Easter greetings

 The Outlawz challenge for this fortnight is Easter themed using the rhyme Happy Easter by Bill Hoeneveld

I used a Cricut image from Crafty Mama Studios.  It has 12 layers to cut and stick together so is quite time consuming, it is also quite thick on the front of a card so not ideal for posting.  Mounted on Easter themed backing paper, but could easily work as a stand alone card too.

I did make some other Easter cards, but as usual it was very last minute getting them made and sent off, so I forgot to take pictures! Except for this one, which is another Cricut image from Digital Gems, drawn and cut on the Cricut Joy and mounted on flowery backing paper.

The Swing

The Outlawz Song and Rhyme challenge for 17th March, is based on the poem The Swing by Robert Louis Stevenson

How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!

Up in the air and over the wall,
Till I can see so wide,
Rivers and trees and cattle and all
Over the countryside—

Till I look down on the garden green,
Down on the roof so brown—
Up in the air I go flying again,
Up in the air and down!

The poem was written in the 1880's and is included in A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)

I choose to illustrate the first two lines with my card. I used the Tattered Lace die Summer Swing, cut several times to add coloured layers, with crystal flowers added too, mounted on a sky background from Crafts U Print.

I used another of Louis Stevenson's poems last year in my challenge, see Bedtime

The card also reminds me a bit of this picture stitched by my Grandma when she was 13, it now hangs on my bedroom wall.