Challenge 55 Artful Times-Mail Art

Hi All hope you are having a good day and thank you for finding time call in at Jumbled Crafts. 

I can't believe another 2 weeks have flown by and it is time for another challenge at Artful Times. The badges, brooches and buttons entered last time were just amazing with wonderful ideas.

 This time Neet has chosen the theme Mail Art and I was quite excited to try this as I have never done any before.

This is what I made. I coloured the envelope with  H20 paints then used stamps and images cut out of a seed catalogue. The flower and leaves stamp are by Papermania and the diamonds is Crafty Individuals. The beautiful postage stamps were on a box of goodies I received from Valerie and I am so pleased I could use them on this piece. The text I cut from a magazine

Hope you will visit Neet and Wendy to see what they made for the challenge and join us with your take on the theme as you could win a £10 voucher to spend at Oyster Stamps when the winner of two challenges is chosen

Love Chrissie x

I would also like to share this and Moo Mania and More where their theme is also Mail

Tag and Atc

Hello Everyone. Friday already and I haven't a clue where this week went too. I am almost pleased that it is raining' with more rain forecast' as it means I will be able to do more crafting.

At Tag Along this week the theme is Moulin Rouge. This was my favourite film of all time and I get emotional just thinking about it. Not only sadness but the deep love, the ups and downs, the characters, the music ---Oh Dear! I think I may have to have another look at the DVD immediately :)

My tag has a background picture of the Moulin Rouge and an image that found here. The flower is from a headband I bought at Poundland with three of them on it.

At Wicked Wednesday they have the theme tropical colours.

I made a background of tropical colours then found this great free Hula Cow here

Enjoyed making both of these and they were great challenge ideas.

Thank you for calling in at Jumbled Crafts and don't forget to pop back this evening for the new challenge at Artful Times

Have a great day

Love Chrissie x

Journal Page and Digital Collage

Hi All and thank you for calling in at Jumbled Crafts.

I am staying in today to wait for a delivery of some fencing so filling in the time with crafting--what could be better really:)

At Art Journal Journal this month the theme this time is circles and there are some wonderful entries already.

I bought an Art Journal with black pages and now I wonder why as it is difficult to know what to do on them. I painted a background on white paper then cut it into pieces to stick on my black page. Next I looked for things that had circles. Some from my odds and ends jewellery, some from the button box and then some craft Candi. The white lines join the cirlces as a circular walk. Now to think how else to do art on black backgrounds :(

At Three Muses the theme is Positive Affirmations which needed a bit of thought. I made this digital collage.

I started out with a photograph of a bee on a flower that Vic took in our garden. I then added things that I found positive and encouraging. Loved the bee so much I selected it from the background and added it again to the top layer. The music layer is the music for the song Always Look on the Bright side of Life written by Eric Idle of Monty Python Fame.

Hope your day is going well

Love Chrissie x

Collage and Photo Album

Hello to everyone who ventures into Jumbled Crafts-hope your day is going well.

Looks like being a crafty day for me as it is raining heavily at the moment. Plenty of time for that to change as I woke up at stupid o'clock and decided not to go back to sleep again. It will mean more hours in the day for me which can't be bad as time races by these days.

Time for another challenge at Collage Obsession where the theme for this week is Motherhood. I know many of you don't know anything about this type of digital doodling so please don't feel you have to comment on this, even though comments are always appreciated-good or bad.

I decided to use some of my family photographs to create my collage for this week. The mother on the left is my grandmother with my dad, in the middle is my mum with my brother and on the right is my, only remaining, aunt and my dear cousin.

Looking at all the old photographs gave me an idea for the next piece I made. This is for A Vintage Journey -with the theme 'Fond Memories' and Rhedd's Creative Spirit-where it is anything altered as always though there could be a twist sometimes

I altered this photograph album and thought I would print out some of my old photographs and keep them in it. The background is Rangers Distressed Inks-colours at the bottom of the post. I sprayed water into the palm of my hand and shook it onto the ink-love this Tim Technique. The diamond pattern is a stamp by Crafty Individuals.

A TH map in the middle and some plastic emblies that have the date 2004 on them and the pack had never been opened. Amazing what you find when you are looking for something else. The stencil was just a child's letters and numbers stencil but I need to buy a proper one as it didn't work as well as I would have liked. Used Cosmic Glitter mist on that bit.

Album before-well almost before, I had tried the colours I was going to use.

Difficult to photograph yesterday as the sun was so bright. I guess the real strength of the colours is somewhere between the two pictures. 

What I used along the way.

That's it for now but I may be back later if I manage to make anything today

Thank you for calling in

Love Chrissie x

Journal Page and Inchie

Hello Everyone.

It is more like summer here than Spring today :0 ). We have just been to the car boot sale near to where we live but it was huge with too many stalls for us to get all the way around. This was mainly because I bought two clematis plants and Vic got a big box of Autumn Lawn Feed. I know it isn't Autumn but it will keep and was only £2 instead of the £10 we usually pay for it at the garden centre.

Every Inchie Monday has the theme Indigo this week.

Here is mine. I decoupaged this cute little Indigo Bunting onto my Inchie.

For the Challenge at Try it on Tuesday the theme is Springtime and at That's Crafty so I thought I could combine the two challenge and made a journal page.

I blended Distressed inks for the background then stamped a Crafty Creation Stamp. The flowers, clouds and Spring are cut from a kids colouring page that I coloured with felt tips. Then I used a bee stamp from Joanna Sheen and a Personal Impressions Butterfly Stamp

Hope you are having a great day and thank you for taking the time to visit Jumbled Crafts.

Love Chrissie x

Tag and Atc

Hello to everyone who drops in to Jumbled Crafts and thank you for all the wonderful comments on my posts--always appreciated.

Still plenty of time to join us at Artful Times for the badge, button or brooch challenge--anything that fastens with a pin. It finishes on Thursday evening.  Hope to see you there.

Had two walks yesterday as we will be watching the first day of the snooker finals today and then the last day tomorrow so won't be going far. May have to have a brisk walk along the seafront to the Spa as there is an Elvis weekend there and a competition to find the best Elvis--they are everywhere in town in various costumes and some look more like Elvis than Elvis did :)Well the Elvis I remember when I was 15.

At Tag Along this week the theme is by the seaside-good for me for sure.

I sponged the tag with various colours then added the picture of my home town. I got the picture from a brochure we picked up when we went to see a exhibition of Railway Poster--I just love those.

I found the shell and pebble with a hole on the Bridlington beach so added those as well.

Now to Wicked Wednesday where the theme is Taurus

I am married to a Taurus, though he is on the cusp with Gemini so has some of their traits as well. Think I will stick this in his birthday card and see what he has to say about the quote :)

Have a wonderful day.

Love Chrissie x

Craft-Room and Three Muses

Hi Everyone. A few days since I last posted and I don't know where the time has gone at all. Hope you are having a good week and thank you for calling in at Jumbled Crafts.

This time at the Craft Room Challenge the theme is Roses and Romance-always lovely to join in their challenges with such terrific samples and entries.

I made this from a piece of corrugated card from a box and it measure about 12x12 inches. For the background I used a paper napkin that Alison had sent to me with other goodies. I thought it was just right for this challenge. The boy and girl are from Gecko Galz and I cut the little rose posies from a sheet of paper to add here and there where it was a bit bare. The wheel in the middle made of paper with hearts on it and I added the pinched hearts. Then I painted around the edges of the card with acrylic paint and all over the back with the same colour as I am hoping to use it as a journal cover when I find a piece of card the same size to use for the journal back.

I have found another challenge blog where I can indulge myself with digital artwork. It is called Three Muses and this week they have the theme Stylish Ladies

Not sure what I did except that I found the picture of a new, trendy, coffee bar that has just opened in London. I added the ladies from different places and used effects on them. Then they met up for coffee in this very stylish place. I used a frame and then added a border with a brick texture.

Hope you are having a really nice day

Love Chrissie x