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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 took part in Trovember, a treasure hunt of a collage.  One prompt a day for the month of November.  I decided I wouldn't print out anything, but instead , use what I can find.  I don't normally have magazines, we had the latest Caravan magazine and I picked up a couple of free ones at Tesco.  The Caravan magazine was surprisingly useful and I was glad to use some images that were years old.  It was a very different challenge, but I enjoyed it.

My desk, nothing much going on.  I was looking for a particular flower template, but had no success in finding it.  I did find two of the three flowers I have, but the third one wasn't with them. 

We still have my MIL with us as my SIL had on operation on her knee. Another garden centre yesterday, but I didn't buy anything this time,

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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 last pages of my Revelation journal, the border is the only thing I added to the beautiful horse image.

The word art I did in Ai then deleted the background and placed the words over an amended image of the horse and rider.

I have a stack of sharpies I wanted to use up, so I did some doodling, once finished I gave the pages a thin coat of gesso to mute the colours.

I think I will try a thinner coat next time.

I decided to join in with Trovember, I was a bit behind (15 days!), so I took screenshots of the prompts, but I was very strict and didn't look till I had done the previous one.  I was determined to only use what I could find.  So it really was a treasure hunt.

I am finishing off with this old poster for Wrexham Lager.  It was on the wall in a restaurant we went to last week.  I had to go up and take a closer look, because I noticed that Wrexham was in England!  At the bottom it says, Wrexham. North Wales, England!  I wonder what local opinion was at the time!

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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 am so excited about the Ai these past two weeks.  Yesterday I did the one above and below.  The left side is a before and the right side, the finished piece.  I loved the tree, but wanted to get rid of the roots.  The bottom third has lots of lovely texture, I just kept working at it in PSE `until I was happy and I was very happy :)

I did several angels before I decided on this one.  He is described as illuminating the earth.  This is another before and after.

The text in Revelation mentions an army, led by Jesus, of every tribe and nation. The first image gave me an army of bald headed white men!  The second try gave an army of  women with long hair and the third gave me an army of black and ethnic people.  So I used the heads of people from all three!

I have finished my Revelation journal, but decided 9 more pictures would be too much, so half the pages this week and half next week.

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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.

We have been to a couple of garden centres with my MIL, the last one had some lovely decorations I bought two, but I could have bought several more.

I have done several more pages in my Revelation journal, accompanied by a few more Ai images.

This last one wasn't right for my purpose, but I did like it, it reminded me of an old cigarette card.

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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 been busy with Ai, it's proving an ideal occupation for the state of my health at the moment. 

The left hand image is a combination of two Ai images and a grungy layer in between in PSE Although the open book image was what I was after the text apart from the title was gobbledygook! So a little erasing of the text covered by a grungy layer, sorted that out.  The other two images I used a direct quote from Revelation and was very pleased with them.   There are seven angels with trumpets in Revelation and this time Ai did not want to play. I tried over several days with varying degrees of success.  I just wanted two wings and one trumpet per angel!😆

I will be adding more pages tomorrow.

We have my dear MIL staying with us for a few weeks.  Her doctor wanted a biopsy organized while she was with us for a lump she has. He sent a letter for our doctor and photographs.  We had an appointment yesterday, the doctor knew nothing about the letter till she looked at her notes! She then said we don't do that here and suggested she go back to her own doctor!  What in the whole of Wales a biopsy cannot be organized!  My MIL also has a lump on her head which the doctor was asked to look at, she declared it a family event to treat with baby oil and pick it off!  

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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 great afternoon yesterday, a belated birthday present from my sister, lunch and painting a piece of pottery, which I won’t get back for two weeks, I think they only set the Kiln up when there are enough pieces.

That’s not the only arty fun I have had this past week.  I watched a tutorial by Helen Wells which involved painting a sheet of a jug and flowers and then using the ideas on a second sheet.  I rounded up some jugs and sketched 3 different ones. Helen’s were more abstract. But I was happy with mine.  

I did several pages of my Revelation study and decided to add inset pages  so I did some collage on them. The back of the book still has the flap, ready to add on more pages. which I think I will need and then I can put a cover on.

My delivery from Temu arrived, several stencils, some black and white  washi tape. And several pairs of gloves, some chunky ones which I ordered for several people, only to find I was one pair short!  So I need to make another order.  The grey gloves, my daughter and I wear practically all the time, they stop my hands hurting. Amazon sell exactly the same thing, but they are more expensive!

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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.  

Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, saying:

     To Him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and             honour and glory and power, for ever and ever.

My granddaughter and I agree that Ai is not art, but this one I worked very hard on.  I am doing a study of Revelation and I had the idea about doing a quick Ai picture of a scene in Revelation.  I had to change the size to make more room for the fish.   There were a few deformed birds and fish I had to deal with and then I decided to add angels!  

I don't think the "i" should stand for intelligence. more "idiot"  First look the angels at the bottom were fine, and then you see that some are using the trumpets as ear trumpets and they faces are screwed up.  I asked for realistic faces and white dresses.  Several goes later, getting there, but I asked for them to be singing - and got big fat lips. 😄.  More work in PSE, giving them singing mouths, and two wings where they only had one, to get to my final piece.

This is my study of Ezekiel.

I am still struggling with Vertigo.  I had an appointment Monday and loose ear crystals has been ruled out.  Back on the medication!

I got back to the car Sunday morning to find water everywhere!  Monday and Tuesday mornings were spent on the phone with the car insurance company.  First it wasn't covered, then their systems went down, they promised to get back to me - did they? No!  So now it is covered and we have an appointment this morning to get it fixed.

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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. 

Finally finished my house book.  I did two house tags Monday morning, but mucked them up so binned them in frustration!  Instead yesterday I made a folded tag of the 23rd Psalm and I made a tiny cross with the Our Father on.  They need some ribbon on, but as long as I get the hole in the right place it won't take long.

Playing with Ai again.  I wanted a spooky house, but not necessary Halloween.  The last four were very dark, but a bit of Photoshop Elements did wonders

It's probably breaking copyright, but this was on the Doctor Who FB page.  I know there are one or two Doctor Who fans amongst us.

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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 started getting symptoms of Vertigo again and I seem to be doing everything at snail's pace.  I have an appointment for an Audio Balance Assessment on the 20th of this month.  I had my diabetes review today and apparently I am doing very well!  

I have been playing with ai again.  I wanted a couple of Bible verse images for a study I am doing on Revelation and also for a little book I am doing. 

I made two books that were on YouTube by Kit Davey

 Accordion Book with Triangular Pockets - YouTube

 https://youtu.be/Sc5KaffEfcs?si=d3wcdIKx0-aOso-G

How to Make a House-Shaped Book from One Piece of Paper - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxGgyujtY_U

I didn't like the house book so I redesigned that, the Accordion book was easy.  Kit used A4 paper both times, I used 12 x 12 scrapbooking paper as I wanted a sturdier book.  

Too many projects on the go!  I can see my printouts are too big.  I wrote down the measurements, maybe I didn't actually look at them !

Next week I hope to have these finished and I will take some more photographs.

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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. 

A rose from my neighbours garden and a caterpillar from our shed, a Pale Tussock Moth caterpillar to be precise.  when my husband first showed it to me I said it looked like a toothbrush!

We have had visitors for the past two weeks and have been out for most days.  They went home on Monday so not a lot of anything got done.  I did make a new book for my Ezekiel study, by sticking scrapbook papers folded on the spine side one inch, together and have added the printed sheets.  This is my third and final book.  The first was was A5 size and I realized the image pages I had created while we were away, would not fit.  The second was a spiral bound book that was too big and bulky, I think the third one is just right!!

 

I need to give it a cover, finish decorating the pages and there are a few more pages to come. 

So that's it for me x