com/2017/10/07/world-cardmaking-day/
USA – Barb Engler – https://bdengler4.blogspot.com/2017/10/world-card-making-day-with-sss.html
I encourage you to check out Simon Says Stamp post to see what cardmakers from all around the globe made for this fun event. And if you have any cardmaking plans for the weekend – you can link your projects there and win a prize:)
Happy World Cardmaking Day!
SUPPLIES
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Marjorie Dumontier
These are two great holiday cards in different style but equally awesome !!
Tracey Magner
That was so interesting learning about Vertep, That would be so cool to see, I wonder if there are any you tube videos on that? I saw your one card over on the SSS Blog representing Vertep, so adorable, and I love your second card as well, isn’t funny how sometimes we make things so much more complicated than they need to be, like in your second card how simple I love how you just made a triangle and it came out looking like a Beautiful Christmas tree, so creative !!
Svitlana Shayevich
Thank you, Tracey!
There are many video on YT about vertep. Here is one of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z1z2q5auzw&t=20s
Monica Soto
Gorgeous!!! Love the bright colours
Lisa Fragassi
Love your vivid colors. Thank you for sharing!!
Teresa Doyle
I always enjoy seeing your work Svitlana. Your vertep is adorable, thanks for sharing that interesting tidbit about Ukraine.
Наташа-GOLD
Света, красивые и интересные открытки! Ёлочка очень милая!
Lorraine A
Gorgeous cards Svitlana, both of them are fabulous! I love the first one, so cute with all of the critters, and the 2nd one is so simple and stylish, very lovely 🙂
luv
Lols x x x
Trina P.
First card is so cute. Love all those critters. Love the simplicity of your second card. So pretty.
Anna Kosskovskaya
Я прям не могу с этих зверей!! Сразу вспоминается шутка “тиха украинская ночь, но сало надо перепрятать”)) потрясающе сделала!
maria f.
“Learn something new every day” – thanks for the lesson on vertep! I love how you chose that for your first card. Very clever.
Lagene
Beautiful cards, I especially love the cute critter scene!
Tara Prince
I love the tree card!!
Edy
Love the creature card, Svitlana!!
Edy
Where in the Ukraine are you from? Three of my grandparents were born there many years ago.
Chrystyna Bryndzia
Prekrasni kartky! Beautiful cards! Love them both!!! Do you know where I can get more Ukrainian stamps for card making? Specifically for Christmas/ Rizdvo and birthdays. Please let me know. I live in Houston, Tx. Wonderful that you explained about the vertep. Having a stamp that would depict the star/zvizdy in the Ukrainian tradition would be cool! Thanks for representing Ukraine with these cards!