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Hello Everyone. Thank you for calling in and I hope you are ready for our new challenge theme at Try it on Tuesday. Great ideas from the team as always so do join us if you can. The theme this time is MY FRIEND and it could be human, animal or imaginary.  I made a digital scrapbook page of me and my very best friend, husband Vic. We have been together for 28 years and have had quite a lot to face in those years but it has always been together so the troubles have been halved. This is us on a train listening to our music though we do chat a lot as well on journeys it is nice to drown the sounds of a screaming child or someone coughing loudly. I changed it to black and white so it could be on muted background page. Hope to see you are the challenge Love Chrissie xx

Hello Everyone and welcome to Jumbled Crafts today. Thank you for calling in and I hope you have come to see what we have for you as our new challenge at Try it on Tuesday The theme this time is Stitching, Real or Faux I started off with three strips of matching piece of fabric and stitched them with lace on top of the join. I used black thread to show up the stitching. This was mounted onto a piece of white card. It needed something else so I made a Suffolk puff with a button in the middle and fastened this onto the card. Then all was attached with brads to my card blank. It is for a friend so added her initial as well. Hope you will join us at TIOT with your ideas for the challenge. Still another week to join in at Tag Tuesday as well Love Chrissie xx

Hi All and a big welcome to Jumbled Crafts. Always great to have people call in and thank you for all the comments you leave here Today we start a new challenge at Try it on Tuesday and the theme is' In My Garden'. Not everyone has a garden so it could be one you dream about, make up or visit sometimes--just do what you think will fit the theme best for you. If you need any ideas our wonderful team have made projects to inspire you so pop along to TIOT to see their makes and also why not visit their blogs if you have time. I made a double sided pocket card and a matching envelope to send it in. Not easy to photograph through the plastic sleeve. All the photographs were taken in our garden by Vic. The garden is small but has lots of wonderful shrubs and flowers. side one side two  These are the photographs printed out ready to cut to fit the pockets Garden quotes and sayings I found in various place and made small enough to fit my ATC size cards. A reminder that there is still...

Hello to all who pop in and thank you for your visit. Time for a new challenge at Try it on Tuesday  where we invite you make something that follows our theme but in any style or medium you like. Our wonderful team have made their projects to inspire you so I hope you will pop over to TIOT and see what they have made and also have a quick look at our rules to make sure you are following those when you enter the challenge. The theme for this challenge is Postcards so you can make a postcard or use a postcard on anything else that you have made.  Here is my postcard and the foreground is digitally made and printed onto a painted background. The edging of flowers is stamped and coloured and the stamp is from a beautiful little set from Crafty Individuals  CI-293 This is the back of the postcard and I painted the other side. Another version printed onto a different painted background This is a png version of the digital part of the postcard that I printed onto the painted ba...

Hello All who call in at Jumbled Crafts and thank you for your visit.  If  you are here for T Day at Elizabeth and Bluebeards it is after the Tag Tuesday part of the post. Tuesday is such a busy day here on my blog. I am sure both blogs will be happy to have people join in from both places There is a new challenge starting today at Tag Tuesday and I am the one to choose the theme this time The theme is 'My Favourite Colour Combinations' so thinking caps on and I hope you enjoy joining us. You can choose any colours you like and as many colours as you like in the combination There is a prize this time and the winner will be drawn randomly from the people who make a tag for this challenge.  It is open to anyone anywhere who joins this time       This is the prize              I knitted the owl and he is only 6 inches tall so won't take up a lot of space.   There are a few other things I am adding to the prize, i...

Hello Everyone. This week is racing ahead and my days seem to have been full of the great outdoors this week. Done lots of gardening, walking along the seafront and playing bowls in the back garden. The bowls is a fun idea we started last year. We play with anything that is round and the games are just Vic and Me. It is all very competitive but also lots of fun. Looks like the game will be called off today because it is raining. :( At Art Journal Journey the theme this month was chosen by Elizabeth and her beautiful cat Bluebeard. They chose the theme Summertime Love and it is wonderful to see all the different ideas that people have thought of. I used a mop up page with shimmer paint for the background then added the wonderful VW van image. Still a few of those around and I just love to see them, all lovingly restored and appearing at outdoor shows. Go Tag Thursday has Flags/ Bunting as the theme for this week.  The little flags and the white braid were leftover pieces that I c...

Hi All. Welcome to Jumbled Crafts and thank you for calling in on your blog journey. At Try it on Tuesday we have a new challenge starting today and lasting for the next two weeks. The theme is Let it Shine so lots of things you could do for that but if you need ideas and inspiration our team have made some wonderful projects so do pop and see what they have made.  I made a card for a man who loves to receive a special handmade card and also loves art. Not sure he will love my art but I have used a painting I did in 2004 and have changed it a bit with a digital addition. Can you see what I added? Original painting Hope you will also join in at Tag Tuesday were we have the theme Cake . There is still a week to join us there. This week I have been knitting hedgehogs. The vet where my daughter takes her  cats makes nests for the knitted hedgehogs and raffles them to raised funds for Cat Protection. I have made lots in the past but couldn't get the special wool again until now. St...

Hi All and a happy new week. Thank you for popping in at Jumbled Crafts. Happy T Day to my friends from Elizabeth and Bluebeard's Tuesday get together. Happy 4th Anniversay to their T a Day posts. This week we haven't been far at all as we both like watching Wimbledon so have stayed home and just had a short walk somewhere in the morning. Short walk meaning 10,000 steps if possible  This is my meal in a bowl and a drink. It is quick to make and means I can nibble at it with a fork and watch television with a nice cup of tea. It is a tuna salad with grapes. I was going to be really clever this week and make a tea cup and saucer with beautiful additions. This came about because I decided to clear out lots of old folders on my computer and this project was in one of them I made the cup ok, then thought WHY? It may or not get finished. The picture in the cup is how it should look. This week at Every Inchie Monday we have Buffalo as the theme I used an outline found on Google, made...

Hi All. I hope your week has gone well and that you will enjoy the weekend. Thank you, as always, for visiting Jumbled Crafts. I made another page for Art Journal Journey where Bluebeard and Elizabeth have chosen the the theme Summertime Love. I thought of the Summer of Love in the 60s The colours and patterns were a sign of the times and the message that was being put across was strong and powerful at the time. At Moo Mania and More their theme this time is Africa I designed an ATC with a mask shape I coloured then photographed and used digitally with a patterned background and giraffe brushes I made in Paint Shop Pro. I printed it out on photopaper and it has strong colours, ready to swap. Here are a few more of the plants in our garden taken yesterday by Vic  Rowan berries on a baby rowan tree that my daughter grew from seed  Astilbes campanula--the bumbles bees have a nest under this plant fennel-the seeds and leaves taste lovely  feverfew--good for headaches  ...

Hi All. Hope you are having a good week. It seems to be flying by for me though I do keep watching the tennis so no wonder the hours just disappear. Doing lots of knitting as well so I don't just sit watching television.   At Tag Tuesday we have started a new theme chosen by our teamie  Wilma who  has given us Cake--not to eat but to use on a tag. My tag today is digital and delicious-well without the mice it would be. Now to Go Tag Thursday and the theme this week is 'Button It' so you need to add buttons or a button somewhere on your tag. So I digitized a face and printed it out with a body then added a hat with knitted flowers and a cardigan to match. Her hands and arms are behind her back so you can't see any sleeves. :) As a bonus until Next Monday evening, any tags that you make we would love you to add them to the challenge at Try it On Tuesday where you could be chosen as one our TOP 5 or even get a place as guest designer in the future. Hope to see you at a...