Index Cards 59 - 62

I'm down to the last few index cards from the summer - the prompt for #59 was plaid….so I decided to create a plaid with some washi tape.

I don't remember the prompt for this one - it may have been to use a quote or a font

Prompt #61 - parachute.  These little parachutes are part of a stencil and I added the little bodies and strings.

And finished - until next summer.

Here are all of them together - it is blatantly obvious that I need to use a little less blue in my life!

Create something everyday -

Joan

Index Cards 54- 58

I can't remember if the prompt for this index card was envelopes or mail.  I had saved some of the more unique pieces of envelopes when I was soaking stamps off in the spring - they make a unique collage.

Stamps? Paris?  Not sure of the prompt, but I've kept all these retired stamps because I love the memory of being in Paris.

This was suppose to be cogs or wheels and I do not like this card at all!

I created a sunrise on watercolour paper.  I love how the brush strokes turned out on this one.

Queen of Hearts was the prompt here - I stamped the crown and traced the hearts, putting zentangles into each of them.

If you are Canadian, I hope you are having a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend.  If I don't post tomorrow it will be because we're eating turkey!

Take time to create something everyday.

Joan

Index cards 41-47

I loved the bridges that we saw through the countryside in Scotland - we didn't see the actual 'Harry Potter"bridge, but a few came close.  I sketched this out using a photograph I had taken.

Great way to use up some of the sticky letters I have.

I pulled the definition of doodle out of the dictionary - so that must have been the prompt for this card.

Focus or Blur

I love doing these sorts of designs - but it can be hard to keep things straight!

A Mandala on this spacey sort of background that was done on a gelli plate.

I can't remember what this prompt was, It might have been plaid or dancing.  I found a little package of kleenex that had these highland dancers on them.  I added blue tissue paper around the outside and let it hand over the edge.

Hope you're enjoying your fall day.

Create something everyday.

Joan

Index Cards 35 - 40 Catchup

The rainbow for this was painted previously for one of my watercolour practice exercises…now filled with zentangles.

We had been in Edinburgh, Scotland for a day at this point, and I loved all the chimneys on the buildings.  Of course there were lots of pigeons too.

As we left Edinburgh and went traveling around Scotland we saw a number of wind turbines.  The paint that was already on the card lent itself well for a landscape.

Another card based on what we were seeing at the time - I had to sketch this "ticket" because there were no photographs allowed in the castle we were in.  I thought it was cool - a metal piece that cut out this sort of shape and was used for private meetings of the Jacobites back in 1746.  Wow!

The prompt for this card - games!

Create Something Everyday!

Index Cards 29-34 -Catchup!

Obviously the prompt for this card was Ice Cream.

Canada Day 2015!

We were traveling this day to Scotland…I stamped some of my cards ahead of time with "travel" themed stamps so I could use them.

I love making these little stacks!

That the catchup for today.

Create something everyday.

A lot of Catching up to do!…….

I know it has been MONTHS since I've posted on this blog - but I haven't stopped arting - so, I'm going to begin catching up by posting the rest of the Index Card a Day cards that I created this past July and the add some of the other projects I've created.  It's actually fun looking back at these - remember all of them are just small index card sized.

I'll not expose you to the whole lot at once - there are 62 in total…but this is a beginning.

Remember -

Create something everyday!

Week Three - Icad 2015

This week theme was collage with varying prompts each day - I didn't always stay on prompt, but I did collage all week.

This first card started with a watercolour rainbow layer and I added layers of magazine colour, tissue and kleenex.

The prompt for today was Greeting card - so I took my "teeny tiny Greetings" stamp set from Stampin'Up and stamped all the greetings and punched them out with the word window.  I lined them up on the index card and covered them with a dark piece of printed tissue.  Afterwards, I circled each of the greeting with white Sharpie.

The theme for this day was Wasi Sabi - which I had to research.  I added one of the feathers that I've been picking up along my way to school.  Once I attached it, it was no longer perfect because it was spread apart, but it still presented beauty in it's new form.

This theme was treehouse - I took a whole different take on it and found a bird cage charm that I added to the limbs of the tree.  The wonderful birch paper is leftover from a Stampin'Up Thanksgiving kit.

When I read snow globe for the theme I saw blues, so I created a blue ombre effect on the index card, spread on some glue and sprinkled some flakes on it.  Once they were dry I spritzed it a bit with spray ink.

Colour wheel is pretty easy - and I entangled in each of the sections.

I didn't keep to any particular prompt for this final card of the week.  The background had been done previously with a gelli plate.  I just added some doodles and some writing I overapped to make it hard to readl.

Create something everyday,

Joan

Icad 2015 - Week 2

During this second week of icad there were some interesting prompts.  The week prompt was paint - watercolour - and I appreciated practising more with my watercolours.

The first day was grapefruit and cherries…..so I did my best to draw the two together.

#9 was carrots and lemons.  I think my lemons look a bit like potatoes.  I washed the "index" card with green, orange and yellow.

I ended up going to a seed catalogue to get some pictures of eggplants for this card - I did my best to colour the background of the card ginger.  I used Stampin'Up!'s "Elegant Eggplant watercolour wonder crayons to outline my pictures of the eggplants.

Lime and Mango made me think of sorbet done in watercolour.

I don't like everything I create but I do love this little kiwi.  The prompt was kiwi and parsnips.  To be honest - I HATE parsnips.  The only way I can eat them is when my Grandma would make parsnip fritters, and then I had to to lather them in butter.  But this little kiwi likes them just like they are.

#13 was plums and blueberries.  I used Stampin'Up!'s Perfect Plum- I covered it with dark blueberry circles and doodled with a white sharpie.

Salt and Pepper was the final prompt of the week.  I drew the shakers on a grey background colosuring in each bottle with an appropriate colour - then I splattered the card with black and white.

That's it for index cards for a week - 

Cretate every day.

Joan