It's A Bird, It's A Plane....

It's Hoedown Time! Grab your dancing shoes or your snow boots and join in the challenge! 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!

Read all the way through, as we have some fun stuff happening at the end of this week, and next week!

Today's challenge is brought to you by CAPED CHICK. He is our Super Hero this week and is CASE-ing (Copy and Share Everything) the Hambo Joint to see what cards are in the Hambo Galleries to CASE! He knows he has to link up and show what he copied from too.

The Bacon Bits have some projects to show you and you will have to visit their blogs to see which cards they have cased. Show them some love, as this is their last Hoedown as Bacon Bits! We have loved having them in the Pig Pen!

Melissa

Jessica

Karin

Challenge Translation: Using CAPED CHICK, case something from the Hambo rubber or digital galleries and tell in your post what card you cased (show a link either to the exact card, or to the page where it is located with a description)! Each digital image in the store also has a sample to go with it. You can also search the over 1700 cards & projects in the Splitcoaststampers Hambo Stamps Gallery here.

This image is not available FREE unless you played in last week's challenge.
Buy it HERE!

Everyone that followed last week's BAILEY 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 don't have to use Caped Chick. BUT we do require HAMBO images only --- and you can use ANY of those for our challenge this week! We have a wonderful line of rubber images, as well as digis and we like seeing those too!

Stephanie using Duck Umbrella and Happy Spring

Please link your "CASED" Challenge projects using the inlinkz button below.  If you are uploading to an online gallery, use HamboHoedown50 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 51 to you!

You won't want to miss out on next week as it's 

HAMBO HOEDOWN'S FIRST BIRTHDAY PARTY!

That's right! Our challenge is a YEAR OLD next week and we have some fun things planned, including our first peek at the new Bacon Bits' designs!

And now for last week's winners! 
Thank you to everyone that helped celebrate Bailey's arrival and played in the challenge for Send A Smile 4 Kids!

Our Best in Show goes to 6. Lucianna ! Congratulations! We loved how she also used Doghouse Blues and thought her coloring was terrific! Grab the trophy for all to see, Lucianna!

Queen of the Hoedown this week is 5. Sarah T ! Congratulations, Sarah! 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.

ANNOUNCING:

Join us THIS FRIDAY at 7 AM CST as we celebrate our love of Hambo Stamps and reading for our 

"GREEN EGGS AND.....HAMBO" 

Customer Inclusive Blog Hop!

We will start at Talk to the Ham at 7 AM 

and hop til you drop!

A prize will be awarded to a random hopper that comments on all the blogs along the way. You won't want to miss all the awesome BOOK TITLES using Hambo Stamps!! 
JOIN US!

****Projects must be uploaded AND pictures emailed by 

MONDAY, January 30, at 10:00 PM CST 

to be eligible for the next free digi image.****

HAPPY CASING!

Introducing................BAILEY!!

Get ready for some CUTENESS!! I am tickled and excited to introduce the newest member of the Hambo family, BAILEY! Bailey joined the Hunters at Christmas.

 Do you not just love that face? Or  how about this one:

I am in love! And you will LOVE our image for this week -- it's the debut of Bailey's line! Take a look:

This image is not available FREE unless you played in last week's challenge.
Buy it HERE!

Our challenge this week is a special one, as we are sponsoring Send A Smile 4 Kids this week! Their news about it will be posted on the Send A Smile 4 Kids blog THIS SATURDAY, January 21. You will see our Bacon Bits Digi Team samples then, along with some from the SAS4K team.  

Send A Smile 4 Kids is a charitable blog created for the purpose of collecting donated handmade cards to be distributed to children while they are inpatient at Children’s Hospitals.

For our challenge this week, we would love for you to make a kids' card with BAILEY, and then SEND IT to Send A Smile 4 Kids. How could Bailey not cheer up a child? The guidelines for donated cards are posted here. Please read those if you plan to send your card. We know that not everyone will choose to participate in the mailing, but we hope that many of you will! Any cards appropriate for children are welcome including any holiday (not religious specific please) and happy everyday cards.

Our Rubber Team Bacon Bits are showing their digital image talents today, as well as two of the DT members from Send A Smile 4 Kids (remember that our Digi Team's creations will be posted Saturday HERE (click)). First up are Karen's creations. Karen is the Team Leader and Challenge Coordinator at SAS4K.

Karen

Karen

Next is SAS4K DT member Hilde's card:

Hilde

And finally, the Hambo Bacon Bits Rubber Team's creations:

Andrea

Andrea

Michele

Stephanie

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.

Please link your "Kids' Cards" Challenge projects using the inlinkz button below.  If you are uploading to an online gallery, use HamboHoedown49 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 50 to you!

****Projects must be uploaded AND pictures emailed by 

MONDAY, January 23, at 10:00 PM CST 

to be eligible for Week 50's free digi image.****

And now for our winners from last week's TWO CIRCLES challenge: 

Our Queen of the Hoedown this week goes to 8. Jennifer Smith-Sloane  !

Congratulations, Jennifer! 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.

"Best in Show" goes to 11. CraftyGirl ! We loved the balloons that she made to go along with last week's sentiment!

Grab the trophy and display for all to see! 

And just a reminder:

TODAY is the deadline to apply for our Design Team. CLICK HERE.

TODAY is the deadline to sign up for our January 27 Blog Hop: 

"Green Eggs and.....Hambo!" 

CLICK HERE for more info.

And now, you must all be exhausted from this long post today. I know Bailey is. 

Have a great week!

Inflation Can Be A Good Thing!

Welcome to the Hoedown! It's a New Year, and we have some really fun things in store for you in the coming weeks! Two of them are going on right now. Take a look:

1. We are having a Design Team Call that is going on right now! ALL information can be found HERE. The deadline is January 18, and the sooner you apply, the more time we will have to look at your application! We hope you will apply!

2. We are hosting a Customer inclusive Blog Hop: "Green Eggs and ..... Hambo!" on Friday, January 27, and would love to have you join us! Email Judy at hambodesignteam@gmail.com if you would like to participate! It's all about Hambo images and book titles! :)

Deadline to sign up is January 18!


Congratulations to the winner's of Hoedown 47. You can read about our Awards in the left sidebar. Our Queen of the Hoedown for this week is 11. Debbie S. !

Congratulations Debbie! 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.

"Best in Show" goes to 7. Dawn  ! Grab the trophy, Dawn and display for all to see! Take a look at what she created. We loved her paper piecing and layout!

Thank you to everyone that showed off your new stuff! We loved seeing your creativity!


Our challenge this week is brought to you by BALLOON COST. This is a chance to really put on your thinking caps and show us a creative way to use TWO OR MORE CIRCLES OF DIFFERENT SIZES somewhere on your projects!

This image is not available FREE unless you played in last week's challenge.
Buy it HERE!

Here is what the Bacon Bits came up with this week:

Jessica

Judy (outside)

Judy (inside using Balloon Girl as well)

Karin

Melissa

Everyone that followed last week's technique 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 don't have to use Balloon Cost. BUT we do require HAMBO images only --- and you can use ANY of those for our challenge this week! We have a wonderful line of rubber images, as well as digis and we like seeing those too:

Michele using Cupcake (#0311)

Please link your "Two Different Circles" Challenge projects using the inlinkz button below.  If you are uploading to an online gallery, use HamboHoedown48 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 49 to you!

****Projects must be uploaded AND pictures emailed by 

MONDAY, January 16, at 10:00 PM CST 

to be eligible for Week 49's free digi image.****

Two Exciting Opportunities During Week 2!

Today marks the second week of Hambo Hoedown Challenge 47 with Reptile and something new! Be sure to have your challenge entries uploaded and emailed by January 9 at 10 PM CST to be eligible for next week's FREEBIE!

Two exciting opportunities await Hambo friends in the next two weeks!

1. We are having a Design Team Call that is going on right now! ALL information can be found HERE. The deadline is January 18, and the sooner you apply, the more time we will have to look at your application! We hope you will apply!

2. We are hosting a Customer inclusive Blog Hop: "Green Eggs and ..... Hambo!" on Friday, January 27, and would love to have you join us! Email Judy at hambodesignteam@gmail.com if you would like to participate! It's all about Hambo images and book titles! :)

Deadline to sign up is January 18!

Happy Newt Year!