Cosie's Creative Corner

Swimming By To Say Hi This lovely mermaid is this month beautiful image from Gerda Steiner designs for the monthly challenge. Gerda will send you the freebie every month if you join and buy the first one and make a card etc and link it to the challenge. A lovely way to add to your digi collection and her images are adorable. I enjoy making scenes and this one is maybe a little bit fussy but it was fun. The background is made by colouring water colour paper using distress inks then adding salt when it is still wet. The salt absorbs the moisture and you are left with this lovely mottled background. I used heavy cardstock on this card as I wanted a more spotty look. The mermaid and shells are coloured with copics and the seaweed and small fish are  from a stamp set by Kaiser called Mermaid tails.  The shells are from two Darkroom Door sets called Seaside Vol 1  and Seaside Vol 2  and some extra seaweed from the Under the sea set . The sentiment was computer generated...

The Lighthouse This month the image for the challenge is this lovely lighthouse drawn by Laurian the Design Team Leader. I love the sea and had fun making this card. Recently bought a new die called waves, from Couture Creations, so this was the perfect time to try it out and I love the result. I printed the image twice, used one for a mask so I could distress ink the background then coloured it with copics. Cut the wave die and then used sections to frame the rocks, added white gel pen highlights and I had a nice stormy sea. The beams are white SU ink and the stars white gel pen. Copics: Lighthouse: N1,3,5. R14.46. Y32. Rocks: E53,55,57.

Autumn's Splendour The image for this months challenge is this Autumn image donated by Gerda Steiner Designs and it was so much fun to colour. Gerda has so many cute images as well as clear stamps and her critters are just gorgeous. I decided to make a scene so added this Make it Crafty  tree, drew in the grass and then coloured it with my copics. I wanted to have a feel of the cold weather that follows Autumn and happy with the way it turned out, especially the sky. The PP is an old scrap from Hot of the press and added some burlap over the top of it before adhering it to the card base. I then adhered the matted image with mounting tape to the base to give it some dimension. A touch of Wink a Stella clear to the hat trim to finish, though it does not show on the photo. Copics:  Skin: E000,02,11,R20. Hair: E49. Hat & Coat: R24,29,87. Scarf: B26,29,Y13. Boots: N1,5,9. Wagon: N1,3,5,7,E70,71,74,79. Pumpkins: YR04,18,21,YG93,99. Tree: E27,55,57,YG95...

Sunday July 12th  I missed the cutoff for the last CAS challenge on the Outlawz blog so made sure I have the next one finished. The theme is fruit and I choose this lovely strawberry image and sentiment from Doodle Pantry . It was so much fun to colour and I have a dear friend that is having a birthday later this month, thought the sentiment was perfect for her.  Copics: Strawberries: R22,24,27,Y19, Sepia Multiliner 0.3 Flowers: B0000,C1,Y18,38. Leaves & Stems: G03,05,05,14,29. Shadow: C1.