Cosie's Creative Corner

At the Beach Sounds of the sea The colour challenge on the Outlawz Blog this friday is At the Beach and thought it was time to colour up this gorgeous image by Michael Powell called Coastal Getaway from Docrafts. Have had it for awhile and like the way it turned out. I used distress inks to colour it up and have left the card fairly plain as I think the image should be the focal point. The saying is a stamp from a Dark room door set called Seaside volume 2 and the background is from a SU set The open sea. I tore the image and background paper, then mounted the colourd image with dimensional tape to add a bit of interest.

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.

Christmas in July Snowman ATC My local stamping group held their stamp camp this month and we always have an ATC swap. Since it's winter down here in Australia the theme was Christmas in July. Didn't have snow here in Canberra but central New South Wales was a winter wonderland for a couple of days. Most unusual as it mainly falls on the alps. I choose to do a snowman and used a stamp from the Stampin up Best of snow set.The trees are an old Hero arts stamp. I had to make 30 so I used my copics to colour them thinking it would be fairly easy. All was going well until one of my copics needed refilling and of course I didn't have that colour and my local shop didn't have it either. Thank goodness for on-line shopping. Added clear Wink of Stella to the snowbanks and glossy accents to the snowman's hat and nose. Copics: Snowman: N1,3,YR07. Scarf: G14,BV04. Hat: YR12,14,R27. Trees: E27,29. Snowbanks: B000,C0,1. Sky: B0000,000,01.