Category: animals

  • Twisted

    Twisted

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    Jane Shaw
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    January Song and Rhyme The Outlawz challenge website is changing and we now have new categories beginning on January 1st 2026. There are less categories and each challenge will be monthly starting on 1st of the month. I am on the design team for two of the categories, Anything but a card, ABAC and Twisted.…

  • Don’t ask!!

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    It’s time again for the Sunday song and rhyme challenge at Outlawz. The poem this month is called the Zebra Question by Shel Silverstein an American writer and cartoonist, born in USA in 1930. The poem was published in a book called Light in the Attic, published in 1981. At first I was not sure…

  • Beware of the Cat

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    Jane Shaw
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    The rhyme for March is called The Little Folk, by Shirley Barber a British author and illustrator. Her works were written after she emigrated to Australia in 1965. Shirley started out as an artist designing wallpaper. Most of her written work is about animals or fairies. Anyone who knows me will know how much I…

  • All things bright and beautiful

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    Jane Shaw
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    Normally for Sunday Song and Rhyme challenge I make a card to fit the song or rhyme, but when this one came up I had just made card that fitted perfectly. It fit so perfectly with the second verse. The words were written in 1848 by Cecil Frances Alexander and the familiar tune written in…

  • Merry Christmas Deer

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    Jane Shaw
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    Today is the start of Outlawz Tuesday Colour challenge for December. For the challenge we were given a tic tac toe challenge which is a 3 by 3 grid of pictures and we have to use any row, horizontal, vertical or diagonal to inspire your challenge – you can use colours, elements, themes or anything…

  • Autumn Garden

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    Jane Shaw
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    The Outlawz Sunday song and rhyme challenge for 13th October, is based on the poem My October garden by Christina Rosseti. Rosseti was and English poet born in 1830. She suffered a life time of physical and mental health issues. I took my inspiration from broad faced asters and the nightingale. Using a stitch pattern…

  • Spooky!

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    Jane Shaw
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    I really can’t believe it is October already and that the nights are drawing in. Of course October means Halloween celebrations for many, it’s not an occasion I like, but creates many craft opportunities. For October’s Colour challenge we were given this image and told to use 3 of the colours and Halloween themed A…

  • Seeing stripes

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    Jane Shaw
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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…

  • Leap Year

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    Jane Shaw
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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…

  • Laughter is the best medicine!

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    Jane Shaw
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    Laughter is the best medicine, it is thought this quote originally came from the Bible, Proverbs 17 – 22. Many others have said similar things. Anyway I digress. The Outlawz challenge for Oct 29th is the rhyme/song Kookaburra. Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree,Merry merry king of the bush is he.Laugh, Kookaburra, laugh, Kookaburra,Gay…