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.
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Wednesday 15 May 2024
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Wednesday 8 May 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.
There are several free challenges going on in May. I sign up for everything that I think I may be interested in, some end up not being my cup of tea, some I miss out on because they are on zoom and the wrong time zone. I have been doing an inchies one. I wanted to use up some distress pens that I have had for ages. The size of the card I had was just over two inches square, but the circles are two inches.
I am also doing the Get Messy challenge. The first prompt was “Prologue”. Introduce yourself to your journal! I had a go at a couple of quick self portraits. I said to me daughter “Nobody would recognise from these”. She said, yes they would, they were younger versions of me! I ended up using an outline of me in the page.
I also joined up for the Art and Junk Journal Retreat. I have watched a few of those. To be honest, I don’t have much energy at the moment. Yesterday’s inchie prompt was “Inky”, I used the distress pens on gessoed paper first, sprayed it and pressed the card into it. Then I used them on an acrylic block, the results were mixed and I was limited in the colours I had. The card got quite soggy so perhaps a different card is needed or perhaps I used too much water!
Wednesday 1 May 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 can’t say everything is put away, but the majority is, all ready for the house to be painted. I have got rid of quite a bit of stuff - not craft stuff of course. I suspect I will get rid of a few more bits when it all comes out of hiding, I am not looking forward to that! My craft room looks like this:
Obviously no crafting has been done, I shall try and remedy that over the next few months. There are a lot of free courses going on in May and I am looking forward to trying most of them.
Looking forward to catching up later today x
Wednesday 24 April 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 totally wearing myself out doing too much. My husband did offer to get rid of things😳😳, which made me all the more determined to do everything myself. A car boot load went to the charity shop and I am dropping some books off there this morning. I rescued a few things out of the bin which my husband had decided “we” didn’t want. You wouldn’t believe the amount of stuff I have got in my wardrobes, which are not being moved. I am also packing the caravan, I was hoping to get some crafting done this week, but it’s looking less and less likely.
I have been doing lots of digital work - you would be amazed at the number of images I have of vintage stuff. They need resizing and sorting. This week I have been going through the floral file which is huge! Some of the images need cleaning up, but most I have just resized and trimmed.
Technical bit - most of the images are downloaded at either 72 or 96 , to compensate for this low resolution, the files are bigger than A4. The resolution gets increased to 300 and the size gets reduced so you end up with an image that will print out at approximately 4 x 6. Examples below.
I have Bible group this morning so I will catch up with everyone later. If this seems a bit rushed - it was !
Wednesday 17 April 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 10 April 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.
It's Wednesday Yay! We are back home (for a while anyway!). I have been continuing with using up my die cuts, so far I have got 5 completed collages that you saw last week and 48 that need completing. I took photographs of the collages as I had an idea of using them digitally.
Wednesday 3 April 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.
Last Wednesday we had a huge shock when Dolly was attacked on the morning walk. The path runs along a field and there are two dogs from the property that regularly run up to the fence and bark at passing dogs. Dolly barked back, being a brave Chihuahua, and the dog put his head through and dragged her back. A week later she is on her way to normal. Her back wound is getting better and she is playing with the others. Thank you all for your kind wishes to her.
I took approximately half the backgrounds that I had been working on with me. The first collages I did I limited myself to one folder, which has a lot old bits and pieces. I bought several die cut books from the Works, which I wanted to use up. They were intended to make a set of cards, I bought them to use the pieces for collage. So using those and some 6 x 6 paper I have been creating backgrounds that only need focal points to finish them off - well that's the plan.
The die cuts
Wednesday 27 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.
Wednesday 20 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. Sadly Jack is no longer with us. At 17 and a half years he had had a long life. He was gentle and friendly, loved by all who knew him.
I have been doing then two at a time, clipping them back to back till the edges are not sticky and then putting them under my cast iron book stand.
Wednesday 13 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.
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.