Craft Barn, Moos and tag

A beautiful sunny and bright day here today and I am off for a long walk after staying in all day yesterday. Vic says we will give the lawns a last cut as well so it looks like being a busy day. Hope you enjoy whatever you are doing and thank you for taking the time to visit Jumbled Crafts

I seemed to have lots of things for challenges that need to be posted so please don't think you have to comments on everything in this post just chose the ones that are for your challenge though any comments are always appreciated :)

At the Craft Barn Alpha Challenge this time the letter is Q

With my new found passion for patchwork I just had to chose the word Quilt. Simply painted squares then added a flower die cut and faux stitching. The ribbon down the side is real though.

Next is Moo Mania where the theme this time is Hands

This is a page for my small journal and after using various sprayed colours I drew around my hand for the background. A few stampings here and there and the Hands Moos--one of the Moos covered up a smudged stamping :(

Now to Tag Tuesday where we are doing All Stitched up this week.

 I covered a tag shape with fabric and stitched it in place. Then I made some 'Suffolk Puffs' for the flowers in various fabrics. The cotton bobbins I recycled as they were on a birthday card from a long time ago. I stuck the buttons in place--is that that cheating? Well I did sew one of them on to keep the ribbon in place at the top.

Hope you all enjoy your day

Love Chrissie x

Inchie and Tag

Hi All from and cold wet NE UK coast. A day for crafting and doing a very large jigsaw I reckon. Not the jigsaw will be finished in one day but we do enjoy doing them during the winter months and it feels like winter today. I feel ashamed to be grumbling about our weather with what has happened in the Philippines--they are in my thoughts.

At Every Inchie Monday the theme this week is mouth.

I just drew a smiling mouth--hope it makes you smile :)

The Challenge at Tag Along is Time to Remember and I made this yesterday with the theme very much in mind.

I stamped and coloured a green tag as the background then found a lovely poppy outline on Google and I printed it out on glossy photopaper. The paper I used is from Poundland and has 40 sheets of 7x5 and it is good quality. I coloured the poppy with a set of felt tips -also from Poundland. Promarkers won't work very well on photopaper.

Hope you enjoy your day

Love Chrissie x

Add a Feather

Hello Friends and Followers.

It has turned a lot colder this morning but the sun is beautiful with a clear sky so I may fit in a walk later. Last night we went to the little, local theatre to see a touring company in a comedy. It was really funny and on the way home the sky was very clear and we could see more stars than I had seen for years--I should get out more at night I think.

At Wicked Wednesday this week the challenge is to add a feather somewhere on your ATC.

Here is mine. I made the background of the ATC with different colours of Cosmic Shimmer Mist which I love to use. I have had the picture of the lady in the hat for many years and had already given her a make over in 2005 when I added a flower to her hat.

She has now had another make over with various Paint Shop Pro effects and the addition of a feather in her hat as well. She is raised up from the background but it doesn't show very well on the photograph.

Have a wonderful day everyone and thank you for popping in today

Love Chrissie x

Photographs and card

Hello to Everyone who drops in today--hope it is sunny and bright where you are as it is her in the NE UK.

At Technique Time Tuesday the challenge this time is to make a Faux Frame using the wonderful video there as your guide.

It is a great technique-simple but very effective and one I will return often I'm sure. I am so pleased to have found this blog and to learn this sort of thing.

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I did say earlier in the week about our trip to Hull and that there would be some photographs but when Vic showed me how many he had taken I asked him to put a few on Flickr with a link as it would have been too many for on my blog. He has posted a selection here if you would like to see them--it is open to everyone.

My main reason for wanting to go there was to visit the Maritime Museum in Hull as they had design exhibition of ganseys and jackets made, using the gansey pattern,s by students at the Art and Design College. Just to say that Hull has 8 free museums, a wonderful art gallery and The Deep that is well worth a visit. We also found lots of places we hadn't visited before.

Jackets and hats made by the students--the work on them was stunning and they were made in a cream silk like material.

Many displays of original ganseys knitted with very fine wool on very thin needles.

The ceiling of the room where they were exhibited. The whole building is amazing and is centered around the whaling industry that used to be in Hull. Wonderful samples of scrimshaw.

Have a great weekend

Love Chrissie x

Three Tags

Beautiful day here and I hope it is just as nice where you are. Thank you for all the terrific comments you leave and for making my days special.

I seem to be having tag fest at the moment-it could be the novelty as I didn't used to make many at all.

The first one is for Tag Tuesday where the theme this week is Proverbs

I made the cherry background in Paint Shop Pro then coloured a drawing of a bowl of cherries. This was clear embossed but it doesn't show up the sheen on the photograph unfortunately

Next tag is for Try it on Tuesday where the theme is colour explosion

I used acrylics for the background then found some bright embellishments to stick onto it.

Last but not least is a tag for Use your Stuff where we are asked, 'How do you Stencil' 

This is mine and I used something very different as a stencil. I made the background first with various alcohol inks and some glitter powder that melted into the water I sprayed on to make the inks spread out. Then I used gesso with my 'stencil' and when it was dry, some of the colours had seeped into the gesso so I left it like that as I liked the effect.

Have you guessed what I used yet as a stencil----

It is a mobile phone cover that I bought at Poundland

Thank you for visiting Jumbled Crafts

Love Chrissie x

Doors

Hello Everyone. - hope your week is going well. I don't seem to have posted much this week and today we have been on the train to Hull and had an amazing day. Lots of photographs taken by Vic so I will see what he has taken and post some another day.

At Art Journal Journey the theme this time is Door/s. I decided to be a bit more adventurous with my page designs so I am hoping that it looks ok

Lots of gesso, stamping, a sentiment on acetate and even some real flowers that I pressed. It is now stuck in my journal and maybe next time I will brave enough to do this straight into the journal :)

Thank you for popping in today

Love Chrissie xx

Inchie and Twinchie

Hello Everyone--nice to have you drop by.

It is really cold here today and white over with frost so we will be bringing some plants inside to keep them warm over the winter--not a job I like but I do show willing ;0)

Thought I would post this to show support for Movember. Thank you Max for sending the moustache cut outs earlier in the year. Not sure I suit a mouzzie at all lol.

At Every Inchie Monday the theme this week is a Caution Notice

I went down the hard hat route for my sign

At Show us your Twinchies for this month you can make anything so long as it includes some bling

I coloured a poinsettia image with Promakers then stuck on some bling

Hoping to get some crafting done today and then sew whilst I watch the tennis.

Enjoy whatever you have planned

Love Chrissie x