52 Week Mini Art Card / Tag Challenge 2025 - Week 47

The Crafting Niche 52 Week Mini Art Card/Tag Challenge 2025:

This is a weekly challenge. I provide you with a prompt/theme each Sunday morning through out the year.  The challenge is very relaxed.  You can do as much or as little as you like.  You can create cards, tags, Artist Trading Cards (ATC's) or index cards, the choice is yours. You just go with what ever is in your head at the time.  You can stamp, get inky, use patterned papers, texture, embellish it is all down to you.

There is a dedicated private Facebook Group, with a lovely bunch of people who are already sharing their makes from previous challenges.  You can find the group by clicking this link.  I'd love you to join in.

The prompt for Week 47 is "Thankful"

For this tag, for the base I used a piece of patterned paper from my stash. I then stamped the leaf in Versafine Clair "Pinecone" brown ink.  The stamp is part of the Tim Holtz / Stampers Anonymous stamp set called "Pressed Foliage - CMS376". I coloured the leaf using two shades of Derwent Inktense pencils.  The colours I used are: Hooker's Fern and Lime Green.

I then used the Tim Holtz / Stampers Anonymouse "THMM101 stencil" for the circles using "Peony Pink" Ranger Archival Ink.  There must have been a bit of black left on the stencil from a previous project so the colour is darker, which I actually quite like.

Next, I inked the edges of the tag using Versafine Clair "Rain Forest" green ink.  I used the same ink to stamp the "Thank You" sentiment, which is part of the Waffle Flower "Essential Sentiments" stamp set.  Finally, I added some touches of gold across the the tag using a gold coloured gel pen.