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Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Sarah's Craftshed and have a look to see what everyone has been doing.  

I love this one, I managed to use up quite a bit of washi tape on this ICAD

I am continuing the study of colours in the Bible, this is the colour blue.  Lapis Lazuli is a beautiful stone and occurs in the Throne of God and in another place, the floor at His feet.  While we were at Pickering I bought a tiny toadstool shape of Lapis Lazuli, I would have a loved a big piece, but a) they didn't have any and b) I am sure the price would have been high.

In JoDitts group we are studying colour and this month we had to choose two palettes and colour in the card below.  I have never worked with colour palettes before and didn't like the experience, too limiting. 

Four more ICADS, a further 2 to come for last week.

We have moved again and the Internet signal is really bad, but I hope to catch up you all x

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Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Sarah's Craftshed and have a look to see what everyone has been doing. 

Still using up stuff!  I have been suffering with headaches a lot this past week so not a lot of crafting done.

I bought an A5 notebook to write out my Ezekiel study and then in JoDitts Group we started a Colour in the Bible study. So I flipped my notebook and I am doing the Colour Study on the flip side.  The picture above is my Ezekiel study, the chart shown in the middle goes in a pocket I made in the front cover.

My intro page on colour.

The colour red.

 

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Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Sarah's Craftshed and have a look to see what everyone has been doing. 

 We arrived at a new site Monday, about 6 miles from Scarborough.  I got out the car and the heat hit me! It reminded me of getting off the plane in Spain. I changed into a summer dress, opened all the caravan windows and started to wilt!  Yesterday I woke up and it seemed to be another hot day, but by 12 it had got quite cold requiring a change of clothes to something warmer.  What will the weather be today?

My ICADS:

My desk:

I saw a tutorial about borders for cards, the lady used strips to fill an area and then cut that into strips too. I decided to use up my self adhesive ribbon strips this way.  I had the idea of making them into quirky houses, but did something different with the 7th ICAD this week:

Still doing some digital writing!

AI background:

Lastly a badger/hare.  After some badger images, I wanted some hare images, I kept the description the same except for changing the word badger, however there were two badger words and this was the result:

 So cute!

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 Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Sarah's Craftshed and have a look to see what everyone has been doing.

I have been having great fun with my ICADs.  The rules for ICADs are simple, you have to use an index card and you have to do one a day, so last week I got carried away and did 3 extra.  Of course I forgot about the extra 3 until last night.  This week I may have a done a few extra too.  Oops!  What can I say, the ideas were flowing!  

I also did a drawing of a Japanese lady:

I hope to do a painting of her at some time.

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 Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Sarah's Craftshed and have a look to see what everyone has been doing.

ICAD week 3, using up some very old Chinese stickers and some equally old papers.  The one above, bottom left got included by mistake, I just noticed 😳  The two on the left below have watercolour papers.

AI continues to both fascinate and worry me.  I watched a "news recording" the other day in which Piers Morgan and Keir Starmer were both saying buy this software and make a fortune.  If it hadn't been for the fact they had a similar script and also I am sure Keir Starmer wouldn't be trying to persuade anyone to join this "lucrative" deal, I would have been convinced by it.  However I am still playing with the AI tool. To mess with a Star Trek quote : It's art Jim, but not as we know it!🤣🤣

I know you don't want to see all of them so this is just a sample.  

We were near the Kelpies and the Falkirk Wheel.  I will leave you with the Kelpies and save the amazing Falkirk wheel for next time.

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Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Sarah's Craftshed and have a look to see what everyone has been doing.

The top left card was made from some wallpaper that was available at B&Q

Most of the images I have used I have had for such a long time, it's about time they got used.  The tiny mouse in the top left card is from a Beatrix Potter set.

On the left you can see a rolladesk that I bought from a charity shop, for a mere £2.99.  I have wanted one for ages so I just had to have this one.  The cards are smaller than I would have liked, but still, I now have one and I hope I will start using it.

On the right above is a stage 1 and stage 2 ICAD.  I saw a few minutes of one of the Encounters course lessons or it may have been somewhere totally different 🤣🤣.  It was Matisse inspired. I cut up a napkin piece, but it looked a bit dull, so I used my acrylic pens to draw some more shapes, still not too happy, so I went over the main napkin pieces with a green acrylic pen.

The last one takes me up to date with my ICAD cards.  These things always look better in my head!

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My first ICAD of this year.

I made these backgrounds using AI

I made about 50!  The amount I didn't like was probably 3 times that amount!

Lastly, still AI, I made some Draculas!  Here we have young and handsome, mature and suarve and finally a freak.  I will leave you to guess what makes him a freak!

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 Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Sarah's Craftshed and have a look to see what everyone has been doing.

I know I am incredibly late with my anniversary ATC, but yesterday and Monday I made some.  I tried several different things.  I used my acrylic paint pens and did some collage.  The one that is horizontal is a landscape. I did two abstract ones, but I didn’t think the colours went together so I applied some gesso with a sponge.  I feel they need something else, but not sure what.  I am thinking of using a distress ink.

I tried out some liquid inks.  I added a few drops of into a container and added a little water.  I was just trying to get a background.  I used a sketchbook for the first few and then a mixed media pad. Oddly the sketchbook paper seemed to bear the water better than the mixed media one and I preferred the results. (Top row)

I actually did a colouring page on the IPad in Freeform.  I thought it would be good practice in controlling the stylus pen.

 See you all later !

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 Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Sarah's Craftshed and have a look to see what everyone has been doing.

So I made another mess 🤣. I read that if you wet the paper you are sticking down it won’t buckle.  Perhaps it was too wet because it buckled badly, ruining the page.  Since I was using a colouring book, nothing was really wasted except my time and effort. I decided to cut my losses and tear the page out.  Determined to have something to show today, I did this page yesterday.

I have been following a lettering course with Christie.  It’s something I have had a go at in the past, in that I bought a couple of magazines and some brush pens for lettering.  Far too much practicing involved for me!  I prefer this style:

I have been using the AI image creator again.  I haven’t quite found the right words to get it to obey, I have tried “no people”,  “devoid of people”. and “no one about”, it totally ignores me!  I tried “Christmas card scene of Bethlehem” and it gave me a Nativity in the middle of a crowded city with animals everywhere 🤣🤣.  I kid you not.  I was trying to get a group of houses like those that appear on Christmas cards of Bethlehem.  The idea seems so simple, tell it what to do and hey presto! your image 🤣.

My favourites: Impressionist bird singing; Mixed media bird; Dala Horse

Someone told me I was slow to respond to her messages so I decided to try a whacky image for her.  And then I did a couple more:

Oddly enough AI likes whacky!

Off to link up x