Author: Jane Shaw

  • Seeing stripes

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    The challenge for Outlawz May Tuesday Colour is black and white and one other colour and add stripes. Well what says black and white with stripes more than a zebra? Maybe not very imaginative? I created my card with the zebra pattern from Stitching Cards Wild Animal pack, I have had the patterns for a…

  • Bunny hops

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    The latest Sunday Song and Rhyme challenge is based on the poem All the world’s alive again by Jennifer Gunner It is a pretty spring poem and I chose to focus on two of the lines; A rabbit hops it gentle step and White blossoms are in bloom. Using a Sweet Dixie rabbit die with…

  • Colour wheel

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    This month sees me on the design team in another Outlawz group challenge, Tuesday colour. The challenge changes monthly and always has a colour theme.  For April the theme is a colour wheel. The item created must use either 2 cool colours from top of wheel and 1 warm from bottom, or vice versa.  I chose…

  • Easter Greetings

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    The Outlawz challenge for this fortnight is Easter themed using the rhyme Happy Easter by Bill Hoeneveld I used a Cricut image from Crafty Mama Studios.  It has 12 layers to cut and stick together so is quite time consuming, it is also quite thick on the front of a card so not ideal for posting.  Mounted…

  • The Swing

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    The Outlawz Song and Rhyme challenge for 17th March, is based on the poem The Swing by Robert Louis Stevenson How do you like to go up in a swing,Up in the air so blue?Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thingEver a child can do! Up in the air and over the wall,Till I…

  • Leap Year

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    The Sunday song and rhyme challenge poem for this time is chosen by me. This year is a leap year, so at the end of this month we get an extra day. “Leap years are years where an extra day is added to the end of the shortest month, February. This so-called intercalary day, February…

  • Snowdrops

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    The Outlawz Sunday song and rhyme challenge starting February 4th is To the Thawing Wind, by appropriately named Robert Frost, published in 1913; Come with rain, O loud Southwester!Bring the singer, bring the nester;Give the buried flower a dream;Make the settled snowbank steam;Find the brown beneath the white;But whate’er you do tonight,Bathe my window, make…

  • Another Snowman

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    The Outlawz Sunday Song and Rhyme Challenge for January 21st is based on the poem The Snowman by Wallace Stevens One must have a mind of winterTo regard the frost and the boughsOf the pine-trees crusted with snow; And have been cold a long timeTo behold the junipers shagged with ice,The spruces rough in the…

  • Angels

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    The Outlawz Sunday Song and Rhyme challenge for December 24th to January 6th was based on the rhyme Beneath the Wings of Angels by Clay Harrison, I cut a layered Angel image with my Cricut, quite time consuming with so many layers, but looks very effective. The image is from Design Bundles. The backing is…

  • Snowman

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    My card for Outlawz Progressive challenge for January. The Snowman image is from Cara Malmarose. I used Lunapic to colour the image and cut it out by hand after many attempts to cut it with my Cricut Joy Extra. The backing paper is from an old card making magazine. Wording is drawn on My Cricut…