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".

New Home Card

My neighbours have lived next door to us for about twenty years.  They move house shortly so I wanted to make a card for them.

I used a set that came with issue 175 of Simply Cards & Papercraft magazine a few months back.  I die cut the house and roof and coloured everything with Promarkers.

The sentiment is from a Papertrey Ink set called " "Love Lives Here" stamped in a Versafine Clair ink

A floral Tag (using freebies from Simply Cards & Papercraft Magazine)

I received my copy of "Simply Cards & Papercraft" magazine, Issue 162, earlier in the week.  I've not had a chance to look through it yet, but I was drawn to the free stamp and die set that was in the front of the pack, so I decided to have a quick play by making a tag.

I embossed the tag using a We R Memory Keepers "Woven" embossing folder to create a textured background.

I then stamped the jar, flowers and leaves, using my watercolour pencils to colour them.  I then die cut and hand cut the components.  I played with the positioning, once happy I glued the pieces down.

Frog Grunge Card

I find it very difficult to make a grunge style card, it generally turns out more pretty than it should, which is fine with me as I don't do brown!

The frog is a free stamp from Simply Cards and Papercraft magazine (issue 153) the background texture are Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Collection.

The yellow shading a Promarker. The purple/green is using Pan Pastel, then I've inked areas of the edges for a more grunge look.

Magazine Freebies

I purchased a copy of "Simply Cards & Papercraft" (issue 153) magazine. It seems to be packed full of things that I find interesting and also an embossing folder and stamps as freebies. As it's hot, hot, hot out side, I'm going to find a cool corner to have a read.