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 #120. 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
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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
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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
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General Rules'.
Right now, it is time to continue with our midway. Here is a refresher of the details for our current twist:
Challenge #120
Anything Goes POSITIVE with the Opt. Twist of
The Power of Words: LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS
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 three to five
quotes to inspire your creative projects. If none provide any
inspiration, you can pick a quote or phrase of your own choosing to
focus on. You can use the quote/phrase/sentiment as
the focus 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 April:
“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.” — Maya Angelou
“We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.” — Joyce Meyer
“Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.” — Walter Winchell
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” — George Sand
“I
choose you. And I'll choose you over and over and over. Without pause,
without a doubt, in a heartbeat. I'll keep choosing you.” — Unknown
As you can see, the
overall theme for April is LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS.
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 wedding card or project inspired
by quotes 3 and 5. Inspired by the first quote, you could create a card
of encouragement for someone going through a difficult time, possibly
incorporating a rainbow right into the design. 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 LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS.
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: LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS,
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. Please note that as I was ill during Feb. and the team went ahead with
their projects, some have been previously posted. If that is the case, I
have added a permalink to the direct post. Anyone posting again in
April will just go to the main blog.
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: LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS 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 LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS.
Are you doing anything special this month to nurture a relationship in
your own life? Typically, Valentine's Day or Galentine's Day (both on
Feb. 14th) offer an opportunity to express your love for a special
someone or simply family and friends using words from the heart.
However, instead of leaving it to just one day a year, it is important
to cultivate our relationships as much as possible in order for them to
be successful. Like the quote from Joyce Meyer says, if we focus on
encouraging the people around us instead of criticizing, we have the
ability to take our relationships to another level completely. Carefully
think about the words you use in order to become that encouraging
presence in your loved ones' lives. 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 to share how you incorporate words of LOVE into your own RELATIONSHIPS.
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!
Click HERE to head to the current challenge post & link up!
Don't Forget...
Winners for
challenge #119 will be posted next Monday if everything goes according to
plan.
If you ever have any questions be sure to leave me a comment.
We look forward to seeing you participate!
