A Tag

Hi All ! Lovely to have you drop by Jumbled Crafts.

It is raining heavily today and very dark so we have decided to make it a home day and do a bit of the 'dreaded' then put up the Christmas decorations-that should jolly the place up for sure on this dark, cold day.

At Tag Along this week the theme is Tiny Angels and we are asked to use angel images of children or cherubs etc.

I found the image here  and there are three more to download. The backing paper I made by scanning a sheet of music and changing the colour in Paint Shop Pro. I drew the shape of the poinsettia flower then printed it out in 2 sizes on some canvas paper, then sprayed the cut out pieces with Cosmic Shimmer mist.

The white leaves were bought and the cut out 'joy' was sent to me by a friend.

I enjoyed making this tag and would like to enter it at Crafting with Dragonflies as well--the theme there is Christmas tag/tags

Have a great day everyone

Love Chrissie x

A combined challenge card

Hello All. Always lovely to see you here at Jumbled Crafts and thank you for all the wonderful comments that are left on my posts-so encouraging.

I managed to tidy my crafting space as it had become so small anything over 4 inchies square was impossible tto make. I do like making inchies, twinchies and ATCs cards but sometimes it is nice to make something a bit bigger.

I made this yesterday after we had been chatting to some friends and the subject of 'what we would have liked to have done if we were younger' came up. We are all over 70 so some of the things were out of the question but one of them said he would have liked to go Husky Racing. As his birthday is coming up soon I made him this birthday card. I can't imagine that Husky Racing has an age limit :)

I found a suitable picture and added the Happy Birthday in Paint Shop Pro and also a fancy edge to the photo. Then I used a Tim Holtz/ Sizzix folder with clocks to give the white card some texture. Next came some white frosting on the snow and the quote. Some silver lines drawn with a pen and peel-off corners.

I made this for a few challenges

Make My Monday have the theme Frosty

Use your Stuff has Sport-I used the folder which I bought ages ago and haven't used and also the peel-offs which I am on a mission to use up before I die-I will need to live to be 100 to fulfill this mission.

I am not a big fan of combining challenges as I do usually like to make something different for each one but sometimes time flies by and make something that fits all of them.

Have a beautiful day everyone

Love Chrissie x

Favourite craft in 2013

Hello to everyone who drops in today. So good to see you here when I know everyone is so busy getting ready for the festive season. We had a great day out at the Garden Centre yesterday and enjoyed a full Christmas Lunch there which was very good.

At the Craft Room Challenge this time they want to see what is our favourite thing we made this year. I always love making things and like as much variety as possible but this project really stretched me to my limits and I was pleased to see the end results. It may not be the prettiest thing I made but it was a challenge which is good I think.

It was made from recycled plastic bags and you can see how I made it here

Must say I enjoyed trawling through all the things I have made the last year and it is a great idea for a challenge.

A big Thank you to the Craft Room team for their challenge ideas and the lovely comments they always leave on posts for their challenge.

Tag and Decoration

Good Day All. 

I am up early as we are off to find a Garden Centre near to Scarborough. It will be adventure as we haven't a clue how to get there from the train station and it is a few miles away from there. It does sound like they do a very nice lunch so it will spur us on to find the way I'm sure. There are taxis or buses if we get lost on foot but it is always great to try to find our way to somewhere new.

I thought you might like to see the decoration that Vic made after seeing the room full of them at Burton Agnes Hall last week

Hung up for Christmas

The room where we saw them

If you would like to make one/some you can find a tutorial here or video here of  how to make one of the six bits here. Vic used a combination of the two tuts to make his.

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This week at Tag Tuesday the theme is 12 Days of Christmas and here is my effort

I made a background with Distressed stains then stuck on 9 of the twelve days of Christmas images.

Now for the twist.

I made a quiz on the back of the tag so that we can hand it around the table at Christmas and there will be extra Christmas Cracker for the one who gets the most answers to the questions. I think I need to type it out as my printing is rubbish :(

Inchie and Journal Page

Hello to my Friends and Followers-always great to have you pop in to Jumbled Crafts.

This week at Every Inchie Monday the subject to get to grips with is 'found'.

Well this I what I 'found' when I was sorting out by button tin. It is a 1957 sixpence. It must have been in the tin for a very long time or have been in amongst a bag of buttons I bought a couple of years ago at a car boot sale. I never checked what was in the bag I just emptied it into the tin with all the other buttons.

At Art Journal Journey this time the theme is Light and Dark. There are some wonderful entries to the challenge already and some very deep thinking ones with the light and dark personalities or shadows. Afraid mine is just simple :(

My inspiration came from nature as, even when the sky darkens, the light flowers shine brightly in our garden. Susi always says to express ourselves in our work and I feel that this is 'me'. It is painted in acrylics with cut-out shapes painted over for the flowers, then removed to use the paint afterwards on the spaces left by the shapes.

Have a wonderful day all

Love Chrissie x

ATC and Tag

Second post for me today as I have had a real crafty day and enjoyed every minute of it.

At Tag Along this week the theme is Frosty the Snowman.

I used part of a large stamp that my daughter has let me borrow. It is made by Hero Arts and the number is S1129 Greetings Snowman. I coloured it with Promarkers. Then I added the snowman ribbon on the bottom and made a paper doily and cut out some pointsettia flower shapes. The snowflake is a punch that I was trying to sharpen but it has gone in the bin as it is still useless.

At Wicked Wednesday this week the theme is A Charmed Christmas.

The poinsettia is yet another part of a stamp that my daughter has let me borrow and is coloured with Promarkers and part of it cut out in the flower shape. Punched snowflakes and little jewel stars and all finished off with a little Christmas tree charm.

Me and Vic did other crafting as well but it is too dark to take any pics at the moment so I'll show those to you tomorrow

Hope your day has gone well

Love Chrissie x

Vintage Card with die cuts

Hello Everyone. So pleased you could visit Jumbled Crafts and hope you enjoy what you find here today.

At Our Creative Corner the theme is a A Very Vintage Christmas with the twist of neutral colours as well and at Artful Times we are asked to use die cuts and punches.

Here is my card for both challenges. I made the background in Paint Shop Pro and then added some texture with a Cuttlebug folder The beautiful image is from here and I added another image at the base of it to soften the straight edge.

Next was some lace then some die cuts. The swirls are by Joy and the flowers a Marianne die. Sorry I didn't have any punches that would go with the card--most of mine are so old they stick or tear the card--all say Ahh.

Hope you have a lovely day

Chrissie xx