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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.  

Above is an Index card pack with part of one of my sprayed backgrounds on.  I wanted to use up the sprays I have which are years old.  They get everywhere when I use them so I decided on using my husbands workroom (with permission of course!).  He protected his tools with an old sheet and obligingly tidied up.

Coincidentally I saw a tutorial recently, the lady used distress inks, but I thought I would try it anyway.  She dipped her copy paper in tea first, but I skipped that step.  After the spraying she scrunched up the papers and left to dry (took two hours in the Texas sun, overnight in the airing cupboard).  When dry they are unwrapped and ironed.

I used water based sprays and sprayed before and after with water, then scrunching up.  I used an A3 pad from Lidl, I tried an A3 pad from The Works and that didn't work at all. I think the Lidl one has a coating helping the water and spray to stay on the surface longer.

Mary Anne reminded me that the sprays would reactivate when wet.  They were intended for collage, but I did need that reminder as glue can be wet!  Sticking to glue stick!   I took photographs of them all so I can print parts out.  Basically I wanted something to cover the lines on the index cards.  The Index card a day challenge is in June and July so slightly less to pack in the caravan.  I also got out previous A3 backgrounds and cut up a few of those too.

The Muse hit me yesterday morning:

The climate has changed, mankind is to blame,

We have lost our four seasons, life will never be the same.

Hurricanes and floods, too much pollution,

The Government are too lazy to come up with a solution.

Crops rot or wilt, food prices rise high,

The people suffer and keep asking why?

As they pollute with their machinery 

and keep the rubbish levels high.

The flood plains are built on, councils  expect the builders to sort it, but people’s houses are flooded, soon after they have bought it.

Or maybe the waters seek another way, the towns are flooded, the insurance won’t pay.

There is no clear directive, no overall view, no one’s accountable saying  “what can I do?”

The government says we need an inquiry or maybe two,

That will decide what we need to do, 

but millions of pounds later, the answer still isn’t clear, 

because the cost of the solution is just too dear.

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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.  

Oh woe is me!  I have a cold!  My trigeminal pain is two steps forward one step back!  Enough of that.  

I watched a tutorial by Margaret of Vintage Journals. I thought I would make one after I had finished tidying my room.

It is getting there.  Corners are the bane of my life!  In one particular corner I had a box labelled "journals" and also a top box was labelled "journals".  Would they all fit in the one box?  Answer no!  The small box is about shoebox size.  In the big box I found several I had made the same type as I was about to make.😳

More journals where the red dots are, incidentally, the picture of the horses is a glass cutting mat which  my daughter brought me home from Australia, I can't bring myself to use it.

It just goes on !!  I watched yet another tutorial for a book: Australian Piano Hinge Binding.  This in connection with a free course that starts in April, the idea is to use the book throughout the course.  Would you believe I have just spent half hour looking for the file because I had named it Sarah Matthews instead of Australian Piano Hinge Binding.😖    She was saying that she finds journal making soothing, just cut and fold the parts and put it all together.  I wondered if that's why I had so many? 

The desk.  I have two rolls of paper to cut up and I bought myself a little sewing machine.

I am just tossing this one in.  These small strips are from scrapbook paper that I keep looking at, but feel they are too thick for my collages.  I had the idea of taking a photograph and printing them on paper and I also wondered about using them as templates for other digital paper.

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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.  Me, I have doing some  Digital work  after finding a gem in my craftroom.  I think it is called a cyanotype.

The image on the left I found in my craftroom some time ago and   re-found when having a sort out the other day.  Although I really like it as it is, the negative cut paper that was placed on it was not on straight and not flat, because it is darker one side than the other.  You can see the design that I drew and then cut out.   I kept the paper thinking maybe I could use it as a stencil.  The image on the opposite side was the first result of trying to improve it digitally.

A little more digital work to move the design to the left and create the spots.  then I tried nearly every flower I had and could not settle on a colour.  In the end using the photograph of a flower,  found in the field nearby the caravan last year, I designed a new one.  I could not find the name of the flower this morning.

The folder with the butterflies was an organiser and I really like the cover, but the bonding rings were too difficult to open, so my husband took it out for me as you can see in the image at the top.

The little organiser I was using a couple of weeks ago, but I didn't like what I had done, so I removed the previous work and just going to use it for putting some favourite work in.

I got my husband to cut the ledger journal in half for me so I have two 6 x 4 books.

My desk

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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.  Me, I have doing some Ai, Digital work and carrying on with Genesis.

Genesis and collage

Genesis

An ai background, it needed something, I eventually decided on making it a watercolour paper.

I have watched the first 3 videos of a course called Bloom in Faith on Facebook.  The first was making little dolls. I am not good at whimsical faces and I thought I would try Ai for an image or two. I spent far too long trying to get what I had in mind. Creative Fabrica has changed their Ai programme, you have to pay with coins and it was galling to watch the coins disappearing when it wasn’t doing what I wanted.  Bing Ai wasn’t working, but it did create better images in between not working.

The originals

A little simplifying

My daughter in law works with people who need some company, for some it’s taking them shopping or out for a walk.  Either the council pay for this service or the client.  One of her ladies died and her son lives in America.  He took what he wanted and said they could take whatever they liked.  My son went with her and came across this beautiful vintage Bible. He has left it with me for a while. I can’t lift it it is so heavy.

My husbands latest Jigsaw.

My desk in working mode.

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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.  Me, I have doing some Ai, Digital Collage and carrying on with Genesis.

A4 print outs. washi tape, guillotine!

Quite a lot of pages have been done, here are just two, plus two images.

Beautiful jigsaw, nearly finished.

I am going for an acupuncture session today to see if that helps with the pain.

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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 watched one of those very short videos on making a snippet roll using wide sellotape to stick the scraps on, I didn't have any, but I did have something similar.  It was quite an easy way of doing it.

I wanted to have ago at book Mary Anne is doing.  The ones on the right were the first 2 pages and I wasn't happy with them.  I realised the reason I wasn't happy because it felt like a half done job!  The following day I made the next 2 pages.   I felt I could still add to these pages, while they had a more finished look.

A little shopping on Shein!

I have finished the February theme at JoDitts site.  The March theme is  "Jesus is the Word" and as part of that we are making a treasure book.  I made 53 images using Ai yesterday, I bet you are pleased I am not showing you all of them.😆

In fact the ones above I kept because  I like what's under the words, which as you see are decidedly odd, I think it would be too much work to put them right, but I may do something with them.  I will leave you with this one which did need editing, I improved the J, brought the words "is the" down from the top so it made sense, which meant that "word" had to be made smaller.

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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 sorting my pen collections, I bought 3 pencil cases from Tesco, 2 I already had.

On the right is a Tiny pieces of Art.  the prompt was "Candy Crush".

Last year I bought this board book with the intention of using it for art.  The assistant in the shop kept me waiting for 5 minutes while she looked though it, oohing and ahhing over every picture.  Yesterday I practically did the same!  they are charming pictures, do I really want to gesso over them?  The answer being no, obviously! However I thought I could use them as covers.

The above are part of the monthly challenge at JoDitt Williams site.  As you can see I can't write in straight lines!

My busy, busy desk!

Still not well unfortunately. I discovered that chewing  (among other things) sets the pain off.  So my husband has been mashing my food to limit chewing - not a pretty sight!

 

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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.  

My husband just said to me are you doing your blog today, I replied later, it's Tuesday. laughing he said it was Wednesday!  oops!  I blame it on a bad night, actually not a bad night as the pain didn't start till 5:30.   I had a CT scan Monday, results in two weeks, but had a CT scan doesn't show nerves not expecting it to reveal anything.

I have been sorting through through my craft stuff in order to try and cut down on the amount I take on holiday.  I bought an expanding file to keep various A4 papers in. it doesn't hold as much as I thought it would, so I went back to get another one.  It seemed a higher price than the first one, but I thought it must be the same.  When I got it home it was a lot bigger!  Somehow both folders are not enough - I might take too much!

The above were for the "Tiny Pieces of Art" challenge.

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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.  

On the TV the other day a newsreader said the continuous rain hadn’t quite reached Biblical proportions, but it was close to being 40 days and 40 nights!  My heart goes out to all those affected by the floods, the situation made worse by insurance companies who no longer payout for such disasters.

Which leads nicely into where I am in Genesis!

The hearts are for a challenge, not ready yet.

I went to A&E last Wednesday having been told to go by the doctor. The latest thinking is that it is nerve pain, untreatable apart from strong painkillers.  They are reducing the pain to a manageable level. 

I have been creating with Ai. Very rarely content with just one or two images I tend to carry on until the ideas have been exhausted or I need forty winks!

Hearts.

Swans, Doves for another project.