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  • Dolphins

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    Jane Shaw
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    Yet again I nearly missed this one, I thought I had another week to make it. I had been looking at ideas all week, but not started to make! So this one was made in a bit of a hurry. The poem is Summer’s Splendor by the Sea by Patricia L. Cisco Summer’s splendor by…

  • Music Maker

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    Jane Shaw
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    The Sunday song and rhyme challenge for May 26th is based on a rhyme called Music Makers, from his book A Children’s Treasury of Milligan. Spike Milligan (1918-2002) was well know for his crazy comedy and nonsense rhymes. Ironically he also suffered from severe depression. For this rhyme I decided I would focus on one…

  • Bunny hops

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    Jane Shaw
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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…

  • 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…

  • New Year, New Beginnings

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    Jane Shaw
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    he Outlawz Sunday Song and Rhyme challenge is based on the poem New Beginnings by Christopher Westra. I personally struggle with New Year and New Beginnings and always find this time of year very hard. Although the messages in the poem about pushing aside past mistakes, clearing priorities and treating each day as a new…

  • Passing of the seasons

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    Jane Shaw
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    The Outlawz Sunday song and rhyme challenge for Nov 26th to Dec 9th, is my challenge I came across a poem called the Calendar by Barbara-Euphan-Todd I knew when Spring was come – Mot by the murmurous hum Of bees in the willow-trees, Or frills Of daffodils. Or the scent of the breeze; But because there…

  • Halloween

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    Card for Outlawz No Stamp Challenge Created using a printed background paper, source unknown. Wording and pumpkins created and drawn with Cricut Joy.

  • Colours of Fall

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    Entry for Outlawz Twisted Thursday Wording created and drawn with Cricut Joy, mounted on background from Crafts u print

  • 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…

  • Memories

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    Jane Shaw
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    It is ironic that the last few months I have been plagued by memories and feelings of getting old and life passing me by. For my September Outlawz challenge I had chosen the song Memory from Cats and had chosen an image from the sponsor SBLeigh. At first I wasn’t sure how to put them together, except for…