World Cardmaking Day!

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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