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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 joined JoDitts new website.  From a free colouring sheet, I took a heart, edited it so the black was white and designed the rest.  I am never sure about colour, possibly I should have a lighter colour in the background.

I googled "text boxes" so I could add some to digital lettering.  I found one I liked at Freepix.  I added some colour to the little squares surrounding the box and the centre.   I used these text boxes in the the collage below.

 

Most Bibles use the word Leviathan, meaning large creature or monster, but I found a translation that used "Whales". I am pretty sure if any of the ancient people had seen a whale they would think it a monster! Did you see a whale take in a man and his boat into it's mouth on the TV?  He got spit out again, but he must have been terrified.

The whales were cut from wrapping paper and they are years old. I thought they were just two big and made smaller ones (at the top), but I decided to use them.

I used a stencil for the background in several different colours. Initially I was thinking of a forest of kelp, but when I turned the background on it's side I thought it made a great seascape.

I like this stencil so much I haven't done any more to this one.

This one is on my desk at the moment, I just need to do a verse to finish it.

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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.

Remember that Sea box I told you about last week?  I have been creating collages with some of the contents and also making backgrounds using some of the printed papers that were in there, as well as creating backgrounds in my book.  After seeing Mary Anne’s collages using the negative cuts, I wanted to try it.  Having thrown all my previous negative cuts in the bin, when I punched out some circles last Friday, I kept the left over pieces and used them in my collages.  

I had Bible group this morning, and I didn't have time to finish this post before I left.  

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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 sun is shining this morning, not sure how warm it is outside though.  I will find out when my grandson comes to the back of the garden.  He is a ray of sunshine himself.  I say "Hello Joshua, how are you doing?" He responds "Fine thank you, what have you been doing this morning?".  A minute or two of chat and a hug makes my day!

Yesterday morning I thought I would water the plants before breakfast. I spilled some water, in mopping it up I knocked the atomiser over, which spilled water on the carpet!  In moving a plant out of the way it fell over and left soil on the carpet!  The spilled water was in a hard to reach position and I was back and forth to the kitchen getting kitchen towel as I had spilled more than I thought.  In trying to clear up the soil I made more of a mess 😒.  I staggered into the kitchen and my husband said "What on earth have you been doing?"😦 (Chronic fatigue sufferers will immediately understand) It set the tone for the entire day.  I did manage to do some colouring, but that was it.

The seahorse is for a collage I am planning.  I have had this colouring page for several years, originally I was going to draw one, but I discovered this in my "Sea" box. ( There was a pause here while I went out to say hello to Joshua 😊)  All things related to the sea, stamps, dies, images are in my "Sea" box.

If you remember the book I was in the middle of last week.  It is the one on the right with a ribbon binding.  The one on the left was Travel Planner my faith pages were in.

It is made of scrapbook paper and I used a hinge binding.  I managed to use up 25 sheets of 12 x 12 although I still have left over scraps as the pages measure 9 x 7 inches.

The book above I saw on a Pinterest email.  This is the link.  It is called a Double Locking Accordion.  I didn't have any 24 inch paper so I had to tape two pieces together.  The paper I used was far too thin (righthand side) so I ended up covering it with scrapbook paper. (lefthand side)

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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.

Rainy days, windy days, cold days, bring back the sunshine!  Oh right - I have just remembered where I live 😆😆.  Good old British weather!

Last WOYWW I saw a picture of Morti's room with ceiling high shelving.  1 went into my room and took a look - could that get some more space?

This was last year

Yesterday

I have been sorting most of the week determined to get a bit of extra space, even going slightly overboard and sorting out drawers and containers too.

Second side

Oh I have a radiator in my room!

I could have finished yesterday, but I wanted to have something to show you today.

The book on the left was in a tin, right at the back of the top shelf, I had forgotten all about it. I was sent a box of goodies, lace; beads; self adhesive glitter sheets. I think I had to make 3 things, but I can't remember what the other two were. The trouble with making such a highly decorated book, is where to keep it.   On the right is my Faith Art book.  I took the completed pages out and have been pairing them up with the aid of brown tape and over that washi tape.  I have put clips all the way along till the glue dries and having run out of clips the other pages I will do tomorrow.

My craft desk today, also showing some items I ordered from Shien. One pack of 2 two was missing, so when they sent me a questionnaire asking how was my order,  I put that one item was missing.  Having given them the order number, the item number and a photograph taken from their site of the item, I was amazed to have a reply asking me to send photographs of the item and if I wanted a refund, to return the item!  Considering I am only down 36p I probably will just forget it and maybe not order from them again.

Did my room sorting work?  I definitely have more floor space, it doesn't feel so cramped and while there are not any noticeable gaps, it is better.

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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.  

Yesterday we were expecting British Gas to come and flush the radiators.   Since they needed easy access to the radiators I had to clear that side of my craft room.  My trolley got taken into the dining room and everything on the floor I put on my working surface.  The caravan heating had been on all night as we were planning to spend the day in there and then eight minutes before their time of arrival, they cancelled!  The next appointment is two weeks away.  It made such a difference to the look of the room with that area cleared, I wondered if I could compromise with the space.  I spent most of the day doing work a bit, rest a bit!

This is the entrance to my craft room, you can see I have spilled into the hallway.  The radiator is on the left, just a bit further than the chest of drawers.  I turned the trolley as that gave a bit more room.

The normal view, the bottom right has an area that needs sorting still!

Today I have an appointment with the diabetic nurse to discuss my latest blood test.  My latest Faith art:

The book I am using is already overfull, so I may have to take the remaining pages out after a few more.  The book is a travel journal I bought at a charity shop.  I have been working on the pages for writing, they are followed with white pages and then black pages.  Perhaps I should take the completed ones out instead😕.

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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 snow has disappeared here and the weather is not so cold which is good!  Saturday I got out of bed to find my heel was painful, it got worse and Saturday and Sunday I was sat with my foot up, working on my laptop.  Yesterday it seemed back to normal which I am very thankful for.  We discovered the stairlift was not working have been trying to find some to fix it, apparently it is old now and parts are unavailable so today someone is coming out to give us a quote.

I wanted to draw a smiling face for a journal page, a smiling mouth is just beyond me!  I looked to see if I could get any help online and was amazed I couldn’t find anything.  I did find a face tutorial with a method of doing semi realistic faces for art (Karen Campbell).  I usually only draw from photographs so I had a go, I was a bit critical of her first, but I quite like her now, she is not actually smiling though.

Later I drew a whale for another page and then a whole lot of Bible verses on the laptop. Most of the verses for the Scripture challenge are now done plus a few digital designs. I spent some time inking the edges of my journal pages and managed to complete 6.

The honeycomb and bees is a digital design and I coloured the whale digitally too.

Psalm 23 is my favourite psalm.  I found a photograph on freepix and turned the girl into a silhouette, the background is from of my papers.

See you later 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.  

I have been working on the challenge, I studied the Scriptures for quite a few of the challenge prompts and decided on what I was going to do. I made a list - A4!  Then we had visitors Saturday and on Sunday.  After my husband saw my list and asked me what it was for on Monday morning, he decided the Christmas decorations were coming down. He walked the dogs first so I managed to find suitable papers and get them stuck down in my journal.  I started doing some hand lettering and then the boxes came downstairs for the decorations.  It  all got put away in good time although we ended up with a couple things left behind.   I decided to finish off the lettering on the laptop, usually I spend ages deciding on different fonts and I never can remember the names of the fonts.  So I thought why not go through them and print them out. Nine pages in total.

Having easy access to the fonts made the lettering much quicker.  I helped my niece with her printer problems in the afternoon, but by the end of Tuesday I had four pages done.   

Today I have the dentist at 8:45, I am not looking forward to the early start!  See you later 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.  

First may I wish everyone a happy new year.  Another couple of days of Christmas and then the sad business of putting it all away. It always seems sad to me anyway.

If you remember the card designs I showed you last week.  I printed quite a few for next year.

I joined in with a free Scripture challenge on FaceBook "She Sketches Scripture"  The challenge has sketches to paint, but so far I haven't used them.  I have used digital work and collage.  The houses came from a couple of pictures from Rawpixel, which I overlapped in places to make it look more like a city.

The lady on the bicycle, also from Rawpixel I thought was perfect for "Seek first".  I tried a few backgrounds before I was happy.  I think she looks as if she is setting out early.  I made two vintage looking cards for the next one.

I tried something different for the next one.  It took me ages to get it to where I was satisfied. I used some flower stickers to finish.  For the last one, I improved on the face that I had done a while ago, I used one of my papers for the dresses and finished with some flower stickers.

Last photograph is of my craftroom.  I hope to get back in there today as I only have finished 6 of the 30 challenges so I would like to do a few more and I have till the 5th January.

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Today is not an ordinary Wednesday, It's Christmas Day.  a day to celebrate with friends and family and remember:

A huge welcome 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 wanted to wish you all a very happy Christmas.

I have been busy designing - well my husband calls it playing!  As well as the above I did the designs below.  The Nativity image was from Raw Pixels and the frame from Public Domain Pictures.  The frame and image needed blending in to make a vintage image.  I ended up with four variations.  Which one do you like?

Wishing you all a lovely Christmas