52 Week Mini Art Card / Tag Challenge 2025 - Week 10

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 10 is "Animal Print"

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For my Week 10 "Animal Print" tag, I started with a plain pink piece of card, stamping the Dark Room Door "Animal Print Background Stamp" in Versafine Clair "Nocturne" black ink.

I cut the piece of pink card to tag shape, then mounted it on to a piece of black card.  Around the edges of the animal print pattern, I used a silver glitter gel pen, to make the pattern stand out a little more.

I dusted a small off cut of black card with an antistatic french chalk bag then stamped the "Stay Wild" sentiment using Wow! Clear Embossing Ink.  (The stamp itself is from a Visible Image stamp set called '"Stay Wild").  I then coated the stamped greeting in Wow! Super Fine Silver Embossing Powder and heat set.  I trimmed down the greeting, using double sided sticky tape to stick it on to the tag itself.

Tiffany Johnson Creative #100daysartplay Challenge - Day 91

Today is Day 91 of the Tiffany Johnson Creative #100daysartplay challenge, this is the last day with the prompt of "inks".

This was a quick make card.  I found a small piece of kraft card, only 4"x4" - it was one of those situations - do or ditch.  I decided to use it.

Going through my stamps, I came across a set from my scrapbooking days, I think it was by 7gypsies and has not seen the light of days for around fifteen or more years!  I decided to address this by using a couple of the stamps from the set.

I rubbed an anti-static bag over the surface of the kraft card, popped it in my stamping platform then using a Wow! Clear Embossing Pad, coated the stamp and stamped.  I did this a couple of times as the Kraft card tends to absorb the ink quicker than normal card.  I then covered the inked area with Wow! Opaque Bright White Embossing Powder and heat set. Finally mounting the kraft card on to a white card blank.

Day 5 - 24 Days of Christmas Tags with Karen Telfer

Here's my tag for Day 5 of the 24 Tags for Christmas Challenge with Karen Telfer.  I really love this soft colours of this tag.

I've used three shades of Distress Oxide Inks for the background (Cracked Pistachio, Faded Jeans and Tumbled Glass).

I've heat embossed two Lavinia Stamps stamped images (one of the hares from the "Whimisical Hares"set and the "Tree of dreams"), stamped in Wow! clear embossing ink with Wow! Bright White Super Fine embossing powder.

I added snowflakes stamped in "Stormy Sky" Distress Oxide Ink.  Splattered white dots for snow by tapping a Posca Pen and then I added some sparkle by adding tiny dots of "Crystal" stickles.

Day 3 - 24 Day Christmas Tag Challenge with Karen Telfer

It's Day 3 of the 24 Day Christmas Tag Challenge with Karen Telfer.  

Here's is my interpretation.  I didn't have the plaid stencil Karen used or anything similar so I have improvised, using a Clarity stripe stencil, positioned in two different directions.  For my tag I have used "Picked Raspberry" and "Mowed Lawn" Distress Oxide inks.  I swapped out the "Festive Berries" for the "Picked Raspberry" as I felt the red looked too dominant.

The sentiment is stamped in Versafine Clair "Nocturne" black ink.  The stamp is from an old magazine I've had for ages. I have no idea which mag though.

I decided to add some stars.  I used a stamp from a Visible Image stamp set called "Peace, Love & Hope".  I used Wow! clear embossing powder, then used their "Metallic Gold Rich Pale Super Fine" embossing powder, then heat set.

Funky Fossil - "In The Spotlight Stencil with Stampers Anonymous Crazy Bird Stamp

Funky Fossil Designs is always bringing out new stencils to tempt me with.  I immediately fell for the "In the spotlight stencil" so it was a must for a card I needed to make for a young man that likes to do a bit of acting.

I used a black card and "Squeezed Lemonade" Distress Oxide Ink through the spotlight stencil.  When applying it had a slight yellow, but once dry it is more grey with a hint of yellow, which is fine for this purpose.

I used a bird from the Stampers Anonymous set called "Crazy Bird" stamped in Versafine Clair "Nocturne" ink into the middle of the spotlight and also on to a piece of white card.

I coloured the image on the white card using two shades of Distress Oxide Inks (Antique Linen and Rusty Hinge) and then fussy cut the shape and adehered over the stamped image on the spotlight area.

I used a Lawn Fawn stamp set called "Simply Sentiments" for the sentiment, stamped and embossed using Wow! embossing products.

Visible Image - Into The Woods Birthday Card

I've played with an older Visible Image stamp set today to create this card.

Some months ago, I had a messy session with some Dylusion Ink Sprays creating some stunning backgrounds.  This is one of them, which I felt was an ideal marriage with the Visible Image "Into The Woods" stamp set.

I stamped the tree scene and owl using Versafine Clair "Nocturne" ink.  

I created the stars in the sky by using a fan brush with some white Gesso and tapping the brush lightly to gain the look of stars in the sky.

I heat embossed the "My Favourite Things" sentiment, which is part of their "Essential Sentiments" set, using Wow! Embossing pad and Wow! Super fine Metallic Silver embossing powder.

Funky Fossil Heat Embossed "Abstract Flowers" stencil image

I seem to be in embossing mode.  Today I created a card using a section of a Funky Fossil Designs Stencil and heat embossed the image.  A simple technique but a strong image all the same.

I started with a plain piece of white card.  I used a blending tool and an assortment of Distress Oxide Ink shades (Antique Linen, Wild Honey, Worn Lipstick and Ripe Persimmon) to create the mottled coloured background.  I made quite a large background and have only used half for this card, so I have a background prepared for a future project now.

I lay the Funky Fossil Designs "Abstract Flowers" stencil over the prepared background and masked off an 2 1/2" square area using low tack masking tape.

Using a finger dabber and the Wow! Embossing Pad, I applied the clear ink through the stencil.  I removed the stencil and shook Cosmic Shimmer, thick embossing crystals in the shade of "Blue Raspberry" over the wet patterned area.  

I used my heat gun, directed to the underside of the design as I wanted a smooth-ish finish (sometimes if you heat from the top it can have an orange peel texture).  The end result was a rather glossy tile, which I decided would be the main feature of the card.