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Friday Four: Faith Friends

Heather Greenwood is sharing her favorite faith girls and her favorite products from each of them

Last September, I went to The Influence Conference in Indy and finally got to meet some of my faith friends in person. I've met them online and we were already friends but there is something amazing that happens when you finally meet in person... late nights chatting in our room and no sleep. I'm so very blessed by each of these girls and I love supporting their faith based businesses.

The Reset Girl

Cori made me fall in love with travel notebooks and decorating planners on YouTube and she's a fellow INFP. I'm so blessed by her and to be a part of her planner stylist team. I love that she is open about her faith and even has faith based planner stickers in her shop. She's one of my biggest inspirations and I love her so much. Use code: welove@heathergw for 10% off at TheResetGirlShop.com

Marine Parents

April was one of the first Illustrated Faith team members and I have always loved her style of Bible journaling. While I miss having her on the team, she still inspires me so much and love following her on Instagram. I have bought several pouches from her to support their adoption of two boys and love the custom Bible cover I had her make for me. We instantly hit it off when we met and I got her to fall in love with essential oils. We love chatting often and I am forever blessed by her.

I have had several people ask me about my Bible cover and here's what you need to know... April offers ruffled Bible sleeves for *any* size Bible - pricing starts at $30 + shipping and varies based on your Bible dimensions. She does not keep Bible covers stocked in her shop because she wants each one to be unique and custom made for YOU! To get an order started, send an email to marineparents.shop@gmail.com... you'll receive an auto-response that has all the info to get you started!!! As a fun little gift, each Bible sleeve order comes with a matching fabric tab to clip in your Bible as a way to mark your favorite passage or to keep track of your current reading spot.

The Adopt Shoppe

I didn't really meet Kate before the conference, I just knew she was April's bestie. I totally fell in LOVE with her when we met. She is such a sweet soul and I love her heart for adoption and that she's also a homeschooling mom. Her designs are beautiful and I never get to snatch up her jewelry when she posts them... I love that they sell out so fast and they go to the people who they are meant to go to. She did give me a necklace at the conference and I treasure it so much. It was definitely meant to be as I deal with anxiety so much. I'm so very blessed by her even if we don't chat much. She inspires me with gorgeous product styling and awesome designs... one day it will be meant to be for me to snatch up another piece of jewelry from her.

Marine Parents and The Adopt Shoppe conspire

Kate has her designs printed on fabric and then April creates pouches with them... how awesome is that?!?! I just love these two together, true besties and it shows in their collaborations. I was lucky enough to snatch up this pouch with one of my favorite quotes and a yummy fabric combination. I love storing my Faber Castell Big Brush Markers in them for when I'm traveling or to church or events. They use the hashtag #kateandaprilconspire to see their collaborations on Instagram.

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God's Been Whispering Lately | What's Been Going On And What's 2:10 FIT?

A little less than a year ago, I had a big health scare. One that triggered a change in me. Something was missing in my equation. The blog was going great, I was on a roll and having fun creating and writing. I met up with Shanna right as Illustrated Faith was getting started and I knew that this was where God was leading our friendship. I still continued to work hard on my blog and promote the teams I was on and the affiliates I loved. I was in the Word and painting in my Bible. I've never felt closer to God... and then that dreaded ear infection happened that spun me around and made me realize that I was headed down a slippery slope that was keeping me from doing God's good work that He created me for.

This is the new ME, or rather, the "me" God is leading me to be...

Heather Greenwood's transformation story and how it relates to Ephesians 2:10 and what the 2:10 FIT Facebook group is about. Join us in this journey.

Truth is, I'm scared to post this post! I've been waiting for the right time, and waiting for everything to be perfect and all set up already. God gave me this vision a couple months ago and out of fear I've been putting it off. Today, He told me to stop stalling and just be there for my community and tell them how much I love them and want for them.

You've seen the creative side of me, but it's time to show you all of me... I'm not perfect, but I'm healthier than I've ever been in my life. I'm not just talking physically either, but mentally and spiritually. I've lost 30lbs, I have more energy than I've ever had. I'm a better mom, a better wife, a better team member for Shanna and team leader for Illustrated Faith. I'm a better homeschooling mom, a better motivator to my friends. Most important I'm closer to God than I've ever been. Through all of this, I've found that God has given me a gift to encourage and motivate, to be a cheerleader. I inspire friends to be brave and do these good works they were created to do.

GOD'S WHISPERS AND WHAT IT MEANS

What has God been whispering to me, and what does that mean for this blog and my Etsy shop? It means that I will no longer be hiding parts of who I am and what you'll see is the whole package. He's been whispering to me to start a community called 2:10 FIT - Healthy & Creative Living. A place to inspire and motivate my friends to daily practice combining - faith, healthy living, and creativity.

For we are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. - Ephesians 2:10 NLT

Through this health scare and my transformation story, I believe we need all three of these things to live an Ephesians 2:10 life. A life we were created for to do His good works. I have created a Facebook group and would love for you to join me there as a central place for community, ecouragement and inspiration. There are three parts to 2:10 FIT - faith, healthy living, and creativity.

FAITH: I will encourage and motivate you to spend time in the Word daily, and talk to our Savior. The Bible is our daily bread, we cannot survive without it guiding our lives. Talking to God grows our relationship closer to our Savior.

HEALTHY LIVING: I will encourage and motivate you to spend time daily to physically take care of our temples (1 Corinthians 6:19). When I started thinking of my body as a temple for the Holy Spirit, I started feeling convicted about what I was feeding it, not just with daily time in the Word, but food to fuel my body to do God's good works that he created me to do. How can I do God's good works if I have no energy, and always sick and tired. I was sick and tired of being sick and tired. I will encourage you to fuel your body with healthy foods and doing some kind of exercise whether it's a workout program or just walking around the block daily.

CREATIVITY: I will encourage and motivate you to spend at least 5 minutes a day doing something creative, whether it's drawing, painting, doodling, scrapbooking, etc. It doesn't matter to me what you do but that you do it.

In this Facebook group, I'm not going to tell you what to do, and I'm not going to develop anything to follow because I truly believe that it's something only God can show you, your unique self, and what he needs you to do. I will share with you my resources and what I do. I'll share with you the Bible studies that I use. I'll share with you the fitness programs and eating programs that worked for me. Mostly, I want a community who shares and encourages each other and motivates each other to live a 2:10 FIT life.

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I will disclose that I am a Beachbody coach because I love their programs, but I do it for the discount and I will not be pushing sales. I'm not in it for the money, I'm truly a coach for the discount and if I motivate anyone and you are interested I'd be happy to chat privately about any of the programs or coaching. I got great results from the programs and the Beachbody community and other coaches who inspired and motivated me. I promise though, I will be sharing what worked for me but I won't be pushing sales. That's not where I see God leading me on that part of my journey this past year.

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What does that mean for the blog? Not much will change here, I will still post my mixed media art, crafting tutorials, and creative planners and scrapbooking. I will still design printables in my free time and will still create freebies. Some will be exclusive to the Facebook group, and some exclusive to newsletter subscribers, tho. The only thing that's going to change is that I will be transparent, and I will no longer hide the healthy living part of me. The blog will be the whole of me, rather than just a part of me. My art will reflect how amazing I feel and the energy I feel from no longer being sick and tired. I have finished up a few big projects that have made it difficult to be consistent, but now that they are complete, I will be posting more again.

What does it mean for the Etsy shop? With homeschooling three kiddos, leading the creative team for Illustrated Faith, being on the design team for DecoArt, working out daily, spending more time in the Word, trying to be a better wife and mom to my family, being involved in my local church, and wanting to teach workshops... it doesn't leave a lot of time for designing. God made it clear to me while helping with an Illustrated Faith workshop in March that He's taking care of the Etsy store despite my busy schedule. He made it clear to me that He wants me out doing His good works and encouraging and motivating my community to do that too. My goal is to work through my list of new planner printables that have been requested and then work on planner printables specifically for 2:10 FIT. I also want to get back into creating faith-based wall art. I won't stop designing, and that will definitely be a part of my daily creativity time, it just might not be as much or as quick turnaround and production time. I'm so very thankful for my loyal fans and customers who motivate me to keep designing and have fun being creative. You make my busy schedule not so busy and so much fun.

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Did you miss Truth Scrap in January? #ARTWORSHIP class available now!

I have great news! The classes are available now for individual purchase and for sale this week! I was able to attend the whole event and I can't tell you how much I NEEDED it. There is just something about teaching and inspiring and fellowship with other Christian women that I just can't explain.

Truth Scrap 2015 classes are now available as individual purchases and on sale, and bigger discount for all seven classes, through April 24th.

This week the classes are on sale for $9.95, April 13-April 24. After the sale they will go up to their regular price of $14.95.
Purchase only the ones you want or if you want all seven classes... Get all SEVEN classes for only $49, that's a savings of over 50% (that's $7 each class)! Just add all seven classes to your cart and use code TRUTH at checkout before April 24th.

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Free - Why I love this word and new printables releases

I love the Christian meaning behind the word "Free". I'm sharing why and a new printables release in my Etsy shop.

I had a request recently to do a printable with the word "Free". I loved it and quickly added it to my list of ideas. The reason I love it so much is the Christian meaning behind it. People who don't know true Christianity often think we have to live by a bunch of rules and understandably think it's awful. If I had to live by a bunch of rules that are impossible to live by, I would think it's awful too.

It makes me sad to think that people are missing out on the freedom that comes from being a follower of Christ. It's true, we did have a bunch of rules to live by in the Old Testament, but then Christ died and rose again and took on all our sin and set us FREE from the bondage of sin. How awesome is that!?!?!?!

As Easter is getting closer, I'm so often reminded of this amazing gift we've been given. It's a FREE gift for anyone to receive, are you ready to receive it from Him?

P.S. I send out a freebie with my newsletters, and today is my one month anniversary and there might be a pretty awesome freebie and discount code to celebrate later today. You don't want to miss it!

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God's Been Whispering Lately | What's Been Going On And What's 2:10 FIT?

GOD'S WHISPERS AND WHAT IT MEANS

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Did you miss Truth Scrap in January? #ARTWORSHIP class available now!

Free - Why I love this word and new printables releases

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Friday Four: Faith Friends

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God's Been Whispering Lately | What's Been Going On And What's 2:10 FIT?

GOD'S WHISPERS AND WHAT IT MEANS

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Did you miss Truth Scrap in January? #ARTWORSHIP class available now!

Free - Why I love this word and new printables releases

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