52 Week Mini Art Card / Tag Challenge 2024 - Week 50

The Crafting Niche 52 Week Mini Art Card/Tag Challenge 2024:

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 "Use packaging"

For my Week 50 "Packaging" tag. I glued a piece of cardboard on to a tag.  I then peeled off some of the paper covering to reveal some of the corrugated core of the cardboard.  I then mounted the tag on to a piece of black card.

In my bits and bobs box of goodies that I have saved over years, I pulled out a netting from onions, garlic and lemons.  I attached the netting to the tag using staples.

I used That's Crafty "Black Texture Paste" through the Tim Holtz THMM104 stencil for the harlequin design on the top left hand corner. I then used white and pink Posca Pens to splatter paint over the surface.

Using foam pads, I stuck on a Tim Holtz "Paper Doll" and then added a Tim Holtz Ideaology word sticker, saying "Creativity takes courage".

Tiffany Johnson Creative #100daysartplay Challenge - Day 18

It's Day 18 of Tiffany Johnson Creative #100daysartplay Challenge.  This week is all about using a palette knife.

For this tag, I have used four colours of Dylusion Spray Inks, using Lemon Zest, Fresh Lime, Bubblegum Pink and London Blue.

I then used That's Crafty "Black Texture Paste" through the Lavinia Stamps "Feather Leaf Stencil".

Once the texture paste was dried, I rubbed Cosmic Shimmer "Old Gold" Gilding Wax over some areas of the black texture paste, it shows quite dull in the photograph, but actually shows up quite well in real life.

I mounted the tag on to a piece of black card, then on an off cut of black card added one of the Lavinia Stamps "Sentiment Sticker 6" cutting a border around the word sticker, before adding it to the tag with black foam pads to elevate the sentiment.

Stampers Anonymous "Perspective" Tag

Today, I've been creating a tag.  It has a textural base and is embellished with Tim Holtz "Stampers Anonymous" stamped images. 

For the base, I used three shades of Distress Oxide Inks:  Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn, in a sort of swooshing action, mopping up ink on my glass mat in a random way.  I heat set it and then added extra layers in the same way to build up the depth of colour.

Using a Stampers Anonymous (THMM108) stencil, I added some green circles using "Mowed Lawn" Distress Oxide Ink.

I then decided to add some texture, by using "That's Crafty" Sand Texture Paste through the small circles in the Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous (THMM101) stencil at the top and the bottom of the tag in opposite corners.  I then set aside to dry.

Once dry, I decided to add further texture by using the same texture paste but adding some green acrylic paint to it and mixing the two together before putting through another Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous (THS004) stencil to create the green vertical lines over the textural dots.  I set aside to dry, it did take longer than the dots due to the paint I had mixed in.

I used a Stampers Anonymous stamp from their "Random Quotes" stamp set, stamped in Versafine Clair "Morning Mist" grey ink, on the flat areas of the tag.

Using Versafine Clair "Blue Bell" I stamped the large butterfly from the Stampers Anonymous "Perspective" (CMS213) stamp set on to white card.  I did the same with a small butterfly/moth from the Stampers Anonymous "Little Things" stamp set.  I then ran the images through my Brother Scan n Cut to cut out the multiple images. 

I coloured the insects with two shades of blue Distress Oxide inks:  Blueprint Sketch and "Tumbled Glass", adding a bit of sparkle with a silver glitter Signo Pen.

I then adhered the images on to the tag and added a sentiment using the Tim Holtz Idea-ology " "Small Talk" word stickers.

Funky Fossil Dragonfly Duo and Dancing Dragonflies card

I'd ordered some stencils from Funky Fossil which arrived today, so I couldn't wait to try some.

I already had some backgrounds prepared from a previous session, so opted to use one using Distress Oxide Inks.  I find it makes projects a lot quicker to make when inspiration strikes.

I used "Wilted Violet" Distress Oxide Ink through the "Dancing Dragonflies" stencil.  I then used a "Black Texture Paste" through the "Dragonfly Duo" stencil and left to dry for an hour or so.

To break up the background colour, I added white dots using a Posca Pen.  On the vein areas of the main dragonfly I used a Sakura Gelly Roll pen to give a subtle gold shimmer.

Finally, using a Papertrey Ink stamp and Versafine Clair "Nocturne" ink, I stamped the sentiment of "The sun will come out tomorrow".