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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.

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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 desk nice and clear and showing my storage files with neat labels.  I have been sorting out my images.  Trying to make things easier to find.

I think my face pain is getting better one minute and in pain the next!  I am trying to take painkillers as soon as I feel it coming on, but sometimes it's not been four hours.  I have a CT scan appointment on February 16.  Lynne suggested the trigeminal nerve might be a possibility and the symptoms seem to fit.   Meanwhile not much crafting being done!

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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 busy creating, despite toothache/ear-ache which neither dentist or doctor can sort out. I had blood tests yesterday and I am waiting for a CT scan.

I missed out these pictures from day 6.

Top left the creation of Eve and top right the Temptation, at the bottom there are 2 double page which when closed display the rose pictures and Adam and Eve leaving the garden.

God said to Cain that sin was crouching at the door. So I created an image of the snake out side a door  and from that created a digital collage in PSE.   Then I thought about the heart needing a door for protection from the snake, I copied the handle from the wooden door and arranged it on the circle.

These are the last two Little bits of art for January.

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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.  

After seeing the challenge “Tiny Pieces Of Art” on Susan’s blog  I decided to join up too. So far I have done 3 of January’s prompts.  The first prompt was Sun, Surf and Sand.  I made a bit of a mess with the surf so I covered that area.  The second prompt was Sunshine and Lollipops.  I found the music sheet, gave it an aged look, and created some lollipops in Ai. I missed out prompt 3 by mistake and did prompt 4 which was Summer Storm. I created the umbrellas in Ai along with the two girls and found some quotes. It has a watercolour background. 

More pages of my Genesis book.

My desk and finally a poem:

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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.  

Here is my desk with my new pages for my Genesis book ready to cut out and add.

An  Ai background on the right.

An easy pair as I made use of the design on the scrapbook paper.

An Ai design on the left, faded out so the text is visible. On the right the sea creatures are from Ai edited, the birds and the blue sky are from photographs from Upsplash.

Despite Darwin's Theory being proved scientifically and mathematically impossible, it is still being taught in our schools as fact!  

I go off into all sorts of articles when I am doing a study.  Did you know that scientists say there have been at least five ice ages and technically we are still living in one because of the ice sheets still in existence?  

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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 a stack of 6 x 6 papers and a stack of 12 x12 papers I wanted to use up.  I decided to make some accordion books.  In total I made four 6 x 6; two 8.5 x 6; two 3.5 x 6 and one 9 x6.  One I am using for a study of Genesis and yesterday I designed the cover.  

These are my crafty Christmas presents. The Robin and the Niffler were from my niece. She made the niffler with a 3d printer, I need to paint him. The young horse was hand painted by my granddaughter in the colours of Spirit stallion of the cimarron.

Two punches that I had ordered December 3rd arrived over the weekend, they seem to punch cleanly.  On the right you can see an envelope of Father Christmas faces cut from some wrapping paper.  I bought some light brown wrapping paper a couple of years ago, better for the environment, but my husband won't use it, so I thought if I made it more Christmassy it would get used, next Christmas.

My husband had a jigsaw for Christmas with only 250 pieces, turned out not to be easy as he thought.  The pieces are weird and wonderful shapes.  You can see four of the wonderful ones, a lion, a bear, a leaf and a pawprint.

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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 desk today

If I turn around this is what is behind me.  I have been trying to create another desk area.  You can see the book cradle my daughter bought me for Christmas.

I had a plan!  Use up some of my 6 x 6 papers.  I sorted them out, thin, thicker, thick.  I wanted to make an accordion with the thick ones.  Somewhere along the way I decided to use up my 12 x 12 for the same purpose.  I scored a complete pad at the 6 inch mark, then cut them down to 8 and a half, leaving the 3 and a half for a little collage book.  The plan is now to use the thin 6 x 6 to cover the pattern side of the larger pieces to give a collage background.

I came across Dina Brodsky the other day.  I like her style.  She uses her sketchbook to sketch and journal in and later uses the pages to add photographs and paint.  I particularly like the trees she had sketched, something I had always felt a bit daunting.  I started looking for bare or dead trees to sketch in the usual free photograph sites.  I didn't find anything suitable so I tried Ai.

I didn't think the Ai were that realistic.  I was after a tree that was old and partially dead.  I went back to Google and came across Bristlecone pines, below left.  I began to think my Ai ones weren't so bad after all!  Below right are two magnolia partially dead Ai trees.

Two more Bristlecone pines:

This is what I am thinking of getting for next year!