Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Challenge #85 - Sponsored by Crafty Secrets

Welcome back, friends!  We hope that you've had a great week, and we're SO glad to have you join us for another awesome challenge.  This week's word art/scripture file was designed by our former Design Team Member, Diane Noble.  If you'd like to see some of the lovely images Diane has been creating and has for sale, you can visit her brand new blog Diane's Daydream Designs and follow the links.  We praise God for restoring her to full health, and we wish her the best in her new endeavors.  If you would prefer to have the colored version of this scripture file, please let us know and we can email it to you.
 
This verse, Philippians 4:6-7, is a wonderful piece of scripture.  It tells us that we should be careful (worried about) absolutely nothing. But that in everything, through prayer (asking) and supplication (reverent and humble communication), and with much thanks, we are to make our requests known to God.  How awesome is that?  What a blessing it is to know that the awesome God of this universe would care enough about us to hear our humble prayers, and care about the things that matter to us.  God does NOT want us to worry.  We're not supposed to spend our time and energy being stressed out.  God has told us that we are to give all that worry  and anxiety to Him through prayer.  And, not only does God HEAR our prayers, praises and requests, and care about them; but He (and He alone) can answer them, and take away our worries!  According to His will, and in His perfect timing, He will answer all our prayers in the way that is best for us.  We are TOO BLESSED to be stressed!
 
You are welcome to save this week's free scripture/word art file to your computer, but are not required to use it in order to play along in our challenges.   We welcome you share your art with us; remembering that Anything Goes as long as it's family-friendly, and uses an encouraging or uplifting sentiment. You can also link more than one project each week (up to 5 each week). The more you enter, the more you increase your odds of winning. We just  want God's Word to be a blessing and encouragement to you each week. If you have any questions about the rules, be sure to read the complete list of rules under our page tab for "Challenge Rules".  They have been recently revised.  Also, please note that you do not need to have a blog in order to play along with us.  We are pleased to have our friends at Splitcoast Stampers, Flikr and other galleries play along with us!  You're all welcome to share, and eligible to win.

Here is this week's free scripture/word art. We hope you enjoy it!
This week's AWESOME sponsor is:
The AMAZING Crafty Secrets
One person will win a $40 Gift Certificate
to spend at the Crafty Vintage Girl Store
You will LOVE their darling images and goodies!
 
Our Winners From Last Week's Challenge Are:
Entry #9 - Lis R. has won the lovely
vintage images from Nice Crane Designs
AND
Entry #3 - Chris Olsen has won
the $25 gift certificate to
Verve Rubber Stamps - She will get to
select some gorgeous new stamps and die-cuts!
 
Special thanks to ALL our wonderful sponsors!
And now...here's a bit of inspiration from our Design Team
 
Cassandra Cushman, Our Guest Designer
 
Lori Ulrich
Using sweet Flower Sheet images from
our awesome sponsor, Crafty Secrets


Carole Robb Bisson
Using lovely Flower Sheet Images
from our amazing Sponsor, Crafty Secrets
No Art This Week
 
Using the lovely Rose Bush image
from our sponsor, Crafty Secrets
 
No Art This Week
 
Karen Letchworth
Using a beautiful image from the Flower Sheet
from our generous sponsor, Crafty Secrets
 

18 comments:

LeAnne said...

I love this verse and your samples are wonderful! LOVE CS stuff too!

Gail said...

Congrats to the winners - great inspiration from DT - lovely scripture to use - I like the design on this one very much - thanks for another challenge - enjoy your week!

Mew said...

I love this verse, but I couldn't figure out how to grab a good copy from your site so I recreated it as closely as I could. I hope that is okay.

Ann said...

Lovely creations by the Design Team, I miss seeing Gemiel's layout this week. I always enjoy her layouts.

Crafty Secrets Heartwarming Vintage Co. said...

Thanks for the nice compliments, it's great to be a sponsor. The Design Team has created some really wonderful samples!! Beautiful work and scripture

Thank you to everyone!
Sandy

Esther Asbury said...

Lovely examples from the DT -- thanks again for sharing free word art with us each week!

Anonymous said...

I absolutely love this challenge each week - although I rarely leave any comments, I am so thankful for all of you on this website!!! You are a bunch of wonderful women!! God bless! Jan aka Precious Kitty

Arnoldo L. Romero, MLA said...

I love, love, love the artsy typeface on this week's scripture, as well as all the marvelous applications by the DT members. Blessings!

Ustvarjalni utrinki Tamara P. said...

Gorgeous work like every week ladies
hugs from Tamara

ileana said...

Loving your cards, DT! thank you for another challenge

Debbie J said...

Thankyou Karen for leaving a lovely comment on my blog. Am following you now and entered my card.

scrappymo! said...

Praise God for Dianne's recovery!

The design team has made some wonderful cards. Thanks for the chance to win.

scrappymo! said...

Oh dear...I clicked on the wrong image and so now mycard does not show in the link. It shows the correct blog post...but the card is not displayed...sorry...my bad...

DIANA L. said...

Thanks for the fun challenge. Great Design Team inspiration
DIANA L
http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com

DIANA L. said...

Congrats to the winners!!

DIANA L
http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com

One Scrappy Gal said...

I am so delighted to have found this site! I didn't know that something like this existed! I so much enjoy the beautiful word art and can't wait to use some of them on future cards. God bless you all! Hannah

kbrandy4 said...

Thank you for a fabulous challenge and gorgeous inspiration from the DT!!
Hugs, Hazel xx

Dorothy S said...

DT members - as usual, you have provided lovely inspiration. Thank you.