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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

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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 had visitors all week so we have been out and about.  A quick flavour of what I have been up to this past week:

Albert Docks including me and semi precious stones; Shrewsbury left hand photograph; Chester, the balloon dog seat and my granddaughter in her own outfit with her Cruella de Ville expression!

Fun in AI:

I wanted a sleeping bear to illustrate a little poem, so of course I had a play. Cezanne; Franz Marc; Picasso and Kandinsky styles.

My Ezekiel study included some Freeform pages which I made on holiday to print out when I got home.  To get the images small enough to go in the book made them unreadable, so a change of plan was needed. I bought a weekly planner book from a charity shop which is two inches wider and taller.  Instead of writing it all out again, I am printing the text pages and sticking them in. Then printing the image pages and I shall probably add extra images too.  I shall probably redo the image pages as the resolution wasn't the best.

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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. 

Once again there has been very little crafting going on.  I had a seven hour wait in A&E, to discover my heart is okay(ish); my brain is okay, diagnosis vertigo!  Since the pharmacy had closed by the time I left the hosptal, I had another hours wait for the prescription the following morning.

Our friends have come to stay today, so probably not much crafting this week.  My friend always brings me a bag of goodies, that she has found in charity shops ( her favourite past time!).  Today she bought me a new mug; a 12 x 12 scrapbook paper pad, a little stamp set and a beautiful handmade journal.  She is so special to bring me gifts.

The paper is quite pale, but I think you can see the designs. My friend fell and broke her shoulder a few months ago, and getting on the train she fell, bruised, but nothing broken,  She said the Railway staff were wonderful, even upgraded them to first class.  I think she will develop a real shiner in the morning.

I have a hospital procedure for Wednesday morning, a new method of taking cells from the oesophagus, which involves swallowing a tablet which is actually a sponge.  I  hope I will be brave.

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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.

Once again, no new crafting to show, I was planning to go into my craft room yesterday, but instead helped my husband with one of the fish ponds.  My job was fairly easy, I sat on a chair while my husband poured buckets of water through a net to catch the fish.

When my daughter said the pond was getting very green I ordered a product from Amazon.  Unfortunately, she didn't read the instructions and just poured the liquid into the pond without mixing with water first.  So we decided to change the water.

The Minnows, I think we have had nearly three years.  They came from someone's large (think lake) pond.

The freshly filled pond.

While we were away the two Koi fish died and the pond apparently smelt awful, so my daughter and grandson emptied the pond.

This pond is on the opposite side of the garden.

I am amazed how big the black fish have grown, I call them "My Boys", but I have no idea of their sex.  So I have four ponds and a big tub filled with water that has waterlillies in.  The left hand side of the garden the other side of the ponds, is my little "wood".

Well that was a different post!

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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.  Today is not Wednesday, obviously, but I am still joining in!

The reason for the very late posting, is that I have been putting my craft stuff back into my craft room.  My dear husband thought it was much better to get in a bit at a time and put it away.  Twice I thought I had finished and he brought another load in!  I prefer my normal method of everything coming at once.

Of course I had a sort out while I was doing it and here is the end result:

I had a delivery from Hunkydory.  They give a free card making set every month to members, you just have to pay postage.  I don’t often order them, but I do like poinsettias and I got a couple of masks too.

I hope next week to have done some kind of art, until then have a great 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.  

 

These are the last pictures in my “Colours in the Bible” study.  I think this last one is my favourite visually.  ChatGPT supplied the angel image, this took several “goes” to get the

the image I was after.  The last but one I wanted a bright, shining face. 

Revelations 10 :1 and part of 2 says: 

“I saw still another mighty angel coming down from heaven, clothed with a cloud. And a rainbow was on his head, his face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire.  He had a little book open in his hand.”

Unfortunately the angel looked quite spooky, so I had turn down the brightness!

Today we travel home so I may be late in calling 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 can’t say I have done a great deal this past week.  We had a visit to a local town and I got myself a nice storage unit at a charity shop and some fabric.  I am not exactly sure what I am going to do with the fabric, I had vague ideas about a fabric book.  They are sample pieces and they have a border of paper backing them, which doesn’t seem to be coming off easily.  They are a mix of cotton 25%; viscose 25%; linen 25%; and polyester 25%.   Perhaps Jan or Annie could tell me if I should soak the paper off or bin them?

You can see there is quite a bit of paper left in the upper right picture.

I bought a new craft bag on a trip to Shrewsbury and some wrapping paper that I will be spending hours cutting up!  

I have just the last colour study to do which is multicolours as in the rainbow.

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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 fabulous two weeks near my niece.  Last Saturday she was doing a book cover class, so I joined in:

Nearly finished my study of colour in the Bible.  This is White:

AI technology for the horse and rider (Jesus in Revelations 19) from Chatgpt, plus a tiny adjustment from me!   Absolutely love that picture.

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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.  

Yesterday I spent the day with my niece, we did bird houses first, using Powertex, here is mine.

The right one is my niece's and the left her daughter's, my great niece.

Then we did trinket boxes, mine is the top one, the orangey one my niece's and the other my great niece's.

Finally my colour study of Gold in the Bible.  

Sorry if this post seems rushed!  It was!

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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.  

Here are the latest  ICADS , there is one more to come which just might be the one at the bottom!

Working in the awning, unfortunately I had to tidy quickly as the table was needed and was too late with the camera!  In the book are my prints flattening.  I tried some leaf printing, there was only a couple I kept as they were. I painted over the others with some left over paint.  The ones most recently done disappeared into the paint, but the outline was left with the other ones.  With the following one I printed over a painted one.  I like how this one turned out.  It was the only one flat enough to photograph!