The Hambo Hoedown has begun!

Hi Everyone! (and Happy Groundhog's Day too ;) )

Today marks the day of the first challenge at Hambo Stamps.  The challenge blog is named Hambo Hoedown and we would love if you played along with us in this, our first challenge.  Ready for the theme?  In honor of one of the biggest American holidays, it's FOOTBALL!  Here is my card for some inspiration and to get you going, errr...I mean "Hoedowning". The cute Football Girl digi is from Hambo Stamps and  I chose to use Green Bay Packers inspired colors, since I'm from Cleveland, it's impossible for me to root for the Steelers...I distressed the edges for a rough and tumble appearance, but since she is a cutie pie girl, I used flower papers and embellishments. The sentiment was cut from a piece of patterned paper.

Here are the challenge details:

The way the challenge will work is this: Starting this first week, we're going to give EVERYONE a free digi image. The theme is Football, and you can either use the free digi image we give you, or any other Hambo stamps to make a card that fits the challenge theme. The challenge will run for one week. At the end of the week, one winner will be chosen from a random drawing of all the participants, and that person will win his/her pick of a free digi image from our digital store.

But wait - there's more! EVERY person who plays in the challenge will be emailed another new digi image, which can be used for the week 2 challenge. The image will be offered free to all who participated the previous week, and then put on the website for sale once the free ones are distributed. Again, you'll be able to use that new image for the week 2 challenge, OR you can use any other Hambo stamp (rubber or digital).

This cycle will continue each week, so as long as you continue to participate in the challenges, the more free digis you'll rack up. If you miss a week, you can either purchase that week's digi image to get back into the loop, or you can work with another Hambo stamp, as long as you are loyal to that week's theme.

The challenges will change weekly, so one week might be a "theme" (i.e. "wildlife), one week might be a color combination, or a sketch, or have an embellishment requirement, etc. so there should be something to interest everyone at some point.

AND, there will also be extra prizes and incentives thrown in from time to time. For example, one week we might offer a sales code that will ONLY be publicized on the challenge blog, so if you don't drop by the challenge that week, you'll miss it.

Sound cool? What are you waiting for? Put on your dancing shoes and get over to the Hambo Hoedown and join the fun!

Good Luck :)

Other challenges this card is linked to:
Ooo-La-La-Three of a Kind
Paper Playtime-Anything Goes W/a digi
2 Sisters Challenge-Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Crafty Catz-Flowers
Digi with Attitude-Use a Person
Fuzzy Wuzzy-Anything Goes
Sew Many Cards-Green

Crafty Purple Frog-Distressing

Details not listed above-Paper: The Paper Company, Georgia Pacific white, unknown source, Markers: Copic, Embossing Folder & Die Cut: Cuttlebug, Punch: McGill, Nesties, ribbon and gem from my supplies.