52 Week Mini Art Card / Tag Challenge 2026 - Week 8

The Crafting Niche 52 Week Mini Art Card/Tag Challenge 2026:

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 8 is "String"

For my Week 8 "String" tag, I've used blue and green patterened papers to cover a plain tag.  I then used the Sizzix / Stampin' Up "Swirly Scribbles Thinlit Dies 141497, to cut various shapes in different coloured card.

I put wet glue down on to the tag and made use of a piece of string that had wrapped a package, starting in the middle of the glue circle, I tightly wrapped the string tightly round itself to create what looked like a mini drinks coaster.  I then added further circles of string around it with informal gaps to replicate a nest.

I used more wet glue to stick the die cuts into position.  With the eggs, I added speckles of colour using Posca Pens.

Rummaging through my stash I came across a shape of a cardboard bird.  I covered it in patterned paper and then inked some of the edge and stuck into position.

Finally, I used a gold coloured gel pen to add highlights to the nest area.  I used a word sticker saying "expecting", mounted on to a piece of card and then also edged in gold coloured gel pen.