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Wednesday, 18 June 2025
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Wednesday, 11 June 2025
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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.
Wednesday, 4 June 2025
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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.
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
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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 !
Wednesday, 21 May 2025
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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
Wednesday, 14 May 2025
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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.
Wednesday, 7 May 2025
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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.
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Wednesday, 23 April 2025
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Wednesday, 16 April 2025
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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.
Wednesday, 9 April 2025
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Wednesday, 2 April 2025
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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 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.