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GENTLEMAN CRAFTER

Official Blog of Arts and Crafts Enthusiast, John Bloodworth

Author: John - Gentleman Crafter

A creative enthusiast for over 30 years, the concept creator and organiser of the All Counties Craft Challenge which raised £24,000 for Mind, a registered mental health charity. Previously a television producer and guest demonstrator at Create and Craft TV in the UK. Now, happily making my way through life, in both senses of the term.
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Artist Trading Card Daily 126

November 17, 2015August 28, 2020 John - Gentleman Crafter7 Comments

Good morning! :) It’s lovely to see you again today.

Yesterday I achieved five ATC365 blog posts – can I do it again today?! Hope so…

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Artist Trading Card Daily 125

November 16, 2015November 17, 2015 John - Gentleman Crafter11 Comments

For today’s last Artist Trading Card post I have gone a little off-the-wall and headed down the mixed media experimental road.

It’s a road I veer down every now and again. Come with me if you like :)

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Artist Trading Card Daily 124

November 16, 2015November 15, 2015 John - Gentleman Crafter8 Comments

Thank you. Thank you for visiting this blog and being a part of my life. Thank you for all of the positive feedback that you leave – it really helps.

Today’s Artist Trading Card highlights this thanks.

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Artist Trading Card Daily 123

November 16, 2015August 28, 2020 John - Gentleman Crafter2 Comments

Are we really free? It’s a philosophical question that world events really do bring out minds around to again and again.

I’m of the opinion that we are to a good degree – there’s policy and guidelines of course but, as this ATC365 attests, all good things are wild and free!

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Artist Trading Card Daily – 122

November 16, 2015November 15, 2015 John - Gentleman Crafter7 Comments

Dreams are a common thing among humans – but do electronic sheep dream?

I’m pretty sure that this is a quote from a book that was made into a film at some point, but I can’t guarantee it – in either case, it’s possibly got nothing to do with this Artist Trading Card Daily creation.

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Artist Trading Card Daily – 121

November 16, 2015February 23, 2019 John - Gentleman Crafter4 Comments

I’ve been counting down to Christmas – there are only five Monday’s before Christmas!!!

Which inevitably means that I have much to do on the web before the end of the year – so here goes!

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Scan N Cut Canvas – Removing Cut Lines To Create Flaps

November 9, 2015 John - Gentleman Crafter7 Comments

Hello all :) Wel,, I’ve had a couple of questions about removing cut lines in the Scan N Cut Canvas design suite recently so I thought that it might be easier to show this one, rather than to type it out – so here is a lovely little quick tip video for you.

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Craft Scene Investigation (2)

Artist Trading Card Daily 120 – Craft Scene Investigation

October 24, 2015August 28, 2020 John - Gentleman Crafter8 Comments

Do you ever head into the craft room only to discover that it’s a complete mess and you have no idea how it happened?

This happened to me recently – so I decided to get the experts in.

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Circular Box Frame Easel Card (Could I have Fitted Any Other Type Of Card Effect In There?!)

October 20, 2015August 28, 2020 John - Gentleman Crafter9 Comments

Hello to you once more, *doffs cap*.

Well, who would have thought that I would have managed to get two blog posts out per day for three days in a row?! Well, I have, *puffs out chest and looks proud*.

For this one I went back to designing box frame card fronts, but this time I thought that I would add a twist and a bonus.

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Abstract Encaustic Wax Art and Artist Trading Card Daily 119

October 19, 2015August 28, 2020 John - Gentleman Crafter12 Comments

So, I haven’t forgotten the old ATC365 challenge and whilst I was having a tidy up the other day I found a few scraps from my recent Encaustic Arts experiments that just squealed out at me to be used – so I did use them.

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A Box Of Delights

October 19, 2015August 28, 2020 John - Gentleman Crafter13 Comments

Well hello there cheeky face – it’s lovely to see you again.

Now, I had such a lovely time making the box frame card yesterday that I thought that I would try my hand at another one …

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Scan N Cut Canvas – Process Overlapped Feature – What Is It?

October 18, 2015October 17, 2015 John - Gentleman Crafter11 Comments

Lots of confusion regarding the “Process Overlapped” feature in Scan N Cut Canvas from people that contact me so I thought that I would take a few mins to record a quick overview on what ‘Process Overlapped’ is and what it does – you’ll kick yourself when the penny drops …

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Creating Score Lines In Scan N Cut Canvas

October 17, 2015 John - Gentleman Crafter7 Comments

I’ve had a fair few people ask about creating score lines in Scan N Cut canvas so I’ve been back to the video creation/editing ‘suite’ and put a short video together to explain just how to do that.

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Fancy Flourish Header Card

October 12, 2015February 21, 2021 John - Gentleman Crafter3 Comments

Morning all. I’ve been having a little play in between designing 3D bits and bobs to create a nice versatile card blank for the Digital Craft Emporium.

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Another Commission Complete

October 11, 2015 John - Gentleman Crafter18 Comments

Hurrah! Another one done!

It’s been a labour of love with much hand-cramp but commission number two is finally complete :)

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