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Just a quick post to say I won't be around for almost a week as I am going for a short trip down the coast a little way. Not sure there will be any internet connection and even if there is my little i-pod does have limitations where blogs are concerned. Hope you all have a good week and that the sun shines on you Love Chrissie xx

Hello Everyone. Thank you for finding time to visit Jumbled Crafts it is always appreciated. It's time for another challenge at Artful Times and this time Von has chosen Heavy Metal as the theme. You can make anything you like so long as it follows the theme and you could win a prize when of £10 to spend at Oyster Stamps I hope you will visit Neet,  ,  Von  and Wendy  to see what they made for the challenge I made this box to keep some jewelry in that is too big to go in my usual jewelry box.                             I started out with this box I used a spare piece of card and measured a piece the size of the box top Covered it PVA Stuck on various things-mesh fruit bags are great to use and little plastic embellishment as well. Even a pipe cleaner Then I covered it with metal tape and started to stamp and etch here and there to add more texture and to bring out the shapes I had added underneath the tape Next I added black acrylic paint and worked it in to look like dirt and f

Hi All-wet and cold here today but I am sure by the time Monday comes the sun will be shining. I am hoping it will be as I am going for a short break in a caravan. At Moo Mania and More this time the theme is Togetherness or Twosomes I tried using my Oil Pastels again for the background but I still can't get the hang of them at all . This journal book is now full so I will be starting a new one. Hope it will be like when were at school and the first few pages of a new book were really neat :) If you can pop back later when I will have a another post as the new challenge at Artful Times starts about  6 pm Bye for now and thank you for calling in at Jumbled Crafts.

Hello from a wet and cold NE UK Coast. Haven't been out at all today but my lovely hairdresser came to give my hair a trim so it was nice to have a catch-up with her This week at Wicked Wednesday the theme is Forest/Flower Fairies I used a photograph of my own for the background which was taken in a wooded area with yellow flowers. The image was a black and white image from Nicecrane designs and I coloured it with felt tips. I thought the little fairy was looking sheepish so made him stay where he was for now. The theme at Tag Along is the The Big Top/Circus. Nowadays the circus is very different to when I was young. It was always full of animals acts and feats of daring from the acrobats and trapeze artists. No safety nets in those days. Just hours of practice and fitness. There was always the tension just in case an lion tamer got his head bitten off as he inserted it into the mouth of his charges or the beautiful lady on the flying trapeze landed at your feet as she did a some

Hi All. A bit dull here today and starting to rain so I went for a very early walk then have been playing in my craft room since then. I hope your day is going well. At The Craft Barn this time the words are Flower/ Travel. I have tried to combine the two again and really enjoyed making this page for my journal. I made the border of tulips in Paint Shop Pro by juggling four lots of tulip images I had for years- a lady called Mel used to make the flower 'tubes' for us to use as we wished. I did add a few effects as well to make them stand out more. I added some distressed stain around the edges, the fairy and the bee and flower stamps Do you remember Tiny Tim singing this song :) Thank you for your visit Love Chrissie xx

Hello Everyone who drops by and thank you for calling in at Jumbled Crafts. It is Monday again already so time for another inchie at Every Inchie Monday . I hope some of you will join in this fun challenge as there are some great ideas made by the people who do join in. This week the subject is figure.  This is my picasso like figure that I drew in felt tips. It all ready to be stuck onto my master board. At Collage Obsession this week the theme is weather which is a very good theme considering all the strange weather across the world at the moment. I just searched through a few of our photographs-mainly from this year and combined them with a few PSP effects as well. The snow, showing me and Santa-the donkeys rides-led by my friend Carol who looks after the donkeys on our beach and the long shadows when the sun is shining. These are the two photographs I combined to make the background both were taken in the last week. Have a great day/night Love Chrissie x

Hello Everyone hope your day is going well and the sun is shining where you are. Sorry that a lot of our blog friends are still having such awful weather and I hope that better weather arrives for you soon. At Tag Along this time the theme is Pierrot. I just love this subject. It's a few years now since a crafting friend sent me some wonderful sheets of pictures with pierrots that she had bought but didn't like. The make on them is ReproLit GmbH  but when I looked that up on Google it seems to be just a distribution company. I made the background using the shaving cream technique and stuck on the pierrots one on top of the other. Then I added a couple of peel-offs with clown hats on them and some fancy wool for the tie. This is definitely one for my tag wall. Thank you for dropping in Love Chrissie x

Hi All from a lovely sunny but cold NE UK coast. Off  for a beach walk soon and maybe have lunch out overlooking sea. Vic is charging his camera so hopefully we will get some good photos.( He said  that the auto focus isn't working on it--not sure if that means it is no good now) :( This week at Wicked Wednesday the challenge is 'to create you own super hero'. Well not many of you know what I do in my spare time so here is my alto ego ready to tackle any problem- any craft problem that I have :)' A Legend in my own Living Room' If you go here you can make your own super hero by following the instruction. The background was created in Paint Shop Pro and I coloured my hero (me) with felt tips. This is what it looked like after a lot of choices I made. It is fun and I tried a lot of different things before settling on this one. Now to Craft-room Challenge where the theme this time is Transport. I painted an old frame with white emulsion paint then stamped around it

Hello Everyone -hope you are feeling great and thank you for calling in at Jumbled Crafts. At Try it on Tuesday this time the theme is Music. I made a card then decided to make a matching envelope as well because the card is just for a neighbour so won't be put in the post box. Not sure anything with the gold corners on it would go through the machines at the sorting office. The  gramophone image is one that has been in a folder on my computer since 2008. I traced the source to Anneke Oostmeister who does Parchment work and has free patterns for that-her new place didn't start until 2009 so after I got this. The music background and the music swirl were also in folders on my computer--I save far too much stuff:(. I coloured the image with Promarkers and white pen and found the quote on Google. Still trying to use up my many peel-offs which look ok on this project I think. Take care  Love Chrissie x

Hi All. Just one thing to post today so not a long posts from me. Thank you for dropping by :) At Tando Creative Challenges this time the theme is Green, Yellow and Brown. I made this tag and used a new folder for the background. Thank you Von for this lovely gift which was in the parcel with the other things she sent for me. The compass is by Tando and there is a larger one as well in the pack. The yacht is part of a stamp by Montage which is no longer on the market-it is a big stamp with a sea scene but I don't have the stamp unfortunately. I found the quote on Google. Have a great day everyone Love Chrissie x

Hello All. Welcome to my little home in Blogland. Don't forget to join us at my other 'home in Blogland'- Artful Times  where the challenge is to use game pieces to make anything you like. This time at Moo Mania and More the theme is childhood. You can make anything either with or without a Moo so long as it follows the theme. I have my childhood very much in mind after visiting an aunt and cousin that I haven't seen for a long time. All our families lived in one big house, owned by my grandma and grandad, until I was about 6 years old and I have made this page with me in the middle when I was the only child among a lot of adults. Even though it was still wartime the house was full of the things I have written around the outside of my photograph-a very happy time for me. I used scraps of paper for the background and some canvas type material for the moos. This is the tag I made for Tag Tuesday this week as we have the theme Spring Flowers Von sent me a parcel with some

Hello :) Nice to have you pop in at Jumbled Crafts and I hope you like what you find on this post. At Every Inchie Monday  the theme this week is Forest. A very large subject for an inch square but there are already some amazing entries to admire. Here is mine which I drew in felt tips. I based it on a photograph we took when we were in a forest a while ago. At Collage Obsession the theme this week is Making Marks-lots of ideas on what you can do both digitally and with other mediums. I do believe I could become obsessed with this sort of work and look forward to the challenges each week since I found the blog. My passion is to work with digital art and this gives me a reason to do it--do I need a reason?:) I think I do or I may take root in front of the computer screen. I started off with this picture then smudge it with the smudge tool and various steps to create different 'marks' for my background. Then I added lots of brushes to give some feeling of texture. I painted thi

Hello Everyone. Beautiful day here but I will be resting instead of walking as we went on the train yesterday to see family we haven't seen for years and it was a really good day out but tiring. I hope you all had a great day and thank you for calling in. I have put three challenges on this post as they are blogs where I always enter the challenges but please don't think you have to comment on all of them though I know a lot of you that pop into Jumbled Crafts also enter these challenges as well. First is my entry for the The Craft Barn where the quote/lyric words this time ART and ROAD. I couldn't find a quote with both of the words this time so I chose ART. I do love Degas's painting of dancers-a lot of ballet but these are Russian dancers in a field of corn My quote is by Degas--well maybe it is?  The page is from an old book and it is sprayed with various colours then embossed with a Tim Holtz stencil. I added words that I thought this painting made me think about.

Hello Everyone who pops into Jumbled Crafts today and thank you for all the wonderful comments I get each week. A warm welcome to my latest followers as well. At Artful Times this time, we have the theme Game Pieces which was chosen by Neet. Lots of things you could use I'm sure and I can't wait to see all of your wonderful ideas. If you join in with us, you may win a prize from  Oyster Stamps when the winner and runner-up are chosen for this and the last challenge. I made this picture from a children's jigsaw. I did take pictures along the way so you could see how I made it. This was the jigsaw and I took out the middle 6 pieces I separated the pieces and worked on the plain side of them Each piece was painted a different colours, then when dry fastened back together and decorated with bits and bobs All I had to do then was mount it onto a backing piece and I edged the card with some nice, strong ribbon. It could go into a frame at some point when I find one it fits. Hope

Hi All. Welcome to Jumbled Crafts and thank you for your visit. It is only a few weeks ago that I found Collage Obsession  but it has certainly revived my interest in digital 'messing about'-I mean art:) . I look forward each week to the challenges there. Some amazing collages entered by people who join in. This week the theme is 'Under' and I have chosen underwater. The background I used was a desk top download, I found the diver picture online but created all the other 'wonders' with brushes in PSP. Have a beautiful and happy day Love Chrissie x

Hello Everyone-thank you for calling in at Jumbled Crafts. I keep forgetting to show my tags on here that I make for Tag Tuesday  as we write our own posts over at the blog. This week the theme is Pretty in Pink. What a lovely theme to choose-I really enjoyed making this tag. I sprayed various inks and glitter mists to make the background then added lace to the bottom. The image is one from GeckoGalz. The other embellishments are out of my bits and bobs box. Hope you all have a wonderful day Love Chrissie x

Hi All. Not a lot of time today as we have started to decorated our bedroom. It isn't a very big room so there isn't room to move about much which doesn't help at all when two of us are trying to do very different things :) At Every Inchie Monday this week the theme is Engraving and there are some wonderful entries already. Mine isn't so wonderful. I thought of lovers engraving their initials on a tree trunk and whilst I was watching the rugby matches over the weekend I was drawing some inchies and cutting them out ready to stick on a background, this is one of them. Thanks for dropping in and have a wonderful day Love Chrissie x

Hello Everyone who drops by and thank you for visiting. It is a beautiful sunny day here and we are off for a walk to the seafront and along the beach in a short while. I have combined 2 challenges with this piece  and I did make it with both of them in mind so equal billing for them. At Rhedd's Creative Spirit the theme is to change something as you wish--it will be that most times but there could be a twist sometimes so make sure you look each month. At Craft-Room Challenge the theme is the 20th century. Always great themes to think about there. I bought 4 small canvases and I have used one of them to make this picture. The background and the flowers are made from kitchen roll that I used to mop up Spray Inks when I was making something else. Amazing how many sheets get covered in the ink and they look so pretty. I used the Tattered Flowers Die to make the flowers. The photograph is of my grandma and grandad and my dad and I changed it from sepia to a brighter shade. All dead n

Hi Everyone. Another crafty day for me so far but I will be watching the rugby later. Hope your day is going well and thank you for calling at Jumbled Crafts. A new challenge blog has started this week called A Vintage Journey . It is about all things Tim Holtz and there is a very talented DT team so lots of inspiring ideas. I haven't got a lot of TH's goodies but enough to be able to make something in his style so I made this card. I used Rangers Dylusion Spray Inks and the TH gears folder for my centre background then a Chocolate Baroque stamp and Distressed Inks for the card background. The stencil is by Dreamweaver and I used GP Gesso for that. The little wooden stamp I used is by Anita's and I have had it for years.  The flowers I made with Tim Holtz Tattered Flower die using the smallest one of the four flowers shapes. The swirls are a JOY die. I also made this for the challenge at Try It on Tuesday  where the theme is to make a birthday card using a mask or stencil H

Hi Everyone and thank you for dropping by Jumbled Crafts. A warm welcome to my latest follower and I hope you will visit often and enjoy what you find here. Wet and dreary here at the moment so I am going to catch-up with posts and maybe a bit of crafting. The Para Olympics opening ceremony is this afternoon so I will be watching that so must find something useful to do while I watch. At Tag Along the theme is Queens or Kings or both. Here is Queen Victoria looking her regal best and a quote that is said to be hers. I found the origin here  if you want to read about it. The tag has a background that I made from the image and a little flower stamp to fill in the gaps on the quote label. Wicked Wednesday challenges are always ATCs and  I just love joining in there as you can let your imagination rip. Wonderful  fun to see what what the DT makes. This week the theme is Crazy for Coffee. This is what I made. I printed the background onto a bit of canvas stuff--well it is really one of the

Hello Everyone from a very sunny NE UK Coast. Thank you for calling in at Jumbled Crafts. At Every Inchie Monday this week we have the theme explode to think about I'm afraid my mind went a bit blank on this one and this is all I came up with :( Then at Collage Obsession there is Monkey Business as this week's theme. I just love getting my digital brain working again after years of not using it very much. I found the picture of the monkey and child on a nature site then I worked over it with various brushes. I also found a folder full of brushes I had made years ago with saying so used two of those and a simple frame to finish off the collage. Love Chrissie x

Hi All. I am looking forward to a crafty day and one that will rest my legs a bit as we have done quite a bit of walking this last week Crafty makes lower down after the woodland pictures. Here is a glimpse of what we saw on a woodland walk 2 days ago-Spring bulbs everywhere carpeting the woodland floor. People take lots of bulbs to the walk to plant there so it is very colourful. We have taken saplings there that we grew from conkers and they are doing really well. Simply beautiful A curious squirrel--there are many in the wood This is quite old and some of them have twigs growing through them no buds on the trees yet. Now to my crafty makes This is my make for Moo Mania  where the theme this time is London-no need to include a Moo you can make anything you like. I haven't been to London often but we always try to go on a bus and see all around the places of interest. I made this tag on some cardboard packaging so it is a bit rustic. At Art Journal Journal this month the theme is