This months theme is His Princess, we are daughter, of the most high King or as we say at SOF My daddy is the king that makes me a princess. I made this book to celebrate the fact that by faith we are given the right to be called children of God. We are loved by God, and we are forgiven and set free by his Grace.



Full of bling and pretty things.For full intructions go to http://www.4shared.com/file/72159287/e72d42df/Princess_Mini_Book.html
The mini book has been made to fit into the tin made at the retreat. For those not at the retreat please go to http://www.4shared.com/file/72159286/902a7249/Princess_Tin_for_retreat.html
for instructions on how to alter a tin.

Royal Blessings

Princess Gail

This months BOF theme is Sisters in Christ. AS I started to think about all the wonderful sisters God has blessed my life with a picture started to grow in my head of a beautiful bouquet of friends from my daughter, my SIL, my spiritual mentor, SOF friends and more. This is how the Sisters In Christ Bouquet came about.


Its whimsical and was fun to do and can keep growing as new sisters bloom in my life.

http://www.4shared.com/file/68329887/7d88e5c2/Sisters_In_Christ_Bouquet.html for full instructions.

Blessings

Gail

This month theme is Inner Beauty. I knew what I wanted to do almost straight away - an Altered Mirror and knew which verse I would use. 1 Samuel 16:7c "Man Looks at outward appearance but the Lord looks at the heart".

We can dress ourselves up as much as we like, change our hair colour or style even keep up with the ever changing clothing trends but that isn't going to change who we are inside. Only God can make us beautiful on the inside but we do need to listen and allow him to change us.

Follow this link for the Altered Inner Beauty Mirror instructions

http://www.4shared.com/file/60740461/59442246/Inner_Beauty_Mirror.html

Blessings

Gail

This months OTP project is one of my favourites so far "Be thankful Layered Mini Album ", following our book of faith them "Thanksgiving". I had sooooooooooo much fun playing with different techniques and mediums for this one. Including stamping & printing on transparency, using texture medium & paint and layering with vellum & transparencies to give an interesting tactile mini album. I have actually made this album to give away but I really wanted to add pictures of things I am thankful for so have a little look at what I came up with.

This was a great reminder to me that God has given us so much and we need to show him our thankfulness, not just for the big things but also for that butterfly that just landed on your pretty flower, for the laughter of children playing and the beautiful blue sky. And as hard as it is we need to give thanks in our tough times too as we know God is with us through each and every step in our lives.

In everything give thanks 1 Thess 5:18

To download the instructions for the Be thankful Layered mini Album follow this link
http://www.4shared.com/file/56078785/b0a225d6/Be_Thankful_Layered_mini_book_July.html

Blessings
Gail

This months theme is reaching out or evangelising. I thought this project of an altered tin with a mini book of Bible verses would be just the thing to give to a friend or family member your are witnessing to. Very simple and a lot of fun to make. I kept mine very simple but you can make it as fancy as you like, Adding pictures would make it more a more personal gift.

The verses I chose to use in the mini book were:-1 Chronicles 16:34, John 3:16. 1 John 4:7, 1 Corinthians 13:4-8a & Proverbs 1

YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE FULL INSTRUCTIONS HERE

"Jesus loves me this I know for the Bible tells me so, little to ones to Him belong, they are weak but He is strong. Yes Jesus loves me. Yes Jesus loves me. Yes Jesus loves me. The Bible tells me so."

This song from my childhood was going through my head the whole time I was putting together this months OTP project, Altered LOVE monogram. What security to know that Jesus does love me. ME a sinner. What have I done to deserve his love, NOTHING, but he has chosen to love me. AND no matter what I do he will still love me. WOW. He gave His life up for me he forgives my sin and has made me right with God, he has given me His spirit to guide me and to make me like him, again WOW.

My prayer is that each of you will know this love of Jesus Christ and that you will "grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge - that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God" (Ephesians 3:18b-19).

This was a fun project to put together. Made using BG two scoops range including die cut stickers and alphas. The back is also covered in paper and this is where I did my journalling:- Bible verse about Christs love, a few quotes, my thoughts on Christs love and of course the above song "Jesus Loves Me".

Have fun trying this project, please put a pic in the gallery when you do make it.

http://www.4shared.com/file/46953267/80802ea8/Gail_Instructions.html?dirPwdVerified=c4f8a5fc

Blessings

Gail

The greatest lesson God has taught me was a threefold lesson in listening, obeying and trusting Him.


God had for some time trying to tell me I was in a place where he did not want me to be, but I kept ignoring his small still voice for some years until it became a total conviction that I wasn't where he wanted me to be. Once I realised this I had to make a choice to either obey him or to keep living in disobedience. To obey him I had to withdraw from a committment I had made and really felt that I was going to let many people down, this was where step three came into being. TRUST me, God said. I did trust him, stepped out in Faith & obedience and those involved were incredibly understanding even though they couldn't really understand my reasoning for leaving. BUT the best part was yet to come.


Out of my eventual obedience came incredible blessing, beyond what I could ever had imagined. Within a month of leaving Music Hall Sal invited me to be a part of the Scrap Of Faith Design team AND I had 3 of my altered tins accepted for publishing in Handmade magazine.


The above LO celebrates my journey of Listening, obeience and trust and YES great blessings. So really this was a fourfold lesson. The verse that came to me again and again through all of this journey was "Be still and Know I am God" Psalm 46:10a.


The OTP project for this month is a memory box to store those little life lessons that God loves to share with us.This box is lined inside and has a felt base and decorated cards waiting for those lessons to be written up.

Download the full instructions here

Cubes of Change
This months project was a lot of fun to put together. I chose to go with the physical change in my family over the years by using the first pic of Dh & I and baby pics of my children with current pics of us. I then added Bible verses rub-ons & stickers to highlight how God changes us by his indwelling Holy Spirit, by prayer and obedience to him.

As I was working on my project I was thinking how has God changed me. BUT the question that kept coming to mind was have I let God change me. God does change us but we can get in the way of that process by our disobedience and pride. We often think we can change ourselves, but those changes are short lived. It is when we give ourselves over to God and listen to His Holy Spirit and live in obedience to him that we see changes in our lives.

AS we rely on the Holy Spirit we begin to see the fruits of the spirit in our lives. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodnesss, faithfullness, gentleness and self control.

So my question of have I let God change me, yes I have but its a long and slow process and it will be continuing all the way through this life.

love & Blessings

Gail

project instructions http://www.scrapoffaith.com/Change.pdf

Dont forget to upload pics of this project and any others that you complete into our gallery.