Alphanumeric Blog Hop

Welcome to the first Alphanumeric blog hop! If you've just dived in please hop on over to our Alpha leaders blog 'I Speak Melsh' to start from the very beginning, a very good place to start ...ooops, sorry, off track already, this is a blog hop about letters and numbers, not scales :-)
Its well worth joining us on the hop as Mel has a little competition over on her blog along with a prize .. do go & take a look.

You should have come over from 'Just Jim Jams' but if your a bit lost along the way there is a list at the end of this post with links to all participants.

So without further a do todays Blog post is brought to you by the letter 'U'

I decided to choose my usual choice of medium & go with scrapbooking. An easy task I thought, so many U words flowing through my mind & probably driving Mel a bit scatty with my odd emails full of U words - for example .....

"....I shall undertake the task of using u and utilize it to my utmost. I understand and shall wait upon your uttering’s of the upcoming unison of all our blogs when we shall unite in unison, a utopia of uncials
Until then, I bid you an unabashed, unceremonial, upbeat
aU revoir"

But then my brain blew a fuse & refused to work, it took me quite a time looking through photos before I came up with anything. When I finally did the synapses sparked quickly & I knew exactly what I wanted to do; And so I present to 'U'

"Everything Is Fun With 'U'"

Its the first kind of grunge style I've tried (is that what its called? or do the cool scrap cats have another name for it?) and something I want to do more of while playing with different techniques.

I started off with the photos and the idea of corrugated card to reflect the boxes, then I found the brown sheet to back it onto & decided to get the paints out & do some textures. These were simply done with lace, a cut out border & that holey plastic stuff (see, I'm full of technical terms, lol), a thick brush to stipple with and a piece of card.

I added letters for the title from various sets to keep up the messy feel but drew round them in black pen to not only make them stand out more, to conform them a little more to each other and the page.
To finish I mounted it all on a green sheet to again make the letters a bit more uniform.
 
Thank you for joining me in working with the letter U, your next stop is 'Life....as I see it'
 
I Speak Melsh
BE Glorious
Captured On Film
Chatty Crafty Arty Pig
Creating Room
Curiouser and Curiouser
Daily Life - Bits and Pieces
Deb's World
Den's Crafty Diary
From High In The Sky
Gallo Organico
Ginger's Life Of Spice
Handmade By Kirsty
Havoc and Mayhem
Heather's Scraps
Helena's Creative Maven
Holaday's Happy Hearts
Jeant-Jinnag
Just Jimjams
K's Crafty Corner <- U are here
Life...As I See It
{Life Behind The Purple Door}
Lisa E Design Blog
Living Life One Blessing At A Time
Mary's Musings
Michelle Loves...
Obstinate Pursuit
Over At Our Place
Paper Turtle
Peonies and Pennies
Random Reflections
Rosalind Revival
Scrap Dreams
Scrappyjacky
Scrapworthy Lives
Staring At The Sea
Surefiredaisy Says
This Kalil Life
This Little Life Of Mine
Xnomads' Blog

BY2010: Mar Layout

Heres this months sketch that Sam challenged us with ....And heres what I came up with.......I altered the photo to a black and white background as it was so full of colour before that it detracted the eye from the main subject(s).

As the remaining colour was blue I decided to use this as the main basis of the layout.
To go along with the "hanging out the washing" in the picture I came up with the clothes line with pegs on, then decided it could hold the title up.

I had run out of lower case t's so used a capital T as a washing line prop.

To continue on your way please head over to Chatty Crafty Arty Pig

And if your lost the others joining in on this blog hop are:-

Sam's Card Making Blog
Liberty Cottage
Chatty Crafty Arty Pig
Clearing the Brambles
Dogs Socks and Scrapbooks

February BY2010

Welcome to februarys BY2010 blog hop!

A quick reminder of the layout sketch I challenged everyone with:-

So heres my interpretation:-

The blue background sheet is from a pack of random 12x12s I bought off ebay.
The rest of the paper is from Dovecrafts Charcoal prints.

The letters are papermania.

The "duck footprints" I did with foam cut into a shield shape, and another 2 cut into the 3 prong shape. The shield shape I inked up and then stamped on scrap paper to take off some of the ink so it would give a pale stamp. I then stamped the tri shape over it, one facing one way, the other flipped over.

Thanks for joining me and please ontinue to your next stop on the blog hop Chatty Crafty Arty Pig

And if you get a little lost the other participants are:
http://cardsbyjones.blogspot.com/
http://libertycottage.blogspot.com/
http://socksandscrapbooks.blogspot.com/
http://clearingthebrambles.blogspot.com/

Februarys BY2010 blog hop info

2 days left until our blog hop using the following sketch

and I am very excited to see what everyone has come up with.

The order will be:

http://kscraftycorner.blogspot.com/
http://chattycraftyartypig.blogspot.com/
http://cardsbyjones.blogspot.com/
http://libertycottage.blogspot.com/
http://socksandscrapbooks.blogspot.com/

http://clearingthebrambles.blogspot.com/

can all those joining in please put a link on their post to the next person in the chain and also put a full list incase anyone has got derailed along the way.

The blog hop will start on the 28th february at 11:00 gmt so could everyone please have their posts up before then, the post below gives details on autopost if you want to give that a try.

The draw for the blog candy will be held on the 29th.

Any questions please ask away in the comments.

Old skool stash scrap blog hop

I've been recently quite ill and my brain has turned to mush, so I'm a bit late posting this properly, but here it is (I hope you think it was worth the wait)......


The background sheet is an acid and lignin free paper insert from an album sleeve, the plain lilac sheet (my camera would NOT pick up the true colours), and the pink swirls (yes, I've used pink!!!) on deep violet paper are both from the Tiger House birthday scrapbook kit I got from poundland probably in 2006. The tag I used to journal on was also from this kit.

The swirls in the background I did using a stencil and ink pad. I'm having to sit on my hands to stop adding some glitter or something to them but I want to keep it minimal so the photo stands out, not the swirls.

I decided to omit a title for once as I think the photo says more than words ever could.

All the papers date post 2007 & are papers I've just kind of ignored, they just havent called to me or anything so have sat neglected until today.

So now could you please hop along to the lovely Jackie at scrappyjacky and continue your journey. If your a little bit lost then those joining in are:

http://libertycottage.blogspot.com
http://kscraftycorner.blogspot.com/
http://scrappyjackylive.blogspot.com/
http://itsnotterrysitschoccys.blogspot.com/
http://clearingthebrambles.blogspot.com/
http://chattycraftyartypig.blogspot.com/
http://marygailscorner.blogspot.com/