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 Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Julia's Stamping Ground and have a look to see what everyone has been doing. 

I have done a second triple piece with inspiration from Faith Inspirations and for the second time I used a different Bible verse.  I had been thinking about the verse/hymn "The Word is a Lamp unto my feet" was looking for a candle or lantern on the Raw Pixel site.  I saw both the candle and the lantern and downloaded them both.

I mentioned I watched a tutorial on simple watercolour flowers last week.  I said it was either the artist (me) or the materials to account for the fact I couldn't get it quite right.  Several of you gave me tips, but it turns out it was the artist😂😂

This little tutorial was on a loop - and that is my excuse for not paying attention.  I failed to notice that the dots were much smaller than those in my first flowers and the technique works quite well with tiny dots.  I agree with everyone about using a good quality paper.  I included a screenshot just to show you (top middle).

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 Julia's Stamping Ground and have a look to see what everyone has been doing. 

I watched a tutorial on simple watercolour flowers last week.  It doesn’t seem to work for me although I was happy enough with the flowers I did. It’s either the artist (me) or the materials.  The same person showed her art materials - all high quality.  I am debating on ordering the same materials just to see!

These were some stencilled pieces that I have never been sure what to with!

My scripture writing challenge is going well. My dear husband’s birthday is today so we are going out for a meal. This afternoon I have a hospital appointment (audiology).  I will be around to see everyone later.

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 Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Julia's Stamping Ground and have a look to see what everyone has been doing. 

I signed up for Faith Inspirations when the Armour of God conference was on.  November was the first month in my subscription.  I downloaded the free images and watched the video.  I liked what Tracie did so much I thought I am just going to copy it.  The first task was to print the downloads.  I loved the backing paper. There was just one leaf that seemed out of place because of its colour.  So I changed it, then I saw another leaf that I thought needed to go, so I digitally removed it and and sent to print.

With the top layer, Tracie used clear sticker paper, I didn’t have any so I digitally placed the layer on top and filled in two curvy stripes, before printing.  That left the middle layer to be done, but the backs of the layers were left blank.  So I designed a heart with the Bible verse on and a background to match the blue.  I misjudged the size so my heart got chopped a bit and I did a painted back for the middle page.  So what with one change and another, not a complete copy 🤣🤣🤣.  I told my daughter and she laughed  and said I never followed anything (I am not sure it was a compliment!)🤣🤣.

I loved doing the different layers.

I am also doing a "Write a scripture everyday" challenge.  I rather liked one of the books with different colours to write the verses on so I decided to use a blank sketch book.  I have a load of Hunkydory brush pens that I want to use up.  the one on the left was made by using the pens on glass and then picking up the colour with a wet brush. The other two I wet the paper lightly, used the pens then used a brush and water.  This method was less fiddly and faster.

That's all from me, have a great week everyone.

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  Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Julia's Stamping Ground and have a look to see what everyone has been doing. This week I have been making papers with sprays and diecuts!

I was having a sort out and I came across a bag of black die-cuts that no doubt I had a plan for at one time!  I first tried to paint over them with a roller, not successful when I tried to take the die-cuts off. Then I thought of the sprays, hardly ever used because they go everywhere and make a mess.  Before I went on holiday I cleaned all the tops and made sure the sprays were not clogged.   I arranged and rearranged the die cuts several times to make these papers.  The one on the top right is actually the back of one.

Some of the die-cuts and a couple of papers that I pressed on to the wet die-cuts.

My desk

I made some digital papers after photographing the die-cuts.

I have finished my study of the Psalms and just have the last lot of notes to add to my book.  Then I want to use verses from the Psalms to make some cards.  My mother in law goes home Friday, but she will probably be with us after Christmas.

My new Christmas jumper :)

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 Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Julia's Stamping Ground and have a look to see what everyone has been doing. This week I have again been making papers and collage.

I followed a link to a free course on Mary Anne's blog all about making papers to make collages with.  I made a lot of papers.  I added too much black to the red which didn't go (I thought) with the orange and yellow.  So I left the darker reds out for the first lot.  I almost added Halloween images to these as I often think of orange with Halloween.

I have 2 A4 pockets of left overs for more collage which you can see on the left of my desk.

We had quite a few callers last night for Halloween, from toddlers to teens!  My mother in law wanted to come to the door too as she loves children and she wanted to see them dressed up.  I told my grandchildren to come back tomorrow for any left over sweets!  I bought a new Christmas jumper from Tesco!  I couldn't resist the cute dog on the front.  I wonder if it's too early to start wearing it :)

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Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Julia's Stamping Ground and have a look to see what everyone has been doing. I am afraid this post is a bit of a non event as I have not been well. Spent 19 hours in A&E last Thursday/Friday. I went in as I had chest pain, the trouble is I have arthritis of the rib cage (costochondritis) which can mimic heart pain. I suspect it had flared up with doing too much the week before. As they say - better to be safe than sorry! Then I spent the next few days getting over my visit to A&E. My husband came back from Spain Monday, so my world is returning to normal!

Ending on a happy note.  My husband brought me a handbag and some Channel no 5 from Spain and my daughter (who was with me in A&E) bought me a Yankee Advent calendar to cheer me up.  

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 Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Julia's Stamping Ground and have a look to see what everyone has been doing. This week I have again been doing both digital and also in my craft room. 

 I attended the Bible Journaling Conference Wednesday, Thursday and Friday last week.  As it was in American time the sessions didn’t start until the afternoon and went on till 1 am!  I didn’t have any intentions of staying up, but as my husband was away that’s what I did.  I didn’t know what to expect. But I enjoyed it all.  It was a very full three days.  One of the crafts was an envelope book which I made more or less as per instructions.  I covered the from and back with some paper, that I decided I really didn’t like.  Another craft was to brayer paint on waxed paper and use that to print off the paint.  I used ordinary paper to paint my envelope book - instant happiness!  

I have nearly finished my study of the Psalms.  I have been making notes on my IPad.  I have printed off half my notes and put them in my Psalm Book.  Some of my notes were longer than others so some pages have two or three strips on them.

Yesterday I designed some cards for my envelope book and made another card for the Cat Lovers Christmas challenge.   It was my birthday yesterday and I spent the evening watching Miss Marple with Joan Hickson, the best Miss Marple I think.  My daughter was coming round, but I spent most of the afternoon in bed - I think I may have been over doing it a bit!  So she is coming today instead.

I am entering this card in the Cat Lovers Christmas Challenge, The TicTacToe challenge on the same link and The Cats Challenge at LostCoast.  Saturday's card and inks on embossed card is here

Well that’s it from me x,

The Cat Lovers Christmas Challenge

The Cat Lovers Christmas challenge is on now, come and join in the fun.  I made a card for the TicTacToe challenge   I chose Die cut, Glitter and Embossing.  I wanted to use inks on the embossed card.  I wasn't sure about the first one, so I had another go and finished off with a metallic gilding cream.  The one on the right was the first one I did.

I used an Inkylicious stamp on a diecut and used glitter pens and ink for the colouring.

 

The Cat Lovers Christmas Challenge: Remembering Janis Woolbright

  

The Cat Lovers Christmas Challenge: Remembering Janis Woolbright has started.  All the details an be found on the start page.

There is an amazing list of sponsors and there will be games, quizzes and fun, so come and join in.

Today one of the sponsors is Inkylicious.  I was lucky enough to win a lovely Inkylicious Christmas set last year.  I stamped out the image a few times and coloured them in using Crafter’s Companion glitter pens.  Then I backed them with a patterned card.

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 Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Julia's Stamping Ground and have a look to see what everyone has been doing. This week I have again been doing both digital and also in my craft room.  My post for the Cat Lovers Christmas Challenge: Remembering Janis Woolbright follows this one as I have an idea this might be a little long.

I made another journal and gave covered it and last weeks one. Really happy with both of them.  A slightly different design.  Some people said they weren't sure how I had made these so I thought I might post the details in a separate page.

Second I had another go at neuroscience art.  I decided I would use my Hunkydory brush pens.  I used the black one first and it struggled with the amount of work it had to do, then I added the colours, some were more juicy than others, for the ones that were not juicy the coverage was patchy. I did wonder if it was the cheap paper that made the pens patchy.  Next up was my acrylic paint and brayers.  I tried to brayer off most of the paint first, finishing off with a gold that had gone very weird in consistency.  I was having such a good time I did two more.  Thinking of Mary Anne's circles, I held them against the window and I really liked the difference it made.

Thirdly I made some paper dolls.  I started off with a black and white sketch from Pixabay.  I altered her slightly, coloured her face and neck and then used my new papers to make her dress, scarf and hat.  Finally I made some flowers!

I am finishing with photographs I took of a local postbox. xx

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Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Julia's Stamping Ground and have a look to see what everyone has been doing. This week I have again been doing both digital and also in my craft room.  Yesterday The Cat Lovers Christmas Challenge: Remembering Janis Woolbright started.  All the details can be found on the start page.
 

I made a journal out of a pad of 12 x 12 papers.  It is based on an envelope journal which I mucked up from the start because I didn't add any overlap!  I carried on regardless and then realized I didn't like some of the patterns next to each other.  So I designed some new papers and used them to cover the corner pocket and the slight gap between the flaps.  I also designed some toadstools, one set quite colourful.

My initial plan was to collage each flap, but there was too much pattern everywhere, so some flaps I cut off and I made a full page flap.  I used the reverse of some pages to make backgrounds and cover the flap on the left.

This journal used about 14 12 x 12 papers, but there are 48 in the pad so my "use it up" policy progresses slowly!  Finally my desk, busy, messy and you can't see the floor 😃.

Cat Lovers Christmas Challenge: Remembering Janis Woolbright

 

The Cat Lovers Christmas Challenge: Remembering Janis Woolbright has started.  All the details an be found on the start page.

There is an amazing list of sponsors and there will be games and quizzes.  Join in the fun!

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 Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday,  a day when we link up to Julia's Stamping Ground and have a look to see what everyone has been doing.  This week I have been doing both digital and also in my craft room.

I made some cat cards for the Cat Challenge only it didn't register in my brain that it was only Christmas themed!  I won an Inkylicious stamp set last year, so I stamped 12 cards and coloured a few in with Crafter's Companion glitter pens.  I am going to make tags with them.

Not known for actually finishing one thing before starting something new, I wanted to experiment with paint over stencil prints.  I downloaded several.  I only used a brayer for these.  The painted stencil is on the right, not that obvious what it is so I enhanced it digitally on the left and added a branch.

I am sure you recognize this person!

I made several sheets of dots and circle shapes and printed these out and added the paint with a brayer.  The two images on the right are from a photograph of Whitby Abbey found on Upsplash.   I got the idea for this from Angela's photograph of her visit to Whitby Abbey.  I converted the photograph to black and white and added paint (the dark blue one) and then I tweaked the colour digitally for the lighter one.

Finally the workdesk, so my next task is probably finishing the tags.

You can see my finished cards from last week here, and a cute fox here.