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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 done some spraying, with both mica spray and distress ink, I was happy with the A3 pages and have covered ones and the previous ones with matt medium.  Of the previous ones I only kept half and they have been glued on the reverse side of one of my accordion journals, hiding the pattern there.

I have also been sorting out the files on my computer, which needs doing regularly, much like the physical craft room.  

This is one I did ages ago, but I wanted to add something nice!

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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.  

Above is an Index card pack with part of one of my sprayed backgrounds on.  I wanted to use up the sprays I have which are years old.  They get everywhere when I use them so I decided on using my husbands workroom (with permission of course!).  He protected his tools with an old sheet and obligingly tidied up.

Coincidentally I saw a tutorial recently, the lady used distress inks, but I thought I would try it anyway.  She dipped her copy paper in tea first, but I skipped that step.  After the spraying she scrunched up the papers and left to dry (took two hours in the Texas sun, overnight in the airing cupboard).  When dry they are unwrapped and ironed.

I used water based sprays and sprayed before and after with water, then scrunching up.  I used an A3 pad from Lidl, I tried an A3 pad from The Works and that didn't work at all. I think the Lidl one has a coating helping the water and spray to stay on the surface longer.

Mary Anne reminded me that the sprays would reactivate when wet.  They were intended for collage, but I did need that reminder as glue can be wet!  Sticking to glue stick!   I took photographs of them all so I can print parts out.  Basically I wanted something to cover the lines on the index cards.  The Index card a day challenge is in June and July so slightly less to pack in the caravan.  I also got out previous A3 backgrounds and cut up a few of those too.

The Muse hit me yesterday morning:

The climate has changed, mankind is to blame,

We have lost our four seasons, life will never be the same.

Hurricanes and floods, too much pollution,

The Government are too lazy to come up with a solution.

Crops rot or wilt, food prices rise high,

The people suffer and keep asking why?

As they pollute with their machinery 

and keep the rubbish levels high.

The flood plains are built on, councils  expect the builders to sort it, but people’s houses are flooded, soon after they have bought it.

Or maybe the waters seek another way, the towns are flooded, the insurance won’t pay.

There is no clear directive, no overall view, no one’s accountable saying  “what can I do?”

The government says we need an inquiry or maybe two,

That will decide what we need to do, 

but millions of pounds later, the answer still isn’t clear, 

because the cost of the solution is just too dear.

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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.  

Oh woe is me!  I have a cold!  My trigeminal pain is two steps forward one step back!  Enough of that.  

I watched a tutorial by Margaret of Vintage Journals. I thought I would make one after I had finished tidying my room.

It is getting there.  Corners are the bane of my life!  In one particular corner I had a box labelled "journals" and also a top box was labelled "journals".  Would they all fit in the one box?  Answer no!  The small box is about shoebox size.  In the big box I found several I had made the same type as I was about to make.😳

More journals where the red dots are, incidentally, the picture of the horses is a glass cutting mat which  my daughter brought me home from Australia, I can't bring myself to use it.

It just goes on !!  I watched yet another tutorial for a book: Australian Piano Hinge Binding.  This in connection with a free course that starts in April, the idea is to use the book throughout the course.  Would you believe I have just spent half hour looking for the file because I had named it Sarah Matthews instead of Australian Piano Hinge Binding.😖    She was saying that she finds journal making soothing, just cut and fold the parts and put it all together.  I wondered if that's why I had so many? 

The desk.  I have two rolls of paper to cut up and I bought myself a little sewing machine.

I am just tossing this one in.  These small strips are from scrapbook paper that I keep looking at, but feel they are too thick for my collages.  I had the idea of taking a photograph and printing them on paper and I also wondered about using them as templates for other digital paper.