A Giraffe, A Bird, and A Nun!!

Hi! Jane here to tell you a little bit about the two CAS cards I made for this week's ongoing Hoedown Challenge. 

First, this card is made using BIG GIRAFFE rubber stamp and the BIRD EGG digi image. You might ask..."If it is called bird egg, where is the egg part of the image?" Well, the bird is sitting on top of the egg so I cut that part off and stuck the little fella on top of the giraffe. 

I stamped the giraffe image onto the blue cardstock first, then stamped him again cutting off his mane, colored him in then stuck him over the first stamped image. I know I am the cutting out Queen, LOL, but there are limits!! That way I didn't have to cut round his mane..or whatever it is actually called!

My second card is using the cheeky NUN digital image. This week's SCS Try A New Technique Challenge was all about revisiting paper piecing. Well, I'm all for that!! I am not the best at coloring so I welcomed this challenge. The added option was to use washi tape. 

As I was looking through my Hambo Digi Images I stopped at this cheeky NUN. I can remember using her before and being daunted by the huge area of her habit to color, so my mind was made up. Then I thought....mmmmm why not a flowered habit!!! And so that is where the idea of the "Nun-Conformist" sentiment came from. Yep, I can definitely get used to paper piecing....it's a doddle!

Hope you can play along in this week's CAS challenge! You have right up to Monday, and the winner will be announced Wednesday along with a new Hoedown Challenge!

 ~Jane

It's Week 2 for CAS!

Welcome to the Hambo Hoedown! 

It's Week 2 for our current challenge! Read on:

Our Hoedown Challenge is a twice-a-month challenge, on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. Participants can use ANY image to play along, as long as the challenge requirement is met. So that means more time to play and create something fantastic to share!

Two winners will be chosen from each challenge, Best in Show, and a random Queen of the Hoedown. Those winners will each receive a Hambo digital image as their prize, as well as a fun badge for their blogs. You can see the winner for our last challenge HERE.
   
The Hoedown Challenge is open to ALL images, from any company, digital or rubber. Our prize winners, however, will be chosen from those using Hambo images. So ANYONE is welcome to play with ANY image for fun. Come join us!

Our challenge for Hoedown #137 is to create a CAS design - in other words, CLEAN AND SIMPLE.  Lots of open space, not a lot of embellishments and clutter, just all about the design. 

We have some Hambo friends, as well as some of the Bacon Bits DT, on hand to show you their interpretations of CAS:

Former Bacon Bits DT member Jan Hunnicutt using Skater Girl (4311)

Hambo friend Lisa Lara using Bird Balloon

Bacon Bits DT member Lyn using Heart Basket

Bacon Bits DT member Jane using Nun and.....

...using Bird Egg and Big Giraffe (5116)!

Aren't they amazing?

Again, you can use ANY image to play along. Those using Hambo images are in the running for our prizes!
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Please link your challenge projects using the inlinkz button below. If you are uploading to an online gallery, use HamboHoedown137 as your keywords so we can find your creations. If you are using a Hambo image, add Hambo as a keyword too!

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Monday, NOVEMBER 18, at 10:00 PM Central Time****

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