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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 who drops by and thank you for your visit at Jumbled Crafts where all are welcome At Moo Mania and more this time you can make anything as always so long as it follows the theme. This is it is to add layers . The very talented Valerie had made a bag with a card on it for her DT piece at TIOT this time, that was a wonderful idea so I thought I would try one. There are 10 layers altogether counting six on my bag and 5 on the card. I made the bag from an A4 sheet of white paper and added some red paper strips and stamping, The ribbon and a charm as well.. The attached white card has a blue  Promarker edge a square of patchwork in flowered material, another small square scrap and a decoupage butterfly. ----------------------- Last week we went to Burton Agnes Hall to see their Christmas Trimmings for this year. The Hall is lived in by the family and has been for generations and every year they make as many of the trimmings themselves as they can. Must be the elves in t...

Hi All. Nice of you to drop by today thank you.  It's time again for another challenge at Try it on Tuesday  and I am sure this one will be amazing as there are so many things you will be able to think of for the 'Bags and Boxes' theme. You can find inspiration from all the team if you can't think of something, so do pop along to TIOT and see what they have made. I made quite a few as it was quite easy once I got the hang of it. The pearl emblies were the Royal-Schmuck ones that Valerie sent to me, they are so beautiful I started off with an empty Jaffa Cakes box for this bag It was just covered in brown paper.  The flower is one made from the TH Tattered Flower die and the leaves I have had for a while but I think they may be TH as well so do let me know whose they are if you know please. There are many tutorials online for changing boxes into bags and some wonderful ideas. The one that guided me was here  though I did do my own version of it at times. This is ano...

Hi All. Welcome to a new week and a better week weather wise I hope as we seem to have had rain, snow and wind for most of the last week. Thank you for dropping by and for the lovely and encouraging comments you leave. This week at Every Inchie Monday  where the theme is crochet. I had intended to do a small piece of crochet but time got the better of me so I just have  a picture of a flower pattern I have done many times I thought I would show you my new toy which Vic has bought me as part of my birthday present. My birthday isn't until January but he thought I needed this now as I have had difficulty getting good photographs of my projects with the dark and dull days recently. Here it is my collapsible light box. It came in a very small bag with other coloured background to use in the bag as well. As soon as I opened the zip it shot out and was a lot bigger than I expected. I can't imagine that I would ever be able to get it back into the round bag but I am hoping it will be...

Hi All. It is a really lovely sunny and bright day here today so we will be off for a walk along the seafront to visit MIL. She lives on the seafront but it often very windy so not as good as it might seem. Thank you for your visit today and I hope you like what I have made. At Art Journal Journey the wonderful Autumn Colours theme is still in place until the end of November and the ideas that people have are just amazing. I have done a digital page which looks a bit scary rather than graceful :) I would also like this to be my face for this week at Kim Dellow's Show Your Face  I have a few more faces that I have drawn but the weather has been too dark to take a decent pic of them yet. The theme at Crafting by Designs is Times 3 Here I am with a Christmas card and hoping I can catch-up and make a few more as I haven't started them yet. I have bought charity cards on stand by as I can't imagine making enough of my own this year. The flower image is from Beccy's Place ...

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...

Hello Everyone and great to have you join me for the start of a new week. I have taken advantage of a weekend rest from helping MIL and done some crafting which has been so relaxing. Today at Every Inchie Monday we have the theme Exotic to think of. I chose little love birds as my exotic inchie subject. I love to see them and how close they are to each other. I would like this to be a tribute to the people of Paris and to try to spread love to all This is quite a large piece of beaded art that a fellow inchie friend has done as a tribute if you want to learn more about it you can go here At The Mirror Cracked t he theme for November is Water  I have made a cover for an artbook that I have had for about 25 years just waiting to be used. The price says £3.95 which must have been quite a bit of money at the time it was bought I covered the book with some spare pieces of paper I had and added a picture that I painted over 20 years ago when we lived in the Lake District and used to si...