52 Week Mini Art Card / Tag Challenge 2025 - Week 16

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 16 is "Time"

Another caravan crafting tag for the challenge.  I used a piece of patterned paper for the base, which was part of a "John Next Door" Craft Essentials magazine pack.  The cog stamps and the sentiment are also from the same pack, which I stamped in Versafine Clair "Nocturne" black ink.

I used a stripes stencil with a blending brush and nocturne black ink to create the extra layer to the tag, finally splattering a turquoise coloured Posca Pen over the surface and mounting on to black card.

Lavinia Stamps "Vine Candelabra" card

 

I had a further play with my new Lavinia Dreamatorium collection of stamps making this card.

I started by stamping the Lavinia "Vine Candelabra" and "Mushies" in Versafine Clair "Nocturne' black ink.

Once dry, I used the edge of the packaging from a Lavinia Stencil to apply "Chrome Yellow" and "Sky Blue" Ranger Archival Ink to create the rays of colour from opposite corners of the card.

I used "Tea Rose" Ranger Archival Ink through the Lavinia "Feather Leaf" stencil just around the edges of the card.

Finally, I added some yellow around the candles and yellow Posca Pen to the base of the "Mushies" to replicate flowers.

Lavinia Stamps "A Spring Swing" Dreamatorium Collection

Just a quick update on my living situation.  We're still in the caravan, we've been here for sixteen weeks now, but I am hoping to be in our new home and reunited with my craft stash in June - fingers crossed for that!

I obviously couldn't resist buying the recent Lavinia Stamps "Dreamatorium" releas of stamps and I managed to used some of them to create this scene.  I've actually entered it into the Dreamatorium monthly challenge too.

I used three shades of Ranger Archival Inks (Chrome Yellow, Sap Green and Morning Glory), through the Lavinia "Feather Leaf" stencil for the background. Edging the card with Chrome Yellow ink.

I then used Versafine Clair "Nocturne" black ink to stamp the following Lavinia Stamps in first and second generation stamping: Vintage Swirls, Swing, Pris, Fledglings, Silkweed Hops and Wild Foliage.

52 Week Mini Art Card / Tag Challenge 2025 - Week 15

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 15 is "Easter"

I started with a piece of patterned paper in quite muted tones with birds and flowers on.  I then used a hand cut stencil, from using an oval die on card and "Pink Peony" Ranger Archival Inks t create an Easter Egg background over the patterned paper.

Next, using "Leaf Green" Ranger Archival Ink and a torn edge of copy paper, I created the layered landscape at the base of the tag.

I then used the Lavinia Stamps "Mini Pipin", the "Shrooms", "Thyme" and the "Rosemary" stamp with Versafine Clair "Nocturne" black ink to stamp the images in first and second generation stamping.

I added extra detail using a white gel pen and pink Posca Pens, finally adding a "Happy Easter" sticker to the tag.

52 Week Mini Art Card / Tag Challenge 2025 - Week 14

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 14 is "Collage"

Another caravan crafting tag, this time using a selection of layered patterned papers, using lots of off cuts I had hanging around, with inked edges.

I've used a word sticker from the Funky Fossil "Sentimental Sticker Stack".  I stamped the leaf, which is from an unbranded stamp set using Versafine Clair "Nocturne" black ink, fussy cut and stuck into position, with black splatters from a Posca Pen.

52 Week Mini Art Card / Tag Challenge 2025 - Week 13

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 13 is "Garden Visitors"

Once again, I apologise this tag is not to my normal stadard, but I'm still in the caravan and my crafting supplies are limited.

I cut a plain white tag and splattered blue water colour paint across the surface.  Once dry, I mounted the tag on to a piece of white card.  

In Issue 266 of Simply Cards and Papercrafts Magazine there were some die cut bird images, so I decided to use one of these on the tag. Adding a word from the Funky Fossil Designs word sticker set called "Sentimental Sticker Stack".

52 Week Mini Art Card / Tag Challenge 2025 - Week 12

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 12 is "Food"

This is the first tag for this year, I have made in the caravan, so with minimal supplies to hand, I apologise if it isn't up to my normal standard.

I peeled a label off a tin of baked beans, cut it into sections and covered and glued to a tag.  Around the edge of the tag, I used Versafine Clair "Nocturne" black ink to darken the area.  Using a black pen I wrote around the edge of the tag, saying Always in my kitchen cupboards, no other brand will do,  I like my beans on toast with grated cheese"?

I mounted the tag on to a piece of black card and then added white polka dots of Posca Pen across the surface of the tag.