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Hi All. Thank you for visiting and for the lovely comments and support you have posted about my MIL. It is still a bit of a struggle as we keep being told one things one day and a different thing a few hours after so we haven't really got a clue what is going to happen yet. She is now back in Scarborough after seeing specialists in York and we are going to visit her this afternoon-hopefully, unless she is on the move again. At Art Journal Journey   their wonderful Architecture theme has drawn some wonderful works of art and as always you can see them all in one place if you click on a link on the Blog. This will probably be my last entry for the month as my craft time seems to be down to minutes a day now. This is the building now and the top flat  has wonderful views of the old rooftops and spectacular sunsets. Have a lovely day Chrissie xx

Hi All and welcome to Jumbled Crafts. Thank you for calling in and I am sure you will want to know about our new challenge at Try it on Tuesday  where this time you are asked to add layers. Lots of ideas from the team if you need inspiration so pop along and then make anything you like with layers and add it to the entries in the next two weeks. You could be chosen as one of the top 5 and be asked to be our guest in the future. Can't wait to see what you make. I made a French Memory Board. It is something I have wanted to make for a long time but never got around to it until now. The rest of the post is full of pictures on how I made this so stop here if you would rather not know. The project has about 9 layers if you count the sticky tape, staples and glue I used an old canvas picture, some wadding, material, string, various ribbons, brads and some wall paper                            The wadding was fastened onto the picture front with double sided tape                          

Hello All. Start of a new week and one I am not looking forward to at all. My crafting/ sport watching weekend never happened as we got a call to say my MIL had been found at her flat and in a bad way as she had fallen and maybe had a stroke. Vic went to the hospital with her in an ambulance but our hospital is more like a warehouse these days with hardly any services at all so it was a long journey to Scarborough and since then she has been moved to York which is even further away. As we don't have a car it is difficult to work out what will be happening when so all I have to offer today is a simple inchie. Thank you for your visit hope to be able to find time to comment on your blogs as well. At Every Inchie Monday the theme this week is texture I just used a blank felt inchie, wrote on it and added a couple of plastic butterflies. Well, felt is a texture and maybe plastic is as well?? Have a great day all-we are off for an early start to do some flat cleaning while MIL is away

Hello everyone and a happy weekend to you. Nice to have you drop by today and thank you for your visit. Today is going to be a crafting and sport watching day as it is cold and keeps trying to rain--not really doing much yet but I would rather stay in a keep warm and dry. At Art Journal Journey the theme is Architecture and a little while ago Valerie posted some wonderful photographs of AKKO here  on her blog. I saved one of them and admired it so much I wanted to have a go at painting it. This was how I started out with a few colours of acrylic mixes This is my finished page with a Marco Polo quote. I could never compete with the wonderful photograph that Valerie took but I did enjoy having a go. At City Crafter's Challenge Blog you are asked to add some wood, This was a chance to get out my wooden emblishments and enjoy the smell of burnt wood that is still there in the box when I open it even though the emblies are a couple of years old as the company closed down that used to

Hello Everyone who drops in and thank you for your visit. Today it is cold here and there was a red sky and frost on the cars when I got up. Seems to be a bit warmer now so hope the temperature will be better later in the day. I have made a wall hanging for Moo Mania and More and also for The Mirror Crack'd. The theme at Moo Mania this time is 'Autumn Mood' and at The Mirror Crack'd they have a' Tic-Tac-Toe' with the centre square of Wall Hanging and you can just use this square if you make a hanging. I collected the leaves and sprayed them with fine oil and rubbed it in to preserve the leaves . The backing paper is one I made up in Paint Shop Pro then I covered a piece of a cardboard Box with it. The edges are smeared with Distressed inks. I added the leaves which were sprayed with Cosmic Glimmer Vintage Mist,and a flower made from TH's tattered flowers die cut this was dabbed with Distressed ink to match the edges of the hanging. The text is cut from a s

Hi All from a very cold, wet and windy NE UK coast. Thank you for calling in at Jumbled Crafts. I am off to the dentist this morning, yet again. We have been almost everyday this last week for  one or the other of us. Vic said we should rent one of the flats above where the surgery :) At Art Journal Journey the theme is architecture and I thought I would do something a bit different.  This is one of the shelters on top of a Cumbria Fell.We used to climb the fells often when we lived in the Lake District and marveled at the way these places were built and the extreme weather conditions they have withstood for many years. We were never stranded at night time but have been glad of this type of shelter as many have been. The original photograph, which I altered digitally, was taken by my son-in-law in 2005 when the area was new to him. They now are too busy to visit the mountains and prefer the hotter weather. At the moment they are in the Dominican Republic where it is 32 degrees. I wou

Hi All. Thank you for your visit to Jumbled Crafts and I hope you like what I have made for today. Off to the dentist for me and Vic and lots more appointments in the next few weeks-yuk! At Art Journal Journey the theme of Architecture is attracting some wonderful artistic entries and it is always inspiring to see all of them I decided to have a go at a different kind of painting for me. I have been looking at lots of types of painting and wanted to try something new to me. I usually try to make things look more like a photograph but this time I just went with what my heart told me to do and it really felt great. It is painted in acrylics and drawn in white pen afterwards. Thanks to Valerie and Susi I have learnt so much about the various techniques and the enjoyment of painting. Every Inchie Monday are having yoghurt this week Not very original from me but I was at loss to think of anything else for yoghurt Here are all of my inchies sewn together up until the end of September-I le

Hello Everyone. Weekend today for us and I am looking forward to my usual sport fest on television. Mostly rugby this time as it is the quarter finals of the Rugby World Cup.  Thank you for your visit to Jumbled Crafts. I have another face to join in at Kim Dellow's Show Your Face The face was drawn in chalk then cut out and added to a flowery background. I am still trying to create different types of face drawing but they all seem to end up in the same style. I thought I would fit in a few photographs as this is the only 'craft' project I have to show you My daughter sent me a large shoe box full of crafting goodies--she doesn't like me to get bored for sure. Some' new to me things' so I am looking forward to trying those We went to Leeds on Wednesday and there is a really wonderful idea to hide work that is being done on some of the old, historic buildings. They have erected screen paintings of the building and all the work and scaffolding is behind the screen

Hello All and a warm welcome to Jumbled Crafts. Thank you for the comments on my new layout, I hope it is easy to read-please let me know if it isn't so that I can use another font. Thank you for calling in and for all the support you always give to me. At Art Journal Journey the theme is architecture and I made my very first art project in Art Studio on my i-pad. I think it will take a long time to find out exactly what can be achieved with this programme but I am looking forward to learning. This was a daytime picture of buildings and I changed it with effects. My next project I made for a few blogs I cut the fairly large heart shape from a cardboard box lid then used a stencil to add some texture. Next I made a spray with Distressed ink-Salty Ocean colour. The textured parts were then dabbed with the same colour on an ink pad and so was the outside of the label. The stamp was one I got in a bundle from dear Astrid. The little butterfly I have had a long time and I am not sure w

Hi All. Thank you for calling in. I bet the post title had you wondering what was happening at Try it on Tuesday . Well TIOT isn't at all frightening you will be pleased to know but the challenge for the next two weeks is just that, so hop over to see what my teamies have made and then join us with something scary. You can make anything you like so long as it follows the rules which are on the TIOT blog. I made this journal cover as it was a boring cover before. This is full of painted textures and bits and bobs from a mixed box. I drew the bat and the castle in black felt tip and found the scary faces online. I hope I will be able to fill it with magical pages. This is frightening ! A great big slug hiding in our grass when I went to hang the washing out. I would also like to enter this at Anything but Cute where their theme this time is 31 days of Halloween and must have 31 on it somewhere Have a great day Love Chrissie xx

Hello everyone and thank you for calling in to see what I have made to show you today At Art Journal Journey the theme is Architecture and I made a fun page today while I watched the rugby and the Grand Prix on television. I would also like to enter it at Moo Mania and More for the patterns theme as I drew lots of patterns on my witches house where she sleeps until the darkness decends I inked the background before I started to draw in charcoal and colour in Sharpies. This is the state that my hands were in after washing them several times and it was also the moment that Vic shouted to ask if I was ready to go out to visit some friends. Not easy to explain to them that I was painting a witches house -they think I am crazy anyway so nothing new. At Every Inchie Monday the theme is Key. A little easier than some of the interesting themes of late. I had this tiny key in a bits and bobs tin so used that on my felt inchie Last but not least I have made a card for Crafty Cardmakers as

Happy weekend-hope you will have a great one. Thank you for calling in to Jumbled Crafts and making my day. I thought it was about time I upped my game and joined in a few more challenges and maybe even something a bit different for me so hopefully I have managed to do that with one of these challenges. At Moo Mania and More the challenge is Show Patterns. You don't even have to add a Moo if you don't want to so what could be simpler. I covered a tin with patterned paper than decorated with 3 Moos that I decorated in drawn patterns and added a warning to leave my brushes alone as they seem to be used for anything but what I want them for. Here is the coffee tin before the transformation Now for a new venture for me. At Kim Dellow  Show Your Face blog you can post a face you have created and the new week starts every Friday. I see a lot of my blog friends post there and I so admire the way they create faces. I try to make a beautiful face with a few strokes and fail miserably

Hello All. Sorry I haven't posted much recently but we have been going here and there for days as there was a special offer on rail tickets in our weekly paper and we couldn't resist using them. Neighbours gave us theirs as well as all of them have cars and never think of using the train. Here is a photograph of part of our station that Vic took on his phone when we went ' travelling' on Wednesday. It was a very wet and dark morning but didn't dampen our spirits at all. The station is always full of flowers everywhere you look, both in summer and winter, outside and inside. The little cafe is amazing with all sorts of wonders to look at inside. Yesterday we went to Sheffield to see one of my aunts that is 90 next week. Next Wednesday we are going to Leeds to see one of Vic's aunt who was 80 last years and the week after we are going to York, just because we love to go there. Architecture at Art Journal Journey is attracting some amazing entries and all very diff

Hello All. Hope you are all safe as the weather here and there in the world seems to be very mixed at the moment. Thank you for your visit and I hope you enjoy my makes for today. At Every Inchie Monday the theme is Lumberjack this week I went for this picture of the Michael Palin version of a lumberjack that first appeared in Monty Python's Flying Circus way back when. The Archictecture theme at Art Journal Journey set my mind thinking of the days when I used to love painting sunset pictures. I painted the sunset picture in acrylics then added the quote in Paint Shop Pro Have a great day everyone Love Chrissie xx