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Hi All. I hope you week is going well. My week has been a busy one so far and the time is just flying by as usual. Thank you for visiting Jumbled Crafts and for the lovely comments you leave. Hope you will remember to join us at Try it on Tuesday where there are still a few days left for our Lady in Red Challenge and if you need a bit longer there is still plenty of time to make a tag for our birds/nests theme at Tag Tuesday. All types of projects are welcome at both blogs At Go Tag Thursday the theme this week is Nautical. Always a pleasure to join in there so I hope you will find time to make a tag. I went down the digi route for this tag but will try to make another one by hand as well. Moo Mania and More have a new theme and it is 'triplicate' Not sure if this qualifies but it is three frames filled with a painting I did many years ago when I was learning about still life. May be I will make something a bit different as well. Have a good day all Love Chrissie xx

Hello All. Nice to have you here at Jumbled Crafts today and thank you for calling in At Art Journal Journey they are asking for pages that show your ideas for the theme Journey that was chosen by Erika for this month.  Also at Make My Monday this week they have a beautiful colour palette as inspiration so I have combined the two challenges. I painted the background with Luminarte paints in various colours then splashed on some green alcohol ink. The stamps I used are by Joanna Sheen and the honeycombe one is Finnabair. Not sure who the Friends one is by as I bought it at a car boot sale. This is colour palette and image as inspiration at Make my Monday Have a great day

Hi All. We are home again after helping Linda to get as well as she can be at this stage of her recovery after the operation. We may go back again soon but we are seeing how it all goes. Nice to be back though we both have colds and I stayed up and did some crafting for a few hours in the night. Thank you for visiting my blog and the lovely comments. Sorry I couldn't visit yours but the internet was so slow where my daughter lives I gave up trying. At Art Journal Journey the theme is for the record and at Moo Mania and More they ask for music so this is for both challenges. I painted on a piece of corrugated card then stuck on various bits and bobs. It felt good to be making something again. Have a great day Love Chrissie xx

Hi All. Hope you are well and enjoying whatever you are doing. Thank you for joining me at Jumbled Crafts where I haven't had a lot of time recently to add much at all. Art Journal Journey will soon be at the end of their Autumn Colours theme and it has brought out the best in many people I think. Can't wait to see what AJJ come up with on Tuesday when the next theme will start. I made a digital background then took a picture of a card I bought at a craft shop a long time ago. I think  it would be nice to print this out and pin it on a my craft room wall. At Kim Dellow Show Your Face  she has been showing various artists and encouraging us to try their style. I am way behind and I think this is style from a few weeks ago. I used chalks and charcoal to do my version of a Marie Laurencin. Have a lovely day and I hope you stay safe if the forecast for your weather is anything like ours. Love Chrissie xx

Hello Everyone. I am a bit late today as I had my last session with the dentist and we are also still going almost every day to visit MIL at home as she is very frail at the moment and even with lots of carers etc needs extra help that they don't do. Hope your day has gone well and thank you for visiting Jumbled Crafts on your blog travels. At Art Journal Journey there is still the theme Autumn Colours and wonderful artwork from the entries so far I have another page with real leaves that I collected a couple of days ago. The cold weather and strong winds mean there are hardly any leaves left on the trees but the pathways are ankle deep in wonderful shapes and colours. I brought some home and drieid them out a bit them stuck them to a painted background and wrote my words in white pen. My face for Kim Dellow this week is just one I made up Not sure why I stuck pins in her but I think it may be how I was feeling at the time I drew her in charcoal and chalk. Love Chrissie xx

Hello Everyone and welcome to Jumbled Crafts. Thank you for calling in and I am sure you are all waiting for the New Challenge at Try it on Tuesday . The theme this time is to Create a Scene and my team mates have some wonderful ideas so if you need inspiration just  pop along to TIOT then join in with us and your scenes. Yoiu can make anything you like so long as it follows the theme. If you pop back there next week you will see the top five for the Lots of Layers Challenge. I made a page for one of my journals. I started off with an A4 sheet of gloss photo paper and used alcohol inks in blue and green and swirled them about with a piece of kitchen roll to cover the page. Then I added white acrylic here and there for the clouds. The little houses and fences are from Tando and the stamps are from here and there. The ones that I highlighted white pen on are from Joanna Sheen but the others date way back when and have long since lost their identity. Can't wait to see what you make. ...

Hi All. Hope your week has gone well and that you have enjoyed your crafting. I seem to have stuff everywhere now I have a bit more time but I don't seem to be finishing projects so must try harder. I have a digital creation for Art Journal Journey where the theme is Autumn Colours for this month. The background was created from one of my husband's fractals from way back when and the face is also from long ago when I had a website. I was watching the tennis on television yesterday as it was raining outside so I didn't go for a walk. I sketched in charcoal while I watched and did this for Moo Mania, Crowns and for Show Your Face at Kim Dellow's blog I did a few more faces as well so will photograph them later. Have a great day Love Chrissie xx

Hello Everyone. I am pleased to say that my MIL may be coming home either today and tomorrow and has made a remarkable recovery. She looked like a different person, when we visited yesterday, from the one who went into hospital just over a week ago. Thank you for your kind support and thank you for your visits to Jumbled Crafts. The theme at Art Journal Journey is Autumn colours I painted the background with various acrylics in Autumn shades then I added PVA and stuck on crushed Autumn leaves which I had collected and dried. Then I sprinkled on some gold  and it sparkles in real life though not on the photograph unfortunately. The quote I found on Google. I think maybe I should do some stamping here and there to fill in some spaces.  At Kim Dellow  I am still enjoying seeing all the faces that people add each week and trying to learn more about drawing faces and the different techniques. I may have gone a bit way out with this face. It was a boy on a train listening 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...

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...

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. 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

Hi All and welcome to Jumbled Crafts. Thank you for finding time to pop in and for the wonderful comments and friendship. This is a scheduled post as I will be on a train and on my way to find a new place to live by the time it is published. I am not sure if we will find any internet over the next few days so if I can't comment on your blogs that will be why. Art Journal Journey still have a few days left for the time theme challenge and it has proved a very popular one for sure with wonderful entries of all sorts of styles.  I painted this with acrylics on a piece of card. Most of my craft stuff is in boxes already as we needed the craft space to store stuff so that the rest of the house looks tidy when prospective buyers come for a look round.. At Every Inchie Monday the theme is Pavilion. I must say that we get some very interestiong theme there and I love joining.   I did a cricket pavilion as it made me think of when I was child and we all used to go as a family to watch...

Hi All. Hope you had a good weekend. Nice to have you call in at Jumbled Crafts and thank you for visiting. A bit of this and that today At Every Inchie Monday the theme this week is Energy. Always something interesting on the inchie blog to get our brain cells working  I found a symbol for different types of energy so printed it out and stuck it on my felt inchie then added the usual bit bling Art Journal Journal  have already reached over 100 entries for their Post and Postage theme which runs until the end of July. I painted a background with H20 paints then stamped with a bottle top and a piece of bamboo end. I found the clip art and added them to the background  in Paint Shop Pro I had this skipping rhyme going through my head and thought it fitted in nicely with the theme. I loved skipping when I was at school and we knew lots of different chants and different actions for skipping. The person who has to jump in to skip has their name shouted out by the people turnin...

Hello Everyone. Nice of you to visit and thank you for all the support I receive from you all. At Art Journal Journey there is still time to join in the Masculine/Feminine challenge. I asked at the art shop which paper was best for chalk drawings and I was sold this book of canvas paper. I am so disappointed with it as I didn't seem to have any control over the chalk at all using it. This is the third face on this same page as the others were damped down and blended into the rough background. One good thing is that the paper is so thick none of the 'mess' went through to the other side so I can use it for another project. I made up the quote as it fits this so well. Have lovely day

Hello Everyone. Hope you had a nice weekend and you are looking forward to the new week. Thank you for dropping in to see what I have posted here. Not a lot really as I have been too busy watching sport to do any crafting. This week is sport free I think so I will play catch-up until next week when Wimbledon tennis starts :) At Every Inchie Monday the theme for this week is Apple. My inchie is all made of felt this week with a bit of bling added to give the apple some shine. Looks a bit fluffy around the edges. I did do something different while I watched all the sport. I have long admired how Valerie and Susi use chalk on some of their wonderful artwork at Art Journal Journey  so I thought I would send for some chalks and have a go. I only sent for them on Thursday evening and they arrived on Saturday morning. I just dived in without knowing what I was doing at all and I had black fingers with blending and a really messy page but I did enjoy using the chalk and I am going to look ...

Hello everyone and a warm welcome to Jumbled Crafts. Thank you for finding time to visit. Art Journal Journey have Masculine/Feminine as their theme for June and I have drawn faces to add to pages. Today it is the turn of both of my males. Tim on the left I used the other day for a page and Charlie on the right you won't have seen before. Charlie is a bit more outgoing but they both work in the same office in IT. They like music but not the same kind. The background was a digital creation with paint sprays on a sheet of scanned music. Moo Mania and More have the theme numbers for their subject this time. This is a fairly large padded envelope and I am hoping to add a little something to it each day that reminds me of the day. They will have to be small if I am going to add 365--maybe I will need another envelope added to the back of it at some point. The little owl card is one of a Tetley Tea set and it was hidden in a little wooden box I bought at the car boot sale yesterday. It ...

Thank you for visiting my blog and for the wonderful comments you leave to brighten my day. I have drawn two male character so will be introducing you to them. At Art Journal Journey the theme for June is Masculine/ Feminine and at Anything but Cute they want us to Make it Masculine this month so this will fit both.  This is Tim one of my male characters. He is a bit of a loner but kind and thoughtful. I made a background with bubble wrap, splodges and a few stamps then I printed out Tim and a quote that fitted his thoughts. These were cut-out and stuck onto the background then the page was added to my black page journal. I am off now to do some h----k. Bet that doesn't last long !! Have a great day Love Chrissie xx

Hi All. Hope you have had a good week while we were away. Sorry I couldn't comment on your posts but  we hardly had any Internet time at all. Have just had a look through what you have been doing and it is all as wonderful as ever. Thank you for calling in and for any comments you leave. We have come back to grey, wet and cold after perfect weather for us in Llandudno. We have done so many amazing things and taken about 300 photographs so here are 5 just as a taster for you. This is me on a cable care ride up to the top of the great Orme. Just after this was taken the cable cars were cancelled because of the wind at the top of the Orme so we walked back down again. We did walk up it, and took a wonderful tram up it as well as going up by cable car.  We went down a copper mine and it is difficult to describe how amazing the place is. I was scared of the thought of going down there but I am so pleased I did. Work is being done to uncover more and more passages so I hope I will b...