Cosie's Creative Corner

Wednesday Sketch Challenge. A friend of mine is having a rough time at the moment and I made this card for her. She spends so much time helping others and pushes herself when she should be taking it easy. The image is from Penny Black  and it's just so cute and thought it would give her a laugh. I coloured the cat with my prismacolour pencils and cut it out with a pierced oval die from MFT . The leave spray is an old die and I have no idea where I bought it from. All the rest on the card is from my stash. I am slowly going through the box of bits and pieces and using some of it. I find it hard to throw anything out and as I keep buying there is no room left and my DH says I can't have a bigger craft room. He's right (which I hate to admit) as I will never use all the supplies I have now. I hope she will enjoy the card.

Anything Goes I love this sentiment and thought it would be great for my first greeting card challenge. A quick and simple card as decided to enter at the last minute. The image and the sentiment are both from Tlc Creations  .There are some amazing vintage images found on the site and Paulette is very generous with her freebies. I masked a strip on the front of the card base and used distress inks to colour over the image and that's it.

Favourite Beverage Hope this makes it in time. Still haven't worked out the time zones yet but one day. Maybe if I did the challenge a little bit earlier I wouldn't have to worry. I choose this digital  sentiment  first as I love it and then used an old Whiff of Joy stamp that is no longer available for my main image. I went back to copics to colour her and then added the panel to some pale green cardstock. Copics: Skin: E00,11,93. Hair: E47,49,55. Dress/Shoes/Bag: BG11,13,15,E47. Glasses: N9,White Gel Pen. Cup: E50,70,71. Shadow: BG0000. Ground: E71.

Sunday Cas Challenge 19th July  Teddy Bears The Sunday Cas Challenge over on the Outlawz blog this week is  all about teddy bears. I love teddy bears and the hardest part of this challenge was choosing a bear to colour. I finally choose this Tattered Teddy called Me to You from Docrafts. Went mad when they first came out bought lots of them and still love to colour them up for cards. For a change I decided to watercolour with my old Jasart Watercolour pencils on Distress watercolour paper. Only have the 24 pack but find thats enough for me. Never been the best at water colouring but love the soft look it gives. The sentiment is from Save the date by Kaiser and the heart from an old Hero arts set called Baby. Added some Glossy Accents to teddy's nose, tag, hearts and part of the sentiment to make them pop.

Cas July 5th Challenge Cool Cat I missed getting this card in for the challenge but thought I would put it on the blog. The next challenge is up and I made sure I was in early for it.  I coloured an image from Hambo   that I haven't used for ages. He has real attitude this cat. Printed the image on xpress it card, used copics for the colouring and the sun is a Die cut from MFT . This was then mounted on a blue card base.  Copics: Cat: E13,17,17,N10 and White Gel Pen. Lifesaver: R27,29,59,C0,1,3. Flipflops: E08,11,Y13,38,R14. Umbrella: YR12,16,18,YG06,09. Glass: BG10,11 Sea: B12,14 and White Gel Pen. Shadow: B0000. This one got featured!

The Outlawz Digi Freebie Challenge Gidday From Australia Had trouble for a few days on just what I would do with this great image from Jen at  Jencraftygoodies  Then it was like a light bulb going off. Make it Crafty is an Aussie site that have lovely digis that you can create scenes with and I had my card. I used some element's from this collection  that I coloured with copics for the background and then coloured the freebie and cut it out. So happy with the way it turned out and I had to add a typical Aussie greeting. Found an old piece of corrugated card, added my scene then added it to a top folding card base.   Copics Boy Skin: E50,51,,53,R20. Hair: Y26,38,YR24,31. Eyes: B14, White Gel Pen. Jeans: B93,95,97. Shirt: R14. Shoes: E25,27,29,33. Scene  Sky: B00,01,02. Fence:E35,37. Windmill: N1,3,5,E08. Grass: YG63,67,97,99. Ground: E08,11,13,37. It takes a while but  I love to colour and find it really relaxing...

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.