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

Card and Tag

Hi Everyone. A bit misty here so far--hope that means sunny when it clears.

At Sugar Creek Hollow they have Tic Tac Toe so I thought I would join in. I needed to make a birthday card for a neighbour and this gave me inspiration.

I chose the line Flowers Pearls and Die Cut

The background is a paper by Crfaty Individuals and the image one from Gecko Galz. I made the flowers from an old silk scarf and sprayed them with Dylusions Ink. Not sure who makes the butterfly die as the shape it is one I had sent to me a long time ago. I coloured it with Promarkers.

This week at Tag Tuesday the theme is cooking.

I'm afraid I don't do much cooking as my husband just loves to cook and there isn't much room for 2 in our kitchen :)that's my excuse anyway.

I went back to the 1930's with my tag. Can you imagine this happening today ?

I bought this book at a car boot sale and it is full of adverts and articles from the 1920s and 30s. I like to use things from it when ever possible--I cut them out as I bought it just to use the pictures for artwork.

Have a wonderful day everyone

Love Chrissie x

Inchie and Collage

A new week begins and it is sunny for us for time for a long walk along the cliff top I think. I hope it is sunny where you are and that you enjoy whatever you have planned. Thank you for visiting Jumbled Crafts.

At Every Inchie Monday this time the theme is Implausible. It seemed impossible when I first saw it but with thought it does have many possibilities and I am sure there will be many revealed by the end of the week.

This is the one I made. I suppose this has been proven to be wrong--or has it?  Depends on what you believe in I suppose. Wallace and Gromit or the moon landings?

It's time for another challenge at Collage Obsession. I seem to get a crazy excitement about these challenges as I can put on my digital design hat. So this week we are doing Solitude.

Here is mine which I have created just from a photograph of my own and a saying found on Google. I used various effects in Paint Shop Pro.

It is always peaceful along our seafront first thing in the morning and in the evening when all the day trippers have either not arrived or gone home. This lone dog walker and her dog were really enjoying the solitude--I did keep out of their view by standing well back to take this photograph. The beach goes for miles to the right of the picture and there wasn't anyone else in view at all. I supposed I was enjoying the solitude as well  though Vic was only just behind me:)

Have a great day everyone

Love Chrissie x

ATC and flowers

Hello to anyone who ventures in to Jumbled Crafts-always nice to make new friends so do join me as a follower if you have time

This week at Wicked Wednesday the theme is Words and Quotes and at Moo Mania and More they have footwear as their theme so I have combined the two.

As it is ATCs at WW every time and any kind of medium at Moo Mania this will fit both.

I did make Moos to add to my ATCS and used images that I have had for many years. These I coloured and added a background. The quote is very Bette Midler I think.

I have been glued to the television watching snooker so thought I had better do something useful while I watched. I cut out lots of Tim Holtz Tattered Flower shapes with my trustee Cuttlebug and used different types of materials. The black ones are leather cloth, the white ones tissue paper(now sprayed), the yellow ones are canvas paper and the beautiful fabric ones are all cut from a piece of material that Valerie sent to me a while ago together with lots of other goodies-thank you Valerie.

More snooker today but we are going out for a walk first.

Have great day all

Love Chrissie x

Challenge 54 Artful Times

Hello Everyone and thank you for calling in at Jumbled Crafts-always appreciated.

What wonderful entries for the spray challenge at Artful last time-thank you to everyone who joined us for that.

It's time for another challenge at Artful Times where Von has chosen for the theme  'Make a badge, button, brooch as long as it is fastened with a pin'  

Lots of things to chose from so hope you will join in with us.

I made a felt brooch with a bead in the center.

I cut out the shapes with a Nestabilies Die and Tim Holtz Tattered flower die sets then slightly padded the back two pieces out with some stuffing--as you would a cushion. The brooch pin is sewn on then stuck with a glue gun as well to make it secure. Sorry I forget to take a photograph of that. I add the little moon charm as extra interest.

Hope you will pop to see what Von, Wendy and Neet have made and say hello there if you have time

You could win £10 to spend with Oyster Stamps when the winner and runner-up are chosen from two challenges

These are some more brooches I made and I am hoping to give them to a charity to sell. A friend is having a coffee morning for Breast Cancer so maybe they will be suitable for that.

Love Chrissie x

Tag Along

Hi Everyone who drops by and thank you for calling in and for the wonderful comments I receive on my posts. Thinking of you all who are remembering Anzac Day today.

This week at Tag Along he theme is Pin-Ups. Well my first thought was David Beckham in some of his designer underpants-shock horror 00. I then thought of a saying an old uncle used to tell us. He was a decorator and if we were going to do anything he thought was bit dodgy he would say, " Give that a few coats of thought before you do it." So I did just that and you won't be seeing David in his undies.

Here is Marilyn Monroe instead-always a pin-up whatever she did.

Hope you will come back later as I will doing my post for the new challenge at Artful Times which will be posted at 6pm GMT Friday 25th April

Have a great day

Love Chrissie x