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Wednesday 13 March 2024

WOTWW 771

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 is a digital collage created from stamped pieces over the original below.


I sorted through my scraps and made two collages, the top left is a single piece of paper, years old, stuck to an file folder. the bottom one was collaged and then covered with a piece of tissue wrapping paper.  I wasn't very happy with it and I noticed  several air pockets.  It wasn't quite dry and I added some Cosmic Shimmer metallic gilding polish, I didn't like that so added gesso and silver paint, stood thinking what next?  It wasn't dry enough for sandpaper and I remembered a stone I had found ages ago.  It is very rough, I don't know what kind of stone it is. I used the stone to distress the collage and then painted a layer of liquidtex.  Using a tape inner I drew circles with a sharpie.  Tried out a Uni Chalk pen, then toned it down with a paint pen from The Range.  The paint pen is a bit like gelatos, very soft and I left it to dry.  I thought I would add some stencilling later.


Yesterday afternoon I played with the collage on my laptop.


I am off to Bible group this morning so I will be around to catch up later.

Wednesday 6 March 2024

WOYWW 770

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 been sorting and tidying in my craft room. A friend gave me a lovely bird shelf unit which meant reorganising so I could display it.


Once I had got so far with the sorting, I turned my attention to my stamps. I had a good clear out a while ago, but I still managed to get rid of quite a few.  I searched online for how to clean sticky stamps, which was just putting them into warm soapy water to soak for a few minutes, then rinsing them in water.  They did look and feel better afterwards.

I did some stamping (bottom left).  My intention is to start using the stamps - we will see how that goes!  Bible group this morning so I will catch up with everyone later.





 

Wednesday 28 February 2024

WOYWW 769

 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 continuing using up my 12 x 12 papers.

I have been making a stacked envelope journal.  I watched several tutorials which were all fairly similar in that it was about decorating the envelopes and making cards to go inside.  Then I saw one which said Stacked Envelope Journal.  


You simply choose envelopes of different sizes; ink them up; reinforce the flap fold with some tape; cover them back and front unless the envelope is particularly interesting.


The envelope flaps are stuck down and I covered them with brown tape as a second measure.


The middle is covered to hide the envelope flaps.


I made an extra piece behind the envelope layer which has a pocket
and a flap.  The inside front has a pocket too.

I hurt my back using the guillotine on the floor, so I have been having a change around to make more room on my desk.  I really wanted to be able to show you a tidy workroom, but alas not yet!


I cut my hair - my husband was not impressed, but I like it.  I was getting fed up with it so I gathered it at the base of my neck and cut it off!  It could have gone horribly wrong, but it didn't. xx














Wednesday 21 February 2024

WOYWW 768

 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 been busy sorting out my ephemera folders.  I had a few packs of bird images from Hunkydory.  I decided cut them to a more usable size.  I had watched a couple of YouTube videos on making  ephemera, one of which was faux stamps.  I cut all the pictures down with thinning scissors and inked the edges.  Once they were done I went on to a pack of butterflies, a washi tape paper with plastic backs.  I did a few on book paper, then I used a sticky note pad.   I inked the edges of the sticky note pad and put the butterflies on top. I used glitter pens to add colour to some.  Then I went back to the birds and selected some paper to back them with, inked the edges.  Now I have a lovely pile ready to use.  I did intend to stamp some postmarks on them, but instead I had a long nap yesterday afternoon.


I finished my pages for Faith Inspirations, the pink isn't as vivid in real life.



Today I have Bible Group this morning so I shall be round to visit in the afternoon.



Tuesday 13 February 2024

WOYWW 767

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. 

When I saw the free image from Gecko Galz I thought it was very dramatic.  I envisaged the pair coming out of a forest - an older Little Red Riding Hood and her companion.  I found a free forest image on Raw Pixel and did some digital work popping them into place and began thinking of the story behind the image.  Turning it into a poster for a film or a book.  


This was a pile of books made with "Stack the Deck Binding"  Kelly was interested so here is a link to a tutorial.  It is a fairly easy method and ideal if you are intending to make pockets and waterfall embellishments and the like.  I was just thinking of using up a lot of card! 

It has taken me four days to get the books ready for use.  In each of these I used 12 x 12 papers to decorate the covers and certain inside pages where the paper /card was a bit thin.  I don't make Halloween cards, but I do like to make a Halloween journal. So that's one allocated. One or two are going to be for my digital art that I enjoy doing and the rest will be for collage that I also enjoy doing.



I dyed some card Monday using the ink taken from one of the distress daubers.  I did add water to make the colour lighter.


This is for the February Faith Inspirations challenge.   I have printed this out and will be adding to the page.  The theme is God guides our steps.



Happy Valentines Day xx  I will be round to see everybody after the Bible Group.  We are starting a Lent course.  My poor husband's knee is gout and he is on medication.   Still taking painkillers at night :(










Wednesday 7 February 2024

WOYWW 766

 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.

Still doing a lot of sorting in my craft room.  Monday I discovered a distress ink dauber had leaked (only a bit) I had taken the sponge top off as it had disintegrated.  I have another dauber which is a very dark brown so I removed the top of that and poured a little into a container, replaced the top!  The I poured what was left of the light lavender colour into the container too.  My idea was to make the brown lighter.  Using a sponge, I dyed all my old diecut frames, a little bit darker than I would have preferred, but still pleased. 

Tuesday, the first thing I wanted to do was put the container away - simple - afraid not.  The lids were kept in a jar on the top shelf, I couldn’t see them up there, so I started searching and sorting and tidying as I went.  Nearly an hour later I was getting rather tired and decided to have a proper look 0n the top shelf - which meant taking everything off my step stool with handle!  Found the jar after I had removed what was in front🙈🙈

Once the lid was safely on. I thought I would do some scanning of a book of ephemera  so I could print some off to get more use.  My son and family came round on Sunday and I had a tidy up, the usb I needed for the scanning was nowhere to be seen.  Sound familiar?  Another bout of searching eventually found it.   Unfortunately this tale of woe is not over!  My printer printed out some dull images.



I use my old printer for scanning as my present printer scans are very light (middle image).  I have done a problem search, so I shall try again later as I have Bible group this morning - I have a lot waiting to print out:

My patchwork collage scanned 


and added to


used here as a background



used for a background  again for this cute dog.






Wednesday 31 January 2024

WOYWW 765

 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 been visiting my brother and yesterday we drove to Basingstoke to meet up with friends.  I first met them when I started dating my husband and we have been friends every since. Today we meet up with my brother one more time before returning home.  It's hard to believe the number of years since I last saw my brother.  I wish flights to Australia were cheaper and shorter!

I have been doing some collage while my husband was walking the dogs.  Using up some pieces that are years old.  The small book I have been working in is a few years old too.  One of my experiments with some 12 x 12 paper.  This one is 6 x 6 which is a nice size to work in and use up some of my 6 x 6 paper too.




I have completed the cover and all the left sides, which leaves the right hand sides to write in.

Looking forward to catching up with everyone x








Wednesday 24 January 2024

WOYWW 764

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 finished my "Snippets of the Psalms" little book.  Quite often I see my 9 year old Grandson at playtime. The other day I said hello and he asked what was I doing that day.  I told him I had started a book, but I felt it needed to be bigger and thought I might scrap it and start again.  He advised to carry on because once I had done it I could keep it as a template to help with the next one!   So I finished it and was quite pleased with it too.  He is so serious and very sweet sometimes!


I have five more papers collaged and ready to work on.


Next some Gecko Galz Challenges.  Images were free.  Steampunk Cat is the cover for a little book I made.



Gothic Crow on another page.


A Christmas card for the monthly challenge.


I had a set of small note cards which I hinged together.  The "hinges" were diecut.  the right side is a card front and the left side a back, In between the inside is white.


Since I want to do some collage pages, I thought I would sort my ephemera folders. So surrounded by boxes and folders here is where I was working most of yesterday.
I keep my ephemera in these folders as it makes it easier when we away in the caravan.  One side is the "lid" and the other is the base with a flap on three sides. The metal links have a flat side (base) and a round side.  On one of them the middle section is the wrong way round.  I noticed last year when I first used them that the pages were not fitting in very well and thought I had put them in the wrong way.  So I tried to put it right today and discovered the reason.  My husband is thinking how to fix it, I probably would have returned it had I realised, but I think it's a bit late now.

My husbands knee is improving each day and I think we will be off to see my brother on Friday.  My daughter is having a colonoscopy Thursday so the children are coming to us after school.  They are giving her a full anesthetic as "they want to have a proper look" :(

See you later x












Wednesday 17 January 2024

WOYWW 763

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 made another A3 collage with all the bits left over.  I think I rushed it, too many wonky pieces and I didn’t care for the combination. 


So I gave it a coat of gesso, so far so good. Having decided on an accordion, I cut the paper in half and folded each length concertina style. Next I decorated each portion with napkin pieces.
                                         

I wanted it to blend, so I added a thin coat of gesso, not happy so I tried a little paint and more gesso.  Still not happy!  I added another layer of napkin.


Final stage still working on.


Finally, my dear husband has hurt his knee again (he did it last summer), my dear daughter said I should phone 111 which I did, they advised seeing the doctor, so I was on the Internet early this morning making a request when to our utter amazement my husband had a phone call about 10, from the hospital physio to go in for 11:40.  She didn't know what the problem is so he now has to have some blood tests.  Obviously we have put off the visit to see my brother in Gosport and hoping he will be well enough for next week.








Wednesday 10 January 2024

WOYWW 762

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.  No photograph of my desk today - I forgot sorry!



These are my latest pages for Faith Inspirations, the foxglove path images and several individual foxglove images were free.  I love foxgloves so this was such a pleasure to do.  I printed foxglove path a second time, making it much lighter so I could write over it.  I have several distress ink dabbers and I used two of them the brown - which worked quite well and a shaded lilac which I used over gesso, but it wasn't as dark as I hoped.  The sponge head on the lilac had deteriorated so I applied it with a sponge.


Three ATC's for Gecko Galz ATC challenge.  All  the images are free with the challenge.





I have done four more collages.  I have blue scraps next to either do or bin!  I haven't decided yet :)