Christmas in July Mid-Month Inspiration

We are halfway through the Hoedown Christmas in July Challenge, and we are loving what you've showed us so far!  If you're looking for a bargain remember there's a 25% discount on ALL Christmas & Winter stamps -- rubber and digital!!!  Hurry on over to the Shop!

 Jeannie - Turtles

 Jane - Skyline

Lyn - Manger

 Here is the link back to the main post, and remember;

 There are TWO free digital images up for grabs!

Love is a Many Splendored Thing

Welcome to the Hambo Hoedown! 

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 our current winners 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 #142 is to create a project with a LOVE theme - sentiments or images that show love (thinking more romantic love here than a child/parent love.) Your image could be totally random but tie it in with a sentiment, or vice versa. *** 

Our Bacon Bits DT members created some sweet and fun samples for you today to inspire you~! Be sure to visit their blogs and leave them some Hambo love!

Jane using Skyline (0433) & Thief of Hearts

Jeannie using Candy Heart

Judy using Fingerprint (0709) & Little Thumb Thing (1510)

Judy using Animal Heart (our newest digi!)

Again, you can use ANY company's animal image to play along. Those using Hambo images are in the running for our prizes! Don't have any Hambo images yet? FREEBIES HERE.

Please link your challenge projects using the inlinkz button below. If you are uploading to an online gallery, use HamboHoedown142 as your keywords so we can find your creations. If you are using a Hambo image, add Hambo as a keyword too!

****Projects must be uploaded by 

Monday, January 27, at 10:00 PM Central Time****

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Love In The City

Hello everyone!

It's Deborah here and I am back to share with you a card that is fun, simple, and modern.  I made this in tune with the new challenge that just went up yesterday, which is about LOVE.  Perfect to get your Valentines a quick jumpstart.

For this card, I used the ever so versatile rubber image of  Skyline as the main image.  I stamped it up with VersaFine Onyx and added some clear embossing powder over it before heating it with my heat gun.  The one building was colored in with some Copics, while I added the heart above it and the lines on the radio tower.  The sentiment is the 'I Love You' portion of Even Mower stamped with Memento Black.  It was completed by added a few rhinestones to the sentiment and radio tower and some Sakura glitter pen to the heart.

Thanks for stopping by and show the love- play along!

~Deborah

WHEEEEEEELIE!!

Hello there!  Jane here reporting from cold, damp and drizzly... but gorgeously green England!! Well bonfire night is finally over with.. do Americans celebrate bonfire night?? Everyone stands around a huge fire with a home-made Guy Fawkes on top, eating pie 'n' peas and toffee apples watching fireworks and generally getting rained on!! Roll on the next celebration.... No..not Christmas!!!...the one and only Tim Hunter is another year older this week, and so my Pig Pen friends and I all made him a birthday card in the style of this week's Hoedown Challenge...CAS. How cool it must be to have people make you a card with your very own images!!! Here is my contribution...

For my card I have used the much loved and much used...SKYLINE rubber stamp, and the RACECAR digi image. I kept the coloring to a minimum. The sentiment makes me chuckle. So, Happy Birthday to you Tim!!  

I do hope that you will all join in the fun of the Hoedown Challenge and I look forward to seeing all your wonderful CAS creations!!   

~JANE