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Wednesday 13 March 2024
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Wednesday 6 March 2024
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Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Julia's Stamping Ground and have a look to see what everyone has been doing.
I have been sorting and tidying in my craft room. A friend gave me a lovely bird shelf unit which meant reorganising so I could display it.
Wednesday 28 February 2024
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Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Julia's Stamping Ground and have a look to see what everyone has been doing.
I am continuing using up my 12 x 12 papers.
I have been making a stacked envelope journal. I watched several tutorials which were all fairly similar in that it was about decorating the envelopes and making cards to go inside. Then I saw one which said Stacked Envelope Journal.
Wednesday 21 February 2024
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Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Julia's Stamping Ground and have a look to see what everyone has been doing.
I have been busy sorting out my ephemera folders. I had a few packs of bird images from Hunkydory. I decided cut them to a more usable size. I had watched a couple of YouTube videos on making ephemera, one of which was faux stamps. I cut all the pictures down with thinning scissors and inked the edges. Once they were done I went on to a pack of butterflies, a washi tape paper with plastic backs. I did a few on book paper, then I used a sticky note pad. I inked the edges of the sticky note pad and put the butterflies on top. I used glitter pens to add colour to some. Then I went back to the birds and selected some paper to back them with, inked the edges. Now I have a lovely pile ready to use. I did intend to stamp some postmarks on them, but instead I had a long nap yesterday afternoon.
I finished my pages for Faith Inspirations, the pink isn't as vivid in real life.
Today I have Bible Group this morning so I shall be round to visit in the afternoon.
Tuesday 13 February 2024
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Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Julia's Stamping Ground and have a look to see what everyone has been doing.
Wednesday 7 February 2024
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Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Julia's Stamping Ground and have a look to see what everyone has been doing.
Still doing a lot of sorting in my craft room. Monday I discovered a distress ink dauber had leaked (only a bit) I had taken the sponge top off as it had disintegrated. I have another dauber which is a very dark brown so I removed the top of that and poured a little into a container, replaced the top! The I poured what was left of the light lavender colour into the container too. My idea was to make the brown lighter. Using a sponge, I dyed all my old diecut frames, a little bit darker than I would have preferred, but still pleased.
Tuesday, the first thing I wanted to do was put the container away - simple - afraid not. The lids were kept in a jar on the top shelf, I couldn’t see them up there, so I started searching and sorting and tidying as I went. Nearly an hour later I was getting rather tired and decided to have a proper look 0n the top shelf - which meant taking everything off my step stool with handle! Found the jar after I had removed what was in front🙈🙈
Once the lid was safely on. I thought I would do some scanning of a book of ephemera so I could print some off to get more use. My son and family came round on Sunday and I had a tidy up, the usb I needed for the scanning was nowhere to be seen. Sound familiar? Another bout of searching eventually found it. Unfortunately this tale of woe is not over! My printer printed out some dull images.
Wednesday 31 January 2024
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Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Julia's Stamping Ground and have a look to see what everyone has been doing.
I have been visiting my brother and yesterday we drove to Basingstoke to meet up with friends. I first met them when I started dating my husband and we have been friends every since. Today we meet up with my brother one more time before returning home. It's hard to believe the number of years since I last saw my brother. I wish flights to Australia were cheaper and shorter!
Looking forward to catching up with everyone x
Wednesday 24 January 2024
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Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Julia's Stamping Ground and have a look to see what everyone has been doing.
I finished my "Snippets of the Psalms" little book. Quite often I see my 9 year old Grandson at playtime. The other day I said hello and he asked what was I doing that day. I told him I had started a book, but I felt it needed to be bigger and thought I might scrap it and start again. He advised to carry on because once I had done it I could keep it as a template to help with the next one! So I finished it and was quite pleased with it too. He is so serious and very sweet sometimes!
I have five more papers collaged and ready to work on.
See you later x
Wednesday 17 January 2024
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Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Julia's Stamping Ground and have a look to see what everyone has been doing.
I made another A3 collage with all the bits left over. I think I rushed it, too many wonky pieces and I didn’t care for the combination.
I wanted it to blend, so I added a thin coat of gesso, not happy so I tried a little paint and more gesso. Still not happy! I added another layer of napkin.