A Crafting Niche "52 Week Mini Art Card / Tag Challege 2026" - Week 32

 

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 32 is "Bubbles or Balloons"

I love the clean lines and the look of white on white, so for this prompt I decided to go all white and just use die cuts.

The cat is a Spellbinders die called "Kitty Cats S2-277". The trellis (D210628) the heart ballooon (D210507) and the cluster of three balloons (D220457), are all Gummianpan dies.

Papertrey Ink "Home is where the heart is" card

For this card, I started with a 4x4" piece of card, creating a band of colour through the middle using three shades of Distress Oxide Inks.  The colours I used are: Mermaid Lagoon, Salvaged Patina and Cracked Pistachio.

While the ink was drying, I die cut the white trellis, which is a Gummiapan die. I used a wet glue to stick the lattice over the inked background.

Next I used Versafine Clair "Twilight" dark blue ink to stamp the sentiment on to the card and the house on to a piece of plain white card.  I used the Papertrey Ink stamp set called "Love Lives Here" for both. Onced glued into position on the card, I used a red Posca Pen to colour in the central heart.

Stampers Amonymous "Entomology" Lady Bird Card

I've felt a little different about my crafting since my return from holiday.  Nothing I can really put my finger on, but I know I'm not where I usually am with my crafting, so to address this, I have gone back to basics with this CAS card.

I started by using the Gummiapan "Trellis" (D210628) die to cut a white trellis, which I mounted on to a white card blank with a wet glue.

Below the trellis, I stamped a Simon Says Stamp sentiment "Just For You" which is part of their "Tiny Words" stamp set, stamped in Versafine Clair "Nocturne" black ink.

Using "Nocturne" again, I stamped the ladybird from the Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous cling stamp set called "Enomolog" CMS328 on to a piece of white card.  I then used a Derwent Inktense pencil to colour the ladybird, using a paint brush.  I used the matching Sizzix Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous die set (663068), to die cut the ladybird.  I went around the edges of the die cut with a black Sharpie pen, before sticking over the trellis.

Finally, I added some black dots of Ranger "Enamel Accents" and I covered the ladybird with Ranger "Glossy Accents" and set aside to dry... which takes ages!

Gummiapan Balloon on Trellis Birthday Card

A very clean and simple card from me this morning using a couple of Gummiapan dies. 

I used my Sizzix Big Shot to die cut the "Trellis" and the "Balloons" dies from Gummiapan.

I cut two of the trellis and glued the two together and glued on to the card. 

Next I stamped the sentiment, which is part of Simon Says Stamp "Tiny Words - Birthday", stamped in Versafine Clair "Morning Mist" grey Ink. (I did this now as the balloons were going to be raised and may make stamping more difficult).

I then glued the balloon strings into position.  Using sticky foam pads, I added the actual balloons to five dimension to them.

And that's it.  A really quick card to make.