Tea Cups at Try it on Tuesday

Hi All. Hope your week is going well and thank you for finding the time to pop in to Jumbled Crafts. A warm welcome to my latest follower.

Time for another great challenge at Try it on Tuesday where we have the theme 'tea cups' but this can include mugs etc, and coffee so I am sure you will join us and come up with lots of ideas. If you can't think of something then pop along to the TIOT blog and gets lots of inspiration from the rest of the team.

 I have gone with a tea cup card because a friend asked me to think up an idea for an invitation to a charity tea and cake event she is hosting in the summer--if we ever get a summer that is. 

I started out with this, and adapted a version of something I found here, The front is decorated the front with different colours and a swirl and flowers. I used Promarkers to colour it. The flowers I made from a Marianne Die.

When it was decorated I scanned it and added the text, strange how the colours have changed on the scanner but easier than making lots of the invites by hand for sure.. Not certain how many will be needed but it will need a few of us to cut them all out. We did say we would do the insides in our own writing but I may print my share on the computer as my writing is awful.

Maybe this design will be turned down and I will have to think again.

Can't wait to see your makes

I am adding this to the SOC challenge as well because Susi told me it would fit the theme there

Love Chrissie xx

Inchie and chalk

Hello Everyone. Hope you had a nice weekend and you are looking forward to the new week. Thank you for dropping in to see what I have posted here.

Not a lot really as I have been too busy watching sport to do any crafting. This week is sport free I think so I will play catch-up until next week when Wimbledon tennis starts :)

At Every Inchie Monday the theme for this week is Apple.

My inchie is all made of felt this week with a bit of bling added to give the apple some shine. Looks a bit fluffy around the edges.

I did do something different while I watched all the sport. I have long admired how Valerie and Susi use chalk on some of their wonderful artwork at Art Journal Journey so I thought I would send for some chalks and have a go. I only sent for them on Thursday evening and they arrived on Saturday morning. I just dived in without knowing what I was doing at all and I had black fingers with blending and a really messy page but I did enjoy using the chalk and I am going to look for some videos today to see how chalks should really be used.

Vic is taking me out for breakfast. Not something we have ever done before so it should start off the day with a zing.

Have a great day

Love Chrissie xx

Journal Page and garden photogrpahs

Hi All. Happy Father's Day to those who are celebrating it today. Vic got a huge card and a lovely book with plain paper inside for him to jot down 'Potting Shed Tales'. Linda always tries to find something a bit different for her 'Step Dad Vic'. Thank you for your visit, it is always good to have friends drop by.

At Art Journal Journey the theme Masculine/Feminine has certainly brought out so many wonderful ideas and with the rest of June still to show off your pages I am sure there will be many more.

I painted the background for this with emulsion paints then used a plastic card to add texture and design. I used white emulsion on an old stamp to see how that would work and it was ok so may try more of that.

Now to the photographs. I had read an article that gave various reason why couples look alike so thought I would put it to the test. These are fusions of my face and Vic's face. I found similar size photographs of both of us and and found that our teeth are almost identical and so are our lips so that was a good place to 'join' the faces. Then I reduced the capacity to 40% so each of the faces showed as one. I used different images for the fusions and sometimes my face was on top and sometimes Vic face. I can't believe how much alike we are except that I have hair and he has a moustache.

An interesting exercise

Lots of lovely flowers and blossoms out in our garden at the moment so I thought I would show you a few.

Have a lovely day. I will be watching tennis, golf and Formula 1. It's a hard life but someone has to do it :)

Love Chrissie xx

Moo Mania and AJJ

Hello everyone and a warm welcome to Jumbled Crafts. Thank you for finding time to visit.

Art Journal Journey have Masculine/Feminine as their theme for June and I have drawn faces to add to pages.

Today it is the turn of both of my males. Tim on the left I used the other day for a page and Charlie on the right you won't have seen before. Charlie is a bit more outgoing but they both work in the same office in IT. They like music but not the same kind. The background was a digital creation with paint sprays on a sheet of scanned music.

Moo Mania and More have the theme numbers for their subject this time.

This is a fairly large padded envelope and I am hoping to add a little something to it each day that reminds me of the day. They will have to be small if I am going to add 365--maybe I will need another envelope added to the back of it at some point. The little owl card is one of a Tetley Tea set and it was hidden in a little wooden box I bought at the car boot sale yesterday. It will be first in the envelope-wonder what today will bring

Hope you have a nice day with surprises along the way

Love Chrissie xx

Masculine Journal Page

Thank you for visiting my blog and for the wonderful comments you leave to brighten my day.

I have drawn two male character so will be introducing you to them.

At Art Journal Journey the theme for June is Masculine/ Feminine and at Anything but Cute they want us to Make it Masculine this month so this will fit both. 

This is Tim one of my male characters. He is a bit of a loner but kind and thoughtful.

I made a background with bubble wrap, splodges and a few stamps then I printed out Tim and a quote that fitted his thoughts. These were cut-out and stuck onto the background then the page was added to my black page journal.

I am off now to do some h----k. Bet that doesn't last long !!

Have a great day

Love Chrissie xx

Art Journal Journey and Tag Tuesday

Hello everyone and welcome to Jumbled Crafts. Thank you for dropping by to see what I have made. I am not really back into the swing of things since our holiday and today I am planning to watch the tennis so that will mean more knitting I'm sure.

Art Journal Journey have Masculine/Feminine as the theme this month and there are many wonderful entries already with lots of variety. I seem to be a bit stuck  on digital or mixed media pages so far but I have drawn some male faces now so will see what I can do with those.

I made a rose background to add two 'changed' faces and then used various paint effects for this digital page.

At Tag Tuesday this week the theme is Out of your Comfort Zone.

This pose would be well out of my comfort zone. I painted the tag red and added some stamping and the images.

Have a great day

Love Chrissie xx

Inchie and Something Else Small

Hello Everyone. I am just settling down to real life after our holiday and pleased that the sun is shining today which means we will be going for a walk. Yesterday we stayed in all day because of the rain. It did mean I had time to do some crafting which was nice. Thank you for calling in today and I hope you enjoy what you find here.

If you enjoyed the taster photographs yesterday, Vic has added some to his Flickr here if you want to see more of our holiday

A reminder that there is still over a week to join in with us at Try it on Tuesday where the theme is Watches and Clocks. Really beautiful entries already for you be inspired.

At Every Inchie Monday the theme for this week is ETNA

I couldn't think of anything different for this one so I can't wait to see what the others make.

Stamps and Stencils  have Small is Beautiful for their theme this time.

This was really difficult to photograph and the poppies are a lot redder in real life. If I made them any brighter the heart at the top didn't show.

It started out as an old wooden cotton reel

I used these as my stencil and stamp and then added bits and bobs. The 'fan' on the right is from a bag that held oranges The poppy image was coloured with Promarkers.

Have a great day everyone

Love Chrissie xx