"Jesus Is The Reason For The Season!!!"

Welcome my dear Friends and Followers!

I feel very blessed to be asked by my dear friend Catherine (aka Paper Addict), to partecipate on this {special-to-my-heart} blog hop. And my very FIRST hop evah at that!:o)
So pleazzz be forgiving as I am still VERY green as a blogger and definetly techno-challenged too!lol :o)

Reason for this Hop:We are a small band of blogging crafters who love God and are very delighted to have you here and helping us celebrating the impending Good News of our Savior's birth! In the midst of all the seasonal festivies, we wanted to take some time aside just to focus on the real meaning of Christmas: the birth of Jesus Christ.  Of course there's nothing wrong with hustling and bustling about to find the "perfect gifts" for our loved ones, but when you stop to think about it, there will never be a gift more perfect than the gift God gave us in Jesus.

*Praise God,our Lord and Salvation*

And now,on with the details...

First of all, I'd like to extend a big "thank you" to our sponsors, please check out

the beautiful prizes each has donated toward this Special Hop

They are as follows:

Fresh Brewed Designs:  4 Christmas/Faith digital images plus 2 of winner's choice
Simply Betty Stamps:  Jude & His Shenanigans Crew Christmas Collection (6 digital images)
The Stamping Boutique:  2 Faith digital images plus 4 images of winner's choice

3 winners will be chosen (one for each store prize above) from comments on select blogs, but it is a secret as to which blogs the winning comments will be chosen from.

In addition, to those wonderful prizes , I'd like to offer
my first lil-blog candy, as seen below:

The guidelines for  winning are very simple and as specified here:

  You MUST be a follower of this blog AND I also respectfully request - on the honour system -that you'll send ONE card to anyone in your life that could use a lift and a smile. You'll be surprised how a simple gesture could mean so much to someone! Probably more than you ever know...Also, since I have NO clue on how to use a 'number generator', I will put the names of all potential partecipants in a hat, and one of my grandchildren will draw the one winner

from there :o) I will post the winner's name here on my blog, by Saturday Dec4.
Please make sure to check back and see if it's YOU who won:o)
And now, let the FUN begin....it's HOP-PING time! Yesss! :o)

Here's the hop order :

Heather   http://joemamainks.blogspot.com/ {Beginning}
Kadie  http://mymindseyecreations.blogspot.com/

Karen  http://krbskorner.blogspot.com/

Kelly  http://sandcastlestamper.blogspot.com/

Lori  http://mycomfortcottage.blogspot.com/

Lorie  http://thethinkinspot.blogspot.com/

Maria  http://joyfulstamper.blogspot.com/

Paola  http://paola-sama.blogspot.com/   *<<<<<YOU are HERE!

Sammi  http://stuffbysammi.blogspot.com/

Stacy  http://impressionsofaribbonaddict.blogspot.com/

Susan  http://pinkflannelpajamas.blogspot.com/

Catherine  http://paperaddictcatherine.blogspot.com   {the-end}

Have FUN...and keep GOD close to your heart...always!

*May you have the gift of Hope,

the blessings of Peace,

and the Wonder of His Love

at Christmas and always*
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 ~*~ CHRIST-mas cheers and blessings to ya all! ~*~

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I must apologize for entering a card I already made last year...

 Unfortunatly time is at a premium lately and,even though

I tought I could provide something fresh and new I had to

concede, at the last minute,with what I already had instead ...

Hopefully you don't mind it ,and IF I have the chance,

I will make a 'fresh one' before the hop is over...."IF"....

*Thank you!*

Paola