There is always a lot of focus on Christmas in our industry this time of year, as that is what the majority of the population celebrates. However, this month's blog hop is dedicated to those that celebrate winter holidays other than Christmas. Create a project that celebrates Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or some other winter holiday as we embrace everyone's beliefs in a celebration of diversity through paper crafting.
Because I celebrate Christmas, this was a stretch for me. After researching some information on Kwanzaa, I realized that it wasn't always celebrated integrated with Christianity, but over the years it has evolved into a double celebration for many people. The principles that this African-American Holiday celebrate are:
- Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.
- Kujichagulia (Self-Determination): To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves.
- Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility): To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems, and to solve them together.
- Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.
- Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
- Kuumba (Creativity): To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
- Imani (Faith): To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
Thanks for looking! Enjoy the hop!
Papertrey Ink Supplies:
Stamps: Scattered Showers
Paper: Pure Poppy, True Black, New Leaf, Summer Sunrise
Ink: Pure Poppy, True Black, New Leaf
Tools: Linen Impression Plate
Other: Wood paper, Sakura Stardust pen, Hero Arts Cupcakes set
38 comments:
Nice job! I never even thought about the candle image from the Cupcake set!
this is so creative and fun! Love it!
I love that you researched about Kwanzaa and then shared it with us!! Love your card!!
Beautiful card! Thank you so much for posting the information about Kwanzaa. :)
Thank you so much for the lesson as well as a great card. Perfect!
How cool that you used that candle for your card...that was thinking outside the box! Very creative!
Great posting about hte principles of Kwanzaa and your card is lovely.
Great job! love how you posted about the holiday you chose and stretched your supplies!
Wonderful post Lee Anne! I love that you researched it and shared the info with us. I love learning something new. Thank you. And it's such a great card too!
I love it- and I love how you researched your chosen holiday!
Beautiful card. Loved it.
Great job, I love your card!
Lee Anne this turned out FANTASTIC!!
Hope you have a WONDERFUL day!
LOVE this! Great project.
Love all the bright colours!! Nice to learn something new thanks :)
Lovely card. And thank you for including the information.
Pretty card and it was so nice that you included your *research*. Very thoughtful!
Thanks for including the background on this holiday! Nothing like looking at a wonderful creation and learning about it too. Great job!
Great job! Thanks for sharing information about the holiday too.
Great card! Thanks for sharing your research! Interesting.
Lovely card and thanks for the information regarding the principles for this holiday.
So kind of you to share your inspiration- it's a better card for that!
very nice. i love your bold colours and the research. i found it a little difficult too, as i celebrate Christmas as well but it is so great to stretch myself once in a while.
Kudos to your creativity! How clever to use the candle from that PTI set for your card.
This is wonderful! Thanks for providing the holiday info, too!
Excellent design...love the sweet simplicity and the color blocking!
the color blocked background is wonderful - I love your card.
Great job and lovely card.
Lovely card - thank you for sharing that information!
Fun card. Great job with the PTI challenge!
It's a good life!
Terri E.
FAB card! Your candle is GENIUS! THX for the education!
Very pretty card!! I love how you incorporated the colors and the candles! Great job with the PTI Blog Hop challenge! ♥♥♥
Thank you for the research, it was on my list of things to do.
Verh nice card.
Lee Anne thank you for sharing some of your research on this winter holiday. I appreciate learning about other cultures. I like that you used the colors of the African flag for your card!
Love the colors of the card! and thanks for sharing with us what you learned about this holiday, loved reading it!
Love the way you created that textured background and the strip of wood paper. Very cool!
Wonderful background - love the color mixture~
Great card!! I'm really loving this challenge! Thanks so much for posting the information. I'm learning so much about different holidays.
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