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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...

Second post from me today. The weekend has flown by and we had a beautiful sunny day here today. Hope your weekend went well and thank you for calling in again at Jumbled Crafts. At Sunday Postcard Art the theme is Nostalgia/Times gone by and I couldn't resist making a postcard for this. This is my brother and me in the swimwear of the 1940s. The bathing costume I had on belonged to my mum but it would fit anyone from a baby to the biggest lady on the beach. It was an orange colour and faded a lot over the years. I made it into a tag as well for our challenge at Tag Tuesday  as the theme is Beach chosen by Joan You still have all tomorrow to join in with us there so hope you can make a tag before the new theme starts on Tuesday. Another fun theme then. Photographs of Oscar helping his mum with the chores Lots of office work to finish off in bed and Felix looks on in the background I need to clean out this dishwasher before anyone comes  in and sees it The hall floor needs a ...

Hello Everyone who calls in and thank you for visiting Jumbled Crafts.  I seem to be doing quite a bit of work on my computer with my digital. I am working on my usual crafts as well but they are projects for the future so I can't show them yet. At  Art Journal Journey  the challenge for January is chosen and hosted by  Erika . The theme is Every Journal Page tells a story. Here I am with a photograph that Vic took a few years ago and I have added a digital border effects.  We went on a day trip to Buxton and it was all a bit of a hurried decision as someone gave us the tickets to go as they couldn't. We got to Buxton and it was the Well Dressing which was wonderful but we still had a couple of hours to spare and so locals in a cafe told about the cavern so went to explore. It was just amazing. A guide took a group of us down and what we saw just have to been to be believed. We have been down a lot of the caves and caverns in the UK but this one was the best for...

Hello Everyone and thank you for calling in at Jumbled Crafts. A bit of this and that from me today Summer scene from our bedroom window-I think we need to order a boat At Art Journal Journey the wonderful garden theme, chosen by Yvonne, is producing some beautiful and interesting ideas. Some parts of our small garden are like an art gallery so I thought I would take a few pictures and make them into pages for this theme. This first one is a lampshade I bought for 50p at a car boot sale about 4 years ago and it has hung in the garden ever since. The little beads catch the sunlight--when it shines that is-- it is guarded by old DVDs that also catch the light and show all sorts of wonderful colours. I recently added a big gold butterfly that my  daughter gave to me.  A reminder that the Happy Holiday theme at Try it on Tuesday  still has a week left for you to join us. This is a postcard I drew back in 2011 to inspire you to join us, hopefully. Last but not least this is m...

Hi All. Welcome to Jumbled Crafts and thank you for dropping by. Here we are with a new challenge at Try it on Tuesday  where the theme is Happy Holidays. You have 2 weeks to  make anything you like so long as you follow the guidelines and the theme. If you pop to TIOT you can see what the rest of the team has made and you will get some inspiration, if you need any, to join in with us. As we live at the beach and have lots of lovely countryside around us we like to visit cities when we go on holiday. It means we see museums, art galleries etc that we don't see where we live. Also love exploring the quieter areas of places away from the touristy bits. The postcard was inspired by ones that we used to send to my Gran when we went on holiday many years ago. She said it felt like she had been there with us to see all the pictures. Not sure if they still make this sort of card as I haven't seen any in recent times. I printed out an old post card back. I had to sign it Christine as...

Hello Everyone. Thank you for calling in at Jumbled Crafts. Wonderful entries for the Things with Wings challenge and it will be so difficult for all of us to choose a top 5 I'm sure. I know you will be eager to find out what is in store at Try It On Tuesday this time and to see all the wonderful ideas that my team mates have made to inspire you all to join in. The theme is 'Wish you were Here' This is what I made I started out with two photographs we had taken at the North Beach in my home town, Bridlington. One had the cliffs and another the kite in the sky. I played around with them in Paint Shop Pro to make one photograph and I digitized that to look like a picture. Then I printed it onto a postcard. All the additions were cut from a postcard of a railway poster that I bought a long time ago-well all except the sun which I found on Google and I just love it :)  So I had this idea to go and take a photograph of the postcard I made with the same view in the background. I...

Hello Everyone who calls in at Jumbled Crafts and thank you for the lovely comments which I always appreciate. I have some exciting news today as I was invited to join the Design Team at Try it on Tuesday  and this is my first design piece for the challenge with the theme 'It's in the Mail'. I hope you will join in and visit all the others on the Design Team to see their wonderful makes. Thank you to Yvonne and the talented team for the very friendly welcome :) I made a vintage style postcard. The background and the lady are from here  but I did alter them by colouring with Promarkers and then making a skirt out of used postage stamps. I am sure there are lots of ways to use those. This is the back of the postcard which I stamped with flowers and butterflies from Crafty Individuals. Hope you have a really lovely day Chrissie x

Nice to have you drop into Jumbled Crafts and I hope your day is going well. A bit dark and damp here so far but I am hopeful. :) At Every Inchie Monday this week the subject is Rope. It is always amazing to see what people make for the challenges. It certainly stretches the mind to fit it onto just a one inch square. I did a messy painted background then made a coiled rope from some string.To make it look used I dabbed it with Distressed Ink. ******************* At Moo Mania the challenge this time is Tools. I thought which tools we use most and they are the ones for the garden.  The background is a photograph taken in our garden last year and I stapled the tools onto it after adding the apt phrase. I am going to give this to Vic to pin on the back of the shed door as he works so hard in the garden all year round. Have a lovely day everyone Chrissie x

Two posts for me today and a lot of messy crafting--half has gone in the bin which doesn't happen too often thank goodness. The theme this time at Moo Mania is  By the Sea and as I live by the sea I have used one of my photos from where I live as a background. I printed that onto some card that looks like canavas. Made a Moo with a beach hut image that I found online and made into four beach huts and coloured them- then stuck that onto the photograph--a very small postcard. Hope your day is going well Love Chrissie x

Happy Sunday Everyone and hope your day is going well. It is the hottest day of the year so far here and I am sure the seafront will be full of happy holiday makers enjoying all the fun of the seaside. I have been crafting and gardening and will be watching the Wimbledon Final and German Grand Prix this afternoon so I am a happy bunny. At Twinchie Challenge Blog  the subject is Music and there are some wonderful examples by the DT This is the one I made. I should have put, 'To live without my music would be impossible to do,' because that is how I feel. I love most music and feel happy listening to it what ever else I am doing. The second challenge is at T ando Creative Blog  where we are asked to make something that shows our Favourite artist. I have always loved Monet paintings and especially the ones of his garden-it looks an amazing place to have created on canvas and in real life. I made this postcard with images of our flowers that Vic took this week in our small garden....

Hello All--hope your day is going well. Vic took some wonderful photos in our garden yesterday so I thought I would share 3 of them with you. They do say that bees are in short supplies these days but our garden is full of them and they are so beautiful-this one was in and out of every flower on the pink foxglove. I was up early so had a go at the Craft Room Challenge  where the theme this time is to only use yellow, blue or green to make something. Wasn't sure if black and white could be used so I just stuck to the three. I cut a piece of card 4x6 inches and painted it with acrylic in the three colours. Then I took a few pens in the colours and did some fantasy artwork. It is fun to just let your imagination run riot sometimes. Love Chrissie x

Hello Friends and Followers everywhere. Hope the sun is shining where you are today. Everywhere here looks clean and sparkly after a lot of rain in the night but now we have beautiful sunshine and blue sky At Tando Creative Challenge t his month the theme is numbers so I made a large postcard. For the background I blob Distressed Stain onto  a plastic sheet then transferred it to a piece of card  Then I stamped and drew sevens here and there. I have also used a stencil and paste twice on the right hand side but it doesn't show up very well on the photograph. The big seven was one I rescued from a 70th birthday card. Little flower stamps here and there and that's it. I'd just like to say a big thank you to Tando for my prize for being their winner in May This is what I chose and I am thrilled with all of them Have a beautiful day Love Chrissie xx

Hello Everyone and welcome to Jumbled Crafts for the weekly project posting for the Out of a Hat Challenge.  This week the challenge is to make a Postcard from France. I see lots of wonderful postcards made by other crafters but I must admit I find them difficult to make and this week I had to resort to some digital work in Paint Shop Pro to help me along the way. I do enjoy dabbling in PSP anyway so it definitely wasn't a chore :) The background is 2 fused images of different french lifestyles-Paris and a small village. I stamped in the Fleur de Lis and stuck on images I found online. That's about really. 'Nothing is real but dreams and love', from Le Coeur innombrable, IV, Chanson du temps opportun by Anna de Noailles. -this is the quote translated. Hope to some of you will join in and show what you can make. Do visit Von, Janet and Sandra and see their makes as well. Love Chrissie xx

You really would love being here today as we have lots of sunshine even though it is still a bit chilly. My daughter and son-in-law arrive this afternoon until Tuesday so I may not be around very much until they go back home. The challenge at the Craft Room  this time is to make a 'Wish You Were Here' postcard. Postcards are never my forte for sure but I quite like this one. This is mainly because I got to search through lots of folder of photographs we had taken in model villages all over the place. I love model villages-maybe it because I am only 5 feet high and they make me feel taller lol. I stencilled the background with a mixture of Distressed Stains. Then I added the photograph which was taken in Great Yarmouth model village. Then, a few bits and bobs to it and a post card back. It was great to be able to go outside to take the photograph and to show off my grand collection of forget-me-nots. Have a good day all Love Chrissie xx

The new challenge at Artful Times is make a post card using some alphabet letters,script. Brilliant samples from the Artful team as always and all very different to inspire. I painted my background with H20 paints then spritzed them and let them all run into each other. Next I added  gold alcohol ink dabs. Now into paint shop pro to add the digital image of a Steampunk boot that I got from here  -all free images and some really interesting ones. The picture with the clock I have had for a while and I did add some script at the right bottom corner but it isn't very visible now :( I used a cog stamp from Kanban to fill the corner and some peel-offs--just because:)

Here we are on Challenge 15 already-time flies when you are enjoying yourself doesn't it? This week at Out of a Hat Creations  we have the challenge to make a Travel Postcard. I didn't know where to start at first but my ideas seem to evolve once I had started and then I didn't know where to stop as usual Do go and see what Janet , Sandra and Florence have made for the challenge as we all love to hear from you. This week sees the start of Janet's special prize which will last all month so do go to Out of the Hat to see how you can join in and have the chance to win. This is a postcard size with smaller postcards on it, all of places that we visit regularly and not too far from us. The little postcards are made from our photographs I started off with this photo of some old suitcases that I took at Grosmont at the steam train station Then I used a simple programme to change the photo into a digital stamp and printed it onto a background that I had distressed with various...

Nice to feel the see the sun shining if only on this postcard :) This is serendipity meets paper piecing and they tangle with zentagles. I love the artwork of Bridget Wilkinson  and this postcard is made in her style-not sure what she would think of it but I am hoping to go to Whitby soon and that I can show it to her if she is at the gallery where she shows some of her work. Always great challenges at Just for Fun  and terrific work by the Dts and the people who enter their work.

Hope you enjoy 4th July all who celebrate it. I made a postcard for the challenge at Come and Get It . Started off with the red/white English and added pictures of some of our places of interest to the four white shapes. Then added a union jack to the centre as I do like being British as well as English. Though I also love being European and also part of the, many and varied, world lol Better stop before I take in the whole universe Nice challenge to think about-thank you.