Cosie's Creative Corner

Happy Birthday This week the colours for the challenge are these lovely spring shades and as the weather is cold down here in Australia it was nice to stamp a bright spring feeling card. The set was a feebie from Simply Cards and Papercraft and I had fun cutting and stamping with lots of different colours.. The ones I used on this card were Distress oxides in Mustard Seed, Carved Pumpkin, Spun Sugar & Picked Raspberry for the flowers and Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn for the leaves. The circle cut out is from Altenew and is called Mid-Century Frame .

Just Hang In There When I saw this sketch for some reason all I that saw was someone or something flying. Maybe I have been in self imposed quarantine with hubby for to long and it's affecting me but we are all coping well down here in Australia. Once I started it all came together quickly and this is the result. I cut the wonky frame, stamped the cat from PB Bubbly where I wanted it and another to mask it off, placed the cat mask and coloured the sky. Used a MFT cloud stencil to colour the circle with distress oxide inks in stormy sky and salty ocean. I stamp a 3rd cat on copic friendly paper, coloured it then fussy cut it out. Sponged the same blue distress inks on the frame and adhered it to a cardbase, glued the centre piece into the frame and used dimensionals to adhere the cat. Thought the sentiment was appropriate for now. Copics : Cat: E00, 01, 02, 23, 25, R20. Balloons: Go3, 09, YR04, 07, Y13, 19, B01, 05, BV01, 04, R17, 29.

Our Precious Animal 2 Two posts in one day is unusual for me but I finished the last two cards on the Australian animals and here they are. Backgrounds done the same with distress oxides but they are different and this is why I love this ink. The koala has more green and is from Dark Room Door Australian Animals Vol 2 set and the kangaroo from Vol 1 . I added some gum trees to the kangaroo card for interest but the gum leaves I fussy cut hides most of them. I now have a nice set of four cards and since I didn't add a sentiment they can be used for any occasion. I really enjoyed making these cards and so hope we don't lose to many more but today the weather was back to it's worst. Thanks for taking the time to check my cards.

Our Precious Wildlife This has been an horrific time this Christmas and New Year and I have not thought to much about crafting. The worst bush fires ever has devastated the country and especially around our area and we have been in drought for so long with no rain forecast . Very few have lost their lives but even a few are to many. Friends have lost their homes on the coast and so many others have lost their farms and whole towns are in ruins. My heart goes out to them all. We have lost so much life stock and our native animals so this is dedicated to all of those affected, especially the animals. Have a couple more to do so will get them up soon. The stamps are from Dark Room Door   Vol 1 and there is a Vol 2, love them both. These are the colours for the challenge and I used distress oxides for the backgrounds on watercolour paper. The leaves were die cut from green card and I added some shading with prisma pencils. 

Best Wishes This card has to be right out of my comfort zone but I love it. The colours are not ones I would  normally choose but it was fun to try different combos and this group really worked. Just can't get enough of my Distress Oxides and the way they blend. I seem to be using them on most cards in one way or another. The dies used here are a Sizzix set by Tim Holtz called Funky Floral that I I have never used but will be in the future. I just matched the background colours to scraps of card stock and die cut lots of flowers and leaves. Added two strips of patterned paper to the background and then arranged the flowers and leaves till I was happy, glued them down then stamped a small sentiment. Will have to drag my dies out more often. 

Poppies After seeing Nicolie Tuan's card for the DRD June challenge decided to use up one of the distress oxide backgrounds I made the other day and enter a card. Just love these inks and Rachel's stamps are my all time favourites. Picked the Poppies set  and water coloured the stamped images. Masked the large stamp to create my flower arrangement and after painting added a very light wash of grey around the flowers to make them pop. The sentiment is from the same set and used a yellow embossing powder on back card stock and like the way it matches the background. Can't remember the oxides I used but added some splatters and love the finished card.

Reflection at Sunset. This is one of my all time favourite stamps from Impression Obsession called Trees and Lake and it is just great for ink blending, especially with distress oxides. I stamp the image in my Misti and leave it there so I can re-stamp it when I have done the colour blending. This way I can see where I want to put the colour and stamping the image later makes sure you have a sharp image. Used 5 colours of ink, black soot, ground espresso, vintage photo, spiced marmalade and fossilized amber and the  image was stamped with versafine onyx black. Used my heat gun to dry the ink after blending, re-stamped the image and adhered it to a black card base. I am entering this card in the Outlawz Tuesday colour challenge.

Live in the Sunshine, Swim in the Sea Gina K Designs has a new website and it's lovely. While checking it out came across the monthly challenge and here is my take on it. Kept it simple with the background done in distress oxides and used a baby wipe over a wave stencil to give it some dimension. The sentiments, from By the Sea set was heat embossed with white embossing powder, added some twine, an anchor, bow and some clear dots. Adhered it to some card mats then onto a white card base and all done.