Spring Is Marching Its Way In Bright and Hot!

Hoedown Dancers: 

A little business before we begin. Please read the entire post! Submissions that do not follow the challenge will be deleted, and will not receive the next week's free image. We want to make it fair to those that do follow the challenge. Thank you!

Where did March go?  Seems like it just flew by! Or maybe it "marched" out really fast wearing some awesome shoes! Check out this week's adorable image:

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

I think Caterpillar is looking for Spring, and hopefully it has arrived at your neck of the woods. This week's challenge is to make a Spring project, using Caterpillar and the main colors of HOT PINK AND BRIGHT GREEN. (That is not exactly hot pink, but the closest Blogger has!)

Here are some simply adorable designs from the Bacon Bits to inspire you!

Melissa

Hannah

Silke

Everyone that followed the challenge, linked a card to the blog post and emailed us a photo of their card received this week's challenge image FREE!  So check your mailboxes! If you didn't get your card linked in time or forgot to email us (the deadline is always 10 PM CST Tuesday night before the new challenge), you can still play along.  Use ANY Hambo image on your project - just make sure you follow the theme! Link up, email us, and you will be back in the loop for the next free image!

Please link your HOT PINK AND BRIGHT GREEN Challenge projects using the inlinkz button below.  If you are uploading to an online gallery, use HamboHoedown9 as your keyword. 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 10 to you! 

****Projects must be uploaded AND pictures emailed by Tuesday, April 5, at 10:00 PM CST to be eligible for Week 10's free digi image.****

Here is Karin's cute hot pink and green card using Magnifying Glass - 0901 and Caught a Bug - 3105. See! You can use any Hambo image!

Karin

Our Guest Designers have been notified and are excited to share their creations with you! Be sure to come back next week to play along, and see who our first Guest is!

Congratulations to  16. Allison G in TX  who is this week's Queen of the Hoedown! You can snag 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. Thank you to everyone who played in the Sketch Challenge with Coffee Girl and other Hambo images!

Mark your calendars for our April 1st Blog Hop!

That's in TWO DAYS! The hop starts at Talk to the Ham, the official Hambo Blog! Don't miss it! 

Check out the Hambo Stamps **NEW** Digital Image Store HERE.

Instant downloads and tons of fun! 

What are you waiting for? 

Get your dancin' shoes on and HOEDOWN with us! 

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Can Anyone Say "More Please?"

The Bacon Bits can surely say it! Check these out:

Hannah

Melissa

Judy

Silke

See anything similar? I see two things! Coffee Girl and an awesome sketch, created by Silke! This week's challenge is to use Coffee Girl and her sentiment, and Silke's fun sketch!

This image is not available free, unless you played in last week's challenge and received it via email. Hambo Stamps is closed until March 28, and you can then Buy it here!

It is fine to flip 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! 

If you didn't play last week, use ANY Hambo image and create a card using the above sketch. Check out what Joy and Karin made this week!

Joy used Stay Cool - 1516 and Cat - 1725

Karen used Buzzillion - 1522 and Lightning Bug - 1416

Everyone that followed the challenge, linked a card to the blog post and emailed us a photo of their card received this week's challenge image FREE!  So check your mailboxes! If you didn't get your card linked in time or forgot to email us (the deadline is always 10 PM CST Tuesday night before the new challenge), you can still play along.  Use ANY Hambo image on your project - just make sure you follow the theme! Link up, email us, and you will be back in the loop for the next free image!

Please link your Sketch Challenge projects using the inlinkz button below.  If you are uploading to an online gallery, use HamboHoedown8 as your keyword. That way we can find your creations! After you have linked here, please email a picture of it to hambodesignteam@gmail.com so that we can get the image for Week 9 to you! 

****Projects must be uploaded AND pictures emailed by Tuesday, March 29, at 10:00 PM CST to be eligible for Week 9's free digi image.****

 

We just loved all of the sparkle you brought to the Hoedown last week with Party Elephant and other Hambo images! Congratulations to  26. Laura W , who was chosen as last week's Queen of the Hoedown! You can snag 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 remember, a weekly Guest Designer will be chosen for the Hoedown from the Sketch entries! The first three have already been chosen! (Shh....can't say who yet! It's a secret!). Each of the first four weeks in March we will be choosing one participant to be a Guest Designer for one week of our April Hoedown Challenges! Hoedown Guest Designers would receive their image early and have their card showcased at the Hoedown, along with the Bacon Bits' cards! So put your thinking caps on, and show us your stuff! Guest Designers will be notified via email at the end of March.

Mark your calendars for our April 1st Blog Hop!

Check out the Hambo Stamps **NEW** Digital Image Store HERE.

Instant downloads and tons of fun! 

What are you waiting for? 

Get your dancin' shoes on and HOEDOWN with us! 

Become a Follower so you don't miss out on one little thing!

"I Wouldn't Forget" to Play in the Hoedown This Week!

Welcome Hoedown Dancers! Thank you to everyone who played in last week's St. Pat Hamster and Gold Challenge! Be sure to wear green tomorrow so you don't get pinched! 

Our Queen of the Hoedown (chosen at random) for last week is  27. Cheryl B! Congratulations! You can snag 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.

Speaking of sweet Monica (owner of Hambo) and her fabulous hubby Timbo (Hambo illustrator extraordinaire).......they are taking their wonderful family on a fun spring break trip this next week and Hambo Stamps will be closed March 18-27. So----- if you want to buy anything soon (like this week's cute digi image), you will need to do that by tomorrow, March 17th! They will be back in the store on Monday, March 28, and will take care of orders received while they were gone then.  

Now -- on to the challenge for this week! I am going to show you the inspiration from the Bacon Bits first, give you a few hints, and then see if you can guess what the challenge is from their designs! Take a look:

A little  bling from those delightful red gems:

Silke

Some yummy designer paper:

Hannah

A fun party hat!

Melissa

 Blingy flowers and hat:

Judy

Any ideas yet? I bet you figured out that it's with 
PARTY ELEPHANT! 

Isn't he cute?

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

And what else? Well, it's all about the SPARKLE as we Celebrate (any celebration) with Party Elephant! Glitter, Stickles, atyou Spica pens, glittery embossing powders, designer paper, bling, etc. - we want to see your sparkly delights!

Again, if you didn't play last week, use ANY Hambo image, make a celebratory card, and show your sparkle! Here to show you how is Karin using  Worm Balloon - 2510:

Karin

Everyone that followed the challenge, linked a card to the blog post and emailed us a photo of their card would receive this week's challenge image FREE!  So check your mailboxes! If you didn't get your card linked in time or forgot to email us (the deadline is always 10 PM CST Tuesday night before the new challenge), you can still play along.  Use ANY Hambo image on your project - just make sure you follow the theme! Link up, email us, and you will be back in the loop for the next free image!

Please link your SPARKLY Challenge projects using the inlinkz button below.  If you are uploading to an online gallery, use HamboHoedown7 as your keyword. That way we can find your creations! After you have linked here, please email a picture of it to hambodesignteam@gmail.com so that we can get the image for Week 8 to you! 

****Projects must be uploaded AND pictures emailed by Tuesday, March 22, at 10:00 PM CST to be eligible for Week 8's free digi image.****

And remember, for the next two weeks a weekly Guest Designer will be chosen for the Hoedown! The first two have already been chosen! (Shh....can't say who yet! It's a secret!). Each of the first four weeks in March we will be choosing one participant to be a Guest Designer for one week of our April Hoedown Challenges! Hoedown Guest Designers would receive their image early and have their card showcased at the Hoedown, along with the Bacon Bits' cards! So put your thinking caps on, and show us your stuff! Guest Designers will be notified via email at the end of March.

Mark your calendars for our April 1st Blog Hop!

What are you waiting for? 

Get your dancin' shoes on and HOEDOWN with us!

Them There's GOLD in Those Hills!

Whether you are Irish or not, you are sure to love this little St. Pat Hamster for today's challenge:

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

And it's all about the GOLD, Hoedown Dancers! This week's challenge is to use the above image of St. Pat Hamster and incorporate a lot of GOLD. 

Check out what the Bacon Bits made for you this week and be sure to visit their blogs too (click on their names under the photos)! You never know what surprise you might find in a pot of gold there.....

Melissa

Silke

Judy

Hannah

Everyone that followed the challenge, linked a card to the blog post and emailed us a photo of their card received this week's challenge image FREE!  So check your mailboxes! If you didn't get your card linked in time or forgot to email us (the deadline is always 10 PM CST Tuesday night before the new challenge), you can still play along.  Use ANY Hambo image on your project - just make sure you follow the theme! Link up, email us, and you will be back in the loop for the next free image!  

Karin made a darling gold card with Buzzillion - 1522 and Tiny Bee - 3114.

Karin

Here is an example for you from Joy using Chickens - 0908 and Pecked for You - 1127. Gold papers, gold brads, gold beaks and feet!

Joy

Read more about how the challenge works here.

Please link your St. Pat Hamster/GOLD Challenge projects using the inlinkz button below.  If you are uploading to an online gallery, use HamboHoedown6 as your keyword. That way we can find your creations! After you have linked here, please email a picture of it to hambodesignteam@gmail.com so that we can get the image for Week 6 to you! 

****Projects must be uploaded AND pictures emailed by Tuesday, March 15, at 10:00 PM CST to be eligible for Week 7's free digi image.****

And remember, for the next three weeks a weekly Guest Designer will be chosen for the Hoedown! The first one has already been chosen! (Shh....can't say who yet! It's a secret!). Each of the first four weeks in March we will be choosing one participant to be a Guest Designer for one week of our April Hoedown Challenges! Hoedown Guest Designers would receive their image early and have their card showcased at the Hoedown, along with the Bacon Bits' cards! So put your thinking caps on, and show us your stuff! Guest Designers will be notified via email at the end of March.

And now, for last week's QUEEN OF THE HOEDOWN! Congratulations to 15. peggysue W  !! We loved seeing ALL of your LION and STRIPES cards! Thank you to EVERYONE for playing along. Peggysue, please email Monica at info@hambostamps.com with your choice of any digi image from the store! And you can also snag the QUEEN OF THE HOEDOWN button for your blog!

 

Mark your calendars for our April 1st Blog Hop!

What are you waiting for? Get your dancin' shoes on and HOEDOWN with us!

March: In Like a Lion!

Welcome to Month #2 of the Hambo Hoedown! Wow has time gone by fast.  It was a month ago today that we had our Kickoff Challenge with "Football Girl." We are so glad that you have all joined us. We are having a lot of fun and hope that you are too! Be sure to read this whole post carefully, as we have some extra fun planned for our Hoedown participants.

What a celebration of heroes we had last week with "Bird Hero"! It was so fun to see what different species of birds ended up in your sketches! Thank you for playing along. Congratulations to 19. Mary G. who was randomly chosen as last week's Hambo Hoedown winner! Please email Monica at info@hambostamps.com with your choice of any digi image from the store! And Mary, you can also snag the QUEEN OF THE HOEDOWN button for your blog!

Today's challenge is brought to you by LION. He knows that it's March and in he comes roaring! For this week, the challenge is to make a masculine card using LION and one of the coordinating sentiments, AND also have stripes somewhere in your design.

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

Here are some fun designs from the Bacon Bits to inspire you!

Karin

Silke

Judy

Hannah

Melissa

Again, if you didn't play last week, use ANY Hambo image, make a masculine card, and show your stripes! Here to show you how is Joy using Party Raccoon - 1715:

Joy

As we said last week, everyone that followed the challenge, linked a card to the blog post and emailed us a photo of their card would receive this week's challenge image FREE!  So check your mailboxes! If you didn't get your card linked in time or forgot to email us (the deadline is always 10 PM CST Tuesday night before the new challenge), you can still play along.  Use ANY Hambo image on your project - just make sure you follow the theme! Link up, email us, and you will be back in the loop for the next free image! Read more about how the challenge works here.

Please link your Lion Challenge projects using the inlinkz button below.  If you are uploading to an online gallery, use HamboHoedown5 as your keyword. That way we can find your creations! After you have linked here, please email a picture of it to hambodesignteam@gmail.com so that we can get the image for Week 6 to you! 

****Projects must be uploaded AND pictures emailed by Tuesday, March 8, at 10:00 PM CST to be eligible for Week 6's free digi image.****

And now for that extra fun we promised! Each of the first four weeks in March we will be choosing one participant to be a Guest Designer for one week of our April Hoedown Challenges! Hoedown Guest Designers would receive their image early and have their card showcased at the Hoedown, along with the Bacon Bits' cards! So put your thinking caps on, and show us your stuff! Guest Designers will be notified via email at the end of March.

We aren't "LION" -- we want to see your creations! Have fun!