cards – Miss Jane's Classroom

I don’t know about you but I’m really enjoying Mondays! Looking through my cupboards, rumaging through drawers, opening storage boxes and discovering long lost treasures is very exciting! Maybe you should pick a day and make it your “Use it day”.

Here’s a recap of the last four Mondays, enjoy!

Embossing Powders, I have a wonderful collection of beautiful colours but just forget to use them, so they and we had a little play. The die-cut fronds fell this way on my card and viola a Christmas tree was made LOL

Handmade Papers – I’m a sucker for beautiful handcrafted papers, the photo doesn’t do any justice to these pretty papers, the texture is just devine! Yes we’re always keeping them for a special card but do we ever cut them up? No! Well it’s time I say! Start using your stash!

Do you hoard stuff just beacuse you know you can’t buy them anymore? But hey, seriously, there is always going to be pretty stuff to buy, right? It’s no good just sitting in it’s packaging, no one is enjoying it that way. Just use it!

Oh man I forgot how delicious looking H2o’s are! They have great hues and glimmer beautifully, I must use these more!! This card took me ten minutes to create, serious!!

Well there you go, that’s just four items I’ve reaquainted myself with. Start looking through your stuff, it’s like shopping in a craft store LOL.

Happy Creating, Miss Jane

Right, my craft room is all set up, now what? I sit, I ponder, I go through my stamps, I look out the window, make a coffee, ponder more! Okay, let’s start with something simple I say to myself, monochromatic stamping and colouring, simple cards! That’s probably the hardest thing to do Jane! What are you thinking?! Me! Do simple cards!! Bwahahaha

I grabbed a floral image from The Stamp Market Floral Bouquet set which I bought from Auzz Trinket NCrafts I stamped the design a few times on white blender card using a Distress Ink pad, then coloured between the images using a Copic marker in a lighter version to the ink. I had a background done in no time, then another and another, five backgrounds later and I couldn’t get off the monochromatic merry-go-round LOL.

Anyway, it was all good fun creating again. Here are my first few cards I’ve made in my new craft room!