Happy Birthday Timbo Blog Hop

Happy Birthday to Timbo, the man behind the pen at Hambo Stamps!

The Bacon Bits are surprising Tim with a little birthday fun today and we would love to have you join us in celebrating!

If you arrived from Stephanie's Blog, you are in the right place. If you just happened by, be sure to start at Karin's blog for the whole story and to have a chance at winning the birthday prize!

Each of the DT members were assigned a different animal from the Farm Animals pack, and asked to write a little story to tell what that animal was doing on their way to Timbo's party

On the way to the Hambo Farm for Timbo's birthday bash, Farm dog got to ride in the family spaceship, called Jeep. It is blue, and huge, and only opens when mom presses the remote control button. He loves riding in it because the smells are 1000x better than they are in his backyard. And they all come at him at 25 miles an hour! When the spaceship is going faster, and the windows are closed, he still likes to sniff the air coming out of the vents. Who knew the ride could get more exciting, until they stopped and they were at PetCo! Talk about smell Heaven! Every corner has the glorious scent of another dog. Farm dog could spend hours here! After getting his fill of smells, Farm dog headed to the raw hide aisle to get his favorites for Timbo. Then back into spaceship and wait...SQUIRREL! Farm dog must always stop and bark at squirrels. As they finally pulled up to the farm, Farm dog smelled even better smells than PetCo! There were new, bigger, stinkier smells. As he followed the scent trail, it lead him to the man of the hour, the owner of the Pig Pen, himself, Timbo! And from then on, the "shower" of kisses (licks) commenced. Happy Birthday, Tim :)

This card uses Farm dog from Hambo. Isn't he just adorable? I colored him with Copics, and then punched him out with a SU circle punch. I layered that on PTI's Mega Mat Stack 3, cut from SU DSP. Then layered that on PTI's Men of Life patterned paper, on top of PTI Aqua Mist cardstock.

The "woof" is from a pack of chipboard letters and the cute dog bone paper clip is from Recollections. The twine is from the Twinery.

I am very pleased with this card, I think it is adorable!

Now off to Michele's blog, where you can see what happens next at Timbo's Birthday Bash! If you get lost, here is the order of birthday fun:

Karin

Stephanie

Me!

Michele

Libby

Melissa

Andrea

Judy

Talk to the Ham

Thanks for stopping by to help celebrate Tim's birthday! Don't forget to leave some "hogwash" in the comments section.

Pumpkins for Autumn

The time has finally arrived that I get to meet my niece Autumn! And of course I will come bearing gifts... a knitted hat. And what would be more perfect for Autumn than a pumpkin? :) Check it out!

Yes, I even made booties!!! Now, I'm not sure they'll fit her, lol (there was a debate among my coworkers today) but at least they're cute and can be a keepsake. They weren't that difficult, either.

I can't wait to see what she looks like wearing it! I will definitely share a picture when I get back.

Hambo Howedown #40

This week at the Hambo Hoedown the challenge was to use this Snail Rake image and a technique from Splitcoast Stampers. I chose to try out the Faux Stitching technique. You can find it here.

Here's a close up of the snail and the "stitching" it almost looks real, huh? And it was simple, just punch the holes and then draw a line between each hole to look like the thread.

I wanted the stitching theme to continue throughout the card, so I made it look like I sewed the sentiment right on the card, too ;)

The patterned paper is from PTI, the cardstock is a mixture between SU and PTI, the snail was colored with Copics. The punches are both SU, and the ribbon was actually repurposed from a gift I received recently.

Well, hopefully you are all enjoying the nice fall and the leaves that you see in this pic. Here in MA, we had a snowstorm over the weekend, and because the trees still had leaves on them, they couldn't handle the weight. Trees fell down everywhere, including right on our new camper :( Power is STILL out a lot of places, and school has been closed all week so far. Trick or Treating was rescheduled to this coming weekend, so its all been screwed up around here. Apparently we haven't had snow this early in the year in New England since the Civil War time!

Hambo Halloween!

This will be my last Halloween card you will be seeing this year...and I'm glad, I'm over it now haha! But I definitely wanted to put this little Hambo digi bat to use, so I decided I could stand one more card ;) I originally made this card for a case challenge, but I didn't link up in time.

This digi is called "Fat Bat" and you can find him here.

The clouds were cut using PTI dies and I cut them twice, once with grey cardstock and then once on velum to make them look more cloud-like. The moon was cut with a SU circle punch. The background is from PTI's tin types background set.

The bat paper is from Making memories, the cardstock is a mixture between PTI and SU. Copics were used to color the bat. I hope you all have something exciting to do for Halloween! We don't get any Trick-or-Treaters since we live on a busy road, but here's hoping you get some cute ones :)

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One of the requirements of being on the Hambo Design Team is to do at least one challenge from Splitcoast Stampers a month. I chose to do this week's sketch challenge. It looks like this:

And this is the card that I created using the Hambo digital chess set:

I used to play chess with my dad growing up, and then when Phillip and I started dating, we used to play chess a lot. In fact, for his first Christmas gift as a couple, I bought him a cool Michael Graves chess set.

The patterned paper is from PTI, its called Men of Life. I actually got it in my Stamp-a-Faire gift bag, and have just now gotten around to using it. The sentiment is from PTI, too. I colored the chess pieces with Copics. This card will work for a masculine birthday card which is good because I don't usually have many of those! You can find the chess set here.

Halloween Treats

I found this great, easy Halloween treat idea through my mom's boards on Pinterest. They were easy and definitely turned out cute. Oh and did I mention that they are delicious?

In the Wilton aisle at Michaels they sell the sticks, and the little bags with ribbons, too.

My mom gave me the cute PTI tag set as a little October gift, it was great to get some use out of them :)

This recipe was really easy. It is one sleeve of Oreos and one 8 oz. pkg of softened cream cheese mixed together in the food processor then chilled. Next roll it into balls and chill again. Then put the sticks in and then dip them in the melted candy chocolates (you can get those at Michaels, too) add the eyes and let dry. You can also change it up and do orange to make them look like pumpkins. They were definitely a hit!

Hambo Hoedown #39

This week's Hambo digital image is this cute little newscaster. You can check him out here. The challenge to use with this digi was to use newsprint on your card, which is the perfect combination with a newscaster, if you ask me ;)

I lucked out in this one, because I own a newsprint background stamp set that PTI makes! I wanted him to look like he was sitting at one of those desks in the news studio, so I made the small white mat go off the page.

I colored him with Copics, edged the sentiments so they'd stand out, and then added a little library clip and three red pearls at the bottom to finish it off.

I like that this card turned out so cute, yet masculine at the same time. My dad's birthday is coming up next month, so I think I'll save it to give to him :) The cardstock is a mix between SU and PTI. The library clip is SU. Go on over to the Hambo Hoedown here to check out what everyone else created with this great image :) Also, make sure to go check out the HOGtoberfest sale that's going on on the Hambo site! You can get 30% off all regular priced items throughout the store, but only through midnight tonight. Make sure to check it out now, because this will be Hambo's last sale of the year.