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 .

Smile My first blog post for the New Year and it's a card I made for this sketch challenge. I am going to try and do more challenges this year but time just seems to move to fast for me now. My card is made from left over pieces that I'm trying to use as the pile is getting bigger everyday. Turned the sketch so it's a side folding card, layered the die cuts and used a sentiment from a SSS set called Happy & Smile but don't know if it's still available. No colouring for once but I like the way it turned out.

Happiest of Birthdays Heading of to Bali in a few days so have been trying to get a few craft projects done. When I saw the criteria for this weeks challenge at C4C483 I had this off-cut of paper sitting on my desk from another card and this is the result. I am a hoarder and have been trying to use the bits and pieces I save. The stamp is from a SU set called Bella and Friends and I coloured it with copics and then fussy cut the two images out. This was then adhered with dimensionals to the strips I had cut and placed on a white card base. The sentiment, from a set called More Essential Sentiments by MFT, was white heat embossed on black card and adhered over the images.  Copics: Dog: E11,15,19.N7. Bird: B24,26,R24,27,89YR07. Balloon: YR07,18,68, White Gel pen & Bow R24.

Birthday Party Pandas Having a break must be good for me as I seem to have lots of ideas for cards drifting through my brain. When I saw the colours for this challenge I knew what I wanted to try and it turned out pretty much like I imagined.  Love these pandas from SU and they are fun to colour with most mediums.    Used copics to colour them and die cut some small clouds from Memory box to give the illusion they were floating. The sentiment was one I cut out ages ago and never used  It was originally joined but was to big so I did some fussy cutting and it fits okay now. Added dimensional magic to the pandas eyes and the balloons then onto a pink card base. Copics: Pandas: C00,N0,1. Hat: RV23,25. Balloons: RV000,11,21.43. Shadow: E0000.

Your Older Than Me This glorious image is from Oddball Art and she was so much fun to colour. I have a friend that is just a few months older and we are always joking about our ages and knew I had to make her birthday card with it. Kept it clean and simple so the image was the showpiece. As usual I coloured her with copics and I computer generated the saying. Dug out an old SU heart border and die cut some small hearts for some interest and I love it. It is not always what I have in my head turns out the same way on my card. Copics: Skin: E00,01,02,E11,R20. Eyes: C3,B01. Hair: E0000,13,15,19. Hair clip: R35,37,89. Dress: BG11,13,49. Sneakers: N0,1,3,5,7,R35. Socks: C00,1,3. Hearts: R35,37. Shadow: W0. Ground: E70,71,74.

Happy Birthday Managed to get some time to craft and decided to enter this weeks Color throwdown.  I stamped this image awhile ago and thought it would be great to use my zigs marker for a change. Not the colours I would usually choose but like the way it turned out. The paper is from and old Echo park 6 x 6 pad called Times and Seasons and sentiment from a Darkroom stamp set  that I embossed and cut out. It has a great selection of birthday sentiments in different fonts. Added some twine and sequins for some extra interest. 

Shame it's too Big I thought I would try this year to do more challenges and get them done early as I am always running  late. This is such a cute image and the sentiment popped into my head before I even thought about the card. I printed the image three times, one on some pattered paper to do some paper piecing, one to colour and the last for a mask. Once I had the mask in place used distress oxides for the background and spritzed with water. Removed the mask and coloured the cat with alcohol markers then added the fussy cut pattered paper image and adhered it in place. Printed the sentiment and stamped happy birthday as I know my cat lover friend with appreciate it. Usually I use my copics but I seem to be collecting odd markers so I used them and will list them here. Stamping up: Light pumpkin pie, dark pumpkin pie & dark pink pirouette. Kaszazz: Chocolate and one Copic: R24.  Don't know if this would work all the time but I'm happy with the result...

Celebrate My daughter has moved back home to Canberra so I am surprised I have my card finished early. It's been a busy month but so nice to have her close again. This month the image is this an a adorable cat image from Anne Fenton.  Anne's Digital Art.  It was a joy to colour and I had to make it a birthday card for my cat loving friend. Coloured it with my copics then cut it out with a plain spellbinder circle die. Thought it needed more so cut a scalloped die for some contrast, also from spellbinders.  Used a PP from Kaiser pad Something Blue to the black card base then adhered the cat.The celebrate and words are from Avery Elle and are matching dies and stamps called sentimental . I used the celebrate die, white embossed the words then placed them around the image.   Copics: Cat: N1,3,5,7,G21. Pot: E04,08,09. Flowers: R21,43,RV25,YR07. Leaves Pale: YG00,09,G24. Leaves Dark: G05,29. Ground: E31,33,35, Copic Multiliner Sepia 0.3 Backg...

Happy Birthday Humans I had so much fun playing with my distress oxide inks making galaxy backgrounds for my ATC this month I had to use some to make a card for the card challenge as well. I used the same stampsets from Gerda Steiner designs and I really love the way this birthday card turned out. Coloured the cute little aliens in bright colours with my copics after I masked the centre one then fussy cut them out.  I needed something to ground them so drew the planet freehand, coloured it and adhered it to the bottom of the galaxy panel.  Attached the birthday banner to the green alien with cord and then attached them both with mounting tape to the panel. This was then fixed to a black card base. The  sentiment and banner are also from the alien invasion set. Copics: Green Alien: YG05,07,09. Pink Alien: RV02,04,06,V000,06,12. Orange Alien: Y00,YR15,18. Planet: E000,01,40,41 and brown multi liner.

Last of Spring Haven't used watercolours for a while so dragged them out for this corner flower garden from SU. I distress inked a background, placed a stencil over it and sprayed it with some water that had perfect pearls added. Gives it a lovely soft pattern that doesn't distract from the flowers. Used my Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolours for the flowers then spent ages fussy cutting them out and used liquid glue to adhere them to the background. Won't be doing that again any time soon but love the finished look so it was worth it. Stamped a greeting with Versamark ink on some black card and heat embossed it with white embossing powder. Wasn't sure if I liked it so did another one on white card with black embossing but went with the black.

Hanging Around. The free image this month is this cute monkey and just had to make a fun birthday card with it. Coloured him with my copics and used some Broken China distress ink around the edges to darken the background before gluing it to piece of wood panel PP. Drew the balloons, coloured them and then fussy cut them out and added thread before adhering them to the image panel. This was then mounted to green PP and onto the light brown card base. Had to add some sparkle with my new Spectrum Noir clear sparkle pen to the balloons. A card has to have some sparkle somewhere. Copics:  Monkey: E11,13,15,17,18,RV02. Branch: E23,25,27. Leaves: G82,85. Balloons: YG07,G03,Y06,08,R05,08.

Happy Birthday Mum This month the freebie for the challenge is a lovely image from Andrea Norris of Sheepski Designs . I decided to make a birthday card and will give it to a friend for her Mum. The image is coloured with copics and I kept it clean and simple The sentiment and banner die are from the Hero Arts March kit. Used silver embossing powder on the sentiment, die cut it with the matching die and adhered it to the card with foam tape for some dimension. Added a few sequins and adhered it to a pink card base. Copics: Flowers: RV000,21,23,91,YR14,YG07. Mum: B34,37,39. Background: G0000,000. Added Spectrum Noir Crystal Clear sparkle pen to the Mum. 

Elegant Birthday Card. Didn't really plan to make a birthday card with this lovely image I found in my to colour box. Not sure how long I have had it or where it came from but she sure is gorgeous. My go to colouring medium was my favourite copics and I love the way she turned out. The contrast of the teal and orange really makes the image pop.  The PP is from Kaiser's 61/2 by 61/2 in Paper pad called Bluebelle and the border die from Martha Stewart. The sentiment is from a Gina K set called Fanciful Tags by Nina Brackett but I think it may be discontinued. A white seam binding ribbon and bow and some Peacock Feathers Distress Ink finishes of the card. Copics:  Skin & Lips: E50.51,53,R20,24. Hair: E23,25. Dress & Earrings: BG0000,09,10,11,15,49. Hat & Umbrella: YR00,02,61 Shoes: N3.5.7. Ground: W1,3,5. Background: BG0000,000,00. 

January Challenge Birthday Card My first card for 2016 as I decided to have a nice break. Maybe not a great idea as I got an invitation from a dear friend for a week in Bali for her sister in law's birthday at the last moment and you can't turn down that. Now trying to get things done before I leave next week. Don't Know about others but found my mogo seems to be having a break too. Kept it clean and simple and hope the birthday girl likes it. Sentiment is from a set from SU called Birthday Blossoms. Had to cut it in half to fit but doesn't hurt the stamp and you get more use that way. The image is from Sandi's Samples . The only embellishment is the three hearts, coloured to match then added with mounting tape. Also added Dimensional Magic to add a bit of gloss. Copics:  Roses: R81,83,85,89. Leaves: G24,YG67. Shadow: C0.1.3.

Check out my Package Made this card a couple of weeks ago but had to wait until her birthday to post it. I didn't want to spoil the surprise and she loved it. It was her 60th and as she loved the card I made for her Hubby for his 60th had to do a similar one for her. She is a redhead and I coloured a red haired girl jumping out of a cake for his card. The image I used for her card is called Special Delivery from Redonkadoodles  and I cased the sentiment from a card I saw on Pinterest by Collette. Love these cheeky stamps and they are so much fun to colour. I kept the background fairly plain as the image needs to stand out. The PP is from a 6 x 6 pad called Stella and Rose from My Minds Eye. The sentiments were computer generated then placed on the card with the image using mounting tape to give them some dimension. Copics:  Skin: E00,02,11,R02,05. Hair: E40,47,49. Present & Arrow: BG11,23. Ribbon: R20,22,24. Background: BG0000. I love the images...

Happy Birthday Smiles The theme this week is circles and how could you go wrong with a circle card.  Well you can if you don't have something big enough to cut out the large circles. I water coloured these lovely  birds from Penny Black  then realised my spellbinders circle dies weren't big enough. Thought I would have to trace around something then hand cut them out when I remembered my old Creative Memories circle cutters. The trouble was it took me ages to find them and I was seriously thinking of starting again when I found them. So much for the quick card I thought I was making. The PP I found, when looking for the cutters, I liked better than the one I had picked out but it must be at least 10 years old and has no name on it so don't know who it's from. The smile stamp is from   Simon Says Stamp s and the happy birthday from Winnie & Walter that I combined to make the sentiment. It's a wonder my quick card ever made it to the finish line but I...

Birthday Present Special Delivery A very dear friend and a very special person had a birthday last month and when I saw this image from Redonkadoodles  called special delivery I just had to make her birthday card with it. It's not every ones cup of tea but she has a great sense of humour and knew she would enjoy it. She did. I coloured the image with copics but lost the slip of paper with the colours. (Now keep a notebook). I added the banners as it looked abit bare ha.ha.ha,... and love how it turned out.

Lil' Elephant Gerda throw in a surprise challenge with this gorgeous image called Lil' Elephant this weekend and I managed to whip this up before I left to head back to Orange with my daughter Tammy. It's a friends birthday and this was perfect. Coloured the image with copics, DP is Basicgrey Curio and Off-beat 6x6 pads and red and black twine. Added three dots embellishments.  Copic:  Elephant: N1,3,5,9  Flowers: R27,59, R91,93,Y 14  Leaves: YG 07.09  Present: RV  23,91,93,BG49,53  Ground: E11,13,17  Shadow: B0000 

Birthday Cards Needed to make four cards this week and I am pleased to say that I managed in three days. I'm not the fasted card maker and I can get distracted web browsing to often. The first is for a special friend for his 60th. The digital image is from Redonkadoodles  and I just love their cheeky images. Used my copics and left the card simple to show of the image. Copics: Skin E50, E51, E53, R20. Hair: C3, C5, C7. Cake: E17, E19, E95. Icing: E000, E11, E41. Cherries: R46, R89. Ribbon: B12, B14, B16. Shadow: B0000 The next three for some special friends that make life so much better for knowing them.  Two images are coloured with copics and I used SU stamps. On card one I used Stippled Blossoms, stamped flower twice in pink (kaiser), leaves in cottage ivy (memento) then fussy cut one flower and some leaves to add dimension. The patterned paper is from Lily of the Valley 8"x 8" bonnets and bowties pad. Card two I used a flower and the leave...

Nearly forgot this challenge as things got rather hectic this afternoon and we are going away for a few days. My youngest DD is a mad Cliff Richards fan so we are of to Sydney to catch his show. He is not coming to Canberra, and as Tammy is in Orange we have a few hours driving, so making it a nice long weekend. Some shopping, sightseeing and the show. The challenge  was a sketch and this is my take on it.   I stamped the image from the new Standing Tall stamp set and added a touch of colour with a watercolour pencil and blending pen. Stamped the sentiment from All things grow three times in brown ink. Mounted the image on spellbinders floral and nesting small oval. The pp was an old cutoff and can't remember the name. Buttons, small bling and ribbon to finish.