Good afternoon and welcome to another Blog Challenge hosted by my very good friend Julie at the Stencil Specialist.  The focus of this challenge is a beautiful Christmas stamp set from Stampendous called Pine Ornaments.  To enter this Blog Challenge you must be a resident of Australia and along with your comments, you must include the town in which you live in.  All comments are welcome, however, and I would love to hear what you think about this beautiful new stamp. Aussies have until midnight Friday, EST to enter this hop and win:

•  Two Stampendous stamps
• Two Dreamweaver Die sets
• Two packs of adhesive rhinestones
• Two speciality embossing powders
• One jar of the new 'Twinkle Glitter'

Good luck to all of you Aussies.  Here is my card and please visit the links below.  Stamping joys, :-)  Donna

The Stencil Specialist - Julie

Robyn

Tracy

CHRISTMAS IN JULY AT LASTING IMPRESSIONS

Good morning everyone.  I've been super busy trying to get ready for my next classes and also make time to upload some Christmas ideas to the L.I. Blog.  Lately I have been doing a lot of stamping and when I posted the cards below on the L.I. Blog, the post reminded me just how much I love embossing!  The technique will always be my favorite.  Take a peek: