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Date: Week of October 30, 2017
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Hello everyone! Welcome to the Clean and Simple Challenge.
I happened across some fun Christmas Trees a few weeks back that had me smiling, but it also had me thinking this would be a fun challenge.
I have uploaded some of the trees that had me smiling to give you all a shot of inspiration and I would like to see you make a card with a Christmas Tree that would be an unusual card/tree for you to make.
Misti 1. There is no deadline to play along with the CAS challenge. 2. Take all the time you need to finish and upload your card. 3. Upload your card to your gallery and link back to this thread so we all can see your project. 4. Please remember to use the correct keyword CAS453 when uploading your image. Copying and pasting the challenge keyword is recommended to avoid typos. 5. Please feel free to combine the CAS challenge with any other challenges.
The challenges are to provide inspiration and to get us stamping, so have fun and follow your heART. We cannot wait to see what you create!
And the fave from last week's challenge is this card by susie australia.
Here is the badge for your blog if you like.
Thanks so much for playing along with the CAS challenge this week.
Long before the advent of Christianity, plants and trees that remained green all year had a special meaning for people in the winter. Just as people today decorate their homes during the festive season with pine, spruce, and fir trees, ancient peoples hung evergreen boughs over their doors and windows. In many countries it was believed that evergreens would keep away witches, ghosts, evil spirits, and illness.
Germany is credited with starting the Christmas tree tradition as we now know it in the 16th century when devout Christians brought decorated trees into their homes. Some built Christmas pyramids of wood and decorated them with evergreens and candles if wood was scarce. It is a widely held belief that Martin Luther, the 16th-century Protestant reformer, first added lighted candles to a tree. Walking toward his home one winter evening, composing a sermon, he was awed by the brilliance of stars twinkling amidst evergreens. To recapture the scene for his family, he erected a tree in the main room and wired its branches with lighted candles.
Most 19th-century Americans found Christmas trees an oddity. The first record of one being on display was in the 1830s by the German settlers of Pennsylvania, although trees had been a tradition in many German homes much earlier. The Pennsylvania German settlements had community trees as early as 1747. But, as late as the 1840s Christmas trees were seen as pagan symbols and not accepted by most Americans. It is not surprising that, like many other festive Christmas customs, the tree was adopted so late in America. To the New England Puritans, Christmas was sacred. The pilgrims�s second governor, William Bradford, wrote that he tried hard to stamp out �pagan mockery� of the observance, penalizing any frivolity. The influential Oliver Cromwell preached against �the heathen traditions� of Christmas carols, decorated trees, and any joyful expression that desecrated �that sacred event.� In 1659, the General Court of Massachusetts enacted a law making any observance of December 25 (other than a church service) a penal offence; people were fined for hanging decorations. That stern solemnity continued until the 19th century, when the influx of German and Irish immigrants undermined the Puritan legacy. In 1846, the popular royals, Queen Victoria and her German Prince, Albert, were sketched in the Illustrated London News standing with their children around a Christmas tree. Unlike the previous royal family, Victoria was very popular with her subjects, and what was done at court immediately became fashionable - not only in Britain, but with fashion-conscious East Coast American Society. The Christmas tree had arrived.
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I guess I'm all about Christmas trees this year. I've had fun experimenting with different colours and shapes of trees. Here are my cards: Alcohol pines1 Alcohol pines2 Pink Christmas
Thanks for looking
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