KICK IT UP!

Welcome to the Hambo Hoedown, our fun weekly challenge where you can earn a free digi each week that you participate and meet all requirements. And in addition to the free digi, there are some bragging rights up for grabs if you earn one of our two weekly awards. (See the sidebar for details.)

This week our challenge is brought to you by WEE HENRY KARATE!

This image is not available FREE, unless you played along with us last week!

 BUY IT HERE!

Our challenge is to use "Wee Henry Karate," or any other Hambo image, rubber or digital, and create a project that features TORN PAPER somewhere on your card or project. 

If you are new to our challenge, click on the link in the left sidebar to see how this all works. Don't have any Hambo images yet? Click HERE for Freebies! We would love to have you join us!

Team Oink has some really fun creations to show to inspire you!

KECIA

DEBORAH

JAN

 
Remember that you don't have to use "Wee Henry Karate" but we do require HAMBO images only! We have a wonderful line of rubber images as well as digis and we like seeing those too! 

DAWN using Sunshine & Happiness and Newt

JUDY using Seahorse and Fin-tastic Day

Everyone that:

1. Followed last week's challenge 

2. Linked to the Hoedown blog post AND used the official digi name

3. Emailed us a photo of their card by the DEADLINE 

...received this week's image FREE - so check your mailboxes!

We also have some new digital images illustrated by Asela Hopkins (Hop Art Designs) available HERE. All proceeds go to Operation Write Home. Be sure to check them out!
 

And now for this week's winners!

You can read about our Awards in the sidebar under Announcements.

Our BEST IN SHOW this week goes to................

 1. janeelizabeth 

 Congratulations Jane! What a darling little scene, combining LIGHTHOUSE with BOAT.
The trophy is all yours!

 This week's randomly drawn QUEEN OF THE HOEDOWN is..................  

 

 17. Valerie H. 

Grab the winner's button for your blog, Valerie, and be sure to email Monica at 

info@hambostamps.com with your choice of any digi image from the store here. 
CoNgRaTuLaTiOnS!

And also be sure to visit our Bacon Bits' blogs! They love your comments!

Please link your TORN PAPER projects using the inlinkz button below. 

If you are uploading to an online gallery, use HamboHoedown80 and Hambo 

as your keywords so 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 81 to you! 

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

Monday, September 3, at 10:00 PM CST****

HAMBO IMAGES ONLY. All others will be deleted. Sorry!

You're My Beacon!

Welcome to the Hambo Hoedown, our fun weekly challenge where you can earn a free digi each week that you participate and meet all requirements. And in addition to the free digi, there are some bragging rights up for grabs if you earn one of our two weekly awards. (See the sidebar for details.)

This week, we bring you Lighthouse!

Our challenge is to use "Lighthouse," or any other Hambo image, rubber or digital, and create a project that features wood grain somewhere on your card or project. This can be accomplished with patterned papers, an embossing folder, or using a faux wood technique, like the one in this tutorial.

If you are new to our challenge, click on the link in the left sidebar to see how this all works. Don't have any Hambo images yet? Click HERE for Freebies! We would love to have you join us!

It's time for Team Oink to show their stuff at the Hoedown to inspire you!

JAN

DEBORAH

KECIA

Remember that you don't have to use "Lighthouse" but we do require HAMBO images only! We have a wonderful line of rubber images as well as digis and we like seeing those too!

Monica using Lifeguard Stand (#3418) & Life-Saver (#3406)

Everyone that:

1. Followed last week's challenge 

2. Linked to the Hoedown blog post AND used the official digi name

3. Emailed us a photo of their card by the DEADLINE 

...received this week's image FREE - so check your mailboxes!

 

And now for this week's winners!

You can read about our Awards in the sidebar under Announcements.

Our BEST IN SHOW this week goes to................

2. janeelizabeth!

 Congratulations Jane! We loved the snake skin purse and his knotted tail! 
The trophy is all yours, Jane!

 This week's randomly drawn QUEEN OF THE HOEDOWN is..................  

 

 9. Krisha!

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. 

And also be sure to visit our Bacon Bits' blogs! They love your comments!

Please link your WOOD GRAIN projects using the inlinkz button below. 

If you are uploading to an online gallery, use HamboHoedown79 and Hambo 

as your keywords so 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 80 to you! 

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

Monday, August 27, at 10:00 PM CST****

HAMBO IMAGES ONLY. All others will be deleted. Sorry!

We're All Tied Up!

Welcome to the Hambo Hoedown, our fun weekly challenge where you can earn a free digi each week that you participate and meet all requirements. And in addition to the free digi, there are some bragging rights up for grabs if you earn one of our two weekly awards. (See the sidebar for details.)

This week, we bring you Rattler, inspired by one of our snake-wrangling Bacon Bits from years past:

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

Our challenge is to use "Rattler," or any other Hambo image, rubber or digital, and create a project that features a KNOT.

If you are new to our challenge, click on the link in the left sidebar to see how this all works. Don't have any Hambo images yet? Click HERE for Freebies! We would love to have you join us!

It's time for Team Oink to show their stuff at the Hoedown to inspire you!

KECIA

DEBORAH

JAN

Remember that you don't have to use "Rattler" but we do require HAMBO images only! We have a wonderful line of rubber images as well as digis and we like seeing those too! Here are ways that Team Squeal met the challenge:

DAWN (welcome back!)

CAROLINA

Everyone that:

1. Followed last week's challenge 

2. Linked to the Hoedown blog post AND used the official digi name

3. Emailed us a photo of their card by the DEADLINE 

...received this week's image FREE - so check your mailboxes!

 

And now for this week's winners!

You can read about our Awards in the sidebar under Announcements.

Our BEST IN SHOW this week goes to................

18. Blue Kube

 In addition to using the Olympic colors, Barbara (Blue Kube) also did a great job combining Hambo images, digital AND rubber ... and look at how she slightly arched the sentiment to fit in the window! Great work Barbara - congratulations!!

 This week's randomly drawn QUEEN OF THE HOEDOWN is..................  

 

  19. Jeannie

Grab the winner's button for your blog, Jeannie, and be sure to email Monica at 

info@hambostamps.com with your choice of any digi image from the store here. 

And also be sure to visit our Bacon Bits' blogs! They love your comments!

Please link your KNOTTED projects using the inlinkz button below. 

If you are uploading to an online gallery, use HamboHoedown78 and Hambo 

as your keywords so 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 79 to you! 

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

Monday, August 20, at 10:00 PM CST****

HAMBO IMAGES ONLY. All others will be deleted. Sorry!

Show Your Olympic Colors!

Welcome to the Hambo Hoedown, a weekly progressive challenge that is not only FUN, but which pays off with a FREE digi image to each person who plays along with us (and meets all the requirements!) And there are awards to be earned too - but more about that in a minute. First, let's see the challenge.

Our featured digi image this week is Cheeses:

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

Because the Olympic Games are currently in the news, this week's challenge is to use "Cheeses," or any other Hambo image -- rubber or digital -- and make a card using any combination of TWO colors of the Olympic rings: Red, Black, Blue, Green, Yellow. (OR... use all 5 colors!)

If you are new to our challenge, click on the link in the left sidebar to see how this all works. Don't have any Hambo images yet? Click HERE for Freebies! We would love to have you join us!

It's time for Team Oink to show their stuff at the Hoedown to inspire you!

JAN - red/yellow

Deborah - all five colors

Remember that you don't have to use "Cheeses" but we do require HAMBO images only! We have a wonderful line of rubber images as well as digis and we like seeing those too! Here's just one sample using Hambo rubber:

Kecia (Uncle Ham & Pork of July) - red/blue

Andrea (Mime & Thing to Waste) - yellow/black

Everyone that:

1. Followed last week's challenge 

2. Linked to the Hoedown blog post AND used the official digi name

3. Emailed us a photo of their card by the DEADLINE 

...received this week's image FREE - so check your mailboxes!

 

And now for this week's winners!

You can read about our Awards in the sidebar under Announcements.

Our BEST IN SHOW this week goes to................

 16. Lyn T. 

Wow, can you believe that inky background?! And a coordinating envelope too! This is the second week in a row for Lyn to win, but it's well-deserved. Congratulations, Lyn! 

 This week's randomly drawn QUEEN OF THE HOEDOWN is..................  

 

  9. Charlene Mitchell 

Grab the winner's button for your blog, Charlene, and be sure to email Monica at 

info@hambostamps.com 

with your choice of any digi image from the store here. 

Be sure to visit our Bacon Bits' blogs! They love your comments!

Please link your Olympic-Colored projects using the inlinkz button below. 

If you are uploading to an online gallery, use HamboHoedown77 and Hambo 

as your keywords so 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 78 to you! 

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

Monday, August 13, at 10:00 PM CST****

HAMBO IMAGES ONLY. All others will be deleted. Sorry! 

Let's Play Some Tic Tac Toe!

Welcome to the Hambo Hoedown, where each week we celebrate our love for crafting and Hambo images with FREEBIES! If you are new to our challenge, click on the link in the left 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! We would love to have you join us!

This week our challenge is brought to you by OCTOPUS and Tic Tac Toe:

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

To play along, use the Tic Tac Toe board below. Please list in your blog post or online gallery post which three items in a row you chose! 

brads	blue	button
pink	twine	shimmer and sparkle
octagon Shape (somewhere on card – does not necessarily mean card is octagon shaped)	charm	orange

It's time for Team Oink to show their stuff at the Hoedown to inspire you!

DEBORAH

JAN

KECIA

Aren't they fabulous? Click on their names to see what three things they used and leave them some blog love.

Everyone that followed last week's challenge, linked to the Hoedown blog post and used the official digi name, and emailed us a photo of their card by the DEADLINE received this week's image FREE! So check your mailboxes! We try to send images by Wednesday mornings at 7 AM. 

Remember that you don't have to use Octopus. 

BUT we do require HAMBO images only and you can use ANY of those for your TIC TAC TOE creation this week! We have a wonderful line of rubber images as well as digis and we like seeing those too!

CAROLINA
using Birdhouse Estate

Please link your TIC TAC TOE CHALLENGE projects using the inlinkz button below. 

If you are uploading to an online gallery, use HamboHoedown76 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 77 to you! 

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

Monday, August 6, at 10:00 PM CST****

And now for this week's winners!

You can read about our Awards in the sidebar under Announcements.

Our BEST IN SHOW this week goes to................

  18. Lyn T !!

Isn't this adorable? We loved her bright colors and gate fold design. She has a brand new blog too! Congratulations, Lyn! The trophy is all yours! 

 This week's randomly drawn QUEEN OF THE HOEDOWN is.................. 

   8. Cheryl L.!!

Grab the winner's button for your blog, Cheryl, and be sure to email Monica at 

info@hambostamps.com 

with your choice of any digi image from the store here.

Be sure to visit our Bacon Bits' blogs! They love your comments!