#9 Harvest Time/Thanks Giving

Before we get on to our challenge, we are sad to say that Helen is stepping down from our design team.  We will miss you Helen, and we loved having you share with us every week here at Twist of Faith! You're in our thoughts and prayers. We have decided to have a DT call, and that will be in a separate post.... watch out for it!  On with the show...

Thank you to our entries in last week's Animals challenge... what a variety... a menagerie! All God's creatures, great and small... we really enjoyed visiting your blogs this week (but then we do every week!)

Our Top 3 picks for our  Animal challenge are

#5 Lori U

#6 Carole (Howlin in Harmony!)

#7 Gail Scott

And our random prize winner, who has a selection of images from  Bugaboo Stamps is.....

#4 Grace Nywening!

GRACE please email me (Pauline) at the yahoo address on the right, and I'll get your prize off to you! Thank you for sponsoring our Animals challenge,  Bugaboo Stamps... !

Before I welcome you to our challenge, a word from our sponsor....

Hello stamping friends! Thank you for welcoming me into your home and hearts. I am a freehand graphic illustrator, joining you in the wonderful and exciting world of digi stamping! I thoroughly enjoy creating. 

My desire is to inspire hope and joy, with celebrations of love and inspiration at the heart of each drawing for you. I’m excited to share my delight of creativity through my stamp art with the wonderful folks at Whimsy.

We welcome  StampArt Design by Kathryne! Our random prize winner will receive their choice of 4 images from the SADK collection available at Whimsy Stamps ... wonderful! We're thrilled to have  StampArt Design by Kathryne as a sponsor because we love the images and sentiments!

Our theme for you this week is 

Harvest Time/Thanksgiving

Your card creation should depict a HARVEST time.... be it in autumnal colours and images, perhaps a country/farm creation reminding us that our bountiful tables and bellies are filled by others who work the land, or a creation of THANKS to someone, or a celebration of THANKSGIVING (particularly for our northern hemisphere friends!) !  Remember our 'twist of faith' your creation should also include a scripture, or quote or an uplifiting sentiment that suits this week's theme.

"They will celebrate your abundant goodness and joyfully sing of your righteousness." 

                           Psalm 145:7 NIV

"We thank God for you all the tine and we pray for you."
I Thessalonians 1:2 NLV

Today, there are two scriptures to share, or for inspiration (the second is a very consise and refreshing one, I think!).  Please use any scripture that offers a message fitting of our theme...

Unfotunately we've had some 'technical difficulties' with our inspiration creations for you this week... rest assured that they will appear very soon! (Probably while I'm asleep, so this comment will be moot!) The challenge post will go ahead as scheduled, so you have your full time frame for challenge entries!

Anne-Marie

Grandma Bonnie

Jenee

Laura

Pauline

We hope that you will share with us in our Harvest/Thanks Giving challenge... have a wonderful week!

Do remember your Twist of Faith in your creation, and to follow our simple entry rules so that you are eligible for our badges and prizes!

#8 Animals Marching Two by Two...

Thank you for your inspiring entries last week... it was wonderful to see them all!  As our wonderful sponsor Designed 2 Delight  has offered us THREE prizes, being 3 $5 vouchers for the Designed 2 Delight store... all our Top Three listed below win a prize!

Our Top 3 picks for our Favourites challenge are

#2 Karen L

#7 Pam @ Scrap N Sew Granny

#12 Gail S

Karen, Pam, and Gail, please email me (Pauline) at the yahoo address on the right, and I'll let you know how you can collect your prize! Thank you for sponsoring our Favourites challenge,  Designed 2 Delight!

This week our challenge prize for our random winner is provided by the fabulous Bugaboo Stamps!  A wonderful prize of SEVEN DIGITAL IMAGES... winner's choice! 

We love Bugaboo Stamps, and we know so many crafters do too! We appreciate their awesome sponsorship... the images are so much fun!

Our theme for you this week is 

ANIMALS

Your card creation should show ANIMALS...   Remember our 'twist of faith' your creation should also include a scripture, or quote or an uplifiting sentiment that suits this week's theme.

"All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small..." 

                           Hymn

So it's not scripture, but this hymn must be one of the most loved and treasured hymns known worldwide...  Please use any scripture that offers a message fitting of our theme...

Our team this week has created some delights for creatures great and small with our our sponsor's images.... have a look!

Anne-Marie

Grandma Bonnie

Helen

Jenee

Laura

Pauline

Trish

We hope that you will share with us in our ANIMAL challenge... have a wonderful week!

#7 Your Favourite!

Thank you to our beautiful entries last week in our Seasons challenge...

Our Top 3 picks for our  Season challenge are

Entry #1 Jonia

#3 Vicki O'Dell

#6 Regena

And our prize winner this week, winning the Pholkart Blessings digis, is...

#8 CAROLE!!!

CAROLE please email me (Pauline) at the yahoo address on the right, and I'll get your prize off to you! Thank you for sponsoring our Season challenge,  Pholkart Blessings !

Before I welcome you to our next challenge, let me introduce our newest sponsor.... 

Designed2Delight digital stamps are whimsical and FUN images hand-drawn by Faith Skrdla. Faith’s love of cardmaking and technology inspired her to venture into the world of illustrating digital stamps in November 2009. Each digi is created with the cardmaker in mind, and is a high-quality, high-resolution image you will use again and again. D2D offers a wide range of images—truly something for everyone. If you prefer "real" stamps, you can find Faith's artwork in rubber exclusively for Whipper Snapper Designs. 

We are thrilled that D2D are joining our sponsor family here at Twist of Faith.  It really is a delight to create with Faith's beautiful images! Not only that, but we have THREE prizes to offer!  There will be THREE prizes of $5 vouchers to the Designed 2 Delight store... 

Our theme for you this week is 

FAVOURITES

We would love to see your card creation made from YOUR FAVOURITES ...colours, techniques, images, embellishments, scriptures/quotes, use your favourite everything!   Remember our 'Twist of Faith' your creation should also include a scripture, or quote or an uplifiting sentiment that suits this week's theme.

"Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
Point out anything in me that offends you,
and lead me along the path of everlasting life." 

                           Psalms 139:23-24 NLT

The above scripture is a share, with you. Please use any scripture that offers a message fitting of our theme... particularly if it is your favourite!

Our team this week offers creations that are Designed to Delight (pardon the pun!) with our sponsor images.... have a look here!

Anne-Marie

Grandma Bonnie

Helen

 

Jenee

(front)

(inside)

Laura

Pauline

We hope that you will share with us in our FAVOURITES challenge... have a wonderful week!

#6 For Every Season

My apologies for the delay in posting today (I'm nearly 4 hours late!) I guess angels watch from the sidelines while Halloween themes take over October! Just the same, we thank our three entries last week... your Angel creations were lovely... (there won't be a Top 3 this week), just a random prize winner.... who is...

Entry # 1 Sue

As our prize winner, Sue has her pick of the one of the Michelle Perkett  angel  images showcased by our design team last week .... SUE please email me (Pauline) at the yahoo address on the right, and I'll get your prize off to you! Thank you for sponsoring our Angels challenge,  Michelle Perkett Studios!

Before we proceed with the details of our challenge, we welcome a new sponsor... Pholkart Blessings! From the talented designer herself...

My name is Patti Moore. I'm a self-taught artist who LOVES to doodle! Just give me a pencil, a good eraser, a pad of white paper, a comfy chair, a good cup of coffee... & I'm a Happy Camper! I especially enjoy creating Digital Stamps that Papercrafters can use in their creations! :)

I'm blessed to work at home in my sunny studio in North Carolina. My husband also works at home, & we both enjoy the company of our sweet rescued Lab, Winnie.

I have a little shop on Etsy called PholkartBlessings where my Digi Stamps are available directly from me!  You can also find me at my PholkartBlessings Studio & at my Facebook Artist's Page! I hope you'll come by & visit me there often!  

Our random prize winner will receive their choice of 2 digi images from the Pholkart Blessings Etsy Shop .. wonderful! We're thrilled to have   Pholkart Blessings as a sponsor at Twist of Faith Cards!

Our theme for you this week is 

FOR EVERY SEASON

Your card creation should depict a SEASON....  and remember our 'twist of faith' your creation should also include a scripture, quote or an uplifiting sentiment that suits this week's theme. Of course I had to share this wonderful scripture with you....I'm sure it's the first to the mind of many, when we thing of a scripture about seasons... (thank you for The Byrds making it so poignant to so many!)

"To everything there is a season,
a time for every purpose under heaven." 

                           Ecclesiastes 3:1

the above scripture is a share, or for inspiration.  Please use any scripture that offers a message fitting of our theme...

Our team this week has created some beautiful seasonal delights with our sponsor's images.... come and share in them here!

Anne-Marie

Grandma Bonnie

Helen

Jenee

(outside)

(inside)

Laura

Pauline

Trish

We hope that you will share with us in our SEASONS challenge... have a wonderful week!

And if the Linky tool disappears (blogger has been performing it's magic across the blogs this week) ... we do apologise, and we ask that you leave your link in the comments section, and we'll let you know when the tool has been found again!

Challenge #5 Angels

I can't believe we are up to Challenge #5 .... do challenges at the start of the week go more quickly?  Thank you to our entries last week... they were beautiful creations!  I hope the recipients of your creations enjoy them as much as we did!

Top 3 Picks
#4 Karen L

#7 Tracy

#9 Meighan

Our winners shown here today should collect their Top 3 or Winner's badge from our left sidebar!  Our random.org prize winner has been drawn, receiving a $15 voucher for use at Clear Dollar Stamps.... and we congratulate

Entry #6 SUE!

SUE please email me (Pauline) at the yahoo address on the right, and I'll get your prize off to you! Thank you for sponsoring our Thinking of You challenge,  Clear Dollar Stamps!

This week, our sponsor is MICHELLE PERKETT STUDIOS!

Our random prize winner will receive have their choice of one of the gorgeous images showcased by our design team in this challenge post!   We are thrilled to have MPS sponsoring our challenges... because the images are so beautiful... (not just because Michelle is one of my favourite artists!

Our theme for you this week is 

ANGELS

Your card creation should show Angels.... simple, huh! And remember our 'twist'... your card should include a scripture, or inspirational quote or message.... it doesn't have to be on front of the card, but do show that it's there!

"Don't forget to show hospitality to strangers, for some who have done this have entertained angels without realising it!" 

                           Hebrews 13:2 NLT

the above scripture is a share, or for inspiration.  Please use any scripture that offers a message fitting of our theme...

Our design team this week has created some angelic delights with our sponsor's images.... and I think I feel Christmas coming on...

Anne-Marie

Grandma Bonnie

Helen

Jenee

Laura

Pauline

Trish 

We do hope you'll join in our Angel Challenge, and share your Angelic creations with us!  Don't forget that our challenge is all about a 'Twist of Faith', so include an inspirational quote/sentiment or scripture on or in your creation!