Category: Craft
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Crafting at Sea: My Beading Challenge Bracelet
The Outlawz Anything But A Card challenge for September has no theme. Whilst on holiday aboard a Fred Olsen cruise to Norway there were some beading classes. I never imagined doing craft classes at sea, but on days where you are sailing all day they run classes in a lovely bright room up at the…
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Crafting a Bread and Butter Poem Inspired Project
The inspiration given for September Outlawz Twisted challenge is a poem by A A Milne. He is best known for writing Winnie the Pooh, but also wrote a lot of poems. The King’s Breakfast The King askedThe Queen, andThe Queen askedThe Dairymaid:“Could we have some butter forThe Royal slice of bread?”The Queen asked the Dairymaid,The…
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Creative Stitched Card Ideas for August Challenge
Welcome to August and the next Outlawz Twisted Challenge. This month’s twist is to use a sketch in your design. I did not follow the sketch literally, but instead used the shapes as inspiration for the main image and sentiment. I created a stitched card using a pattern from Craftsuprint. I chose not to use…
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It’s Always Tea Time
The months are flying by, and as we head into August, it is time for a new set of challenges at Outlawz. This month’s Anything but a Card challenge has no set theme, so I decided to create a framed shadow box for an Alice in Wonderland-themed tea party at my local care home. The…
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Fun Yarn Projects: Octopus Craft Challenge
Outlawz Anything But a Card Challenge July 2026 I was trying to think of woolly activities to do with the residents at the care home and I saw a really cute octopus that could also use the polystyrene balls I have in the cupboard. So with grey multicolour yarn. I cut lengths of the yarn…
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Creative Get Well Card
Outlawz Twisted Challenge July 2026 – Greetings Theme I have to admit I did misunderstand this challenge as when I looked someone had added a get well soon image, I thought that was the theme instead of general greetings! I did not realise till I had finished my card. Next time I will check the…
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Time for a change?
I am writing this because I feel a bit lost and would really value some thoughts from anyone who has been through something similar. I have just celebrated my 55th birthday and our 25th wedding anniversary. I am not quite sure how either of those happened so quickly, but they have made me feel very…
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Outlawz Twisted Card Challenge May 2026
The challenge set for the Twisted team is based on the rhyme Ring a Ring a Roses. The rhyme appeared in the 19th century and there are many theories about what it means. The rhyme’s exact origin is uncertain. Its first published version appeared in Kate Greenaway’s Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes (1881) Ring-a-ring o’…
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Outlawz Anything but a Card Challenge May 2026
Does anyone else think the months are flying by too fast? I won’t be sorry to see the back of April though, it has been a tough month for us. So onto the challenge which as ever is anything but a card. I wanted to do something a bit different and I ordered a resin…
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Outlawz Twisted Challenge April 2026
For the April challenge we were given a sketch to base our cards on Using my Cricut Explore 4 I created the shapes and cut them out. Also using my Explore 4 I cut out a heart shape, designed by Enas AbuShanab on Cricut design space. I layered the shapes as shown in the image…