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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.

And what have I been doing?   Not as much as I would have liked!  I decided would get rid of some of the stamps in my Sea box,  I put them on FaceBook and someone wanted them, via messenger I asked her if she wanted any others.  Which led to sorting out the rest of my clear stamps.  Which of course resulted in a small reorganisation of my craft room!  

I have several projects that I want to do, but found myself dithering on which to do first.  Then I decided on doing something different!  I have several packs of A4 sticker sheets that were bought so I could make my own stickers.  I spent quite some time designing some stickers.

Once I had printed those out, I did a second lot:

And then I printed out several pages of College Soup on the sticker paper.  Since you can't really see them on the page I did a mock up as an example:

You could do the same on ordinary paper and just cut the size of strips you wanted.  I have some A4 sticker sheets that are not divided at all, so I thought I might print some pages and punch out some circles or larger pieces.

I came across something new (to me) - Bible Quilting.  It's basically Bible journaling in a pattern like quilting patterns.  I joined a FaceBook group to learn more and added something else to my project list!

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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 joined JoDitts new website.  From a free colouring sheet, I took a heart, edited it so the black was white and designed the rest.  I am never sure about colour, possibly I should have a lighter colour in the background.

I googled "text boxes" so I could add some to digital lettering.  I found one I liked at Freepix.  I added some colour to the little squares surrounding the box and the centre.   I used these text boxes in the the collage below.

 

Most Bibles use the word Leviathan, meaning large creature or monster, but I found a translation that used "Whales". I am pretty sure if any of the ancient people had seen a whale they would think it a monster! Did you see a whale take in a man and his boat into it's mouth on the TV?  He got spit out again, but he must have been terrified.

The whales were cut from wrapping paper and they are years old. I thought they were just two big and made smaller ones (at the top), but I decided to use them.

I used a stencil for the background in several different colours. Initially I was thinking of a forest of kelp, but when I turned the background on it's side I thought it made a great seascape.

I like this stencil so much I haven't done any more to this one.

This one is on my desk at the moment, I just need to do a verse to finish it.

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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.

Remember that Sea box I told you about last week?  I have been creating collages with some of the contents and also making backgrounds using some of the printed papers that were in there, as well as creating backgrounds in my book.  After seeing Mary Anne’s collages using the negative cuts, I wanted to try it.  Having thrown all my previous negative cuts in the bin, when I punched out some circles last Friday, I kept the left over pieces and used them in my collages.  

I had Bible group this morning, and I didn't have time to finish this post before I left.  

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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 sun is shining this morning, not sure how warm it is outside though.  I will find out when my grandson comes to the back of the garden.  He is a ray of sunshine himself.  I say "Hello Joshua, how are you doing?" He responds "Fine thank you, what have you been doing this morning?".  A minute or two of chat and a hug makes my day!

Yesterday morning I thought I would water the plants before breakfast. I spilled some water, in mopping it up I knocked the atomiser over, which spilled water on the carpet!  In moving a plant out of the way it fell over and left soil on the carpet!  The spilled water was in a hard to reach position and I was back and forth to the kitchen getting kitchen towel as I had spilled more than I thought.  In trying to clear up the soil I made more of a mess 😒.  I staggered into the kitchen and my husband said "What on earth have you been doing?"😦 (Chronic fatigue sufferers will immediately understand) It set the tone for the entire day.  I did manage to do some colouring, but that was it.

The seahorse is for a collage I am planning.  I have had this colouring page for several years, originally I was going to draw one, but I discovered this in my "Sea" box. ( There was a pause here while I went out to say hello to Joshua 😊)  All things related to the sea, stamps, dies, images are in my "Sea" box.

If you remember the book I was in the middle of last week.  It is the one on the right with a ribbon binding.  The one on the left was Travel Planner my faith pages were in.

It is made of scrapbook paper and I used a hinge binding.  I managed to use up 25 sheets of 12 x 12 although I still have left over scraps as the pages measure 9 x 7 inches.

The book above I saw on a Pinterest email.  This is the link.  It is called a Double Locking Accordion.  I didn't have any 24 inch paper so I had to tape two pieces together.  The paper I used was far too thin (righthand side) so I ended up covering it with scrapbook paper. (lefthand side)