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I seem to be doing well this week as I have posted something every day so far. Hope you are enjoying what you see here and thank you for calling in. I made this set of ATCs with three challenges in mind. At Mixed Media World the theme is Vintage. At Stamps and Stencils they have Three of a Kind and at Crafting by Designs the theme is Flowers.  The backgrounds were painted with Rangers crackle paint then stamped with the Crafty Indivividuals stamp. I added the swirl using a part of the Imagination Crafts stencil. The photographs are of my grandfather, grandmother and her sister. I made the little flowers and added the drop beads which don't show up too well on the photograph unless you click on it and see a larger version. Here are a few photographs of our walk two days ago in Sewerby Park along the cliff top from where we live. Hope you have a lovely day. We are off to the car boot sale for a long walk--it gets bigger every week. Love Chrissie xx

No Halloween visitors yet for us and there are usually quite a few by now--Vic says he will eat the goodies to help out--he is good that way. :) Hope your day has gone well and thank you for calling in. At Tag Along the Theme is Witchy Women Here is mine with a Distress Ink background and a digitized face with a witches hat I drew. I also added a little mirror and you can see my finger reflected in it when I took the photograph of the tag. Added some plastic stars as well. Wicked Wednesday want to see Things That Go Bump in The Night I made a background with the witch and the ghosts and I reckon the ghosts will soon be going bump when the Witch hits them with her club. This ATC is now printed out and ready to photograph but my camera battery needs recharging. Sleep well if it is night time where you are Love Chrissie x

Hi All and a big thank you for joining me at Jumbled Crafts today. The sun is shining and I will be going for a walk along the beach soon-can't wait as it has been too windy recently to go to the beach. At Art Journal Journey  there is still time to add your artwork to the Deep in the Forest Challenge. There are so many wonderful entries to see and Susi gathers then together in a gallery for our delight--thank you Susi. I chose a line from  LEISURE BY WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES I started out with one of our own photographs taken in Sewerby Park. This tree is just amazing as are many of the trees in the park and the adjoining wooded walk. Wicked Wednesday has Day of the Dead for it's theme this week. I couldn't resist making a set of three as I have some of the Gecko Galz pages with Day of the Dead images. The background are black with Gold Glimmer mist sprayed onto them randomly. Have a lovely day everyone and a great weekend. Love Chrissie x

Hello Everyone from a very sunny but cold NE UK. Thank you for your visit and I hope you like my makes for today At Wicked Wednesday the theme is Feathers/ Wings I made a Tim Holtz inspired background, on canvas card, with various Distressed Inks and then added the beautiful digital image by 'With Wild Abandon' and picked out various bits on the image with a white pen. Now to Three Muses where the interesting theme this week is Board Games. My collage is all digital. I found this image of a vintage snakes and ladders board and added various snakes and a few ladder images. I am really scared of snakes so why I did this collage I will never know Hope you have a good day. I am having my hair cut so no more curls and waves when it is damp in the air. Love Chrissie x

Welcome to Jumbled Crafts and finding time to drop by today. At Wicked Wednesday this week the ATC theme is Something Girlie. My background is made from some lovely card that Valerie sent to me and the image is cut from a calendar my daughter gave to me. I had to cut off the legs and arrange her sideways to get everything in but it is very Girlie I think. Sugar Creek Hollow has Hide and go Seek for the theme this time. So you have to have a hidden element to your project. The card I made with an embossed background edged with a red Promarker. A beautiful Gecko Galz image and odds and ends This is the inside of the card and as it is an A4 sheet of card folded in four-- There is a hidden tag made from a spool image with a needle and cotton added. The needle is safely encased in some clear plastic so not dangerous. Have a wonderful day everyone Love Chrissie x

I can't believe it is Monday again already. Where does the time go?  Lovely to have you call in at Jumbled Crafts and thank you for the lovely comments you leave on my posts. I have the best followers and people who pop-in and always appreciate you joining me on this crafty adventure in Blogland. At Every Inchie Monday this week we have the theme Salmon Would you believe that I started out to make one using sewing-well I did and it looked so awful I ended up with this. It made me realise that the people who sew their inchies, or do other wonderful techniques, have amazing talent. I just did a watercolour background and a cut out drawing of a salmon that I coloured in pink and silver. Now for Wicked Wednesday that has stripes for the theme this week. Still time to enter so hope you will make an ATC with Stripes to join in there. My background is made with various colours of Promarkers and the image I found on Google How I would love to still be able to wear shoes with heels like th...

Hi All and thank you for calling in here-it is always great to have visitors. This will be the last post from me for about a week but I am taking my little i-pod touch with me and if I can find an internet connection I will try to comment on your posts. Not always easy with this little machine :( At Tag Along this week the theme is Hollywood I just loved Bogart and Bacall in films and they were so in love in real life as well. I have gone for a bit of glitz and glamour and music which I always think of when I think of Hollywood. Wicked Wednesday  have Fall Fun as their theme for this week I covered an ATC card with some Halloween material I have had for while and distressed the edges with black ink. Then I added the flying witch and Boo which I think is from Geckogalz but I have had the images for a long time and no name on them. The cat looks to be having a lot of fun riding on the back of the broom :) Have a great week everyone--See you soon Love Chrissie x

Hello everyone and Happy Weekend. Lovely blue sky here and a promise of nice weather for this week. So pleased that you found time to pop call in at Jumbled Crafts--thank you. The challenge at Wicked Wednesday this week is to make an ATC with the theme Beautiful Blooms. I usually try to make my wicked side come out on the challenges at WW but I couldn't think of anything wicked to say about blooms. A couple of days ago my husband's took some photographs of some the flowers in our garden and lots of them had insects as well. I used this one for my ATC and I liked the quote so added that as well. At Tag Along they want us to make a tag that is Vintage Inspired The background paper and the wonderful image are digital downloads from With Wild Abandon  and the flower is cut with a Tim Holtz flower die. The material for the flower was sent to me by dear Valerie- -thank you Valerie. A couple more of the photographs Vic took on Thursday after it had been drizzling Have a wonderful d...

Hello to everyone who call in at Jumbled Crafts and thank you for your visit. Lovely sunny morning here in NE UK but it has turned quite cold so I am in my thick cardigan that I usually only wear in winter. Strange how the temperature can change so quickly. At Wicked Wednesday this week the challenge is Back to School. It made me think of our teacher's mortar boards worn on the last day of the school year and the first day of the school year only though the head mistress wore hers all the time and it was a different colour. This should have been our school motto as it was what we were taught :) The next ATCs are for A Vintage Journey where they have a Little Bit of Tim and it must be an ATC or a set with elements of Tim Holtz I started out using a piece of canvas effect card I blended various shades of Distressed ink onto the card then cut out the three ATCs  in different colours. Next I used the tape measure TH Layering mask as a stencil with darker shades of the Distressed Inks...

Hi All and welcome to Jumbled Crafts. Thank you for dropping by and I hope you like what you find here This week at Wicked Wednesday the theme is Something Sweet I did a bright background with Dylusion spray inks then found a picture of a tub of ice cream and did a few addition to it. At Tag Along the theme is butterflies and there are some very beautiful entries already. My background is shaving foam technique with some spray inks The butterflies are cut from a page I bought a long time ago from our local craft shop. I put them on foam pads to raise them up from the tag. That's all so far today but I may be back later with more. Have a wonderful day everyone Love Chrissie x

Hi All. Hope you are ready to enjoy the weekend whatever you are doing. Thank you for making a visit to Jumbled Crafts part of your day. At Wicked Wednesday this week the theme is Leo My daughter is a Leo and she is awesome in so many ways. Always has had cats in her life and she still has 3 -She is the fierce lion where business is concerned and softy lion that does lots of crafts and charity work. This is for her as it can't be easy to be AWESOME :) Tag along has the beautiful theme Marie Antoinette this week I found the picture on Google and themed my tag around the colours and the dress. I used a brass stencil by 'dream weaver' for the bows and flowers and coloured them with Distessed ink then added the same colour to my hand made flower. I found a bit of heart ribbon to match as well. Happy Crafting Everyone

Hi All. Nice day here in NE UK and I hope it nice where you are. Thank you for calling in at Jumbled Crafts. At Wicked Wednesday the theme is Mythical Sea Creatures I think my dark side took over here and would hate to think my creature is anything other than mythical. Tag Along has the theme faces this week I have had this part of face image for years in a folder so printed it out twice one smaller than the other. I stamped a butterfly on each and then decoupaged them to make the tag. Have a lovely day everyone Chrissie xxx

Hi All. Nice to have you drop by and thank you for the lovely comments you leave. Today it is already quite hot and we are off along the cliff top to the cricket gala. This is one of the biggest events we have in our area and there is a lot going on so it is a full day out. Not sure I will last too long in this heat and then the walk back as well will mean at least 10 miles altogether and more if I count the miles walking around at the gala--wish me luck :) At Tag Along this week the theme is 'Steampunk' and I combined it with the challenge at A Vintage Journey  where they ask you to 'Just Stain It' I used an 8" tag as I wanted to be able to fit on my Chocolate Baroque, Punky Romance stamps. I used an orange spray for the background and few dabs of the Aged Mahogany Distressed ink then I used the Distressed Stain to do a swirly stencil shape before I added some grunge paste at one side. This I dabbed with the pink stain. Then I stamped onto the tag and used the gr...

Hi All and welcome. Hello to my latest followers and I hope you like what you find here. Thank you to everyone who calls into Jumbled Crafts-always good to have your support. At Three Muses the theme is Time for this week. Mine this week is quite simple-I started off with a Gecko Galz paper for the background and added the same clock image 3 times in different sizes then a shadowy face  At Wicked Wednesday the subject this week is On the Farm This was a great opportunity to dig out a cockerel image that I coloured years ago in Paint Shop Pro. I think he is such a handsome chap. Have a wonderful day all Love Chrissie xx

Hello everyone who pops in and thank you for visiting Jumbled Crafts I super busy today as have visitors coming for a buffet lunch. It is all planned out but now we need to get going with making the things on the plan before the guest arrive at noon. Thank goodness we don't do things like this very often as everywhere seems a real mess at the moment.  At Wicked Wednesday the theme this week is Clouds or a cloudy day. I chose a song title by Travis-thought it was nice that the cat and mushrooms didn't get wet. Tag Along  this week have Alice in Wonderland as the subject. Here she is surrounded by things she meets along the way. I have some sheets of peel-offs that I bought years ago to entertain some children that were visiting and I can't bear to throw them away :) One sheet is Alice and the other is Cinderella. Have a good day all--foggy here at the moment but I am hopeful the sun will shine by lunch time. Love Chrissie xx