Category: Outlawz Challenge

  • Colours of Autumn

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    Jane Shaw
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    Wow I can’t believe it is now September, where did the summer go? We had many plans for the Summer, but it all seems to have chaotically passed us by. Now we are counting down to my daughter moving to University. My craft space is full of her stuff and I don’t know if I…

  • Flower showers

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    The August Tuesday Colour challenge card is based on this image I tried several idea with his one, but couldn’t get them to work. I finally settled on an image from Cricut Design space created by Diva Watts designs. Cut with my Cricut Explore 4 using the colours in the image. Mounted on backing paper…

  • Pretty in Orange

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    This months Outlawz Sunday song and rhyme challenge is based on this verse I was unsure what to use for inspiration on this one, I did it in a bit of a rush with other commitments taking over. So not very imaginatively I created a Marigold image. The image is from Cricut design space, cut…

  • Orange blossom

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    Jane Shaw
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    The Tuesday colour challenge for June, is based on this image and colours I used a cut file from Cricut Access by Layered Craft to create this card. There are 9 layers to the card, cut on my Cricut Explore 4. It was a frustrating process as many of the layers didn’t cut properly due…

  • Don’t ask!!

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    Jane Shaw
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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…

  • Pretty in pink

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    The colour challenge on Outlawz for May is based on this grid The challenge is a tic tac toe meaning you use a row of 3 in any direction. In the UK we call tic, tac, toe, noughts and crosses. Games based on 3 in a row have been around since Ancient Egypt where evidence…

  • Spring awakening

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    Jane Shaw
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    The rhyme for the Outlawz Sunday Song and Rhyme challenge is I couldn’t find any information about the author or the verse. For my card I chose an easel card from Craft with Sarah which I think I got as a free download at some point. My inspiration was the line “Flowers that were gone…

  • April showers

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    Jane Shaw
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    The Sunday song and rhyme challenge was set by me this month and is based on the song Drip, drip drop little April shower from the film Bambi, originally made in 1942. The music was written by Frank Churchill and Lyrics by Larry Morey. April showers are intermittent, localized rain showers during the spring, often…

  • All things bright and beautiful

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    Jane Shaw
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    The April Tuesday colour challenge at Outlawz is based on this gorgeous bright palette I thought they would be beautiful colours for flowers and with the challenge starting just after Mother’s Day (in UK) I chose a Mother’s Day design. I have just got a new Cricut Explore 4 so wanted to try something a…

  • How many colours?

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    Jane Shaw
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    This month Outlawz Colour Challenge was set by me and I chose a rainbow and this image I have just realised that the image reminds me of the Children’s TV programme Rainbow which was broadcast in UK from 1972 to 1992, so very much part of my childhood. Rainbows are actually an illusion, caused by refraction, internal…