52 Week Mini Art Card / Tag Challenge 2025 - Week 48

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 48 is "Trees"

Starting with a white tag, I created the background colour, using "Sky Blue","Prickly Pear" and "Leaf Green"  Ranger Archival Inks with one of the Lavinia Stamps acetate "Hill Masks".

Next, I stamped the trees, using the Lavinia Stamps "Birch" and "Small Trees" stamps with Versafine Clair "Pine Cone" dark brown ink.  I then stamped the Lavinia "Small Pixy Houses" and the "Ducks" in the sky, using Versafine Clair "Morning Mist" grey ink.

I used a white gel pen for highlights.  Then used yellow, orange and white Posca Pens for the flowers.

For the leaves on the trees, I used a cotton bud / Q-tip with three shades of green Ranger Archival inks.

Lavinia Stamps Birch and Elm River Walk Card

 

This evening I had a play with some of the Lavinia Stamps trees making this card.

I started by stamping the Lavinia Stamps "Birch",  "Elm" and one of the "Small Trees", stamped in "Acorn Brown" Versafine Clair ink. I used a white gel pen on part of the tree trunks and a black fine liner on the other side of the tree trunks.

I used three Q-tips (one for each colour) to create the leave canopy using Versafine Clair "Verdant", "Shady Lane" and "Green Oasis".

Once the ink was dry, I gave the card a wash of Distress Oxides, using Tumbled Glass, Weathered Wood and Bundled Sage.  I then built up the colours using Peeled Paint, Rustic Wilderness, Mowed Lawn and Faded Jeans Distress Oxide inks.

I drew on the fence mid way on the card then coloured it with a brown Derwent Inktense Pencil,

I used the Lavinia "Foliage Set" of stamps with three shades of Versafine Clair inks (Verdant, Shady Lane and Green Oasis).  I added dots of different colours of Posca Pen to give the impression of flowers

I added depth to areas colouring in using a 2B pencil.

Lavinia Stamps "Nadolig Llawen Reindeer" Card

In my head this card was going to have lots of white space and minimal detail... well I got that wrong didn't I! 

I started by masking off the edges of the card using low tack tape, to ensure I kept them clean from ink.

I positioned a moon mask and then lay the Lavinia Stamps "Charming" stencil over the top, securing with a small strip of masking tape.  I used five shades of Archival Inks (Pink Peony, Violet, Cornflower Blue, Bluebird and Watering Can) through the stencil, applied with blending brushes.  I deliberately faded the strength of ink out towards the edges as I wanted the image to gently blend into the edges that had been masked off.

I used two of the Lavinia Stamps "Hill Masks" to create the landscape uisng "Watering Can" Archival ink.

I stamped "Magnus", the "Small Reindeer" and the "Nadolig Llawen" sentiment (part of the Welsh Words" stamp set) using Versafine Clair "Nocturne" black ink.

Using Versafine Clair "Morning Mist" grey ink, I stamped the trees, using the top of the trees in second generation stamping to create the impression of winter hedges on the top of the hills.

Finally, I used a white Signo gel pen to add detail to the fur on the chests of the reindeers and used a 2B pencil to ground the reindeers.

Lavinia Stamps "Wild Hare in a Floral Wreath" Card

More Lavinia Stamps play from me today, this time creating a masked landscape within the floral wreath. 

I used Confetti, Graphite and Russet Orange Elements inks with the Lavinia Flower mask to create the central background colour.

I then stamped the "Floral Wreath" in Versafine Clair "Monarch" purple ink, colouring the flower buds with "Villainous Potion" Distress Oxide Ink, applied with a brush.

I used the Lavinia "Hill Mask" with Versafine Clair "Morning Mist and "Monarch" innk to create the landscape.

I then used the "Small Trees" stamp set, stamped in first and second generation stamping of "Morning Mist" Distress Oxide Ink.  I then stamped the hare, which is part of the "Wild Hare Set".  Finally, I used a white gelly roll pen and yellow and orange Posca Pens for detail on the small flowers.

Lavinia Stamps "Woodland Sprite and Bogart" Card

Last week, Lavinia Stamps launched a new set of stamps to add to their existing collection.  Obviously, I placed my order immediately.  The stamps arrived yesterday but I didn't have an opportunity to play with them, which I addressed today, making this card.

I've used two of the new stamps for this card:  Woodland Sprite and Bogart the frog.  I have also used Meadow Grass, Bugs and Small Trees stamps too.

I have stamped in Versafine Clair "Nocturne" black ink, using first and second generation stamping.  I have used Distress Oxide Inks, applied with a brush to create the background.

Day 12 of the "24 Days of Tags 2021 challenge" with Karen Telfer.

I went a bit rogue with my day 12 tag, using a different stencil and stamps to those that Karen Telfer used for her tag.

I opted to use the Lavinia Stamps "Coral" stencil with "Faded Jeans"  and "Blueprint Sketch" Distress Oxide inks for the background.

I stamped in Versafine Clair "nocturne" black ink using the following Lavinia Stamps:  Fairy Castle 2, Gip, Path and Small Trees.

I coloured the castle image using coloured pencils and then inked the edges of the tag using Blueprint Sketch and Black Soot Distress Oxide inks.  Finally, I went over some of the stamping with a white Gelly Roll Pen and then splattered white paint from a Posca Pen to simulate snow.