Kids Inspire Us!

It's the middle of the month, and we are ALL ABOUT KIDS in September!

The Bacon Bits have some super fun designs to share with you today in different styles -- so there is something for everyone!

First, take a look at Jane's adorable CAS (Clean and Simple) baby announcement using Egg Pig - 2152:

Isn't that cute with the little tag?

Next up is Jeannie's darling froggy card using Frog Boy:

I love the paper she used and that adorable little green button!

Judy created a one-layer CAS card using Roller Bunny - 4517 and Take Flight - 452:

Love the clouds and the whimsical grass. 

And finally Lyn used a favorite-of mine digital set called Orange/Yam Kids:

Isn't her coloring fabulous? 

We hope you will join the us in this month's ALL ABOUT KIDS Hambo Hoedown Challenge! Check out the original challenge post HERE for more Bacon Bits inspiration and to read all about the PRIZES! Be sure to have your entry added by midnight Central time on Setpember 30th! Link your challenge entries using the button below. If you are uploading to an online gallery, use HamboHoedown1405 as your keyword. Using a Hambo image? Add Hambo as a keyword too!

Time to Say Goodbye

Today we are saying goodbye from the Hambo Hoedown, as our challenge blog has come to and end. 

We have enjoyed the last three years (our first challenge was 2/1/11), and hope that you have too.  We will be sharing news, sales, new designs, and our Bacon Bits Design Team's work on a daily basis on our FACEBOOK page, so be sure to join us over there. We also share projects on PINTEREST, so we hope you will follow us! 

Our annual SUPER BOWL SALE is happening right now! Head over to Talk to the Ham and find out how you can win your entire order FREE!

Our LOVE challenge brought some sweet players and some adorable designs. Because this is our last challenge, we think you all are Queens of the Hoedown! So, Deanne, Carolyn, AJ, and Sherry -- grab the winner's button for your blogs, and be sure to email Monica at info@hambostamps.com with your choice of any digi image from the store here.

Thank you to all who have played in our challenges and shared your creative work with us! We will be keeping the blog open for awhile so that you can come back for a visit and find Hambo inspiration here. Keep crafting!

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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Put A Little Love in Your Heart

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.

 

We love all sorts of animals and had a lot of fun designing cards using them the last two weeks, and we hope our winners did too!

Our Best in Show for the Animal Challenge goes to...

13. Libby Hickson

The trophy is yours!

  

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

8. Carolyn

Grab the winner's button for your blogs,

and be sure to email Monica 

at info@hambostamps.com 

with your choice of any digi image from the store 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!

LYN

KENDRA

JULIANA

JENN

JEANNIE

JANE

DEBORAH

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****

FOLLOW US! Click the button below.

 

Duck Duck Goose! It's an Animal Challenge!

Welcome to the Hambo Hoedown

and Week 2 of our ANIMALS Challenge!

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 #141 is to create a project using ANY ANIMAL.*** 

Our Bacon Bits DT members created some fun samples for you using some of the famous Hambo pigs. We thought we would start the year off with our Hambo mascot and highlight images in the Hambo line that are full of ham~!


Deborah has an adorable thinking of you greeting that is just full of it -- LOVE that is! 

Outhouse Pig (1908) and Stinking of You (1923) rubber images

Jane shares her sweet grandson with us in her artist palette design:

Artist Pig and Painter digital images

Judy uses Floating Pig and Just Pigcause to convey her all-occasion wishes:

Floating Pig (#4906) and Just Pigcause (#4112)

ANY ANIMAL fulfills the challenge requirement! You might use one of my favorites, Big Giraffe (5116), as Jane did here:

Check out our Animal galleries for more Hambo animal fun!

Again, you can use ANY 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 HamboHoedown141 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 13, at 10:00 PM Central Time****

FOLLOW US! Click the button below.

 

Happy New Year from Hambo Stamps!

Happy New Year and 

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.

 

We love Kraft and had a lot of fun designing cards using Kraft the last two weeks, and we hope our winners did too!

Our Best in Show for the Kraft Challenge goes to...

1. Gail Scott

We loved her pretty snow scene!
The trophy is yours, Gail!

  

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

2. Mel C 

Grab the winner's button for your blogs,

and be sure to email Monica 

at info@hambostamps.com 

with your choice of any digi image from the store 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 #141 is to create a project using ANY ANIMAL.*** 

Our Bacon Bits DT members created some fun samples for you today using some of the famous Hambo pigs. Since today is January 1, we thought we would start the year off with our Hambo mascot and highlight images in the Hambo line that are full of ham~!

Jane

Jeannie

Jenn

Juliana

Kendra

Lyn

Click on their names below their creations or in the sidebar to see all the deets!

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 HamboHoedown141 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 13, at 10:00 PM Central Time****

FOLLOW US! Click the button below.

 

Merry Christmas!

Welcome to the Hambo Hoedown! 

All of us at Hambo Stamps want to wish you a very Merry Christmas!

Welcome to Week 2 of our Kraft Challenge!

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 #140 is to create a project using KRAFT CARDSTOCK.*** Kraft and any other colors! Pretty easy!

Our Bacon Bits DT members and Hambo friends created some beautiful samples for you today that I know will inspire you!

Jenn has an adorable tag that she colored using ink and paintbrush. LOVE the look of white on kraft!

Snow Pig - 3219

Jeannie made a bright and fun card using Skiing Mouse and a sentiment from Fish Birds. That houndstooth paper makes me think of warm sweaters and socks!

Jane's Chess Set card is a sweet valentine of love!

Click on their names in the sidebar to see all the deets!

A few more for added mojo help using rubber images:

Reindeer Gift (#4314) & We Believe (#4310)

Santa Cookies (#4309)

Snowmen (#0316)

Again, you can use ANY 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 HamboHoedown140 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, DECEMBER 30, at 10:00 PM Central Time****

FOLLOW US! Click the button below.

 

Craft with Kraft!

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.

 

We had a lot of fun making our bookmarks the last two weeks, and we hope our winners did too!

Our Best in Show for the Bookmark Challenge goes to...

3. Gail

We loved her embossing and snow drifts!
The trophy is yours, Gail!

  

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

5. CraftyGirl!

Grab the winner's button for your blogs,

and be sure to email Monica 

at info@hambostamps.com 

with your choice of any digi image from the store 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 #140 is to create a project using KRAFT CARDSTOCK.*** Kraft and any other colors! Pretty easy!

Our Bacon Bits DT members created some beautiful samples for you today that I know will inspire you!

First up is Guest Designer Bev Gerard with Snowman Bird. I love the pop of red down the side with her sentiment. So festive and pretty!

Next is Lyn's cute Bailey Christmas. That embossed background reminds me of a warm sweater!

Deborah's Penguin Snowball is all decked out in a bright, festive green and I love those button snowflakes!

That gingham ribbon just pops on Kendra's cute Bailey Christmas:

Jane's Snowman Bird is in for a snowy day (love her fussy cutting!):

And Juliana's Skiing Mouse looks like an expert on those slopes. 
Isn't that banner a great addition?!

Click on their names in the sidebar to see all the deets!

Again, you can use ANY 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 HamboHoedown140 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, DECEMBER 30, at 10:00 PM Central Time****

FOLLOW US! Click the button below.