What's the News?

Welcome to the Hambo Hoedown! If you are new to our challenge, click on the link in the sidebar to see how this all works. Play along each week with a Hambo Stamps image (rubber or digital) and you are in the loop for some awesome FREE images! Don't have any Hambo images yet? Click HERE for Freebies and JOIN US!

What's the NEWS? This week, it's NEWSCASTER!

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There are four sentiment options, and if you choose to use a sentiment this week, we would like to see one of these four, rather than a computer generated sentiment.

Our CHALLENGE THIS WEEK: Using NEWSCASTER and one of the four sentiments, make a project that incorporates newspaper on your creation.

Everyone that followed last week's sketch challenge, linked to the Hoedown blog post and emailed us a photo of their card by the DEADLINE received this week's image FREE! So check your mailboxes! Images are sent by Wednesday mornings at 7 AM. 

And to inspire you:

I love all of Karin's embellishments and how she added the newsprint to Newscaster's papers!

Melissa was so clever to use the weather section for her background! I love her tiny little sentiment on the news copy!

Jessica's newspaper date made me laugh out loud when I realized it was a birthday card! So fun!

How will you use newsprint? Remember that you don't have to use Newscaster. BUT we do require HAMBO images only - and you can use ANY of those for our newsprint challenge this week!  We have a wonderful line of rubber images, as well as digis and we like seeing those too!

See anything new?  This is a sneak peek of what's to come tomorrow.....NEW RELEASES IN THE HAMBO RUBBER LINE!!! Be sure to check out Talk to the Ham and see what the Bacon Bits have lined up to show you that is BRAND NEW!

Judy used her newsprint as a border on this card with BRAND NEW RUBBAH!

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On a more serious note, we want to draw special attention to the Hope You Can Cling To Challenges at Splitcoaststampers. Hambo Stamps is a proud sponsor of these challenges and we would love for you to be a part of this special card drive. Read all about it at Talk to the Ham HERE.

 

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HOGTOBERFEST IS ALMOST GONE!

Celebrate 'Hogtoberfest' with Hambo! TODAY IS THE LAST DAY! Wednesday, October 26th, Hambo Stamps will offer a 30% discount on ALL of their regular-priced, in-stock items. The sale details are posted on Hambo's SALE page HERE. 


Tomorrow there will be more Hogtoberfest fun, so make sure to visit Talk to the Ham!

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We had FABULOUS entries last week in our Sketch Challenge! Thank you to ALL for playing along with us! You can read about our Awards in the sidebar under Announcements.

Our Queen of the Hoedown this week is 3. sf_crafter !! 

Grab the winner's button for your blog, and be sure to email Monica at info@hambostamps.com with your choice of any digi image from the store here.

Our Best in Show this week goes to 34. Sandy T. ! CoNgRaTuLaTiOnS Sandy! We loved how her card was a Halloween decoration all in itself!

Please link your Newsprint Challenge projects using the inlinkz button below.  If you are uploading to an online gallery, use HamboHoedown39 AND Hambo as your keywords. That way we can find your creations! After you have linked here, please email a picture of it to hambodesignteam@gmail.com by the deadline so that we can get the image for Week 40 to you!

****Projects must be uploaded AND pictures emailed by MONDAY, October 31, at 10:00 PM CST to be eligible for Week 40's free digi image.****

It's A Little Sketchy....

Welcome to the Hambo Hoedown! If you are new to our challenge, click on the link in the sidebar to see how this all works. Play along each week with a Hambo Stamps image (rubber or digital) and you are in the loop for some awesome FREE images! Don't have any Hambo images yet? Click HERE for Freebies and JOIN US!

Our Sketch today is brought to you by ZOMBIE BUNNY. We think you are going to like what the Bacon Bits have come up with for inspiration! But first, take a look at the sketch you will be working with this week:

It is fine to flip or turn the sketch, change panel sizes, shapes, card size and border as you wish -- a little tweaking is fine -- but let’s see those main elements of the posted layout please!

And now ---- introducing our brand-new ZOMBIE BUNNY!

This image is not available free, unless you played in last week's challenge and received it via email.   
Buy it HERE!

Everyone that followed last week's challenge, linked a card to the blog post and emailed us a photo of their card on time received this week's image FREE! As always with our challenges, you can use ANY Hambo image and play along! Just follow the Sketch Challenge and you will be in the loop for next week's FREE digi!

And for your inspiration pleasure:

Melissa

Jessica

Karin

Judy

Remember that you can use ANY HAMBO image for our challenges. We have a wonderful line of rubber images, as well as digis and we like seeing those too! Take a look:

Stephanie

Stephanie used Leaf Pig - 3223 from our rubber line. Leave the Bacon Bits some love on their blogs by clicking on each designer's name.
 

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On a more serious note, we want to draw special attention to the Hope You Can Cling To Challenges at Splitcoaststampers. Hambo Stamps is a proud sponsor of these challenges and we would love for you to be a part of this special card drive. Read all about it at Talk to the Ham HERE.

 

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HOGTOBERFEST IS ALMOST HERE!
(With a special "Be First" CODE for Hoedown Dancers!)

Celebrate 'Hogtoberfest' with Hambo! Beginning tomorrow, Thursday, October 20th, through Wednesday, October 26th, Hambo Stamps will offer a 30% discount on ALL of their regular-priced, in-stock items, so start putting your wish lists together now! The sale details will be posted on Hambo's SALE page tomorrow. However, YOU can get a head-start on the savings by entering the code HOGTOBERFEST on your digi orders, starting NOW! 

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We had 35 FABULOUS entries last week in our Color Challenge! Thank you to ALL for playing along with us! You can read about our Awards in the sidebar under Announcements.

Our Queen of the Hoedown this week is 13. Melissa C.!

Congratulations, Melissa! Grab the winner's button for your blog, and be sure to email Monica at info@hambostamps.com with your choice of any digi image from the store here.

This week's BEST IN SHOW goes to 10. Kathryn for this adorable creation from last week's Color Challenge:

We loved how she used her ribbons! Congratulations, Kathryn! Grab the trophy for your blog for all to see!

Please link your Sketch Challenge projects using the inlinkz button below.  If you are uploading to an online gallery, use HamboHoedown38 AND Hambo as your keywords. That way we can find your creations! After you have linked here, please email a picture of it to hambodesignteam@gmail.com by the deadline so that we can get the image for Week 39 to you!

 ****Projects must be uploaded AND pictures emailed by MONDAY, October 24, at 10:00 PM CST to be eligible for Week 39's free digi image.****

All Wrapped Up

Welcome to the Hambo Hoedown! We are glad you are here! This week we are at 164 followers! Can we make it to 175 by our next challenge?? Tell your friends about the Hoedown! If you want to be a Follower, click the "Join This Site" button in the left sidebar!

We are all wrapped up in fun this week as MUMMY makes his debut!

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Our challenge this week is a COLOR CHALLENGE:  use MUMMY and one of the sentiments this week with purple, orange, black and green for the main colors.  Let's see what the Bacon Bits have to inspire you today:

Karin

Jessica

Melissa

Everyone that followed last week's challenge, linked to the Hoedown blog post and emailed us a photo of their card by the deadline received this week's image FREE! So check your mailboxes! Images are sent by Wednesday mornings at 7 AM.

Remember that you can use ANY HAMBO image for our challenges. We have a wonderful line of rubber images, as well as digis and we like seeing those too! Take a look:

Stephanie using Cat Witch - 3807 and Spooky Day - 3806

Judy using Skeleton - 2215

and from former Design Team Member Beverly Cole:

Beverly using Witch's Brew - 3803 and Bewitched - 3802

Although all of our samples today have the same theme, your card does not have to have a Halloween theme, just the main colors listed for the challenge. 

Last week, we had some very creative ideas using the letters of our first names and finding something to go along with that for our creations. So many fun ideas from everyone! But this week the Best in Show goes to 28. HeyHeyPaula . 
Congratulations! Grab the trophy for your blog!

Our Queen of the Hoedown this week is  27. Teresa D ! Congratulations, Teresa! Grab the winner's button for your blog, and be sure to email Monica at info@hambostamps.com with your choice of any digi image from the store here.

Please link your Color Challenge projects using the inlinkz button below.  If you are uploading to an online gallery, use HamboHoedown37 AND Hambo as your keywords. That way we can find your creations! After you have linked here, please email a picture of it to hambodesignteam@gmail.com by the deadline so that we can get the image for Week 38 to you!

 ****Projects must be uploaded AND pictures emailed by MONDAY, October 17, at 10:00 PM CST to be eligible for Week 38's free digi image.****

Hope to see your project soon!

I'd *Chews* You!

Welcome to the Hoedown! If you are new to our challenge, click on the link in the sidebar to see how this all works. Play along each week and you are in the loop for FREE images! 

Our challenge today is brought to you by Flower Monster. Isn't he adorable??

This image is not available free, unless you played in last week's challenge and received it via email. Buy it HERE!

Now here is the challenge: Using FLOWER MONSTER, create a project that uses an item that starts with the first letter of your first name. For example, my name starts with J (Judy), so I would have to have something on my card that starts with "J". (jute, jump rings, jewels, Jolee's sticker, etc.). Please state the item in your description or blog post. 

And now to inspire you is our BRAND NEW BACON BITS DESIGN TEAM!! We said to them: "I'D CHEWS YOU!" And then we did! We are thrilled to have these women in the Pig Pen and are excited to show you what they have created today. If you missed their introductions, you can read all about them at Talk to the Ham! We introduced one a day for the past week!

Without further ado:

Andrea

Jessica

Karin

Melissa

Michele

Stephanie

We love the variety in their stamping styles! Click on each designer's name to hop to their blogs and see what item they used on their cards that start with their first names. And be sure to give them a warm Hambo welcome!

Remember that you can use ANY HAMBO image for our challenges. We have a wonderful line of rubber images, as well as digis and we like seeing those too!

Judy used Jute Twine on her pink creation:

Judy using Giraffe - 2926 and Necks to You - 2914

Libby used Liquid Applique for her challenge item on this sweet card:

Libby using Soda Shop Pigs - 1905

Everyone that followed last week's challenge by CASEing a card, linking to the Hoedown blog post and emailing us a photo of their card by the NEW DEADLINE received this week's image FREE! So check your mailboxes! Images are sent by Wednesday mornings at 7 AM. If you didn't receive Flower Monster, please email us at hambodesignteam@gmail.com. However, we cannot send images if the deadline wasn't met, or if you didn't follow the challenge of casing someone's card (following their layout or using the same images). 

Thank you so much for ALL of the wonderful cards that you cased last week! We had so much fun seeing what you created, as well as revisiting the cards in the Hambo galleries!

Our "Best in Show" award this week goes to 5. LisaR. ! Congratulations! Grab the Trophy and display for all to see!

 

And our Queen of the Hoedown is  11. Tara S. ! Congratulations, Tara! 

Grab the winner's button for your blog, and be sure to email Monica at info@hambostamps.com with your choice of any digi image from the store here.

Please link your Alpha Name Challenge projects using the inlinkz button below.  If you are uploading to an online gallery, use HamboHoedown36 AND Hambo as your keywords. That way we can find your creations! After you have linked here, please email a picture of it to hambodesignteam@gmail.com by the deadline so that we can get the image for Week 37 to you!

NEW: ****Projects must be uploaded AND pictures emailed by MONDAY, October 10, at 10:00 PM CST to be eligible for Week 37's free digi image.****

We are unable to send out images if the new deadline isn't met. It takes a lot of time to send them out, and we appreciate you making the deadline!

Happy Hoedown!