52 Week Mini Art Card / Tag Challenge 2025 - Week 19

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 19 is "Water colours"

I used a plain white tag and painted a quick and very rough wreath using a kids set of water colour paints.  I then added a wash to the background area of mauve and turquoise.  Adding word stickers and dots of Liquid Pearls

Lavinia Stamps "Holly Wreath" Christmas Card

I have continued my play session with Lavinia Stamps today, making this holly wreath Christmas card. 

I've used one of the recently released stamp called "Small Branch" multi stamped into a circle using Versafine Clair "Acorn" brown ink.  I then used two pound stamps, "Holly" stamped in Versafine Clair "Shady Lane" green ink and the "Berries" and the "Heartfelt Verse: sentiment stamp, stamped in Versafine Clair "Tulip Red" ink.

Spellbinders Floral Tag

Yesterday afternoon, I watched a Facebook Live session by Christine Emberson Spellbinders Ambassador.  Where she demonstrated the use of two sets of dies.  I don't have those dies, but today I decided to use a similar layout and dust of some Spellbinders dies which I have not used for some time to make a tag.

I have used an assortment of Spellbinder dies for my tag.  I used an off-cut of green distressed looking paper and stuck it to a tag to create the base.  I then used a lattice die to create the cream trellis work (I seem to have mis-laid the packet) and lightly inked the edges in an olive green ink.

I then die cut a circle in cream card and stamped the sentiment using a Stampin' Up set called "Hello Friend" in a sepia Versafine ink.  Using the Spellbinders Shapeabilities wreath die I cut the wreath in brown card and stuck it around the circle.

Using water colour paper, I die cut the leaves and layers of petals, using Spellbinders "Timeless Heart - Textured Flowers".  I then coloured them using Tim Holtz Distress Inks, building up the colours as I went.  I spritzed the pieces which then allowed me to manipulate the shapes to have curves.  I then secured the layers together with a small brad.