Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another - and all the more as you see the Day approaching. (Hebrews 10:25 NIV)

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Challenge #22 Green

Welcome to Twist of Faith, where we share through  faithful, encouraging, healing and uplifting card creations.  Each week, as a challenge closes, and we introduce a new challenge to you.  We will showcase three challenge entries that spoke to the challenge the most... and they will receive our Top 3 blog badge.  We congratulate these winners in our Top3 this week...              

  # 1 Sonia

And we extend congratulations to #8 Pam Korte, our random prize winner!
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Ladies if you would collect your Top 3 or Winner's badge from our sidebar, we would be happy to see them worn on your blogs!   And if PAM KORTE would contact me at the yahoo email address on the right, I will arrange for your prize to be delivered to you!

We are so happy to have Bugaboo Stamps joining us with their sponsorship for you! Our random prize winner will receive their choice of SEVEN Bugaboo images!

Bugaboo has an extensive collection of images, fun and funky, sweet, saucy, and for every occasion you can imagine! Sign up for their newsletter and updates, so you know when the new images are released, and there's a fabulous freebie every Friday!

This week is a colour challenge, and our chosen colour is:

GREEN plus
a scripture, or uplifting verse or positive words of healing, encouragement, or support

"Make no mistake about this: You can never make a fool out of God. Whatever you plant is what you'll harvest.  If you plan in the soil of your corrupt nature, you will harvest destruction.  But if you plant in the soil of your spiritual nature, you will harvest everlasting life."
                                               ~ Galations 6:7-8 GW ~

I literally had to go down the 'garden path' to find a scripture to share relating to this week's theme! You are free to use whatever scripture, or verse/passage that will suit your creation in our theme.

Now... cast your eyes onto the fabulous images showcased by our design team for the Green Challenge!


We look forward to seeing your creations on our GREEN theme, shared with us here. Have a blessed week!

Please remember that if for any reason our Linky Tool fails us, share your creation through the comments section, with a direct link to your blog post.

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Challenge #21 Friendship

Welcome to Twist of Faith, where we share our faithful, encouraging, healing and uplifting card creations!

Each week, as a challenge closes, we introduce a new challenge to you.  We will showcase three challenge entries that spoke to the challenge the most... and they will receive our Top 3 blog badge.  However, should a challenge receive less than 10 entries, we will draw only a prize winner.... and this week is one of those weeks! 

So we extend congratulations to #5 Pam Korte, our random prize winner!
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PAM, we would love to see our Winner's badge on your blog, (you can collect it from our sidebar) and if you contact me (Pauline) at the yahoo email address on the right, I will arrange for your prize to be delivered to you! Thank you Melonheadz for your sponsorship in our Men's Challenge!

We are so happy to have Milk Coffee Stamps joining us with their sponsorship for you! Our random prize winner will receive their choice of FIVE  Milk Coffee images!

Milk Coffee consists of two artists who love to draw cute illustrations! They offer cute, quality digital stamps, which are perfect to papercraft... cards, scrapbooks,  or anything we can do with printed digital images  They make cute images for cute creations!
This week's challenge is themed:


FRIENDSHIP
AND a scripture, or uplifting verse/quote or positive words of healing, encouragment, or support

This week I share one of my favourite scriptures with you...
"The one thing I ask of the Lord -- the thing I seek most
is to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life,
delighting in the Lord's perfections and meditating in His temple." 
                              ~ Psalm 27:4 NLV ~

Now... cast your eyes onto the fabulous images showcased by our design team for the Friendship Challenge!



We look forward to seeing your creations celebrating FRIENDSHIP, shared with us here. Have a blessed week!

Should our Linky Tool fails us, share your creation through the comments section, with a direct link to your blog post.

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

#20 For The Men

Welcome to Twist of Faith, where we share our faith through our card creations.  Each week, as a challenge closes, and we introduce a new challenge to you... along with the announcement of our random prize winner for each challenge, we will showcase three challenge entries that spoke to the challenge the most... they will receive our Top 3 blog badge.

The Top 3 entries for our #19 Sketch Challenge are (congratulations ladies, and don't forget to collect your badge from our sidebar!):



And we extend our congratulations to our prize winner... #10 Dorothy S

(winner has confirmed!)

DOROTHY, please collect your winner's blog badges from our sidebar... and email me (Pauline) at the yahoo address on the right, and we will organise your prize for you! Thank you for sponsoring our Sketch Challenge, Beccy's Place!

Welcome to Challenge #20 .... Our sponsor this week is a new member of our family here at Twist of Faith, and a designer I've treasured for as long as I've been creating with digi-stamps (I'm sure I'm not the only one)!  We are so very fortunate to welcome Melonheadz!

Melonheadz images are a fun and whimsical style, all handrawn by Nikki.  At the Melonheadz Blog you newly released sets which you can purchase at the Melonheadz etsy store, and a staggering selection of freebies available to you .... pop along to the Melonheadz blog and see what you might find! At Melonheadz Exclusives you will find exclusive sets, and previous freebie bundles.  At Melonheadz LDS you will find LDS and Christian illustrations, primary hand outs, and soon will have some items for purchasing as well.

Oh, and our winner, will receive their choice of a bundle of images from the Melonheadz etsy store!

This week's challenge theme is:


For the Men/Boys

"I am going the way of all the earth. So be strong. Show yourself to be a man.  Do what the Lord your God tells you.  Walk in His ways.  Keep all His Laws and His Word, by what is written in the Law of Moses. Then you will do well in all that you do and in every place you go."
                               1 Kings 2:2-3 NLV

I hope you enjoyed the above scripture share (which is just as appropriate for us women folk!) You don't have to use this scripture, but please use a scripture, or uplifting quote/sentiment in your creation.... that is our Twist if Faith, after all! 



We look forward to seeing your creations on a MASCULINE theme shared with us here...  and have a blessed week!

Please remember that if for any reason our Linky Tool fails us, share your creation through the comments section, with a direct link to your blog post.

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

#19 A Sketch Challenge

Welcome to Twist of Faith, where we share our faith through our card creations.  Each week, as a challenge closes, and we introduce a new challenge to you.  We will showcase three challenge entries that spoke to the challenge the most... and they will receive our Top 3 blog badge.  However, should a challenge receive less than 10 entries, we will draw only a prize winner.... and this week is one of those weeks! We extend congratulations to our prize winner...
#9 Christine Miller
Christine, please collect your winner's blog badges from our sidebar... and email me (Pauline) at the yahoo address on the right, and I'll get your prize off to you! Thank you for sponsoring our first challenge, Doodle Garden!

Now I can welcome you to our second challenge for 2013! Our sponsor this week is Beccy's Place.  We're thrilled to have her beautiful hand drawn images grace our pages ... they are created by Beccy Muir...

Paint, paper, silk, charcoal, clay, wool, fabric, fur… I’ve had my hands on all of it at some point in my life and am quite certain I’ll have a half-finished project on my desk and ink under my nails on the day I go to meet my Maker!

My paper obsession began with scrapbooking in the late 1990s and has since evolved into card-making and digital drawing.  There were a few years of decorative painting, teddy bear making and silk ribbon embroidery mixed in there too, and I still dabble in each of those crafts from time to time, but I generally gravitate toward paper, which is versatile and forgiving.


I started “doodling” little designs for cards back in 2009, which is also when I started my blog and began sharing my images with other Cardies.  From there I progressed to my very own online store selling digital drawings for cards and other paper craft projects.



Beccy's Place is offering our randomly drawn prize winner their choice of three images from the Beccy's Place collection!

This week, we have a

SKETCH CHALLENGE

... please use this simple sketch as a map for your card creation.  

Feel free to stretch it, flip it, as you see fit, as long as your end creation layout resembles this original basic sketch... (the text used is only to identify the sketch!) And of course you're free to use an embellishments you wish! Have fun!

As this is a sketch challenge, the theme for your card is completely open... the scripture below is a share for you.

"The one thing I ask of the Lord -- the thing I seek most
is to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life,
delighting in the Lord's perfections and meditating in His temple." 

                               Psalm 27:4 NLV

And remember to use a scripture, or uplifting quote/sentiment in your creation.... that is our Twist if Faith, after all! 




We look forward to seeing your creations using our SKETCH shared with us here. Have a blessed week!

Please remember that if for any reason our Linky Tool fails us, share your creation through the comments section, with a direct link to your blog post.

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

#18 A challenge to Welcome the New Year!

I can't believe it... here we are heralding in 2013!  Welcome to our first challenge of the year.  Thank you to all those that entered our challenges September through December 2012,  making our Twist of Faith beginnings so warm and wonderful! We especially appreciate those that share with us regularly.  I hope the recipients of your creations enjoy them as much as we did! 

I also want to make mention of my appreciation to the design team we have here at Twist of Faith... we have gone through some 'staff' changes some 'supply issues', but the team is sticking together like glue... they are an awesome team, and I'm so blessed to have them here at Twist of Faith.... THANK YOU, teamies!

Our Top 3 Picks this past challenge of White and Gold...

#2 Kathy D
Bride & Groom

#6 Pam K

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



SANDRA 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!

Our sponsor is the wonderful The Doodle Garden... and Jennifer has a wonderful selection of whimsical hand-drawn images for all occasions in her Doodle Garden etsy shop... we invite you to come on in and stay a while to look around The Doodle Garden!

The prize offered to our randomly drawn prize winner, consists of two digital  images from The Doodle Garden blog for new releases!

Our theme for you this week is 

WELCOME!

Your card creation could welcome in the New Year, or a New Baby, or a New Home... be welcoming!  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!

I know this scripture from Hebrews has been shared before, but it is a marvellous one...

"Don't forget to show hospitality to strangers, for some who have 
done this have entertained angels without realising it!
                           Hebrews 13:2 NLT

and I saw this one today.... I saw it in "The Message"... and I just love the very contemporary and straight-talking ... clear and simple!


"So reach out and welcome one other to God's glory. Jesus did it, now you do it!
                           Romans 15:7 The Message


If you have another inspiring scripture or quote, of course you are free to use it in your creation...any message that is fitting of our theme... (and remember that this Twist of Faith is an entry requirement for our challenges!) 

Our design team this week has created some wonderfully welcoming delights with our sponsor's images....


We do hope you'll join in our Welcome Challenge, and share your 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....
(if Mr Linky disappears as he seems to often these days, please leave a comment on this post, with a link to your challenge entry at your blog!)