Cosie's Creative Corner

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.

You Sassy Lass The image this month is Ava from Di's Digis and she was a joy to colour. Used copics and then adhered her to two spellbinders circles then onto a piece of PP from a pad called Travel Light by We are Memory Keepers. Die cut the matching hello die to the stamp set from Simon Says Stamps called  Hello You , stamped the hello stamp from the set with Versamark ink and white heat embossed it.  The sentiment, from the same set, was heat embossed on a strip of black and then both glued to the card front that was then adhered to a black card base with a few black gems finished it off. I usually keep a record of the copics but couldn't find them so sorry about that. I really had fun with this card and hope you like it to. 

Happy Birthday Found this challenge (Color Throwdown Challenge) when browsing and for this week the colours are as per the picture below and decided to give it a try.  I received this cute free small stamp set from Altenew with my last order called blooming blossoms but not sure if it's for sale as I couldn't find it on their site. Thought it would make a cute card and stamped the flowers in different shades of yellow. As they are solid stamps I give them some dimension with my prisma colour pencils. I did the same for the leaves. Heat embossed the sentiment from a Simon says Stamp set called It's Your Birthday in white, added a piece if ribbon, and adhered the image to some coloured card mats and onto a white card base. Nice and quick card for me as I managed to finish in a couple of hours.

You Make Everyday Awesome Received the new Split Chevron stencil the other day and decided to have a play so I used it on the card with the colours from the challenge. Had been playing with some old flower dies and this is the result. First I white embossed the stencil on white card then sponged on my old Versacolor small cubes in Orchid, Canary, Orange and Camellia and love the way they blended. Mixed the flowers from three old sets and then cut the leaves from one of the sets. Used a Spellbinders border die to cut the embossed panel then cut another strip in dark blue to match my card base. The sentiment is from a Simon Says Stamp set called Hand Lettered Encouragement.  Loved the way I used a lot of old things I had not used for ages so maybe I need to drag more out to play with. 

Spring is in the Air This adorable fox is the freebie image for this month on the Gerda Steiner Blog . With spring just a couple of days away down here in Australia I made a card with blue skies, green grass but with bare trees. Still cold here in Canberra but some blossoms are starting to bloom. I used distress inks for all the colouring, a tree die from Cottage Cutz and one from Simon Says Stamps for the grassy slope. Distress inks:  Fox: Tea Die, Dried Marigold, Picket Fence. Sky: Peacock Feathers, Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean, Stormy Sky. Grassy Slope Mowed Lawn.

Spring Birthday It's spring here in Canberra Australia and this image is just perfect for a spring birthday. All the blossom and spring bulbs are out and the weather has been lovely and warm the last week. The image is the freebie from Ignacio by Nicecrane for the Outlawz Freebie Progressive monthly challenge. I coloured her with copics then cut her out with a Nellie Snellen  die, layered it on pink Spellbinder oval  and then on the Kaiser PP from their Chanteuse Collection. The flowers and birds were fussy cut from the same PP. The sentiment is from a set called It's your Birthday by Simon Says Stamp. Copics: Skin: E000,00,02,R20,21. Hair: E41,43 and Sepia Copic Multiliner 0.3. Hat: RV21,23,25,E49,71. Dress: RV21,23,25,YG03,91,93,95. Legs & Shoes: YG03,91,93,95,RV21,23,25. Background: R0000. Ground: W0,1,3.

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...