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 38 "Nursery Rhymes"
I decided to go with the "Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool" nursery rhyme, making this tag.
For the base. I used "Tumbled Glass" and "Bundled Sage" Distress Oxide Inks. I then lay the Funky Fossil Designs "Knitted Background Stencil" over the top of the tag and applied "Stormy Sky" and "Mowed Lawn" Distress Oxide Ink through the stencil.
Using Versafine Clair "Pinecone" a dark brown ink, I stamped the sheep on to the tag and then also on to a white piece of card. The stamp that I have used is part of the "Animal Wisdom" stamp set by Penny Black.
I painted the sheep that was on the white card using "Black Soot" and "Spun Sugar" Distress Oxide Ink. I then fussy cut the sheep and glued over the stamped sheep on the tag.
I used a Lavinia "Hill Mask" with Versafine Clair "Morning Mist" grey ink to create the landscape, adding grass with a 2B pencil and coloured flowers with Posca Pens.
Next, I used "Blueprint Sketch" Distress Oxide Ink to ink around the edges of the tag, to pull the eye to the focal point of the sheep.
Finally, on the computer I typed "Baa baa black sheep", printed it out and then glued on to the tag.
