Tag: Outlawz challenge

  • 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…

  • Spooky!

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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…

  • Pumpkin patch

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    The Sunday Rhyme challenge for this fortnight is based on the rhyme Pumpkin patch adventure. I wasn’t able to find any information about the rhyme. Using the red truck svg from Craft with Sarah, cut with my Cricut Joy Extra and a fence frame and pumpkin patch sign from Cricut design space, mounted on a…

  • Sweetie Pie

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    The 15th September Outlawz, Sunday Song and rhyme challenge is based on the poem Summer’s End by Nancy Hughes We do not celebrate Labor day in the UK. In USA it is celebrated on 1st Monday of September and is a public holiday. In the UK we have Harvest Festival, mainly celebrated in schools and…

  • Toucan colour

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    I am late writing this post as I have been away and as usual need another holiday to recover! The challenge for this month is using this inspiration I decided to be quite literal with this one using those colours and a toucan. The toucan is cut with my Cricut Joy using a Cricut image…

  • Red Wheelbarrow

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    This challenge is based on the poem, The Red Wheelbarrow by William Williams (1883 –1963). He was a doctor as well as a poet. The poem was published in 1923. so much dependsupon a red wheelbarrow glazed with rainwater beside the whitechickens Although the poem has very few lines, each line builds up an image.…

  • Our Last Summer

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    The challenge for Aug 4th is my choice of song and I chose Our Last Summer by Abba. The song was released in 1980 and featured on the Super Trouper Album and was inspired by a summer romance Björn Ulvaeus had in Paris. I can still recallOur last summerI still see it allWalks along the…

  • Dolphins

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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…

  • Dog Days

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    This poem for the latest Outlawz Sunday Song and Rhyme is called Dog Days by Amy Lowell. A ladder sticking up at the open window,The top of an old ladder;And all of Summer is there. Great waves and tufts of wistaria surge across the window,And a thin, belated blossomJerks up and down in the sunlight;Purple…

  • Where are the fairies?

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    The Sunday song and rhyme challenge for June 9th is based on the rhyme Where are the Fairies, Written in the early 20th century by Cicely Mary Barker, who was unable to attend school due to epilepsy. She wrote the rhymes and did the illustrations. Fairies were popular at this time, due to Queen Mary…