52 Week Mini Art Card / Tag Challenge 2025 - Week 34

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 34 "Pockets and Pouches"

For my Week 34 tag, I decided to use a couple of pieces of Patterned Paper from the Funky Fossil Designs "Vintage Patchwork" paper stack.  I stuck one straight on to a blank tag, cutting to size, then I cut round one of the large flowers and decided to use that to create a pocket on the tag, using double sided sticky tape on the lower and left hand side of the flower, leaving the top and the right hand side open.  I went around the pocket flower with a black pen. Using a black Posca Pen, I added some doodles. I then added a word sticker with the words "Love you always", which is part of the Funky Fossil Designs "Sentimental Sticker Stack".

For the small tags within the pocket, I cut three shapes from the Funky Fossil "Vintage Patchwork" paper stack and mounted them on to black card.  I punched a hole in the top corner of each of the tags and threaded some pink and white "Bakers Twine" through the hole.  ON each tag, I added a word sticker from the Funky Fossil "Sentimental Sticker Stack".  The words I chose for the tags are:  Forever and always, You're the best and Love you to the moon and back.

52 Week Mini Art Card / Tag Challenge 2025 - Week 21

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 21 is "Anniversaries"

Today, 25th May 2025, my Hubby and I celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary.  This of course had to be the prompt for the week.

For my tag, I have used some patterned paper for the base using a page from the Funky Fossil Designs "Vintage Patchwork" patterned paper pack.  I then used an additional page and fussy cut the flowers so they overlapped.

I used a black pen to outline the flowers to give the impression of depth and then drew vertical and horizontal lines to create a rough grid in the background.

Finally, I added the words "The best thing that happened to me is you" which is part of a Creative Expressions sentiment sheet.  Then added some dots of "White Opal" Liquid Pearls.