52 Week Mini Art Card / Tag Challenge 2026 - Week 16

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 16 is "Bubble wrap printing".

For my Week 16 tag, I started with some squeezed  "Light Orchid" Decoart Americana Arcylic paint on to my glass mat, you could use an old plate too! I then placed some bubble wrap, bubble side down into the paint, moving the plastic about till I had a reasonable covering then placed it bubble side down on to a piece of white card.  Once the paint was dry, I chose the area I wanted to use for my tag then cut it to tag shape.

I used one of the stamps from the Funky Fossil Designs "Beauty in bloom" stamp set with Versafine Clair "Nocturne" black ink to stamp the image over the bubble wrap printing..  I used a fine liner black pen to doodle eround some of the discs and to create the wobbly frame edge, I then inked the edges with "Charming Pink" Versafine Clair ink.  Adding a touch of colour to the flowers with a yellow Posca Pen.

Tiffany Johnson Creative #100daysartplay challenge - Day 96

Today is Day 96 of the Tiffany Johnson Creative #100daysartplay challenge.  This week is all about dots and circles.

For my make, I cut a piece of white card into a tag shape and used three shades of Elements Inks to colour the background.  The colours I used were Lime Punch, Green Sleeves and Pine.

Over the top of the background, I lay the Tim Holtz / Stampers Anonymous "Bubbles Layering Stencil THS138", secured with a piece of low tack tape.  I then used the "Mermaid" Elements Ink through the stencil.

Next I cut the white flowers using the Spellbinders "Blooms One" die set.  Sticking the flowers on to the tag with wet glue.  I then mounted the tag on to a piece of white card.

Finally, I used a dotting tool to colour the middle of the flowers using Decoart Americana Bright Orange and Primary Yellow acrylic paint.

Tiffany Johnson Creative #100daysartplay Challenge - Day 51

Today is Day 51 of the Tiffany Johnson Creative #100dayartplay challenge.  This week is about working with the gel plate.

I applied Elements "Graphite" ink to the gel plate with a brayer.  Then from a fan shaped paint brush, I splattered water droplets and little bits of diluted paint on to the gel plate before taking the impression, which resulted in this pretty background.

I used two Paper Artsy acrylic chalk paint - Candy Floss and Cerise, along with two Decoart Americana Acrylic paints - Plum and Snow (Titanium) white to paint the flowers.

For the stem and the leaves, I used Derwent inktense pencils.

Folk Art Style hand painted card

This is a little card I made by painting folk art flowers using three shades of Decoart Americana Arcylic Paints, using Avocado, Snow (Titanium) White and Pebble.

I mouted the card on to a piece of green card and then on to a kraft card blank and then used Versafine Clair "Morning Mist" grey ink to stamp the Simon Says Stamps sentiment.