Tag: Outlawz challenge

  • Spring awakening

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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…

  • All things bright and beautiful

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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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    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…

  • Beware of the Cat

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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…

  • Aqua and Pink

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    I am nearly a week late with this blog. In my defence I have been busy with my daughters 18th birthday. I decided to make her a memory and message book, but didn’t realise just how much time it would take and plenty of blood sweat and tears involved. Thankfully she loves it, but I…

  • Love is in the air

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    Wow how fast did January go? Mind you I think it’s partly because my daughter and husband both have birthdays the first week in February, so I go straight from Christmas into getting sorted for their birthdays and this year it is a big one for my daughter, 18!! It feels like the last 18…

  • Happy New Year

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    A bit late to the party with my blog for the challenge that began on Sunday, it’s been a crazy few weeks and not much sign of any let up, so here goes. The rhyme chosen was the apt The Year by Ella Wheeler Wilcox Wilcox was an American writer and poet, she started writing…

  • 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…

  • Admire the scenery.

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    The Outlawz Sunday Song and Rhyme challenge this time is From a railway carriage by Robert Louis Stevenson. Faster than fairies, faster than witches,Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;And charging along like troops in a battle,All through the meadows the horses and cattle:All of the sights of the hill and the plainFly as thick as…

  • Autumn Days

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    This weekend sees the start of my challenge for Outlawz Sunday song and rhyme. I chose a song I can remember from primary school assemblies. As this is my challenge I thought it would be a challenge for me to make several cards!! Always a glutton for punishment! I didn’t get as many done as…