CHALLENGE #43 - SCENES - Scenic card/or a scenic image

Welcome to Twist of Faith, where we share our faithful, encouraging, healing, and uplifting creations.  What a great way to be a blessing to others by sending them a card!

Each week we showcase 3 entries that followed the challenge guidelines the most.  Last week's top 3 are (in no particular order):

#2 KAREN L

#5 CHRISTINE MILLER

#6 PAM KORTE

And our random winner from last week:

#8 EMILY THUBBRON

Congratulations EMILY !!! Please contact Pauline at the email address to the right to make arrangements for your prize!

This week our new challenge is:

SCENES - a scenic card or scenic image

And of course, don't forget our purpose - to include a scripture, uplifting quote/sentiment, or positive words of encouragement.

This week a verse comes to mind that is a great promise:

The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my savior; my God is my rock, in whom I find protection. He is my shield, the power that saves me, and my place of safety.

(Psalm 18:2 - New Living Translation)

On with the show.... with a word from our fabulous 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.

StampArt Design by Kathryne! This week's prize winner will receive their choice of FIVE IMAGES from the SADK collection available at Whimsy Stamps ... wonderful! 

Now it's time for some eye-candy and inspiration!  Take a look and see what our design team has created to inspire you.

 Antoinette  using Lulu

Barb using Charlie Fishing on a Log

inside of card

Hillary using  Little Bear Spring Bonnet Large Flower

Pauline  using

Vickie using "Charlie"

Zella using ALLIE & ANGEL

We look forward to seeing your scenes shared with us here. Have a blessed week!

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

Farewell Friends, Design Team Call!

Sadly we are saying 'see ya round' to two of our dear teamies, Jenee and Judy.  Jenee has been with Twist of Faith from the start, and has been an awesome support to the team, and a fabulous creator and motivator!  Although Judy has only been with us for three months, she has been a bright sparkle to the team, and we have adored her creations!  We will miss you both dearly but we understand when you are guided elsewhere... we love you and wish you both the very best!

So...

We are looking to add THREE new team members here at Twist of Faith... 

Remember that our 'hallmark' is that we share our faith through our cardmaking, by including scripture, quotes or verses that are uplifting and encouraging in our card creations.

If you are interested in joining us, please read our DESIGN TEAM POST PAGE (or the link is above), and email Pauline at the yahoo address shown on the right sidebar.

Please scroll to the next post for this week's challenge!

Challenge #42 Sketch It!

Welcome to Twist of Faith, where we share card creations with scripture, or uplifting verse and quotes!  Before we get on to our new challenge, first let us congratulate our Top 3 and prize winner of last week's FABRIC Challenge....

#1 Ann Marie Governale


#2 Beth F


#4 Antoinette


and our prize winner this week...also featured in out Top 3! Congratulations ENTRY #4 ANTOINETTE!

ANTOINETTE 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 challenge,  Michelle Perkett Studios!

We are happy to welcome back our sponsor ... Digi Darla's Designs! Our random prize winner will receive their choice of  FIVE images! DigiDarla is the brain child of Kim Eskola and her daughter Emilea...

"Emilea and I both enjoy creating and when the idea of creating digital stamps came up, it sounded like the most wonderful way to earn ever! There was only one problem! We are both shy and dislike the center of attention! As a way of "hiding behind the scenes" and avoiding having one spokeswoman, Digi Darla was born!  Working with Emilea on this project has been a wonderful blessing and has stretched both of us. Emilea is a busy teen with her passion for art and training our 2 horses, piano and violin lessons, and squeezing in high school classes somewhere in between! She is also the oldest daughter in a family of 11!"

This week's #42 challenge is a:

SKETCH CHALLENGE!

... please use this 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).

Your creation should also include a scripture,
uplifting verse or positive words/quote..

"Gracious words are like a honeycomb,
sweetness to the soul and health to the body." (Proverbs 16:24) 

As always, you are free to use whatever scripture, or verse/passage that will suit your creation in our theme.

I hope you will enjoy our sponsor's images showcased by our design team for the SKETCH Challenge!

Hillary (out of town)

Judy Butterfly Wonder

Pauline using Picking Grace

Vickie using God Loves You Nature 1

and Vickie also using Picking Grace

Zella using "Blessings of Heaven 7"

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. Your creation will be counted!

 And don't forget what our challenge is all about... our 'twist of faith' 

... your card creation should also include a scripture, quote or an uplifting verse!

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

Challenge #41 FABRICS

Welcome to Twist of Faith, where we share card creations with scripture, or uplifting verse and quotes!  Before we get on to our new challenge, let us congratulate last week's Template/Die-Cut Top 3:

#6 Joanne (Sassy Raggedy)

#8 Jo-Ann Atterbury

#9 Anna-Carin

And congratulations  go to our prize winner:
#3 Steph W

Stephanie 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 challenge,  Stamp Art Design by Katherine!

We are always happy to have the Michelle Perkett Studio join us in sponsorship for you! Michelle hand draws the most beautiful and character filled images, with a special love for fairies, and mermaids!  There are beautiful Christian images and sentiments to be found at the MPS Etsy Store.  Sign up for the newsletter and blog updates, at the Michelle Perkett Studio blog, so you know when the new images are released, and watch out for wonderful freebies!  Oh, and if you love rubber stamps, you can find some of Michelle's designs in rubber at Sparkle N Sprinkle!

Our random prize winner will receive their choice of one of the images we have showcase for you!

This week's challenge theme is:

FABRICS!
(Your card must include fabric on it)

with a scripture, uplifting verse or positive words/quote.

"We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life."
Romans 6:4 NIV

As always, you are free to use whatever scripture, song, poem or verse/passage that will suit your creation in our theme.

I hope you will enjoy our sponsor's images showcased by our design team for the FABRIC Challenge!

Hillary using Vintage Dress

Jenee is taking the week off. Will be back next week.

Pauline using Vintage Dress

Vickie is taking the week off. Will be back next week.

Zella using "A Watered Garden"

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. Your creation will be counted!

 And don't forget what our challenge is all about.... our 'twist of faith' ... your creation should also include a scripture, quote or an uplifiting verse!

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

Challenge #40 Templates and Die Cuts

Thank you to our entries in last week's Clean and Simple challenge.. we really enjoyed visiting your blogs this week (but then we do every week!).  Sadly numbers were down, but we would love it if you will join us again this week, and invite your friends too!

Finishing off our CLEAN AND SIMPLE challenge, the DT favourite picks who will receive the Top 3 Badge this week, are:

#2 Deneen Treble

#6 Antoinette

#7 Donna G

Congratulations to our Top 3 ladies! You'll find our Top 3 Badge on the left sidebar.  Our random prize winner, who wins a selection of images from Milk Coffee Stamps is

#5 Sierra Winters

SIERRA, we would love to see our Winner's badge on your blog, (you can collect it from our left 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 Milk Coffee Stamps for your sponsorship in last week's Challenge!

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On with the show.... with 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 are always happy to have our current sponsor with us ... 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 always enjoy having  StampArt Design by Kathryne as a sponsor because we love her images and sentiments!

Our theme for you this week is 

TEMPLATES AND/OR DIE CUTS!

For this challenge, we want to see what you create using either templates (cutting templates, doodling templates etc) and/or die-cuts!  

Remember our 'twist of faith'... your creation should also include a scripture, or quote,
 or an uplifiting sentiment.

Here is a scripture to share, or for inspiration ....

Taste and see that the LORD is good.Oh the joys of those who takes refuge in him!       Psalm 34:8 NLT

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

Hillary using Ari and Toby

Jenee using LuLu

Pauline using Majestic Eagle Head 
(and a freebie scripture digi that was available this week!)

Vickie using Gracie

Zella using Inspirational Cross 3

 REMEMBER our challenge is about including a 'twist of faith' ... your creation should also include a scripture, quote or an uplifting verse!

As it happens, our fabulous sponsor this week, StampArt Design by Kathryne offers free scripture digi texts on her blog every Monday. Do visit Kathryne's blog and sign on to receive these beautiful scriptures!

If our Linky Tool fails us, please share your creation through the comments section, with a direct link to your blog post. Your creation will be counted!

Come along and share in our challenge  ... and have a wonderful and blessed week!