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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

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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 a Seth Apter tutorial and decided I would have a go.  I don't have any sprays in the caravan, which was the only product I didn't have.  He used all distress inks and said it didn't matter if the black ink smudged a little.  When I added the inks it went a little haywire.  I think the surface got a little too wet.  I managed to get back on track, but the smudges annoyed me.  When I have another try I think I will use Stazon for the black.

My work desk!

This started off with some purple paper I had painted a while back, I had already cut it into petal shapes.

This was done in app called Freeform.  I was able to import the background.

I had a go at AI images.  It's not complicated, but tedious as you think what words to use that will get the result.  I tried to do a beach house and despite putting "no plants" "no flowers"  it kept giving me houses covered with plants and flowers!

This beautiful window is in the church in Dumfries.

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 taking it easy in our first week of our holidays.

I fussy cut a small mountain of images that I had printed before we left.  Read a book, the first of many I expect.  I have been doing lettering, both hand lettering and

Using a stylus on the IPad, I discovered tools and methods I didn’t know about.

It is a busy time for free courses.  Some have been disappointing, some good, as usual I sign up for everything I think might be interesting.  Considering the room my craft stuff takes up I need to be getting some of it out.  Shopping trip to Tesco yesterday and I bought some lettering pens to try some faux calligraphy and an A4 pad as I left mine at home.  I also bought a nice blue and green mix scarf, considering the amount I have at home I didn't pack even one!

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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. 

Apologies for a late post, we still have my dear MIL with us and also are packing for the caravan.  I like to keep her company and we tend to nod off together 😃.

This was my granddaughter's present to her mother on Mother's Day.  Stupidly, I photographed it on a pink box which was not a good background so a hasty bit of cutting out was required.  The left heart is the lid, the top one is what you saw when opened and the bottom one the inside.  This is the sort of crafting Rynn likes, construction and I thought she made a marvellous job of it.

This is displayed on the chair in my craft room as the desk is covered as I sort what to take.  My order from Temu.  Some lovely houses washi tape along with a pack of tiny houses, a fabric book, and various crafting stuff.  Underneath is some Chinese paper.  It is much thinner than I expected, but that may be a good thing.

My MIL is being taken home tomorrow, so still time to pack away the last bits.  I also have been doing a lot of sorting out files on my laptop, prior to doing a back up. At the moment I am printing out some sheets to cut out.  See you all 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.  

This was on my desk last week. now finished.

We went to see Ball and Boe a week ago.  We both really enjoyed the performance.  The picture on the left was taken not far from the Arena and the picture on the right was in our bedroom.

More lettering in JoDitts group. I learnt block lettering this past week.  A couple of years ago I used some stickers in an A6 sketch book.  I am not sure what my original idea was, but I thought I would use it for my lettering.  More suited to short verses I think.

My dear MIL fell off a chair yesterday, I think she misjudged where the chair was.  She didn't have far to fall, and although she insisted she was fine, I think she will be a bit sore for a few days.

I will catch up with 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. 

I have been doing some lettering.

This little book is a diary organizer from 2014, I think.  I added images from scrapbook paper to some pages.  JoDitt has been giving lessons on Fruitful Creativity and I have gained some tips that I hadn't thought of.

We have got my dear MIL with us at the moment and we have been sat outside enjoying the beautiful blue sky and surprisingly warm sun.

I have Bible group this morning so I will catch up with 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 doing a whole lot of different things.  I joined “Fruitful Creativity with JoDitt Williams” a couple of months ago.  Normally I join things and don’t play an active roll, but I have been quite consistent with this one.  Of course, WOYWW has been my longest running ever commitment!  Anyway, the top 10 members were gifted a book or other goods from her shop.  I had a book which was one I had been thinking about buying so I was happy!   This one thing we did, we had to fill in these two sheets, I was quite hesitant as I never know how to approach these things:

I really enjoyed doing this, I didn't know you could add stickers in the edit section. Not great art, but just simple fun with an IPad pencil!

I was looking at a Pinterest email, specifically at what I think was a washi tape roll, it was one of those links that leads nowhere!   I started wondering about making one.  I looked into buying till rolls on Amazon, but they were expensive.  Then I had an idea.  When we went shopping at Tesco I bought a children’s roll of paper.  My husband used a saw to cut the roll into suitable lengths,   I started one with some paint, then stamping, then some doodling.

In the middle you can see my Designer Roll,  I tried to paint some flowers on card with watercolour, it didn't work that well, so I printed the second lot on watercolour paper.  I am in the middle of a journal page.  I have been doing some stencilling. Unfortunately, I dropped the stencil into a bowl of water forgetting it was paper! 😞

I used the page to make this:

I scanned some printed Tim Holtz birds as I wanted them bigger and used a Collage Soup background and some additional lines to create these:

The pink and blue one I coloured in on my IPad, just trying out my new IPad pencil.  The flowers I did on my IPad too.  I have a few projects in the pipeline and I should have the journal page finished too.  See you later.