It's a Hambo Hoedown!

Wait! What??!! Yep, that's right! The Bacon Bits couldn't hold out anymore. We needed a Hoedown and we figured you needed one too. So are you ready to Hoedown?

This Hoedown will last for a month (until June 3rd at midnight EDT.) The theme is FLOWERS. (We've suffered through the showers, we deserve the flowers right??) Flowers need to be somewhere on your card.

You can use any company's image for this challenge but if you have a Hambo image, why not use it? If you don't have a Hambo image, feel free to grab a freebie. 

The winner of the challenge will receive 2 free digis of their choice from the Hambo digi store. You can enter this challenge once with a non-Hambo image or as many times as you would like if you are using Hambo images...

Now let's see what the Bacon Bits have to inspire you this week...

Jane using Geranium

Juliana using Newscaster

Jeannie using Heart Basket

Lyn using Nerd

Please link your challenge projects using the inlinkz button below. If you are uploading to an online gallery, use HamboHoedown1401 as your keywords so we can find your creations. If you are using a Hambo image, add Hambo as a keyword too! 

Heart Basket Full Of Love

Today I have my final card for Hambo Stamps.  This DT has always been one of my favorites.  Hambo has the best images.  The sentiments are hilarious and super catchy!  Monica and Tim are the BOMB!  My teamies were super fab this time around.  I am so honored to have been a part of this fun team!  Thank you Hambo Stamps!  

My card features Heart Basket digital stamp.  I LOVE Hambo Stamps and I hope you will take the time to peek into their store full of adorable images and fun sentiments.!  

Jenn

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.

 

It's Week 2 for CAS!

Welcome to the Hambo Hoedown! 

It's Week 2 for our current challenge! Read on:

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 the winner for our last challenge 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 #137 is to create a CAS design - in other words, CLEAN AND SIMPLE.  Lots of open space, not a lot of embellishments and clutter, just all about the design. 

We have some Hambo friends, as well as some of the Bacon Bits DT, on hand to show you their interpretations of CAS:

Former Bacon Bits DT member Jan Hunnicutt using Skater Girl (4311)

Hambo friend Lisa Lara using Bird Balloon

Bacon Bits DT member Lyn using Heart Basket

Bacon Bits DT member Jane using Nun and.....

...using Bird Egg and Big Giraffe (5116)!

Aren't they amazing?

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 HamboHoedown137 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, NOVEMBER 18, at 10:00 PM Central Time****

FOLLOW US! Click the button below.

 

Pocket Full Of Love!

Hambo is once again a sponsor of the SCS "Hope You Can Cling To" campaign, running through October. For today's post, I decided to play along with one of these challenges - HYCCT1316. The Challenge was to:

• Create a pocket card, or a card with a pocket on it.
• Bonus 1:  To fill the pocket with hope, add a star or stars OR a heart or  hearts.
• Bonus 2:  Make it  orange (leukemia)  or  pink (breast cancer)

For my card, I used Heart Basket a Hambo digital image. It is a sweet and simple image with a straight forward message - "Sending all my love". It truly makes me smile!

As the challenge called for a pocket, I made a twisted card. I used lots of pink for breast cancer awareness and I punched out various hearts and dropped them into the inside pocket. This technique creates a pocket on both the outside and inside of the card. I sealed the outside pocket. When the lucky recipient opens the card, it they will find a pocket full of love. Challenge met!

This is such a fun card to make! Get the tutorial here.

Note: For this card base, use a general (not luxury) cardstock or it else it will be too bulky.

Thanks for stopping by!

Lyn

Supplies used for this card:

1. Stamp: Heart Basket digital by Hambo Stamps
2. Paper
   • Pink cardstock by Recollections
   • Designer Paper - Spring Fling by DCWV
3. Ink: Copic Markers [RV11, RV13, RV21, E40, E42, E44, E47]
4. Other Supplies:
   • Circle Die - Spellbinders
   • Circle Lace Die - Spellbinders
   • Vintage Button Raspberry Fizz - Papertrey Ink
   • Twine
   • Heart-to-Heart punch -Stampin' Up