Twinchie Tag

Hello Everyone. Always great to have you call in at Jumbled Crafts and I always appreciate reading any comments that you leave--thank you.

I seem to have a  long list of challenges that I would like to enter but every day passes by and I don't seem have done any of them. Today we are going to visit a Stately Home not too far away. They have opened the house so that all can go to see their Christmas decorations. I expect it will be more than just a tree and a few lights so it will take all day :) They are also putting on special meals so we will have those as well I'm sure. As we haven't a car we go everywhere by bus or train so it takes hours more but the journeys are always enjoyable. All I need is more hours in a day really.

Back to the challenges. At Show us your Twinchies the theme is 'It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas'

I made this tag with my twinchie. It is part of a very old wooden stamp from Papermania and the centre of the image was just the right size. I stamped it and coloured it with Promarkers than added some peel off silver stars and silver thread.

I would also like to enter this at Anything but a Card where Anything Goes but with a holiday Twist

Have a really lovely day all

Chrissie x

Alpha Page and Tag

Hello to everyone who drops into Jumbled Crafts. Always great to have new and old friends visit my little bit of Blogland.

Today it is cold again and Dull as well so looks like a crafting day to me :)

This time at the Craft Barn Alpha Challenge the letter is S. I thought that 'S ' sounded like an easy letter but then I read the catch and there has to be something hidden on the page.

Here is my page which is coloured with two 'Big and Juicy' ink pads and then the white waves in Acrylic Paint. The peg and my finger are there to hold the book open.

Noe comes the tricky part as I made an 'upwards slider' that reveals a crab when the shell is pushed upwards. Had to leave some of the white on the crab edges as the claws kept getting stuck on the first one I added. I thought afterwards it would have been a lot easier to have added a rock that could be folded back to reveal the crab-hindsight is a wonderful thing!

This week at Tag Tuesday we have the theme Angels

For my tag I used a bought backing paper that I found in a forgotten stack of papers--I think it may have been free in a magazine long ago. For the angel I cut out the angel wings in silver mirror card and did a few embossed lines on them. I then cut out a circle and simple body shape and  drew the face on the circle and stuck a few bits of paper onto the body shape. Then a bit of faux stitching to make  it all look like a patchwork piece I added silver ribbon as hair and threaded through the hole.

Have a lovely day and thanks for dropping by

Chrissie x

Inchie Day-beach walk pictures

Hello Everyone. Start of a new month and a new week so I am hoping to get lots of things done. Off into town early today so won't be doing much crafting. It looks really cold outside with a bright red sky so I am hoping it doesn't snow. Have a wonderful day and thank you for visiting Jumbled Crafts.

At Every Inchie Monday the theme this week is Jacket. If you want to join in next year then the list is up already for the challenges with great themes yet again.

My thoughts turned to food and I made my inchie with a jacket potato as the centre piece.

A few pictures from our beach walk yesterday

Love Chrissie x

Christmas Card

Hi All. What a beautiful day it is here with blue sky and sunshine. I can't wait to get out there for a walk but I will wait a while as it is still very chilly at the moment.

The Craft-room Challenge this time is Vintage Christmas which isn't a style I usually do at all but I do like to join in at the Craft Room as they are such a friendly blog.

I Distressed around the white card before I started to add anything.  Next I made a piece of backing paper and tore a piece to fit just inside the card edge. Then came a doillie with  a bit of distressing on it. The image I found on a free Christmas Image Site. I added ribbon and then some embellishments, they are from a set I got from Poundland. The little flowers and the swirl I have had for a while in my bits and bobs box.

Do pop over to the Craft-Room and see the lovely things that the team there have made-very inspiring

Have a great day

Love Chrissie x

Tag and Atc

Hi All, nice to have you visit Jumbled Crafts today. Everyone seems to be busy at the moment so thank you for finding time to pop in.

This week at Tag Along the subject is Hearts.

I cut out a tag from some card with music on it and distressed it with various colours. Then I cut-out hearts with a punch and coloured them with spray paints. I just got a set from Dylusions, they have been on order for a while and came from the US via Germany so they are well travelled. I used the shapes where I had cut out the hearts as a stencil to put more hearts on the background.

The next project I did yesterday was an ATC for Wicked Wednesday where the theme this week is Friendship.

This is for my friends everywhere who have helped me become who I am and the crafty ones who have helped me to 'grow' in Blogland'

I splashed the background and printed on the quote then stamped the 'love your friends' and added punched shapes in mirror card. Thanks to Alison I have changed the bottom of the ATC as it did say the wrong author of the quote. Must admit at the time I didn't think The Bard wrote it but I found it on Google :(

Have a wonderful day and a great weekend-lots of sport on telly so I am happy :)

Love Chrissie xx

Christmas Ornament

Hello Everyone who drops by--hope your day is going well. Not sure what we are doing today but it will include a walk somewhere as the last couple of days we have been doing h-------k and had visitors so time to get out and about again for sure.

At Crafting with Dragonflies this time they ask us to make an Christmas Ornament for the tree or wall.

I made this Santa from bits of felt that were left overs from Santa Socks that my daughter had made. I just made it up as I went along though I did look at some pictures online for inspiration. I stuck it onto a Nestie shape that was covered in glitter. Next I made a hole and threaded through some gold parcel tape so that it can be hung on the tree.I really had fun making this and hope to make some others with different faces on them.

I am also going to enter this into the mini challenge at Anything but a Card where the challenge is to recycle something. Well the bag of bits of felt would have been in the bin if I hadn't rescued it so that was recycling I reckon.

Have a wonderful day

Love Chrissie xx

Inchie and Moos

Nice to have you drop into Jumbled Crafts and I hope your day is going well. A bit dark and damp here so far but I am hopeful. :)

At Every Inchie Monday this week the subject is Rope. It is always amazing to see what people make for the challenges. It certainly stretches the mind to fit it onto just a one inch square.

I did a messy painted background then made a coiled rope from some string.To make it look used I dabbed it with Distressed Ink.

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At Moo Mania the challenge this time is Tools. I thought which tools we use most and they are the ones for the garden.

 The background is a photograph taken in our garden last year and I stapled the tools onto it after adding the apt phrase. I am going to give this to Vic to pin on the back of the shed door as he works so hard in the garden all year round.

Have a lovely day everyone

Chrissie x