Cosmo Cricket Week - Day 5



We are closing out our Cosmo Cricket collaboration week today, hopefully you have been following along and enjoying the projects all week!

Every good collaboration need a couple prizes, right?  We've got a great bundle of Cosmo Cricket goodies to share with one of you.  Just leave a comment on each post this week and we'll pick a winner and announce them next week.

Cosmo Cricket also has a prize to share, so be sure to stop by and check them out on Facebook and Instagram.

Today Amy and Keeway are sharing with us:

Hi, it's Amy!  I couldn't wait to dive into the goodies from Cosmo Cricket!  Here is a peek at some of my supplies:


I've been really enjoying the watercoloring trend and was looking forward to combining the Cosmo Cricket Just Add Watercolor Blank Tags along with the Pixie Paint in Candy!  Here's how I was inspired:


I love how vivid the Pixie Paint is....such a great background to the images from Big Top Birthday, don't you agree?  I teamed it up with the awesome Hooray Nice & Neat die.  I trimmed it down to just the sentiment.

I colored all the stamped images with my copics...couldn't resist the green + pink color combo!

And here's Keeway:

For my card, I created a little scene with the Little Stinker smelling the envelope and thinking of someone special. Have you ever reminisce about someone after reading an old letter or card? That's exactly how I felt when I thought of this card.



I played with the Cosmo Cricket Pixie Paint in the pink "Candy" and blue "Pool". The paint itself comes in powder form with multiple hues. When water is added, you create this beautiful, vibrant "cloudlike" wash of color with a hint of hue variation.

I used the Pixie Paint to create a bright background of pink on the left side and blue on the right side. I blended the two sides towards each other with water so that there is no harsh line where they meet. Because the blue is more cerulean, the mixture of the pink and the blue can come out greyish purple, so I kept the blending of the two rather minimal, just enough to have the wash look fluid.


The colorful background contrasted my black and white skunk perfectly! My "thinking of you" bubble had some minor copic coloring with a matching blue color to balance the blue on the right side, just like how the pink accents on my skunk balanced out the pink on the left side.

I absolutely love the texture of the background that these Pixie Paints create. It makes creating washes incredibly easy!

Thanks so much for joining us all week.  Leave a comment on this post for another chance to win that Cosmo Cricket prize pack, and we'd like to send out a HUGE thanks to Julie at Cosmo Cricket for all these fantastic supplies.  The team thoroughly enjoyed working with Cosmo Cricket's products!!!

37 comments

  1. That Pixie Paint looks lovely! Both cards are adorable and love all the sweet images.

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  2. These are both adorable! I loveeeeeeeeeee them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  3. These card is so lovely. Love the design and colour choices.

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  4. So fun and expressive. Love the colors!

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  5. So fun and expressive. Love the colors!

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  6. Oooh fun cards - thanks for sharing your talents with us:)

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  7. Love the little boy holding the bear.
    Fun to have several different stamps
    so you can change the picture as you
    want.
    It's been a great week with Cosmo Cricket and
    Neat and Tangled.
    thanks for sharing.

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  8. Very cute cards! Love that little skunk.

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  9. Great collaboration! I adore this card - great colors!

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  10. Great collaboration! I adore this card - great colors!

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  11. Cuteness overloaded..both the cards are adorable..

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  12. Oh Amy, I am a tag LOVER and yours is awesome. Love the Pixie Paint and that set is adorable.
    Love the background colours you've used Keeway for this card and this little stinker is my fav set these days. He's just too stinkin' CUTE!
    Great products and this collab was fun. (Lovin' the Cosmo Cricket products!)

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  13. SUCH super adorable projects! Awesome job, ladies! <3

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  14. Wonderful cards by Amy and Keeway! Love the stamps they chose, and the designs they created. Fantastic artists, fantastic products. (Gotta try that Pixie Paint!) Bev

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  15. It was very interesting to see a lot of great projects and I was really inspired by the products and wonderful techniques. Thank you for sharing. Looooove this Little Stinker!

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  16. Very cute. I like the use of the pixie paint.

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  17. The Pixie Paint seems to be fantastic! And I love this cute little stinker.

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  18. Wow! Thank you so much for this great collaboration week with Cosmo Cricket!!! It was beautiful!!!
    Love so much Amy and Keeway's creations!!! Absolutely adorable!!!

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  19. Great tag and card! Such wonderful effects from the Pixie Paint, would love to try it for myself!

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  20. Fun tag and card! It's been a great collaboration week with Cosmo Cricket! Looking forward to getting some of the Pixie Paints to try out! Love the Big Top Birthday set and that adorable skunk!

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  21. Darling cards. I especially enjoyed the layout, stamping, coloring and die cutting on the little stinker card. Well done.

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  22. Such a great week. Loved seeing all the different things you can do with the new Cosmo Cricket products. I certainly understand them more now. And I've found some Neat and Tangled that definitely needs to find it's way to my home.

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  23. What sweet cards! I've been introduced to some cool colouring products in this series. Really great work from the design team! Now I need to get my hands on the new products!

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  24. Fabulous showcases today of wonderfully charming images! The skunk...oh my! He's a gem! The creativity of the DT over this past week, sharing the marvelous partnership of CC and N&T, has been immensely illuminating! You have no idea how long my wish list is at both companies *grin*
    ~carol

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  25. Adorable projects!!! Love the sweet color combos used on both!!!

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