Layers of Color Fruit of the Spirit Hop Winner!

Hello friends! Welcome to day two of our Fruit of The Spirit themed celebration!

Layers of Color is celebrating sponsoring 2Sketches4You this week!

Yesterday the LOC Design Team featured cards using their sketch and the Layers of Color Prize! Be sure to join the challenge at 2Sketches4You to be eligible to WIN THIS PRIZE: Fruitful Harvest art stamp set, Belle Brocade art stencil and Botanical Swirls art stencil!

For my card today, I used the Botanical Swirls art stencil and another image from the Fruitful Harvest art stamp set.

I stenciled the botanical swirls with Distress Ink and then with a gold gel pen I hand wrote the various fruits of the spirit, along with some doodled dots following the lines of the stencil. The image is stamped in Memento and colored with Copics, then cut with a Spellbinder's Classic Circle and matted with a Recollections Gold mat, cut with a Spellbinder's Lacey Circle die. The main designer paper is Webster's Pages WonderFall pack. The scrolly die cut is Spellbinder's Fanciful Holidays.

Galatians 5:22-23

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."

Yesterday I focused on Joy. Today I'm looking at Faithlness. First, what is faith? Hebrews tells us it's the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hmmm, what does that mean? Isn't it the same thing as belief? Well.... we believe that a chair will hold us up, but when we actually sit on it with all our weight, we have placed our full faith in it. Our faith in the Lord is much the same. Many believe in God. The Bible tells us the demons believe and they tremble! So just believing "in" God is not saving faith. It is when we personalize our belief, placing our full trust in the work of Christ on the cross as the only acceptable offering to a Holy God by which we could ever enter His presence, that we are expressing full faith. We can then trust our entire lives, our security, everything.... to Him. He alone is worthy of our full faith, trust and adoration. So where does faithfulness come in? When the source of our faith is faithful and true, then it produces faithfulness in our own hearts... we remain committed to Him and to the purpose He has for us. We show our faith through our faithfulness! It's one more attribute of the Spirit in a believer's life.

Eph 3:16-17
"I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith".

NOW... ON TO MY WINNER!
Last night I randomly drew one name to receive the prize I chose to give away today:
Touch of Elegance art stamp set!

The winner is:

Payne Holler Cards said...

beautiful talent - and wonderful post giving honor and glory to our Lord - enjoying the hop!

November 8, 2010 4:10 PM

Congratulations! Please email me at the link in my side bar (just below "Networked Blogs" with your mailing information including phone number if you are overseas. Your set will be in the mail shortly! Can't wait to see what you create with it!

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Today, the following designers have more inspiration to share and winners announced!

LOC * Jennie * Linda * Melisa

You’re invited to visit the designer blogs all week as we continue to share our “Fruit of the Spirit” themed creations! Remember to subscribe to the Layers of Color blog for Faith Art Friday, Guest Designer Wednesday, tutorials, exciting upcoming news, and unique colorful ideas! May God bless you with layers of color!

I am adding this to the following challenges:
Crafts4 Eternity - Sketch plus doodles
Paper Play - Circles
Stamp, Scrap and Doodle - Fall Cards (Fruit and fall Websters pages)
Crafty Emma - Forever Autumn
Fairy Tale - Everything Goes
Raise the Bar - Lets See those Curves
Ai Factory - Anything You Find in the Garden
Paper Romance - Lots of Whatever you want- layers
Little Red Wagon - Use some red
Crazy 4 Challenges - Square Card

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