52 Week Mini Art Card / Tag Challenge 2025 - Week 8

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 8 is "Buildings"

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For my Week 8 "Buildings" tag, I used a plain white tag for the base. Using Veresafine Clair "Nocturne" black ink to stamp the Stampscapes (Polymer from Sweet Poppy Stencils) "Duo Windmill" stamp.

I popped a circle of paper over the sail area of the windmills to use as a mask, they lay the Sweet Poppy 'Harmony Background Stencil" over the top, applying "Abandoned Coral" Distress Oxide Ink through the stencil.

Removing the stencil and the mask, I coloured in the circle area using "Scattered Straw" Distress Oxide Ink.

Using the remaining "Abandoned Coral" Distress Oxide ink on my blending brush, I coloured in the edges of the tag.

I then used Versafine Clair "Nocturne" black ink to stamp the birds, which are part of the Stampscapes (Polymer) by Sweet Poppy Stencils "Critter Set 1" stamp set.  Finally, adding some touches of 2B pencil to the water area of the tag.