52 Week Mini Art Card / Tag Challenge 2025 - Week 50

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 50 is "Stencil Play"

I used a cream coloured tag for the base of this tag. I then used "Soft Cygnet" Element Ink through the Dina Wakley "Coasters 4 - MDS82135", positioning off the edge of the tag, so that only part of the circle stencil is seen.

I then used "Pixie Green" Element Inks through the lower dotty section of the Tim Holtz / Stampers Anonymous "Christmas Stamp and stencil set - THM178", just around the edge of the decorative stencilled area.

Using "Pixie Green" Element Ink I stamped then holly, which is part of "The Holly & the Ivy - CS137D" stamp set by Hobby Art Stamps.  I coloured the holly using a paint brush to apply "Rustic Wilderness" Distress Oxide Ink.  I used a red Posca Pen for the berries coating them in Ranger Glossy Accents, to achieve a more 3D look to the tag.  Finally, I added touches of gold to the holly using a gold gel pen.

Karen Telfer's "12 Days of Christmas Tags 2025" - Day 6

I'm still playing catch up on Karen's tags.  For some reason I've just not fancied being in the craft room.  You can't force these things.  But I woke in the middle of the night and decided I may as well get up and do something, so made my Day 6 tag of Karen Telfer's "12 Days of Christmas Tags 2025" series.  Here's the link to Karen's tutorial if you fancy having a go yourself.  As usual, I have taken inspiration from Karen's tag but made it my own design.

I've used a kraft tag, a layer of white card and then a layer of kraft card, which creates a white frame for the central design.

Using Versafine Clair "Shady Lane" green ink, I stamped the verse, which is part of a Hobby Arts stamp set called "The Holly & The Ivy - CS137D".  I used Versafine Clair "Spruce" dark green ink and holly stamps from the Hobby Art "Christmas Flourishes - CS081D" stamp set to stamp the holly on to the kraft card.  I then stamped some on white card, which I fussy cut for later use.

Next, I used two colours of Versafine Clair ink to stamp the Lavinia Stamps "Jemima" robin. The colours of ink I used were "Acorn" brown and "Tulip Red" ink.

I then glued the extra holly leaves on to the tag.  I added dots of white across the tag for snow and finally added some dots of Ranger "Glossy Accents" to the holly berries and to the eye of the robin.