Cosie's Creative Corner

Konnichiwa This month the topic for the monthly swap was foreign languages so it could be art, foreign scripts, culture etc. I decided to use this lovely digi from Little Blue Button Stamps  and coloured her with copics to match the background I printed. It was a freebie from a magazine and has some lovely themes. I printed it twice so I could cut out extra cherry blossoms for dimension. The sentiment and the image were also adhered using mounting tape. Copics: Skin: E0000,000,R20,01. Hair: W5,7,9. Kimono: R81,85,RV11,91,93. Parasol: RV000,R00,01. Flowers/Leaves: RV000,32,YG05,09.

Lazy Sunday Love this image this month from Grateful Heart Digis and I just had to make an Aussie scene with it. I printed the gum trees from Make it Crafty  first then drew in the ground and coloured them with oxide distress inks to make the background. I then printed the store, extra dog on xpress it card, coloured them with copics and fussy cut them out. Used flat tape to adhere the store and mounting tape for the dog. The birds are from a set called Spread Cheer from Penny Black. The dog is from an old Sparkle and Sprinkle set called Scratchy. Copics:  Store:  Walls: E41,43,44. Veranda/roof/posts: E70,71,74. Doors/windows: B32,34,99,BG0000. Books: YR31,YG61,R05. Signs: R46,C0. Barrel: E13,17. Pumpkin: YR04,07,YG67. Dogs: E31,33,35,79,C0,5,9.

Halloween Faeryink are having a Halloween ATC swap and I decided to have a play. I like ATCs and it makes me think out of the box and is a change from card making. My monthly stamp group does one and have done a few others. This one was easy as I only had to do three and they could all be different. I downloaded a few great images from Faeryink and used the Raven Nevermore and Witchball on two of them and a witch image from DeliciousDoodles . Sorry this post is so long but I like to list the colours I use and it is usually only for one project. On the raven ATC I used Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolours to colour all the images. The house and bats are from SU 's Halloween Scares stamp set and the gravestones from a Make it Crafty  digi image. I fussy cut the raven and two of the gravestones to fit and used a circle dye for the moon. Added some Wink of Stella clear to the moon for some sparkle and glossy accents on the house windows. Watercolours: Windows 33,40. Sta...

Tap Dancer I had so much fun with this ATC this month. The topic was dance etc and I have not used this adorable stamp from Make it crafty and it is available here . To make the saying, fit I first had to stamp it and then reduce it and print it out on a piece of x-press it paper. As an ATC is only 31/2 x 2/12 I didn't have a lot of room to stamp Fred so I stamped him on an other piece of xpress it paper, coloured him with copics and fussy cut it out. Coloured the background with distress oxide inks, added a strip of PP from kaiser's Hello Today 61/2 X 61/2 pad for the floor and hand drew some lines to resemble floor boards . Needed something for Fred to tap on and like the way it turned out. Adhered him to the ATC then onto a grey base. This was probably not the easiest way to make this but so happy with the end result. Copics:  Suit: N3,5,7,9. Shirt: C0,1. Tie: Y04,YR16. Shoes: E25,27,C9. Sock: C9. Skin: E51,53,55. Belt: YR24,C9.