Pick FOUR

The Hambo Hoedown Challenge this week is to use Candles or any other Hambo image and create a project that incorporates four of something (4 brads, 4 buttons, 4 patterns, 4 colors, etc.). I used 4716 Duck Umbrella along with 4704 Sunshine & Happines to make my card. I paper pieced the umbrella and used four dewdrops, one in each corner.

Hop over to the Hoedown and see what the other Bacon Bits have made to inspire you. Then "PICK  FOUR" and play! You might win a free digi!

 I'll add this card to the others that I'm making and sending to Card Cupids during my month as Guest Designer. If you'd like to help support Card Cupids, check HERE for details.

A Fitting Birthday...

The Cutting Cafe is featuring an adorable set called Fun with Dress Forms this week. This template cutting file and printable stamp set features shaped cards, lots of images and great sentiments to go with them. Here's the card that I made...

The inside says " to wish you a Happy Birthday."

I'm also submitting my card to Chocolate, Coffee & Cards Challenge 10~Pearls and Lace.

OWH "Make 'em Laugh" Blog Hop

Hambo Stamps is proud to support our nation’s deployed heroes through Operation Write Home^® This organization has sent over 1.5 million cards overseas so our service members can keep in touch with their loved ones. Hambo's "Talk to the Ham" blog is participating in the "Make 'Em Laugh" blog hop this weekend! Hambo's owner, Monica, and some of the Bacon Bits have made some funny cards for the Blog Hop. Here's mine...

I used OWH Sketch #114 and Hambo Stamps'  4581 - Ham on the Run and part of the sentiment 4106 - Crack a Smile. I love this image. His sweet smile and his cute "crack" seemed to go perfectly with the first part of  this sentiment.

Stop by Hambo's Blog "Talk to the Ham" to see some more funny projects and take some time to check out OWH’s blogs and all the others participating, starting at the top of the hop, http://www.owhstarsandstamps.org.

Card Cupids

I'm very exicted to have been chosen as one of the Guest designers for Card Cupids. Card Cupids is a wonderful organization that "provides encouragement and joy by sending cards and goodies such as stuffed animals, coloring books and art supplies to children who are facing difficult challenges in their young lives regardless of their economic background." Read more about Card Cupids and how you can help here.

I've aleady sent some cards to Card Cupids and I'm working on more. I made this card using a cute image from Whimsy Doodles April release called Birthday Turtle.

Card Cupid also has a monthly challenge. This month's challenge is to creat a journal. It can be a store bought journal or composition book that you alter or you could get really creative and create the whole journal. You might even win a prize. You can find all of the details here.

Smile!

Today is the last day to enter your project in the Hoedown. The challenge is to make a card with an extra fold using the free digi image Paper Boy or any Hambo image. I used Hambo's 4105 Gator and 4106 Crack a Smile to make a gatefold card with a twist.

The twist is that I adhered the right side of the image and the left side of the sentiment to the gatefolds. So it opens like this...

Isn't that paper prefect for this image? It's bumpy just like a gator's skin, not that I've ever touched a gator's skin, but that's what it reminds me of! I got it at Hobby Lobby. I made the gator's skin on the image "bumpy" by dabbing it with the tip of my blender pen after I colored it.

So hurry over and join in the Hoedown!

Did You Win?

To find out if you are the lucky person who won the prize from my blog or the grand prize, stop by TALK TO THE HAM tomorrow (Thursday) where all of the winners will be posted!!

Fun with Jars

The Cutting Cafe is featuring a set of jar templates and jar printable stamps this week. The Jar Shaped Card Set has three shaped jars - mason, candy and cookie jars. There are also fillers for the jars and lots of cute sentiments. The Fun with Jars stamps have over 90 images, including three jars, cookie, candy and mason jars, with fillers and sentiments for each type of jar.

I used the mason jar in the Fun with Jars set along with a bug from the Cute Critters Set featured last week to make a get well card. The sentiment is Caught a Bug from Hambo Stamps.

Be sure to check out the Cutting Cafe's Blog to see what the other DT members made with these sets. You'll love what you see.