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Good morning all from a wet and miserable NE UK coast. There will 7 of us for lunch today and I had planned on some people eating outside as we haven't a lot of room around the table. Now trying to think of a plan B and one isn't springing to mind at the moment so I am taking time out to do a post to my blog friends and thank you all for calling in. The theme at Tag Tuesday this week is Photography I used one of my photographs of a beautiful clematis in our garden. I layered it on various pieces of card and made a shaped tag to fit . Every Inchie Monday  Have yellow for this week I used different shades of yellow felt and a yellow brad. I have to stitch quite a few together with the others before I lose them again. Have a great day everyone Love Chrissie xx

Hi All and and thank you for calling in at Jumbled Crafts. Not only my crafts are jumbled at the moment as we have decided we will move house, area and lifestyle. It has all happened so quickly as I had thought this would be our forever home but areas change and so do our thoughts so now I am looking on this as a new adventure. I don't think anything will happen too quickly but who knows once we get our heads around it all. Watch out we could be coming to live near you-well if you are in Great Britain that is. Art Journal Journey  have Post and Postage for another 5 days so hope you will join in with all the wonderful people who have shown their art already. Amazing how many ideas come up for different themes. I made a square card box for my daughter's birthday card and thought I would photograph it and turn it into a journal page for this challenge. I used soft pastels for the background and drew the fantasy flowers in pen and coloured them with felt tips. I am obsessed at the...

Hello Everybody. Hope the weather is nice where you are. Thank you for finding time to pop in and see what I have made today.Always great to read your comments. At Art Journal Journey the Post and Postage challenge has some wonderful journal pages for you to see here  where every entry is showcased. I made a digital page with Post Acronyms that we used to add to the back of love letters. I have added only the clean ones as some were quite risque. They started in the second World War when lovers were separated and mail was the only way to stay in touch. CHINA: Come Home I Need Affection HOLLAND: Hope Our Love Lasts And Never Dies ITALY: I Trust And Love You WALES: With A Love Eternal Sweetheart MALAYA: My Ardent Lips Await Your Arrival S.W.A.L.K Sealed With A Loving Kiss It's a while since I entered a card challenge but a few of the people whose blogs I visit make wonderful cards and are DTs on various challenge blogs. I made this card to fit three of the blogs. It is for a friend...

Hello Everyone and a big thank you for visiting my blog. I am sure some of you are here to see what the new theme is for the challenge at Try it on Tuesday so I won't keep you guessing any longer. It is 'Hot and Wild'. I bet you will have lots of ideas but if you haven't then do pop along to TIOT and see what all the team have made for this challenge. You made need to wear sunglasses. I decided to go down the African route and made this large piece that is now hung on my craft room wall to frighten away unwanted visitors. It all started when I made some paper beads. The African women make them to sell to help feed their families. Lots of tutorials online if you want to make any. I did my own designs. I used an A4 sheet of gloss photo paper and alcohol inks for the hot colours on the background and I added some African tattoo designs. The mask I copied from a picture on geographic page. It is backed with a piece of animal print card that Valerie sent to me and I think i...

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...

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 Everyone and thank you for your visit. I was up really early so decided to get crafting and do a couple of challenges. The Challenge at Anything but Cute this time is Summer Romance with this beautiful mood board to help with ideas Lots of wonderful things to inspire a project on this board and beautiful work by the DTs as well. The beautiful blue background and the bicycle seemed very romantic to me so went with those and made a card which will nice as an Anniversary Card for a friend in a few days time I made the background paper in Paint Shop Pro to match the bunch of flowers on the board, then added the bike image on the plain blue to match. The bike image can be found here with a few more and they are free to use. I layered the flowered paper on card and raised up the bike. The lace seemed to match and the flowers I had made a while ago. A few shiny stones and a Promarker edge to the white card and that's it ready. Moo Mania and More have just started a new challenge t...