Cosie's Creative Corner

For You Friend I had a small piece of background left from my first card and I hate to waste so made this second card. The leaves and friend die are from a kit by Gina k and I embossed the leaves in three colours of Zing embossing powder, rouge, mustard and leaf. Die cut them out with the two friends die. The small friend die was then gold heat embossed and adhered to the large one. Wrapped gold thread around the green card mat, adhered the leaves with mounting tape, and the friend die and background after stamping and embossing the for you sentiment. A button, some sequins and gold bow added and all finished. Don't know which is my favourite. Like them both. 

Hello Friend Late as usual with my entry but I have been busy and had a lovely break with friends just relaxing  with no computers. I even had my phone off most of the time and I didn't miss it at all. Just sent a message once a day to the our daughters and told them only to ring if desperate. So peaceful and we all managed fine and the world did not end. The image this month is gorgeous and I tried something different. Have had this old set of cheap watercolour pencils that I have been going to throw away but  had a play and here is the result. Not the best but was fun trying to just stick with the few colours in the set.

Seasons Greetings Had to put the class on hold for a few days but I did managed to get a card done with the embossing re-inker technique. I had fun making the background and this is the result. The card was easy to make and I love the result. The trees are from Gina K and the sentiment from Penny Black. The background was made with Zing pewter and silver embossing powers and I used Zing gold for the trees. The sentiment was done with an old super fine gold I have had for ages and I have forgotten the brand and the label is missing. Shame about that as it is the best I have used.

Don't Ruffle Your Feathers  Thi s  card is Day 3 lesson where we used dies to cut an image from the background we made and then used it as a focal point on a card. Used my copic re-inkers for the first time and will definitley use them again. This was a quick and easy card and I have plenty of leftover cut leaves etc to use later. This set of feathers was a freebie by Hot Of The Press that came with a magazine from Practical Publishing that had matching dies and stencil. Cut three feathers and used one of the sentiments from the set. Added some sequins and twine, and inked around panel with faded jeans distress ink then added some splatters with the same ink.

Using my re-inkers I have a card today from Day 2 technique and love the way it turned out. Used a background from lesson 2 and I made it into a Christmas card. Not my normal Christmas style but had fun with the red and purple colours and stamped an image from an old set that I was given when I first started card making and I have no idea who made it. The poinsettia is a favourite and I coloured it with my copics then fussy cut it out.The background die is from Die-Versions called flower garden and the sentiment from Ultimate crafts. Originally it was going to be white but it wasn't right so cut another one from black and layered it over the white one. Copics: R17,46,59,G82,85,99.

Get Whale Soon Day 2 and another card done. Made a couple of backgrounds but only had time to make one card and I like this one so will try to use the other  piece soon. I used a free digi from a craft magazine with lots of sea images and sentiments and a stamp from the SU set called By the Tide. Coloured the Whale with copics in matching inks and it came together nice and quick.

Enjoy Life's Moments Saw this class on the Altenew website and decided I needed to catch up on the latest ways to use your re-inkers and alcohol inks. They are the hot topic at the moment and as I use my copics most days to colour I have lots of re-inkers but I haven't used my alcohol ink for ages.  This is the card I did for lesson one and I have a background ready to make a card for lesson two. The bird die is from Kaiser and the flower from Eastarts and was coloured with copic marker Y06. The leaf is one from my stash and can't remember the company. The large red circle reminded me of the setting sun so the bird was perfect for this card. The sentiment was computer generated.

Tom & Tilly When I read the subject for this weeks challenge I knew just the stamp I wanted to use. Don't use it enough but it says it all about Grandparents and I didn't add a sentiment as the image just conveys the love shared by these two. I used copics to colour them and then adhered it to a pale red card mat then onto a grey card base. Love the simplicity of this card.  Copics: Tilly: Top & Skirt: R30,32,43,46,/C0,3,7.   Shoes: N3,5,7,W7. Hair: W000,0,1,5. Skin: E000,01,11. Tom:  Jacket & Pants: B95,97,99,/E50,53,55. Shoes: E49,77,79,W9. Hair: N1,C1,3. Skin: E000,01,11. Bench: E42,44,47. Bouquet: R33,46,G03,24,46,94,N0,3. Grass: YG11,13,17,67. Sky: B0000,00,01.