Wood at Artful Times

Hello to everyone who pops in today and thank you for your visit.

This time at Artful Times the theme is to make something using wood somewhere. I chose the theme before I left Artful Times and I hope lots of you will join in with Neet and Wendy and go to see what they have made for the challenge

This is what I have made as my entry for the challenge

It started out as a humble, used, wooden coaster. I bought a box of them for £1 and have already plans for most of them when time allows.

The first thing I did was give it a generous coat of orange emulsion

While that was still wet I sprayed weak solutions of some of the spray inks I have then dried it with a hot drier which makes it all bubble slightly to give some texture and different colours.

The fun bit now. I stamped my CI-264 stamp onto the coaster. Always love Crafty Individuals stamps and this one is so beautiful. Then I played around adding bits of this and that. Texture down the side with a Tim Holtz  stencil and Grunge paste, fruit bag net, webbing, string and flowers. Then I dab bits here and there with a Bingo dabber. Must say I added another bingo dabber in parts and that was green but I had already taken this picture by then. Not sure why I added the gold peel-off as I don't think it says much really.

The last thing I did was give the whole thing a coat of yacht varnish which is a pale brown and very sticky but dries to a lovely shine and makes things stand out really well.

That's it for today I reckon as I am about to demolish all my crafty space to find out where the sockets are in this room. I am sure you, my fellow crafters, will know how scary that job is going to be.

Have a lovely day

Chrissie xxx

Digital Collage

Hi All. Hope your day is going well. I seem to have had a busy week and most of it has been gardening rather than crafting. Love to be outside when the sun isn't too hot and there is a gentle breeze. Nice of you to drop in and thank you for the comments you leave.

Just had time to do a digital collage as I do love doing them.

This time at Three Muses the theme is Book Cover and at Moo Mania and more the theme is Cinema so this collage fits both challenges.

This is one of my favourite books by one of my favourite authors. I loved the film as well which I thought brought out the message in the book. I know lots of people that were offended by the book and the film but that's ok, there are plenty more books and films-enough for everyone's taste.I combined the book cover and scenes from the film for this collage.

Have a lovely weekend all

Love Chrissie x

Inchie and Tag

Hello Everyone nice to have you drop by.

We are back to rain, wind and cold again so I am hoping summer hasn't come to an end already.

This week at Every Inchie Monday the theme is Lavender. It amazes me how there are such wonders to see from fellow crafters and all in just one square inch.

I did a lavender bag. I love the fragrance of lavender and it always reminds me of my grandmother.

Now to Craft-room challenge where they are asking for sun, sand and surf this time

I started out with a turquoise coloured tag and used Oil Pastels to make some sand, sea and sky.The little boat, waves and the clouds are cut out from paper. The sea spray is correction fluid and I did simple seagulls with a black pen--oh I drew the sun as well-wish I could do that for real today. I tried a sailor's knot for the tag tie but I am not sure I got that right.

 We have lots of yacht races in our bay here and it is amazing how quickly they go even when it isn't really windy.

Have a great day all

Love Chrissie x

A card inspired by TH

Hi All. Thank you for dropping in to Jumbled Crafts today.

 Here I am bleary eyed after staying up to watch England get beaten in their first World Cup football match. Not sure it was worth the effort on my part as I thought they made a mess of it to be honest--I don't know too much about football so maybe I am being unkind to them.

At A Vintage Journey this time the theme is Wings and Things. All of the challenges there are to be strongly Tim Holtz  influenced and I am sure that can't be difficult as he seems to influence so many of the crafty things I see on blogs and also has lots of great videos to watch :) I often feel sorry for him when he is demonstrating as there is so much noise around and people wanting to ask questions.

I made this card and embossed the background in the TH clock folder and highlighted the embossing with a Distressed Ink or two.

The next part was to watch a video, again, about how to make a background with Distressed Inks, spritzer and use of the heat gun. Heck I have watched it so many times I have the link on my desktop but if I don't watch it I miss something out--old age I guess.

 Then I splodged the summery, Distressed Inks onto some thin card and cut out the small flower shape, of the Tattered Flowers die, lots of times and used them as they were instead of creating different flowers with them. The bird cage is raised so I could let the bird look as though it could go in and out as it wished.

TH things I used--oops, forgot to add the embossing folder to the collection for this photograph. Not sure who made the bird die cut I was sent it by someone but the butterfly shape is by Tando.

I would like to enter this at That's Crafty as well where they have the theme birds.

Have a lovely day everyone

Chrissie xx

ATC and tag

Hello Everyone. A bit cooler here at the moment but I think it will be hot and sunny later. Hope it is nice where you are and thank you for calling in today.

At Wicked Wednesday the theme for the ATC this week is Black, White and one other colour

Black and white always suggest doodles to me so I doodled a background then added a piece of mauve card that I had printed with a digi image I won at W W a few weeks ago It is from time for tea designs.

At Tag Along this week they ask for pink

I used Distressed Ink- 'picked raspberry' for most of the tag but it seems to want to look a bit mauve in the photographs. Everything else is definitely pink apart from parts of the paper serviette I used for the middle and I left some of that cream and green.

Have wonderful day all

Love Chrissie x

A mixture

Hi All. Thank you for visiting Jumbled Crafts today. 

We have sunshine again and have had sunshine for the last few days so have been out and about to make the most of it. Hope it is nice where you are and that you haven't had the horrendous storms that have caused damage and cost lives in other parts of the world. I am thinking of the people who are affected by these awful happening.(((( ))))))

I have made a tag for three challenge blogs as I seem to have gone astray with crafting challenges at the moment and I forget that I add more to my list most days. The photograph was taken with my dream catcher as a background and I am going to leave it there as it adds some colour.

Beccy's Place  the theme is anything you like so long as you use one of her images. That isn't difficult at all as she has wonderful images and lots of them are free and some already coloured. The one I used is 'Clematis' and was already this beautiful colour

Tando has the theme 'Life is too short to be anything but happy' I made an add on with the quote which I love, and also some Tando Butterflies-sprayed and wet embossed with clear embossing powder.

Butterfly Challenges I only just found this blog but hope to be able to join in future challenges. They have a Bingo challenge this time and I chose Wet Embossing-Butterflies- Flowers. I coloured my butterflies and wet-embossed them with clear embossing powder. They are quite shiny in real life.

Thank you for the challenges and I hope it ok  to combined them.

Now to my digi collage indulgence for this week. At The Three Muses the theme is 'Underwear'

At last I get to use a David Beckham pic and he is wearing a vest :) I created the coloured background with layers and brushes and the other underwear images are a mixture of brushes and Googled images.

Have a great day everyone

Love Chrissie x

One for the Boys at TOT

Hello Everyone and thank you for dropping by.

Amazing entries for the last challenge-all very beautiful.

This time at Try It On Tuesday we have the theme 'One for the Boys' so now is the time to top up your male

 cards, tags etc and join in with us

Wonderful makes by the rest of the design team so pop along and see what they have made for inspiration.

I made a card. First of all I distressed the edges of the white card with Rusty Hinge Ranger distressed ink. I then added a piece of strong red card with a bit of marbling in it. The two backing papers I made in Paint Shop Pro and mounted them on thin black card. The image came from a sheet at--

I changed the colour of one picture so I could use it twice on the card. The images were backed with the red card. Then I printed out the clock image which I have had a long time. The clocks were raised as was the little ticket.

Hope you will join in and show us your 'Boy' cards

I would also like to enter this at Country View Crafts

Love Chrissie x