Cosie's Creative Corner

Happy Birthday My second blog post on the same day is just about a record for me. I feel real happy with myself if I manage one but hubby has decided we need a day at the coast so had to get the Thursday challenge done to have it in on time. The twist this week is layers and I love layers. Most of my cards were like this until I discovered Cas cards so enjoyed making this for a dear friends 89th birthday. Vi is such a special person and I can imagine her looking like this when she was young. Used a stamp called Flapper Melody from Crafts and Me and the flowers, another old stamp called Dotted Flowers, from Heroarts that is no longer on their website. Found this lovely old scrap of PP in my stash that I stitched onto a piece of pink CS then adhered the doily from MFT  (no longer available) on top and added some green lace. Cut the image out with a spellbinders die and then adhered it to another piece of pink CS and mounted it over the doily with dimensionals. Used dimensionals t...

Outlawz Thursday Challenge Thinking of You The twist on the Thursday Outlawz challenge this week was to add flowers. Usually I would add bright colourful flowers but the image was done with water soluble oil pastels and it had a lovely soft look so this was what I went with. The image is an old retired SU set that I don't think I will ever tire off. The sketchy look always looks so nice when water coloured. I think the only piece on this card not old is the lace but it is srill an off cut.. I have so much scrap paper I don't think I will ever manage to use but I am trying. It's fun trying to match it all without cutting up new papers. Even the leaves are from a box of left overs that I keep just in case. The pastels used I bought for $6 dollars a few years ago at  my local thirft shop and I was surprised that they work as well as they do. There are only 12 in the set but they blend well and are fun for a quick card.

This week anything goes. Daisies. I love flowers and love copics and they always seem to go together. The Image is from MiC  and love the way it turned out. I have kept it fairly plain as I wanted the flowers to really stand out. Zoe from Make it Crafty has some beautful flower images and I love their life-like quality. The cut behind the image is a spellinders die that I cut out twice and then cut to fit. The butterfly is from Cheery Lyn Designs  but I only used the butterfly top and the paper is from my scrap pile.           Copics:  Flowers: B06,C0,1,Y19,38. Leaves/stems: YG07,G43,46,85. Background: BG0000,000,57,72, and colourless blender.