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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. 

As you can see, my desk is looking colourful with some flowers I originally painted and then made some different colourways digitally.  Also you can see a design I made for Psalm 23 - see inset - and if you look just behind the paintbrush and jar you can see a blue book.  This is for a Journal Petite course I am doing.  

The first stage of the course was to make backgrounds, for which I used Gelato crayons, just to use them up.  the second stage was paint scraping with a credit type card.  The pages felt very waxy and the paint didn't work well on it, so I decided to gesso all the pages.  Having done that I was ready to do the paint scraping, but did I get that far?  No, I decided to do the paint scraping over a printed outline of flowers like this.

Yes, I know they look nothing like it!

I used a small sponge roller over the stencil that I bought in The Range.  Originally I was doing a lettering page, but I mucked it up so I cut out the lettering and made a page in my art journal.

I am trying to help someone start Bible journaling and I was trying to explain yesterday using Psalm 23 as an example.  Then I thought it's easier to show her, so I have done a digital design, next I am going to do a hand lettering design and then printing out words and images and cutting them out.

Today is a full day, I have Bible group this morning and then I am visiting my niece in the afternoon, so I will catch up 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 started a new journal. The images were free from a site on FaceBook (Eshet Chayil Bible Journaling)

I often pick up things in charity shops and that is where this recipe file came from, however I am not so good at using them.  This is the second item I have used in the last 6 months, so pat on the back for me!

I did another Bible Quilt page.  Trying to write at an angle is not easy. 😄

I also designed some more stickers using a set of free floral images from Creative Fabrica.

This morning I have Bible Group so I will catch up 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. 

This is my first Bible Quilt project.  I have participating at JoDitt's new site https://www.skool.com/fruitful-creativity, the theme for March is Sowing and Reaping.

I did another design and added watercolour, however I had a few problems because I used a rubber and the surface looked messy with water colour. So I turned into a digital design, both above and below.

I am not sure what text will look like against the colour, but I thought I would give it a go.

I watched a tutorial on embossing card with a scoreboard.  Afterwards I rubbed it with ink.  You can see it was a bit hit and miss on the vertical scoring, it being "underneath" the horizontal.  I used some brush pens and then added some gesso to knock back the colour.

Yesterday I threw away those expensive natural watercolour paints I bought last year, an expensive mistake.  I am also giving my Hunkydory brush pens to my grandchildren.  I had another go with them yesterday and I don't like them!  I tried them on glass and then spraying them with water, smooshing?  I used Hunkydory InkMe tags to pick up the colour, but I may have used too much water as it wasn't very successful as far as the card was concerned!

My Apple Pencil is dead!  I didn't realize it was important to keep them charged!  I have ordered one from Amazon, not Apple.

I have actually made a plan of crafts to do, I am hoping it will help me be a little more organized.  I actually finished an stacked envelope journal that has been waiting nearly a year to be finished!

I am going yo Bible Group this morning so will catch up 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 had a spend at The Range,  foam brushes; some bottles with narrow top; black and white patterned tissue;  a "tie-dye" pad; a couple of paints and some roller paintbrushes!

I saw a post here where I saw a new book type.  No instructions were given but the photographs were helpful.  The pages are folded to the middle (green), I used A4, and then an A5 piece yellow joins each page.   It stated no gluing or sewing and putting it together was simple if fiddly.  The problem I had was actually keeping it together.

When a page was turned the inner pieces had moved!  The back piece which slots into the last pieces, didn't want to stay in either.  I ended up using some sticky tape to secure all the joins.  AS experiments go I would give it 5 out 10, but it enabled me to use up some very thin paper I had.

I thought I could put two not very full A4 boxes into one and was just thinking to myself, well done, when I turned and saw something that needed to go in and now wouldn't!  Back to the drawing board!

My Dolly has an upset tummy, she kindly waited until I got back from Bible group and started being sick!  Realizing drinking water was making her sick again and again. I took up the water bowl.  You wouldn't believe how long this post has taken me to finish!