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Hi All. Hope you enjoyed the weekend. I have tried to watch some of the Olympics but it is difficult to find the right channels for the sports we wanted to watch. Thank you for calling in and I hope you enjoy seeing my makes for today. At Art Journal Journey they have Gill   hosting Nature's Wonders so lots of things to use for this theme. I painted the pages with shimmer paint then stamped them with bubble wrap.Then used Joanna Sheen stamps and added a couple of things  cut from a seed catalogue. The idea was that small seeds produce lots of food for us and for the animals that give us the meat we eat as well. At Every Inchie Monday the theme this week is whale. Sorry to say my last week's sheep inchie went missing while I was away so will have to make another one to fill the space in my jigsaw. We took quite a few photographs while we were away so I will filter a few through each time I do a post. We went to Redcar as we wanted to visit places that were about the same dist...

Hi All. Got back yesterday from our few days away and I couldn't wait to get back to my computer as I only took my little i-pod and it is very difficult to do much at all on that. Sorry for my lack of commenting and I will be back to my usual visiting now. Thank you for the comments while I was away and for calling in today. I have got lots of photographs to sort through and my head is full of ideas for crafty things as well. Strange how a few days away from something helps to bring a new dimension to your way of thinking. At Art Journal Journey this month the theme is Nature's Wonders. It was chosen by the lovely Gill and she is hosting this challenge You can find her blog here I couldn't wait to make a page though it is just a digital one for now. Most of these flowers are ones I have photographed in our garden and then tubed to use them in projects. The folder they are in dates back years but I do keep adding to it. I would also like to enter this at Digitally Sweet ...

Hi All. Welcome to Jumbled Crafts and Thank you for dropping by. This is a scheduled post as I will be away when it is published. I will try to get around your blogs as always but not sure if I will have wifi where we are staying. Today we have the start of a new challenge at Try it on Tuesday and as always it will last for 2 weeks and you can make anything at all so long as it follows the challenge theme. I hope you will call in the TIOT blog and see the great ideas the rest of the team have had to help inspire you. This is what I have made--they are called Twiddle muffs and I make them for dementia patients. I found the pattern here and have made about 20 so far. I saw some of them in use when I took them to the care home where my mother-in-law stayed to get better. They really do work. The patients play with the textures of the wool and the things that are stitched onto the outside and the inside. They are allowed to keep them as their own. I am kept well stocked with leftovers a...

Hi All and a happy weekend to you. Thank you for calling in and any comments that you leave are always appreciated. At Go Tag Thursday the theme this time is Wings I made the painted background and coloured the digi image in Paint Shop Pro. The wonderful digi stamp was from Beyond the Fringe years ago. I am not sure if Carla still does this sort of thing as I just popped to her blog and her artwork now seems quite different. I printed it out and mounted it on a large tag that I coloured with markers. Then I stamped a few winged things on just for luck. A Joanna Sheen small Bee a Cart-Us large bee and some Personal Impressions birds on a branch. Now to my last project this month for Art Journal Journey where Yvonne has been a wonderful host for the  'in my garden there is' theme. A thank you to Valerie and Susi for always commenting on my efforts and for making AJJ such a nice place to visit. This is our newest plant. Heaven knows what happens to it along the way but it does l...

Hello Everyone. Thank you for visiting today, as always it is terrific that you find time to call in and much appreciated. At Art Journal Journey the theme for July has been, 'in my garden there is' A wonderful subject chosen by lovely Yvonne and very well supported. For this page I made a chalk background with a large music stencil in the middle. Then I just splodge away with different colours of acrylic. I did try to make the splodges flower shape as it was supposed to say garden and summer. I highlighted the shapes with marker pen and added the things I feel when I look at my garden. I would like to enter this at Moo Mania and More as well. They have the theme summer this time and only in summer do we have so many wonderful flowers in our garden. Now for the wonder of nature in our garden. We have several crocosmia lucifer plants in our gardens back and front. I would imagine they are male as they are strong and stand tall  In a corner of the back garden we have an old fas...

Hello Again. Today is reminder day at Try it on Tuesday  and you still have a week to join us in the challenge. The theme is Make us Smile and as we are such a happy bunch at TIOT it isn't too difficult so I hope to see you there. Hope I make you smile too. Tag Tuesday have coffee and tea for their theme this week I like both :) Thank you for calling in today Love Chrissie xx

Hello Everyone. Welcome to Jumbled Crafts and thank you for your visit today. The last week has flown by for me and the weather has been hot and sticky so I haven't been too busy crafting. At Art Journal Journal for July the theme has been chosen by Yvonne  and she chose 'in my garden there is'. There have been so many different thoughts on what is in the gardens and it is wonderful to see the different ideas. I made a before and after page. The top picture is our garden last year and the bottom one this year. It seemed time to let the garden and us breathe as it had been so full of fruit and vegetables in such a small space. Now we can play bowls on it and we do almost every day :) For those who are wondering where the fig grows. It is living happily with the tomato plants in a little lean too just out of view on the right hand corner of the pictures. Every Inchie Monday has Underground as their theme for this week. I would have loved to have drawn a mole in a tunnel but ...