The schedule is: 

• UKS Art Journey - every Monday and Wednesday starting 9th Jan in the Art Journey sub-forum in Altered Art
  
• Simple Recipes - first and third Tuesdays of the month in the Simple Recipes sub-forum in Inspiration and Challenges
• Techniques on Thursday with Hysteri-Cal in the Techniques forum
  
• SNAP: 2012 - teaser on the Home Page every Friday Friday morning, post in the Photography forum every Friday evening
• & now for something completely different - Class from Shimelle, prep post on the 10th, class on the 20th, in a dedicated sub-forum in in Inspiration and Challenges .  

The Team Challenge  (new every Monday) and The House Challenge (new the first day of the Month) will now be seen only in the forums.  They can be found HERE

Past BlogBits can be found here and past FOTW here . 

countrycrafter did a layout for National Scrapbooking day that is a paper quilt.  Another great way to use up scraps of paper, and bring inspiration from another craft to your scrapbook pages.  And while you are at it, use up some buttons too! Members can see it bigger in the gallery here .

Layouts: Alexa is still working on her Weeek In The Life layouts.  I enjoyed her commentary here . A couple of crop layouts from lellis here .  AliTS has a nice post on making your own backgrounds.  Love the bike clips too.  Emy's colourful button rainbow here is very eye-catching! Love the little highlighted 5 from YorkshireLass's title here .

Cards: Pretty card from Wombat here . I think USA and Aussie Mother's Day may be the same, and different to the UK.  Sweet card from Scribble Monster here . Dan99's fave stamp variations here.  Adore that clown! Love Soojay's simple butterfly card in the post here .

Downloads and Tutorials: Making embossing powder flowers and your own mold on IACW by Kerry. Step-by-step of a layout from Sutty.  Dips has a felt flower tutorial here . A couple of nifty printables from Louise here. Did you see the links to downloadable Bingo cards in the forum post here ?

Other projects:  Have you browsed the Art Journey gallery ?  Some fab work in there to inspire you.  and look at what Wombat did with a simple image transfer technique.  wow. Milk-carton gift box from misteejay - how striking is that simple decoration? I did a mini, a flag book variation, that lets you get lots of photos in a small space. 

Sponsor Blogs: Sponsor Hysteri-Cal (Heartfully Yours) does a weekly technique tutorial.  Did you see the herringbone background one lastweek?  Great for using up scraps! Round of of Shim's last crop weekend here .  Lovely list of challenges to tempt you if you missed out on the day.Seen the Under £10 kit at Merly Impressions?  See the kit and sample layout here . Read the thread about AFTH's classes?  Check out the list here . Fiskarettes is back and they are having a blog hop on Weds. 16th May.  Check it out!

Me?  I like a good woodcut/cowboy font.  I like Rio Oro a lot as it is nice and fat and has the numbers and punctuation.  Not so much upper and lower case as upper and smaller upper, but still very usable. 

Check out the Simple Recipes forum to see what Mary Anne made with some of these supplies!

This week on our Art Journey, Julie (UKS Nabview) shows us what we can do with all the junk in our trunk... stop sniggering...

What's it all about? 12 play-along scrapbooking challenges with full tutorials.  All very different projects.  All projects you can make with whatever supplies you happen to have.  All designed to keep you inspired to craft throughout the year. 

Did you miss Shimelle's Get Ready! post?  See it here . And check back here on the 10th and then again on the 20th for the full tutorial for the featured project plus ideas for making it your own.