UKS July 08 Week 4 Challenge

Well, July's nearly over and this week's challenge on UKS was set by The Scrap Pack. Here's what they said:

On this day last year the final Harry Potter book was published - use four of something to symbolise the four Hogwarts houses.

In this week in 2005 Lance Armstrong won his seventh consecutive Tour de France so we'll need you to use some yellow in your layout to represent his winner's jersey.

In 1969 Apollo 11 splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean after it's historic trip to the moon. To symbolise this use space, stars or water in your lo.

...and because we are The Scrap Pack we'll challenge you to use some scraps.

To summarise:

* Four of something - 5 points
* Use yellow - 10 points
* Use water/stars/space theme - 5 points
* Use up some scraps - 10 points

My LO is another for my Somerset Holiday album.

I have used:

* 4 complete sheets of paper from Dovecraft's Abstract Prints 6x6 Pack. Also part of title cut into 4 individual words

* Yellow brad and Yellow chipboard 'S'

* Photo is of the sea at Somerset, so yes I've used water

* I raided my scrap drawers and found some dark red card that I've used for the first part of the title

Full 30 points for me for my team The Ruby Snippers

I added diamond stickles round the title and the chipboard letters and then some sea shell and starfish buttons

July Week 3

The UKS challenge this week has been set by the Yummy Mummys.

They set 3 criteria for it:

Scraplift a CD cover 10pts
Holiday theme 10pts
Use material embellies 10pts

I googled and found some different covers by artists I hadn't even heard of!! So, I decided to go for this one titled ~ The Sky is Crying:

Here's my take on the challenge and is another one for my Somerset holiday album.

I've used White linen look card stock for the background.

CD cover ~ yes, but changed the title to The Sun is Shining!

Holiday theme ~ yes

Material ~ yes, the strips at the top and bottom are white felt that I've painted with black and copper acrylic paint.

Full points again this week for the Ruby Snippers.

Scrapping Again

The UKS May week 4 challenge nearly passed me by in the same fashion that week 3 actually did! But not quite as I caught it in time.

The challenge was set by the chit chat chicks and was a toughie. Their challenge was this:

Peace theme ... ( to include a bird embellishment of some description) 5 points
mostly white 5 points
2 pictures or more 5 points
metal/metallic embelishments 5 points
no patterned paper 5 Points
sketch 5 points

I wracked my brain and my photos and came up with this:

Peace and googled bird - yes
Mostly white - yes
2 pictures - yes
Metal embellishments - ribbon brads so yes
No patterned paper - I resisted the urge, so yes
Sketch - turned around until I was happy, so yes

All points included and full marks for my team the Ruby Snippers

Journalling says "Peace is taking time to watch the waters flow".

The larger PEACE wording is die cut using my Ellison chunkadelic alphabet and the circles and wavy line are drawn and coloured using a brown brush marker.

Photos are from Cheddar in Somerset and is another LO for my holiday album.

Somerset Hols

The weekly challenge on UKS this week is:

In April 1581, the first circumnavigation of the globe was completed – although sadly, Ferdinand Magellan, the man who planned and led the expedition, never saw his goal.

* So … use a map or plan of some kind on your LO = 10pts

* The sailors must have sailed a lot of seas, so for using the colour blue = 5pts

* Use a hand-made embellishment = 5pts

* Use ink on your LO (eg stamped image, inked edges etc) = 5pts

* Use eyelets and/or brads - 5pts

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I Googled and printed out a map of the area of Somerset that mum and I travelled while on our hols. I had to print it on 3 pieces of paper and jigsaw it together to get the whole area big enough to see the tiny villages (such as Mark) that we went to and drove through. I then printed out some small photos that I'd taken and grouped them round the map which has hand-drawn scallops round.

As for the challenge:

* Map ~ Somerset = 10 points

* Blue ~ Blue Bazzill card for the background = 5 points

* Handmade embellishments ~ the arrows are hand-cut, doodled on with black brush marker and have stickles (diamond and black) added = 5 points

* Ink ~ a black brush marker which contains ink = 5 points

* Eyelets and/or brads ~ top left corner embellishments are white eyelets = 5 points

Full marks (of 30 points) for my team The Ruby Snippers