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Wednesday 17 April 2024
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Wednesday 10 April 2024
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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.
It's Wednesday Yay! We are back home (for a while anyway!). I have been continuing with using up my die cuts, so far I have got 5 completed collages that you saw last week and 48 that need completing. I took photographs of the collages as I had an idea of using them digitally.
Wednesday 3 April 2024
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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.
Last Wednesday we had a huge shock when Dolly was attacked on the morning walk. The path runs along a field and there are two dogs from the property that regularly run up to the fence and bark at passing dogs. Dolly barked back, being a brave Chihuahua, and the dog put his head through and dragged her back. A week later she is on her way to normal. Her back wound is getting better and she is playing with the others. Thank you all for your kind wishes to her.
I took approximately half the backgrounds that I had been working on with me. The first collages I did I limited myself to one folder, which has a lot old bits and pieces. I bought several die cut books from the Works, which I wanted to use up. They were intended to make a set of cards, I bought them to use the pieces for collage. So using those and some 6 x 6 paper I have been creating backgrounds that only need focal points to finish them off - well that's the plan.
The die cuts
Wednesday 27 March 2024
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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.
Wednesday 20 March 2024
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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. Sadly Jack is no longer with us. At 17 and a half years he had had a long life. He was gentle and friendly, loved by all who knew him.
I have been doing then two at a time, clipping them back to back till the edges are not sticky and then putting them under my cast iron book stand.
Wednesday 13 March 2024
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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.
Wednesday 6 March 2024
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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 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.
Wednesday 28 February 2024
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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 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.
Wednesday 21 February 2024
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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 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
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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.
Wednesday 7 February 2024
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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.
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 front๐๐
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.