Winners & Design Team Delights for Challenge #126: Anything Goes POSITIVE with the Opt. Twist of Power of Words: FAITH/HOPE

 

Hello to all our wonderful crafting friends! I hope that you all continue to stay safe out there in whichever corner of the world you are located! 

Right now, it is time to present the winners for Challenge #126. First we'll share the names of the Most Inspirational and the Random Winner and then we'll move on to showcasing our DT Delights. Who are all the lucky peeps? Well, let's find out.

Without further ado, here are the choices...

Drum roll, please....

 🥁🥁🥁 BBBbbbrrrrrrrrr pish 🥁🥁🥁

 

 In the category of Most Inspiring, our winner is...

#24.NANACONNIE

NanaConnie, you are entitled to a lovely, one of a kind personalized badge for your blog as the Most Inspiring choice for Challenge #126 which you can find below...  

 

The Random Winner for this challenge (chosen by Random.org), 

based on all eligible participants is…

#23. MIA

 

Mia, you have won $6 worth of images or sentiments (digital paper packs not included) from Scribbles Designs, our on-going sponsor providing a prize for the project chosen as a Random Winner for each of our challenges in 2024.

 

Mia, you are also entitled to a neat and unique personalized badge for your blog as the Random Winner for Challenge #126 which you can find below...  

 

 

Big Congrats to...

NANNACONNIE & MIA

If you are our random prize winner for this challenge, please send your message to popwinners {at} gmail {dot} com (be sure to replace 'at' and 'dot' with the appropriate symbols), with the subject heading, "RANDOM WINNER PoP Challenge #126" to make arrangements to receive your prize. Please note that I am rather behind these days so it may take me a while to get back to you but I promise I will. I am currently caught up with the mail received in this account.

 

Now it is time to announce our DT Delights from this challenge. Thanks to the people who took the time to join along our Path during the month of December for Challenge #126. We had a total of 30 entries. Check out the ones that really caught our attention...

Zowie--chosen by Katrina…  

 

Katrina said this:

"My DT Delight is Zowie (#14). Those adorable images, whimsical hearts, and festive colors bring a smile to my face! Wonderful patterns and stitching add to the fun!"

 

  To see the details of Zowie's creation and read more of what she had to say click HERE.

 

 

Riet--chosen by Carole…

 

Carole had this to say:

"My DT Delight is Riet (#09). Riet's charming card and gift envelope is beautifully stamped and coloured. The card's inside decoration is just as wonderful and displays beautiful craftsmanship!"

 

To see the details of Riet's creation and read more of what she had to say click HERE.

 

 

Pauline--chosen by Suze…

 

Suze said this: 
"My DT Delight is Pauline (#07). I love the scene that Pauline has created. The rocks and seagulls are a great addition alongside the beach huts. I also like the white dots along the waves to create the image of cresting waves."

  To see the details of Pauline's creation and read more of what she had to say click HERE.

 

Creative Congratulations to you all!

Thank you to those who played on our Pathway during the month of December. As always we greatly appreciate you sharing your incredible talents with us.

For our DT Delights chosen for this challenge...

Zowie, Riet and Pauline

 

You are entitled to the special Challenge #126 DT Delight Badge which you can find below...

Well, that is it for this one. Please join us again on February 3rd (as long as everything goes according to plan), when we will be back with our newest challenge.

 
Do your best to continue stay safe, healthy and positive out there in your daily life and hopefully we'll see you all again soon!!!

Until next time,

 

 

Ch. #126 Top Picks

WELCOME TO THE CHALLENGE #126 POP TOP!

Hello folks! I hope that your Path this past week has included a number of positive moments along the route and that you and your families are all doing your best to stay healthy and happy. 

 

It is time to present the top picks from the last challenge. Since we had 30 lovely entries in Challenge #126 (click HERE to see the original challenge with the optional twist of The Power of Words: FAITH/HOPE), it is time to get on with showcasing the seven projects and/or write-ups that touched the team the most. In case you are new and wondering why seven and not the typical three, four or even five? Any time that we have more than 14 entries, we have a top seven (with 14 entries or under we just have a top three). We always strive to be a bit different over here on the Path of Positivity and this is just another way to do so. Additionally, seven is a spiritual number and thus right in the wheelhouse of the vibe we are looking to project; so, seven it is when enough people join in. 

 

Thus, without further ado, please let me introduce you to the Top Picks for Challenge #126…

 

 

 

  

Congrats Ladies... 

As a participant who has been chosen as a Top Pick in this challenge, 

you are entitled to a special Challenge #126 Top Pick Badge.

Please feel free to grab a copy for your blog...

 

  

Well, that is it for this one. Please join us again on January 20th (as long as everything goes according to plan), when we will be back with our midway. 

 
Do your best to continue stay safe, healthy and positive out there in your daily life and hopefully we'll see you all again soon!!!

Until next time,

 

Challenge #126--Anything Goes POSITIVE with the Opt. Twist of: Power of Words…FAITH/HOPE...Midway

 

Hey folks! Welcome back to the Path of Positivity Challenge Blog! It is the third Monday of the month and that means that it is time to present the midway for Challenge #126. It is my fond hope that each of you and your own families continue to stay happy, safe, and well, wherever it is you live in this big wide world of ours. 

As we are a unique kind of challenge blog, it is important for you to understand how things work. Please be sure to check out the START POST FOUND HERE for the specific details related to this month's challenge, and you can find out all the general details you need to know in order to participate, by clicking on the 'Challenge Details' tab (located at the top of the blog). For your convenience, a summary of the most important rules can now be found in the right sidebar under the heading 'General Rules'.
 
Right now, it is time to continue with our midway. Here is a refresher of the details for our current twist:

 

 

Challenge #126

Anything Goes POSITIVE with the Opt. Twist of 

The Power of Words:

FAITH/HOPE

 

This year's goal has been to look at how WORDS can influence our artistic endeavours. To help inspire you on this journey, each month we have focused on different quotes. I provide five quotes to inspire your creative projects. If none provide any inspiration, you can pick a quote or phrase of your own choosing to explore. You can use the quote/phrase/sentiment as the focal point of your creation OR you can embrace an aspect of the quote to focus on. As always, following our twists are optional.

 

If you do want to follow the optional twist this month, here are the quotes I've chosen for Dec.:

 

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.” — J. M. Barrie

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” — Albert Einstein

“To live without hope is to cease to live.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.” — Helen Keller

 

As you can see, the overall theme for Dec. is FAITH/HOPE. If you want to follow the optional theme, you can simply use one of the quotes literally and type it out and add it to your project. However, you could also create a project with one of the quotes in mind. For example, you could create a faith journal using the first quote as inspiration for your cover. Do you know someone who is struggling with some doubts in their abilities? You could create a card to inspire them using quote 2. There are lots of ways you could approach the quotes. And of course, if none of these inspires you, you can always find your own quote or sentiment expressing the concept of FAITH/HOPE.

Remember, the twist is completely optional and you don't need to follow it in order to win. However, in order to be considered eligible for this month's goodies, remember that general types of projects/posts will not qualify for the honours and prize UNLESS they are also positive, inspirational, motivational or encouraging in some nature. Additionally, even if a project may qualify as positive, if your post promotes negativity, hatred or anything of an abhorrent nature, your project will be disqualified. Honours and Prize include:

• $6 worth of images from Scribbles Designs, for a person chosen in a random draw based on all qualifying entrants.
• A badge for the following honours: Top Pick, Voter's Choice, Most Inspirational, Random Winner, DT Delight.

To help inspire you further down the path of The Power of Words…FAITH/HOPE, check out the wonderful projects my Design Team had the opportunity to create. Clicking on each team member's name will take you to their blog where you can check out the details for their inspirational creations.

 

 

 

 

Thanks again to my astounding design team! As always, each of them have their own unique avenues of creation which I thoroughly admire. Each of these designs has demonstrated the theme of The Power of Words…FAITH/HOPE splendidly, and I hope we have motivated you throughout this challenge to come up with your own work of handicraft. Be sure to go and visit these accomplished ladies so you can see just how their projects tie in to the twist.

 

Why not join us, if you haven't entered already? Create a project and/or post that is positive, inspirational, motivational or encouraging in some nature and join our link up. How about stretching yourself by also opting to follow the twist?! While it isn't mandatory, we'd also love to find out how this month's twist affects your own life. How often do you rely on words to inspire your creative endeavours? This month our quotes all focus on FAITH/HOPE. Are you doing anything special this month to promote FAITH/HOPE? Faith and hope often go hand in hand when we are reflecting on our creativity. We need to have faith in our abilities but also hope that we can improve our skills or take on new directions in our work. Doubt is a paralyzer. Like the quote from J. M. Barrie says, “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.” Therefore, continue to have faith in your abilities. Is there someone you know that could use some inspiration in this area? This month would be a great opportunity to send them some encouragement. You can write a sentence or two in the body of your post, write a sentence at the bottom of your post next to the link up for this challenge, or simply leave a comment on this post if you'd like.

Also, I know that the participants would love for you to go and pay them a visit. Remember we're creating a Path of Positivity to follow one project at a time and we'd love to see you somewhere on that route even if it is just by leaving a comment on an entry from someone who has touched you somehow with their project and/or post! You can find our list of participants and enter our latest challenge yourself by clicking HERE and scrolling down to the bottom of the post.

 

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Please show your support to our wonderful sponsor, Scribbles Designs, by going over and checking out their work and saying hi if you have the chance. You may also just find an image or two to add your your collection!

Thank you so much to this awesome Canadian company for their
continued support of this challenge blog!

Don't Forget...

Winners for challenge #125 will be posted next Monday if everything goes according to plan. You can find the Top Picks post HERE.

 

If you ever have any questions be sure to leave me a comment.

 

Click HERE to head to the current challenge post & link up!

 

 

We look forward to seeing you participate!

Ch. #126--Anything Goes POSITIVE with the Opt. Twist of: Power of Words…FAITH/HOPE

Hello everyone and welcome to the Path of Positivity Challenge Blog! It is the first Monday of the month and it is time for our last challenge of the year! We hope that you and your families continue to stay healthy and safe out there. If you celebrate any of the festivities taking place in December, we wish you peace and joy and hope that the events stay as positive as possible!

 

Since we are not your typical challenge blog, it is important for you to understand how things work in order to be sure you are eligible to win any of the prizes offered. If you are new to this unique challenge, you can find out the impetus behind why I started it under the 'Introductions' tab and you can find out all the details you need to know in order to participate, in the 'Challenge Details' tab (both tabs located at the top of the blog). For your convenience, a summary of the most important rules can also be found in the right sidebar under the heading 'General Rules'.

 
Right now, it is time to get down to the business of our latest challenge. Here is what you need to know...

 

Challenge #126

Anything Goes POSITIVE with the Opt. Twist of 

The Power of Words:

FAITH/HOPE

 

This year's goal is to look at how WORDS can influence our artistic endeavours. To help inspire you on this journey, each month we will focus on different quotes. I will provide five quotes to inspire your creative projects. If none provide any inspiration, you can pick a quote or phrase of your own choosing to explore. You can use the quote/phrase/sentiment as the focal point of your creation OR you can embrace an aspect of the quote to focus on. As always, following our twists are optional.

 

If you do want to follow the optional twist this month, here are the quotes I've chosen for Dec.:

 

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.” — J. M. Barrie

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” — Albert Einstein

“To live without hope is to cease to live.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.” — Helen Keller

 

As you can see, the overall theme for Dec. is FAITH/HOPE. If you want to follow the optional theme, you can simply use one of the quotes literally and type it out and add it to your project. However, you could also create a project with one of the quotes in mind. For example, you could create a faith journal using the first quote as inspiration for your cover. Do you know someone who is struggling with some doubts in their abilities? You could create a card to inspire them using quote 2. There are lots of ways you could approach the quotes. And of course, if none of these inspires you, you can always find your own quote or sentiment expressing the concept of FAITH/HOPE.

Remember, the twist is completely optional and you don't need to follow it in order to win. However, in order to be considered eligible for this month's goodies, remember that general types of projects/posts will not qualify for the honours and prize UNLESS they are also positive, inspirational, motivational or encouraging in some nature. Additionally, even if a project may qualify as positive, if your post promotes negativity, hatred or anything of an abhorrent nature, your project will be disqualified. Honours and Prize include:

• $6 worth of images from Scribbles Designs, for a person chosen in a random draw based on all qualifying entrants.
• A badge for the following honours: Top Pick, Voter's Choice, Most Inspirational, Random Winner, DT Delight.

 

Now check out what my awesome design team came up with to inspire you. Clicking on each team member's name will take you to their blog where you can check out the details for their inspirational creations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

My wonderful design team continues to astound me each and every month! They all have their own approach and deft insight into the twist. Even after all this time, I continue to be astonished by the purview of greatness in their work! Each of these artful conceptions has showcased the notion of The Power of Words…FAITH/HOPE admirably and I hope we have inspired you to commence on your own exploration of creativity. Be sure to go and visit each team member so you can see how her project further connects to the twist.

So what are you waiting for? Create a project and/or post that is positive, inspirational, motivational or encouraging in some nature and join our link up. How about stretching yourself by also opting to follow the twist?! While it isn't mandatory, we'd also love to find out how this month's twist affects your own life. How often do you rely on words to inspire your creative endeavours? This month our quotes all focus on FAITH/HOPE. Are you doing anything special this month to promote FAITH/HOPE? Faith and hope often go hand in hand when we are reflecting on our creativity. We need to have faith in our abilities but also hope that we can improve our skills or take on new directions in our work. Doubt is a paralyzer. Like the quote from J. M. Barrie says, “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.” Therefore, continue to have faith in your abilities. Is there someone you know that could use some inspiration in this area? This month would be a great opportunity to send them some encouragement.  You can write a sentence or two in the body of your post, write a sentence at the bottom of your post next to the link up for this challenge, or simply leave a comment on this post if you'd like. Finally, remember that we're trying to create a Path of Positivity so if you have some time, please visit other people participating throughout the month.

Please join us again next week when we will [hopefully] post the Top Picks for Challenge #125. Then, be sure to join us again on December 16th when we'll be back with our midway featuring more great projects. 

 
If you ever have any questions be sure to send an email to decossesdynamitedoodles {at} yahoo {dot} ca (don't forget to replace {at} and {dot} with the appropriate symbols), or just leave me a comment.

We look forward to seeing you participate!

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If you have any problems linking up, please be sure to let me know by leaving a comment on this post.

Ch. #126--Anything Goes POSITIVE with the Opt. Twist of The Power of Words: FAITH/HOPE
This is the place to link up something that you have created during the month that you consider positive, inspirational, motivational or encouraging in some nature. Entries for this challenge will be accepted from December 2nd until 11:59 p.m. (ET) on January 5th, 2024. 

SEVEN entries MAX. Please click on the 'Challenge Details' tab located at the top of the blog to see all the rules. A summary of the most important rules can also be found in the right sidebar under the heading 'General Rules'. If you would like to be a Guest Designer in a future challenge, please add the letters GDT after your name.

Winners & Design Team Delights for Challenge #50--Opt.Theme: FAITH, HOPE, LOVE...

Hello and happy Monday! Happy Fall Y'all as well. I don't know about you, but where I live the last four days have been hotter than any day we had the entire summer. It is supposed to continue for another couple days and then return to normal. It is an interesting start to the autumn season!

Right now, it is time to present the winners for Challenge #50. First we'll share the names of the Voter's Choice, the Most Inspirational and the Random Winner and then we'll move on to showcasing our DT Delights. Who are all the lucky peeps? Well, let's find out.

Without further ado, here are the choices...

Drum roll, please....BBBbbbrrrrrrrrr pish

 The people have spoken and their choice for Challenge #50 is....

SUSAN

Susan, you are entitled to receiving a cool and awe inspiring personalized badge for your blog as the Voter's Choice for Challenge #50. Please feel free to copy your badge below...

 In the category of Most Inspiring, our winner is...

KYLIE

Kylie, you have won a scrapbooking kit from Décosse's Dynamite Doodles, one of our guest sponsors during Challenge #50.

Kylie, you are also entitled to a lovely, one of a kind personalized badge for your blog as the Most Inspiring choice for Challenge #50 which you can find below...

The Random Winner for this challenge (chosen by Random.org), based on all eligible participants is:

DEANNE

Deanne, you have won three images from Pattie's Creations, one of our guest sponsors during Challenge #50.

Deanne, you are also entitled to a neat and unique personalized badge for your blog as the Random Winner for Challenge #50 which you can find below...

Big Congrats to...

  SUSAN, KYLIE & DEANNE

If you have won a prize during this challenge, please send your message to popwinners {at} gmail {dot} com (be sure to replace 'at' and 'dot' with the appropriate symbols), or click HERE to bring our email up in your program, with the subject heading, "WINNER PoP Challenge #50" to make arrangements to receive your prize. Please note that I am rather behind these day so it may take me a while to get back to you but I promise I will. Thank you for your patience.

Now it is time to announce our DT Delights from this challenge. As always, in each challenge you, the readers, get to voice your opinion by voting for your favourite and so it is only fitting that my Design Team get to do so as well.

Thanks to the 19 people who took the time to join along our Path during the month of June for Challenge #50. Check out the entries that really caught our attention...

 Kylie--chosen by Pippa...

Pippa said this:
"My DT Delight is Kylie.  I just love the colours and the sentiment fits so well with the theme. Also the fact that this is a new venture for Kylie is inspirational. I am so glad she shared it with us at POP. A beautiful, positive and inspiring card."

To see the details of Kylie's creation and read more of what she had to say click HERE.

AJ--chosen by Julie...

Julie had this to say:
"My DT Delight is AJ.  I love the digital stamp, the color scheme, and the feather accents."

To see the details of AJ's creation and read more of what she had to say click HERE.

Deanne--chosen by Katrina...

 Katrina said this:
"My DT Delight is Deanne. I adore this card by Deanne. I love the colors, background paper, embossing, sentiment...it just works for me!"

To see the details of Deanne's creation and read more of what she had to say click HERE.

Susan--chosen by Suze...

Suze had this to say:
"My DT Delight is Susan.  The choice of DP is perfect for the quote and I love the way the sentiment is the focus of the ATC."

To see the details of Susan's creation and read more of what she had to say click HERE.

Creative Congratulations to all of you!

Thank you to those who played on our Pathway during the month of June. As always we greatly appreciate you sharing your incredible talents with us.

For our DT Delights chosen for this challenge...

  Kylie, AJ, Deanne and Susan

  You are all entitled to one image of your choice from our on-going sponsor...

Please click HERE to check out the image previews. They are arranged into general categories; although, due to the nature of some of these images, they have been repeated in certain applicable categories. Be sure to click on the watermarks to bring them up into the lightbox for better viewing. Now, I apologize but unfortunately, the owner of CBD is MIA right now and her blog background needs some serious updating as her images are all out of Flickr 3rd Party Hosting.  As such it is extremely diffiuclt to see anything on the blog. However, the jpgs themselves are fine and the name of the image is written right on the jpg so you should be able to see the names without a problem.

If you are interested in claiming a digi, please send me the name of the one image you want and let me know which section it came from. Send your request to popwinners {at} gmail {dot} com (be sure to replace 'at' and 'dot' with the appropriate symbols), or click HERE to bring our email up in your program, with the subject, "PoP#50-DT Delight Digi Request". I'm always running rather behind these days, so your patience is appreciated.

Additionally, you are all entitled to the special Challenge #50 DT Delight Badge which you can find below...

Be sure to join us on Monday, October 2nd, to learn what the optional theme for Challenge #52 will be. However, don't forget that there is still one week left to link up your projects in our current challenge, with the optional theme of SURROUND YOURSELF WITH ART. Click HERE for details. I hope that you will consider coming over to play with us. As always, we'd love to have you join our Path!