A Crafting Niche "52 Week Mini Art Card / Tag Challenge 2026" - Week 41

 

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 41 is "Journal".

For my tag, I decided to write about home and what it meant to me.  I started with a plain cream coloured tag and drew a border line approximately half an inch in from the edges.  I used low tack masking tape to cover the edges.

In the middle of the tag, I positioned a moon mask, then lay the Lavinis Stamps "Feather Leaf Stencil" over the top and applied "Tea Rose" Ranger Archival Ink through the stencil.

I removed the stencil and then drew round the moon mask, using a black fine liner pen. Once the moon mask was lifted, I stamped the house shape, a stamp from the Funky Fossil Designs "Home" stamp set, using the "Tea Rose" ink again. I then drew gold coloured dots between the circle border and the house using a gold gel pen, and coloured the heart in the middle of the house with a red Posca Pen.

I used Versafine Clair "Nocturne" black ink to stamp the large "home" word which is part of the Funky Fossil Designs "Home" stamp set. I lifted the masking tape and using the same ink, stamped the black hearts, the smaller "home" word and the sentiment of "Love Lives Here" which are all part of the Papertrey Ink "Love Lives Here" stamp Set.

I added a blush of the "Tea Rose" ink on the edges of the card and then wrote my journalling, which says "A place to be safe and comfortable - Family - Warmth - a homely and unpretentious place".

Funky Fossil Designs "In the neighbourhood" new home card

Here's a "new home" card I made using Funky Fossil Designs products.

I started by applying two lines of low tack masking tape across a piece of white card, about two inches apart.

Within the lines of masking tape I applied three shades of Archival Inks using blending brushes.  I used the Pink Peony, Orange Blossom and Cornflower Blue shades covering the rectangle.

Over the top of the blended ink area, I lay the Funky Fossil "In the neighbourhood" stencil, securing with a tab of low tack tape and used "Cornflower Blue" Ranger Archival Ink with a blending brush through the stencil.

I removed the stencil and the masking tape, then added little white dots of gel pen to the sky above the houses, just to break up the colour a little.

Finally, I added the "Home - is the nicest word there is" sentiment, which is part of the Funky Fossil "Home" stamp set, stamped in Versfine Clair "Nocturne" black ink.  I then stuck the piece to the front of a card blank.