Cosie's Creative Corner

It's your Birthday Last card today for lesson 5. Was not really happy with this one but thought I would put it up anyway. The large snowflake was cut out with a piece of the background I had left from another card and placed over the nice piece I liked but it hides to much of it. Added the flowers and changed it to a birthday card and it's not singing to me. I guess that what happens when you just don't stop when you should and then it's to late. We live and learn.

Out of this World I think this might be my favourite so far. When I saw the background my first thought was outer space and I have a couple to stamps that would work and this set won out. I loved the sentiment on this set  and this is the result. Stamped the spaceman from Uniquely Creative set Out of this World ,  coloured it with copics and fussy cut it out. Die cut a circle and used lesson 5 technique to colour it and mount it with dimensional tape to the background after adding the string and spaceman. The sentiment was embossed with clear embossing powder and adhered with dimensional tape. Added some white enamel dots for stars and I am happy it came out as I planned. They don't always (LOL). Copics: Spaceman: Skin: E000,01. Hair: E25,29. Suit: W1,3,5,N0,3,5,E33,35,R35,B18.

 Happy Birthday Card 2 Still using the backgrounds I made with the lesson 5 techniques. Same colour scheme and used dies again to decorate the card. It's been great to go through my stash and use up lots of cut offs and scraps. Knew they would come in handy one day. Layered the flower die cuts, added a couple of leaves and then stamped a birthday sentiment. Thought it needed a little something extra so found these enamel dots that match perfectly. Only a couple more to finish then onto lesson 6. Have enjoyed this so much.

Another Christmas Card. Second last lesson and I have made four backgrounds and this is the first card finished. Used the same colour combination as I wanted to make a couple of Christmas cards but one will probably end up a space one. The background die is the one I used on an earlier card called flower garden from Die-Versions and the snowflakes are the cutout flower centres from the die. They are to nice to waste. The deer is from Birch Trees and Deer from Cottage cuts and the pine trees from Couture Creations. Added a pearl to the snowflake centres and stamped Merry Christmas from an old Hero Arts kit. Came together pretty muck like the idea in my head so another added to the Christmas list for this year.

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. 

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.