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Hi All hope your week is going well so far. Thank you for dropping by and I am sure you are here to find out about the new challenge at Try it on Tuesday .  We love to see what you make for the challenges and hope you like what we make to inspire you. You can make anything you like so long as it follows the theme for the next 2 weeks and you follow our few rules. The theme this time is Transport. Anything you can ride on or in will be fine. Lots of idea from the rest of the team if you visit the TIOT blog  I have started a new scrapbook using a loose leaf folder with plastic covers. This is the front and back of the first page I haven't decorate the front of the book yet so maybe another challenge will encourage me to do that A, hopefully, clearer view of the pages before they were put into the plastic cover. A reminder that you still have a week to join us at Tag Tuesday with your take on the challenge there. This time Wilma, one of our team, has chosen the theme Heritage T...

Hello Everyone and thank you for calling in  today. We have a new challenge at Try it on Tuesday and the theme is Coffee and Cream but if you would rather use two other colours instead then you can. For inspiration and ideas pop to TIOT and see what the rest of the team have made and then join in with your ideas as we love to see what you make for our challenges. If you are chosen as one of our top 5 you could be a guest designer in a future challenge. This is a digital scrapbook page with a photograph of my dad and my aunt both long since gone, unfortunately, but never forgotten. I started off with this beautiful freebie page made by Astrid . Thank you Astrid for your beautiful gifts and wonderful inspiration Next I added this and that and when it was all assembled I changed the colour to fit in with our theme for this week. Can't wait to see your makes Love Chrissie xx

Hello Everyone who calls in and thank you for visiting Jumbled Crafts Today is the half way point in our Create a Scene Challenge at Try it on Tuesday and the top 5 for the Layers challenge are posted as well so hope you will join in with us in the next week. At Stamps and Stencils the theme this time is Remember, Remember and I am sure that none of us will ever forget the awful happenings in Paris. My thoughts turned to 1947 where life still carried on for us after the awful events just before. Difficult to get a good photograph of this scrapbook page as the weather is dull and dark again today. When I was about 5 years old we used to go every Sunday in summer to watch my dad play cricket for a little known local team. My aunt in the middle is now 90 and found this photograph among some she was sorting out. Looks like our family formed most of the supporters but they were very happy times and I went until I was about 11 years old. We were a very sporting family and I still love watch...

Hi All from a wet and gloomy NE UK coast. Not much planned for today except for watching golf and tennis on the television and doing a bit of sewing so I don't mind the weather at all. A couple of things here today for the challenge at Art Journal Journey where the theme is Post or Postal The very kind and talented Astrid has a gift on her blog for all of as she has almost reached 2400 and wanted to celebrate with one of her beautiful sets. As this set was perfect for the AJJ theme I thought I would make a page from part of the gift set. All I added was the beautiful clipart I found here and the Jane Austin quote so this page is thank you to Astrid really Now to the page I had made before today for AJJ I made some 'selfie' stamps and a background for this digital scrapbook page. The three people who are the same on each are my Aunt Jeanne, cousin Jean and Me with various other members of my family. Have a lovely day everyone and thank you for calling in and brightening a...

Hello to everyone who calls in to Jumbled Crafts and thank you for dropping by.   Our last challenge which was New Beginnings and there were some wonderful ideas from that. I'm sure you have all come to see what the new challenge is at Try It On Tuesday  so I had better tell you without  delay. We have '1960'S Retro'. That was the time when I got married, had children and wore some very strange clothes. They didn't seem strange at the time because everyone else was wearing them. Why not go here for some inspiration from my teamies-they always have such wonderful ideas. There are a few photographs of my project so skip to the end if you get bored. I made a 1960s folder/book  It started life as an Amazon Folder--the most useful things for crafting I painted it with white emulsion paint then, while it was wet, dropped on various alcohol inks which showed up the brushstrokes of the emulsion The inside I covered with some square design papers-very 60s- and folded a str...

Hi All from a lovely frosty and sunny Yorkshire. Thank you for calling in and for leaving comments which I love to read. At Every Inchie Monday this week we are doing Night inchies Mine is a simple black, felt inchie with peel off stars and some white beads as planets. Lovely to see more people have joined in this year and have wonderful ideas. Speed Craft Challenge  have animals for us to think about this time and still plenty of time to join in so I hope you have a go. It is fun to see what you can make in 15 minutes or how far you get with a project in that time. For a change I made a scrapbook page for my 8x8 scrapbook. It has photographs of my daughter's cats and a few other things I gathered together before I took the time at the start. What ever my daughter is doing the cats are there to 'help'. I am sure she is pleased to go to her 'real work' without them being there. Have a wonderful and peaceful day Love Chrissie 

Hello Everyone. Nice to have you drop in today at Jumbled Crafts. Thank you for being a part of my crafting journey. Here we are with another challenge at Try it on Tuesday . Thank you to all who joined in last challenge. There were some stunning ideas to inspire everyone. This time we are asking you to use a photograph on your project. Could be old, new, digital, cut from a magazine etc. So lots of ways to find a photograph for the project.  Great ideas and inspiration from my team mates here so pop along and have a look and leave a comment if you have time. I made a scrapbook page showing two of my great grandfathers. They are both from my father's side of the family. The one of the left looks just like my dad but the one on the right I know very little about as my grandmother left Ireland with most of her family when she was in her teens and think her mum and dad stayed in Ireland. She didn't talk about them much unfortunately. I had to do quite a bit of work on the photog...

Hello All. Welcome to my little home in Blogland. Don't forget to join us at my other 'home in Blogland'- Artful Times  where the challenge is to use game pieces to make anything you like. This time at Moo Mania and More the theme is childhood. You can make anything either with or without a Moo so long as it follows the theme. I have my childhood very much in mind after visiting an aunt and cousin that I haven't seen for a long time. All our families lived in one big house, owned by my grandma and grandad, until I was about 6 years old and I have made this page with me in the middle when I was the only child among a lot of adults. Even though it was still wartime the house was full of the things I have written around the outside of my photograph-a very happy time for me. I used scraps of paper for the background and some canvas type material for the moos. This is the tag I made for Tag Tuesday this week as we have the theme Spring Flowers Von sent me a parcel with some...

Hi All.  Hope your day is going well so far and thank you for finding time to visit Jumbled Crafts. It is dull and cold today so I decided I would stay and craft and Vic went for a bike ride along the beach. He says he has taken some photographs so I can't wait to see those. This week at Tag Tuesday the theme is Capital Cities I chose Moscow for my capital city tag. I painted the sky background then added a picture of the iconic Moscow Building to a textured tag. A few peel-off strips and Promarker squiggles at the bottom and a piece of sparkly material for the tie. Nothing very complicated just a CAS tag. At Feeling Crafty Challenge Blog this time the theme is Butterflies so I decided to have a go as I just love Butterflies. My scrapbook rarely gets anything added to it so decided to make a scrapbook page for this challenge. Vic loves taking photographs of the butterflies that visit our garden in the summer so I used some of these for my page. The background paper is one by Debbi...

Second post for me today. The weather is so bad here I thought I would just craft all morning. We did make a big pan of squash soup which involved me chopping and Vic mixing and cooking everything to make something delicious so I did something useful :) I shouldn't grumble about the weather really as my daughter lives in Cumbria and her husband and his son had to stay in a hotel in Carlisle on Saturday because the roads to their home were impassable and there had been a landslide on the train track. She had to go and collect them the next morning as the track is still closed. At Moo Mania the theme this time is Snowflakes. You don't have to make or use a Moo as now you can make anything you like so long as it has the theme of the month. Still time to join in so why not have a go. I went for the CAS look for my make. With a Moo with snowflakes and the Freebie let it snow digital. I tried to lightly spray a little bit of blue at the bottom but it isn't too successful-sorry.  ...

Hello to everyone who drops in to Jumbled Crafts. The weather here 10 minutes ago was very dull and raining now there is a hint of blue sky and maybe even sun :) I haven't been outside yet but I bet it is cold brrr So while I was out in the snow yesterday I thought of a walk we did a few of years ago. It was almost Christmas time and quite a nice day when we set off to walk almost 5 miles along the seafront and the cliff top to Sewerby Park. The more we walked the the thicker the snow became and the snowflakes were some of the largest I have ever seen. Not a clue why we kept on walking as we knew we would have to walk all the back as well.  Here is a scrapbook page I have been meaning to make for ages so I will always be reminded of one of the most surreal moments in my life. When we finally arrived at the park I bumped into Santa and he asked what we were doing out on such a day--I asked him what was he doing in Sewerby Park and he said 'he was giving the reindeer a rest'....

Hello Everyone who pops in today Looks like it might be a nice day for Bank Holiday Monday so I expect our little seaside town will be packed full of people enjoying themselves. Today is Every Inchie Monday day and the theme this week is SONG. I chose the song Lady in Red by Chris de Burgh. I printed out the inchie then decoupaged the lady to give it more depth. At Anything but a Card it is Fantasy and Fairies and I did enter an ATC already but thought I would make something else as well. This was because I found a brass stencil with a fairy--it had fallen down the back of my work bench a long time ago and had never been used.. Not sure what make it is as I expect I threw the packing away. This is the stencil if you know who made it can you let me know please I used a piece of paper for the backing from A Bumper Book of papers I bought a long time ago and the letters I have had a while as well. I used acrylic paint splodged onto plastic for the background then Paper Artsy Grunge Past...

At Addicted to Stamps and More  the scrapbook challenge this time is Autumn. Just love the colours of Autumn and found just the right paper to use in a book of papers I have had for ages. It is called The Bumper Book of Paper and is by Crafthouse Press. The next thing was to go through some of our photographs for suitable pictures and add a few bits and bobs. The AUTUMN and the journalling I printed onto white card and edged with a Promarker. I'm still not too confident about scrapbooking but I am filling a few pages thanks to ATSAM :)

A t Artful Times for the next two weeks they have a challenge that I couldn't wait to start-Von has challenge us to have a tree as the main focus. I just love trees but one tree inparticular that I visit often and love to hug. It is in Sewerby Hall and Gardens where we have a yearly pass each year so we go there whatever the season or the weather. So many wonderful old and new trees and beautiful plants. This collage is to celebrate my favourite tree I used the same photograph of the tree three times and added effects to make it look a bit different in each picture. The background paper is from an old card that I recycled. The lace was sent to me by a friend--thank you Sandra. I found the tiny cones on the road side in town--not sure what the tree is that bears them but it does grow well with all the traffic that passes it every day. The slice of wood is one of many that I bought from a charity shop. The wooden embellishments are some I won at Crafty Emblies. The quote I found on ...

Here I am again 'having a go'. Can't say as I am sure that what I am doing is right yet but it is nice to fill another page of my scrapbook by entering the lovely challenges at Addicted to Stamps  where the theme this month for their scrapbook page is flowers. Amazing work from the DTs- I am learning from them hopefully. My husband takes pictures of the flowers in our garden almost every month so as the seasons change we can look back at what grew when and what year and garden as we have moved a few times. We do have lots of flowers and many wild flowers as well so lots of creatures sharing the garden with us which means our veggies grow well, except for the bit where next door's cat leaves a present for us almost on a daily basis--yuk. It does purr and let us tickle its tum so we get a happiness reward :) I made most of the things on the page in Paint Shop Pro--the bow, the ribbon and the background paper. Can't believe how real the ribbon and bow look and they ar...

I have never been a fan of scrapbooking or journaling but since looking at some of the challenges I am beginning to see it can be a nice way to pass the time. At Unruly Paperarts  you are asked to create a scrapbook page and as an extra challenge include some journaling. Fortunately they had an article explaining what that was so I have had a go. My own writing is so bad these days that I have printed my text onto acetate--hope that counts. Fastened it on with some sandy looking brads. The peel-off letters I stuck on acetate as well. If someone had asked me if I had any letters peel-offs I would have said no and when I searched I found hundreds :( At Addicted to Stamps they have a scrapbook challenge each month which got me started on scrapbooking again after not doing any for ages.This month the challenge is holidays so I couldn't wait to get started. I digitally painted a sand/sea background for my page. Added photos and the great tickets that my friend Janet sent for me--thank...

A new challenge blog 'Addicted to Stamps'  has just started and each month they are going to have a scrapbook page challenge as well as a weekly blog challenge. This month the challenge is to use bunting on the page. On Tuesday this week the Olympic Torch passed by the end of our road and we, with thousands of others, lined the road to see it go by. There was an amazing atmosphere and a real feel good factor about the whole thing and certainly worthy of a page and some bunting for sure-thank you for the challenge--I hope this will inspire me to make more pages as I have had the scrapbook for many years and still only has 7 pages completed in it :(

A nice challenge at Craft Room Challenges this time and I couldn't wait to make something for it.I haven't any Furry Four Legged Friends but I know someone who has always had them in her life-both horses and cats.  My daughter lost two very old cats in a short space of time and wasn't going to replace then as they had been her best friends for above half of her life. She has helped the Cat Protection League with all sorts of things for years now and just popped in to give them a raffle prize. These two little kittens mewed to her and that was that really-she got them as soon as she could- just on trial of course lol. They have been there for almost a year now and are well loved and love everyone back. I am not a big fan of making scrapbook pages so this may well end up on a card to send to my daughter as she has just had a operation and needs cheering up. It will be a big card for sure.. The background and texts were made in Paint Shop Pro and took the photographs the las...

This week at Out of a Hat the challenge is to use some of your craft stash and I have had this scrapbook for years just waiting to be used. Also had the doillies for a very long time as well so I have combined the two for this challenge There was only the one that was heart shaped but it did inspire the theme for the page The photograph on the left is my Grandma and Grandfather-no one seems certain if it is their wedding photograph or taken after or before that. The other photograph is of my dad when he was about a year old. I never saw either of these pictures until recently when my aunt was sorting through boxes of papers and found them. Both were obviouly well love pictures and the one of my grandparents even has elastoplast in the top corners where it must have been hung up at some time. These are only copies that I have made. Nice to have a page safely in the scrapbook and I hope to do more soon.