Created by Pat

Hi friends!  Can you believe we've come to the end of our third term at House of Cards?!  We are saying a fond farewell to some of our DT members and feel so grateful to those staying on.  To say goodbye and thank you, we're celebrating with a blog hop!  This hop will run FROM DECEMBER 1ST AT 6:00 AM CST THROUGH DECEMBER 15TH AT NOON CST,  ANY CARD STYLE is welcome and we've got a gorgeous photo inspiration for your crafting enjoyment! 

Here's our photo inspiration~

You should have arrived here from Mrs Duck's blog.  If you haven't, and you'd like to hop with us, please make sure you start there and continue through the whole thing for the most chances to win!  Speaking of winning, we have some amazing sponsors!

Here are all of our fabulous sponsors.

Our team will be using a variety of products

from these amazing companies!

Daydream Designs
Prize: $20 to their digital store

Deedee's Digis
Prize: Gift Card to the online store.

Eclectic Anthology
Prize: $50 gift voucher to the shop.

Great Impressions
Prize: Prize Package with 5 Stamps

Paper Sweeties
Prize: $20 gift voucher to the shop.

Stitchy Bear
Prize: $10 gift voucher to the shop.

My card uses a digital image from Stitchy Bear....its called Circle of Bells and the designer is Floppy Latte designs. Now this really was a challenge for me as I don't do digital, always prefer to stamp myself so I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to simply download the image, open up in photoshop and resize to exactly the dimensions I wanted to fit a particular circle die of mine. You don't get that flexibility to resize a stamp do you! Also no stamp to clean! I could get used to this. I just printed on good quality white card and left overnight before colouring in with copic markers to make sure the ink didn't bleed. (I could of heat set otherwise) Again, I rarely use my copic markers so don't look to closely at my shoddy colouring! The bows and bells in the image are also topped with Wink of Stella glitter pens but sadly don't show up in the photo, it really is sparkly. Little circles punched from glitter card stock for the bells "dongs"(!)  Then matted and layered onto Pool Party, Soft Suede cardstock by Stampin Up and a doily. Finished off with a white satin ribbon bow, silver bow and a satin flower then I couldn't stop myself and added some dew drops in the corners to emanate the champagne glasses in the inspiration picture. 

One more thing, Stitchy Bear have a Facebook group with a monthly challenge. Anyone can join in as long as they use one of their digital images. Check it out here. You may just find me entering as I did enjoy using their digital image. A first but not the last!

Now get to hoppin'!  Your next stop is Tammy's blog!  Don't forget to link up a project with us after completing the hop for an extra chance to win a mystery prize from one of our fabulous sponsors, too!