Julie's IJKL

Here is the next group of cut out letters...there is a fold in the middle of the K to work with the book it will go in. You'll see that at the end!

Hello,

 I’m Annik.

I live in the west of  France and i’m happy to take part in ALAW

I love all about letters, calligraphy, artist books, papers.

I like to mix different  materials and technics : I like to saw  on papers, write on cotton or linen, cut up, fold, etc.

I send you my first letters for 2012, painted on “papier kraft” (I don’t know the name in English) each one in a circle and surrounded by paper  “confetti” and little pearls.

As I take part late to ALAW, I send  my first letters  all together.

Excuse me for my bad English.

March Letters - Jo

I seem to be keeping up with the challenge this year.  Perhaps because I spend so much time on the computer I can easily fit in my digital letter-making.

The background begins as a painting of mine, digitally altered and given a film grain effect in Photoshop.  The letters are Blackadder font.

My final presentation will be groups of  3 x 3 matted and framed, at least that's the current plan.  The extra square might be a problem, but I'll overcome that when I get there.

terrie's for march

I'm actually staying on track and so happy that I am....

I actually finished early this month - a reminder that this is my spotty alpha with the spots of watercolor splatters and all the tiles will be connected by this black ribbon.

I'm sure loving everyone else's creativity - I love that this project draws stitchers, artists, painters and more....so FUN!

The Next Four IJKL

So here we are at stage 3 of my progressive alphabet

all the letters have no had a coat of paint

this is a combination of skim milk powder

yello ochre

and water

mixed to a creamy consistency

circle alphabet - i & j

not so easy to put rigid letters in a circle ! so I tried to add the little point unpon, or beside, and that's it :

for the i and :

for the j ...

and just for fun I try to write a word with my brand new alphabet :

OOPS MISSED THE 'E'

"E" will have to come later. Truth be known I was dyslexic and put it round the wrong way so hence it did not make the mark. I am loving these old buttons and taking them from different pieces of the past. Some untouched from my mother's stash, some my own, some collected. I am just glad I am now on target. This month will be busy with the Chinese artists from Wuxi, China.

Jenny's February Post

 Well where is my year going already???  Here are my February contributions - we are only part-way through March, right?  Actually I should also have done "I" according to my calendar but I didn't like the background and i didn't have time to re-do it so it will have to sneak into March's letters - maybe no-one will notice...

I'm quite pleased with E and H, not so sure about F and G - maybe I should restrict myself to only one "dot"?

Lau E F G H

des p'tits points, des p'tits points, toujours des p'tits points....
Here are four more letters.
I was late so I made those four letters at the same time...................
outch !!! my eyes flashed during a couple of hours......

Elaine's next 4

I am not quite sure why I am doing the letters in this order, it just sort of happens. Some letters appear on the paper as if by magic, like ‘e’ and others, like ‘a’, I have enough to wallpaper my room with. I realised when I had finished the ‘p’ that it was very similar to ‘f’, but as they aren’t near each other in the alphabet it won’t be so obvious later. I find it difficult to get both the colour of the sequins and the definition of the stamps in the photographs.