Cosie's Creative Corner

September Swap Art Nouveau This month was a tricky one and it took awhile for me to come up with a suitable design. Google was a life saver and I found plenty of frames for that period to download for free. Next was finding a stamp to use with it. As we are a stamping association there has to be a stamp on the trading card and it can be a sentiment, background or image. The lovely girl image on the Melody set from Darkroom Door   was a perfect fit for the frame and I love the finished ACT. I coloured the frame and image with copics then cut out the centre of the frame and placed it over the image. Kept the colours similar to the pictures I saw on Google. Copics: Frame: G00,12,Y00,02,YR02,07,68. Flowers: YR18,38,E08. Skin: E000,00,01. Dress: YR000,12,23. Pipes: E55,57. Background: BG000,00

Enjoy the Journey Steampunk This was a fun ATC for me as I had never really embraced the steampunk look but I think I might have been missing out. Checked out Pinterest and Google then went looking for stamps. Was really surprised how many I found that was suitable and I had really not played with. Is this a sign I have far to many and should not be buying more? Don't really think that will happen. I started with a old piece of  background paper and tore it to fit a 31/2 X 21/2 piece of cardstock. Glued it down then coloured with distress inks. Stamped images from Stampers Anonymous Tiny Things  and Ultimate Grunge   by Tim Holtz but it needed more so used an old stamp from Urban Stamps by Docraft called Chronology (cogs) and the small Eiffel tower by Justjohanna. The extra embellishments are from my stash and a Tim Holtz Game Spinner.  The sentiment was computer generated. Distress inks used: Hickory Smoke Brushed Corduroy Vintage Photo Old Pa...

Fairy Card Challenge Last month at my local Stamping Club the Card challenge was to use a Fairy images. We also have an Artist Trading  Card swap and the theme was Christmas in July. For both I choose to use  images from Mo Manning as the fairy images are gorgeous. For the card I choose the Housework fairy  and coloured her with my copics.The backing for the image is black and I used dimentionals to add it to the PP (old scrap from my stash) and then onto a black Card base. Three matching pearls, and a computer generated sentiment finished her off. Copics: Skin: E50,51,53,55,R20,22,35. Hair: YR16,20,21,24,E35. Wings: V0000,01,04. Dress and headband: BG10,11,13. Apron: B0000,000. Shoes: N9. Clothduster: W0,1,3,5. FeatherDuster: E19,25,37,93,95. Artist Trading Card Swap Chritmas in July For the ATC I choose the image Winter Snowman  . When I first saw this I just fell in love with it and though it was perfect for the ATC swap. The sno...