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Hello Everyone and thank you for calling in. This post is to announce the first challenge of 2017 at Try It On Tuesday . It is always exciting to start a new challenge and this one has lots of possibilities as the theme is A Tissue.  Wonderful ideas from the team over at TIOT so I hope you pop along and take a look if you need inspiration. I made a framed picture-the photograph was taken on a part finished jigsaw that we are doing. Hung on the craft room wall It started out with this large plastic plate 10 inches diameter Covered it in texture and made patterns with my fingers.  The centre was covered with a 4 inch paper circle for later When it was dry I painted it with white acrylic paint then covered it with the thin top layer of the paper napkin so the texture would show through. This is the paper napkin I used Then I used a photograph taken in 1920 of my dad and his mum and dad paddling in he sea. I cut out 4 inches round of the photograph.This was mounted on another pape...

Hello Everyone. Hope your New Year has started well. My daughter arrives today and has already lots of plans for the week ahead for all of us so it looks like being busy. At Art Journal Journey there is new challenge for January chosen and hosted by Erika . The theme is Every Journal Page tells a story.  This tells a story about me. Wandering by the sea and in woodlands. Loving to sit and watch nature. Then we find a coffee shop and have cake or something with chocolate. The healthy mixed with the unhealthy. Maybe less of the coffee, puddings and chocolate would be a better way of life or would it? It was a wet day yesterday so got started straight away. The background this is shapes and patterns drawn by me with Promarkers. I am sure it tells a story about me. Maybe less of the coffee, puddings and chocolate would be a better way of life or would it? I am using a journal that Valerie made for me a few years ago. It had migrated to the bottom of a drawer and I was so pleased when ...

Hi There Friends and Followers. Thank you for all the wonderful comments you made on my posts last year and for the friendship that they bring. A special thank you to the people who have sent me online greetings and also cards through the post. I am 75 years young today and it seems no time at all since I was 50. I won't be going far as it is raining cats and dogs but I have new books to read and crossword and Suduko puzzles, not to mention lots of crafting to catch-up on.  My daughter is coming tomorrow for a week. Apologies if I don't get to visit you while she is here but we don't see each other in person very often, not unless you count Facetime? Have a great Day Love Chrissie xx

Hi All from a cold and frosty NE UK Coast. Looks like I will staying in again today as I did yesterday. The paths and roads are so slippery I am afraid to go out at the moment. The sky is turning blue so maybe the sun will follow and the frost will go away hopefully. Thank you for visiting Jumbled Crafts and for all the wonderful support you give to me over the year. At  Art Journal Journey   their challenge for December was chosen by  Valerie  and her theme is Light and Darkness A digital creation I did a while ago and I have added this quote. Hope it fits your theme Valerie. Moo Mania and More have ASIA as their theme for the next 2 weeks I made a screen in Paint Shop Pro The first thing I did was design a tile. then a screen and then I combined the 2. Hope you all have a great day Love Chrissie xx

Hi All. Hope you are ready to start crafting again and that it is a nice day where you are. Thank you for dropping in at Jumbled Crafts. We have a heavy frost here and everything looks crisp and white though it is very cold so I am not going out unless it improves. At  Art Journal Journey   their challenge for December was chosen by  Valerie  and her theme is Light and Darkness I made this page and added my own quote after chatting to my neighbour yesterday. He needed to chat about a problem and thought that the best thing to do was run away from it. For some unknown reason these words came out of my mouth. It appeared to help him at the time or maybe it just confused him. It made for a good idea for an AJJ page anyway. We walked along the seafront on Boxing Day and there was a gathering of people ahead of us, then they all ran onto the beach and down to the sea. About half of them went for a swim in the freezing cold water. They used to do this at North Bay her...

Hope your Christmas Day went well if you celebrate Christmas. Today is Boxing Day here in the UK and these days involves the start of many sales in shops and lots of sport Original meaning At  Art Journal Journey   their challenge for December was chosen by  Valerie  and her theme is Light and Darkness A digital creation with lots of effects on my 'model' and a mask for the background--just relearning things in PSP. The light and Darkness theme has brought out so many wonderful ideas from people and I am really enjoying it.  Every Inchie Monday  has Letter as the last theme of 2016. The 2017 list is on the EIM blog and also at the top of mine if you are thinking of joining the 'inchiers' next year you could get ahead start.  Something simple for me this time-well most of the time to be honest. Here are is the complete jigsaw collection of inchies that I have done in 2016. Still thinking which way to present them in 2017. Have a great day Love Chri...

Hi All from a cold but sunny NE UK Coast. Hope anyone who is celebrating this time of year is ready for the big day. We aren't doing much this year so it will be lots of television and things we wouldn't normally eat at all. Got in the mince pies, lots of chocolates and a big Christmas pudding with brandy cream to cover it. Not sure I could live on that sort of thing all year round though. At  Art Journal Journey   their challenge for December was chosen by  Valerie  and her theme is Light and Darkness I have done a digital painting though I had intended doing a proper painting but the time is just rushing by at the moment. Isn't it strange how the last cards to arrive at Christmas are from people you haven't sent one to. I am busy making New Year Cards to send if the postmen aren't on strike by then. Go Tag Thursday would like a Christmas tag this week I had a packet of tags so I made three of them into tags for the challenge. I thought they would be ok for ca...