Sunday Song & Rhyme, January 2025

Hi everyone!

Today is the start of a new Outlawz Sunday Song & Rhyme Challenge located HERE. This challenge has changed from bi-weekly to monthly with a new challenges the fist Sunday of each month!

I’m helping this month as we are a bit short-handed so if you are interested in joining a great team, let’s chat!

This challenge we are celebrating the new year with a lovely poem chosen by Susan ...

Supplies, 5 x 7 card

• Cardstock from The Paper Studio (base) and Hammermill Color Copy
• Ink from Stampin Up! & Tsukineko
• Sequins from my Stash
• Stamps from Rubbernecker Stamps (Watercolor wine bottle), Stampin Up! (Confetti) & Stampin Up! (Making Spirits Bright)

Thanks for stopping by and don’t forget to check out the main blog located HERE to see the other challenges we offer and join us on The Outlawz Facebook Fan Page located HERE.

(Hugs) Cara

Celebrating the Year of the Rabbit

The rabbit (兔) is the fourth in the twelve-year cycle of animals that appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. The Year of the Rabbit is associated with the Earthly Branch symbol 卯.

Energy: Yin

Season: Spring

Element: Wood

Good morning!

Today is the start of a new challenge her at The Outlawz Challenge and is replacing the Crash your Stash Challenge.

This new challenge discourages the use of any physical stamps or digital images. Exceptions will be made for digital paper and stamped or digital sentiments

This is a themed challenge and you are welcome to submit cards, journal pages, scrapbook pages or any papercraft project that meets the criteria of the challenge which can be found HERE. Make sure you are following us so that you know when the new challenge is starting!

This challenge has no sponsors but badges for top 3 and honorable mention will be announced at the beginning of each new challenge

Our theme this month is Celebrating the New Year!

For my card I could not find my firework dies so I had to think of something and remember this set of dies from Creative Expressions which I would you look awesome as bursting fireworks! I also thought I had a nice blue background paper with stars but could not locate that either so decided to grab my star stencil to create a nice little background. Over all I'm really happy how this card turned out!

 

Supplies: 5 x 7 card
Cardstock from The Paper Studio (base) and Stampin Up!
Die for sentiment is unknown
Die from Amazon (Rabbit & stool)
Die from Creative Expressions (Chrysanthemum)
Glitter glue from Studio G
Ink from Stampin Up! and Palette
Stencil from Stamping Up! (Falling Stars)

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(Hugs) Cara

There is Magic in the Air ...

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~Bill Vaughan (1915–1977), in The Kansas City Star

Hi everyone!
New Outlawz Color Challenge located HERE has started.

This challenge will run for 2 weeks, ending on January9, 2023 and our sponsor is Beccy’s Place

The colors are pastel but I’m afraid I used the wrong color green on mine and didn’t think about it until after the card was made and would not come apart easily…

The twist is New Year’s… the inside of the card says Happy New Year

Supplies (5 x 7 card)

• Digital image & sentiment (Rubeus) printed on Hammermill Color cardstock
• Cardstock from The Paper Studio (base) and Stampin Up!
• Design paper from my stash
• Die unknown (Stitched fat ovals)
• Rhinestones from Stampin Up!
• Stampin Up! Stampin blend markers

Thanks for stopping by and don’t forget to stop by The Outlawz Challenges HERE for more challenges and Inspiration! 

Happy Mooooooo Year!

Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since. ~David J. Beard (1947–2016), tweet, 2009 December 31st

Good morning!

Today I am sharing another card made from one of the many quirky images from Sherry West Designs! Please note that image is not yet in her shop so if you want to purchase it you may contact her via or ETSY Shop or message her on her Facebook Page, Sherry West Coloring. Links are below

Loving this celebrating cow! Isn’t she great?

I don’t send out many New Year cards but this one will be going to a friend that does lives in a Country that does not really celebrate Christmas.

Supplies

• Image from Sherry West Designs printed on Stampin Up! Whisper White Cardstock
• Cardstock from Pen+gear (base), American Crafts and Stampin Up!
• Die from Gina Marie Designs
• Embossing folder from Darice
• Gems from Close to My Heart
• ProMarkers

Please visit Sherry’s shop and blog sites. We love to see what you're up to!

Sherry West Art, Artist, Author, Illustrator

Etsy Shop

Facebook: Sherry West Coloring

Instagram: SherryWestArt

Sherry West Art WordPress Blog site "Happy Art for A Happy Heart!"

Rubber stamps of Sherry West Art images available through Stamp Addicts

Stamp Addicts' FB page

Thanks for stopping by!

(Hugs) Cara

DS4J PFC: New Year Streamers

Hope and faith flower from the cheerful seeds of the old year to the sprouting garden of the new year's dawn. ~Terri Guillemets, "Annuals," 2004

Good morning!

Sadly news has come about that DigiStamps4Joy will be closing up shop at the end of the month. Margy Kieser is such an amazing and generous lady and it saddens me that she has found herself in this position … too many people think that it’s okay to share images with friends and on Pinterest.

This effects the artists who create all these lovely images and DigiStamps4Joy appears to another one brought down by the inconsideration of others.

This is her last Progressive freebie challenge and we were given the image “New Year streamers”. I had fun creating this card using metallic papers and inks. 

Supplies

Image printed on Stampin Up! Whisper White card stock

Artiste gel pens in gold & silver

Card stock for base from The Paper Studio

Cra-z-art glitter pends

Fun Stampers Journey Sparkle Silk and Silver card candy

Gold and silver metallic card stock from my stash

Sketch: Sunday sketch & Stamp

You can still play along until the end of the month … so if interested check out the facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/636935063114458/

Since her shop is closing, she is offering a 50% discount on all images. Please visit her shop! Lots of wonderful images to be found!

http://digistamps4joy.co.za/ 

Thanks for stopping by!

(Hugs) Cara

Let's start the new year right ...

Be at War with your Vices, at Peace with your Neighbors, and let every New-Year find you a better Man. ~Quoted in Benjamin Franklin's 1755 Poor Richard's Almanack, December [Thanks, Quote Investigator! —tεᖇᖇ¡·g]

Good morning!

A new Sunday Song & Rhyme challenge is in process at The Outlawz Challenges. Each week we will give you a theme based on a song or a rhyme along with a bit of the lyrics/lines with which to take inspiration from to create a card/project! You can also look on-line to get more information about the Song/Rhyme.

Our sponsor this month is our very own Anne Fenton with a prize of 3 pre-selected digital stamps

Personal Blog http://annescards4u.blogspot.com

This week’s inspiration comes from a rhyme/song selected by Me:

  Let's start the new year right

One minute to midnight
One minute to go
One minute to say good-bye
Before we say hello

Let's start the new year right
Twelve o'clock tonight
When they dim the light
Let's begin

Kissing the old year out
Kissing the new year in

Let's watch the old year die
With a fond good-bye
And our hopes as high
As a kite

How can our love go wrong if
We start the new year right?

Let's watch the old year die
With a fond good-bye
And our hopes as high
As a kite

How can our love go wrong if
We start the new year right?

Songwriters: Irving Berlin

  

Here’s my 5 x 7 card

Supplies

• Cardstock from The Paper Studio (base) and Stampin Up!
• Happy New Year sentiment from Wordsworth
• Ink from Stampin Up and Close to My Heart
• Rhinestones from my stash
• Stamps & Sentiment from Close to My Heart “Fireworks Fun”

So, remember to stop by The Outlawz Challenges where a new challenge starts every day of the week!

(Hugs) Cara

Celebrate ...

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words. ~ Plautus

Hi everyone! Today I am sharing my card for the new color challenge which is currently running at The Outlawz Challenges.

Our sponsor this month with a prize of a $10 Gift card is DigiStamps4Joy

Our challenge this week is based on the ever so popular tic tac toe board. The layout of my 5 x 7 card is based on My Favorite Things Sketch MFTWC17 and I am using the boxes diagonally starting in the upper left hand corner moving down the lower right hand corner.

Sketch

Supplies:

• Image from DigiStamps4 Joy (Celebrate mp152-DS4J) printed on Stampin Up! Whisper White Card stock
• Card stock: American Crafts / Stampin Up! / The Paper Studio (base)
• Design Paper: Wubie Prints
• Embossing folder from Crafters Companion
• Ink: Memories India Ink / ProMarkers
• Sentiment: Unity Stamps
• Studio G Glitter Glue
• Tag punch: Stampin Up!
• Stash: Button 

Here’s the Board: You can use the pictures or you can use the word prompts in each square.

Thanks for stopping by and don’t forget to stop by The Outlawz Challenges where a new challenge starts every day of the week!

(Hugs) Cara

This card has been entered into the following Challenge(s)

DigiStamps4Joy Anything Goes #153
Rabiscochallenge Anything Goes #3

The Outlawz: Happy New Year Fireworks!

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam. ~Charles Lamb

Good morning!

Christmas is over. I am sad.

I will miss the carols and the bright lights and the pretty ornaments.

But the New year is right around the corner and brings with it the anticipation of new beginnings.

Nothing wrong with that. We all need that start point at some time in our lives.

2015 is going to be another busy year for us, but I guess I would not want it any other way.

Our kids are grown and they are embarking on their own life adventures, leaving us to plan our future days as empty nesters, which include talk of downsizing our home and general lifestyle.

On personal levels, My husband is finishing up classes he needs to start nursing school and I have plans for Through The Craft Room Door that I hope takes the Challenge Blog and the Magazine to the next level.

What about you? Are your resolutions lined up for the kick off on January 1st, 2015? 

This is the last week of 2014 and the last CAS of the year as well. Cheri wants to send it off in style with fireworks on our CAS cards and projects this week over at the Outlawz!

So here is mine.

I created the background by tapping my ink ad all over the EF before running through my Big Kick. This is not the results I was looking for, but I was using a new ink and for some reason, even with the whole EF covered, not all the ink came off. (Since I do this with other inks and never have a issue, I have to assume it was the ink and not my machine).
Either way, I dolike the way it came out and went with it.

Size is 5 x 7

SUPPLIES

Card stock: The Paper Studio & Stampin Up!

Embossing folder: "Fireworks" by Darice

Ink; Pallet

Sentiment: "Let's Toast" from The Angel Company

Rhinestones: Recollections

Edge punch: Martha Stewart

Glitter: My Stash

Glittery DP: My Scrap Bin

Thanks for stopping by!

(Hugs) Cara

"Ringing" in the New Year

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.  ~Charles Dickens

Good Morning Friends

Another joyous day! Can you believe that it is only 3 more days until Christmas! Where is the time going????

It's time for another Outlawz CAS Challenge and this time we are "Ringing" in the New Year with circles!

SUPPLIES: Stampin Up! (Card stock, rhinestones & Ink), The Angel Company (Sentiment), Bazzill (card stock for rings), Sizzix (Circle Dies)

Come play along with us and "Ring in the New Year" with us CAS style!