icad catchup…..

Holy Crow - I knew I'd neglected posting for a while - but didn't realize how long…..here are the icad -index cards - I've worked on through the last 13 days...

Day 7 - Yellow….collage of various things - gel print, paper napkin, washi tape, string….

Day 8 - Mandala - done on a watercolour background

Day 9 - alphabet

Day 10 - the Beatles

Day 11 - didn't do the prompt for this day - too tired, but I still created a card.

Day 12 - Paisley

Day 13 - Book Review

Day 14 - Magenta - This is a "One Staple Collage" - sort of a cool idea that I heard about.

Day 15 - Stickers

Day 16 - Dice

Day 17 - Polka Dots

More to come - have a creative day.

Nailpolish Watercolour

Today's icad prompt was to use nail polish.  Last night I dabbed some different colours onto a piece of watercolour paper the same size as an index card and let it dry over night.  Today I added some watercolour around the paints.  I'm really liking the effect of this one.

Have a great day - create something!

icad Galaxy

This poor little index card has gone through a number of transformations….spritzed gold smooch onto black card stock last night...Painted over it with gold paint and a stencil…drew the mandala with white paint Sharpie…..added some sequins - but that didn't work for me.  Then I spotted the pieces of glitter I created through the winter with self-leveling gel and new that was the finishing touch.

Have a good night.   Create something every day!

Zentangle puzzle

The picture got cropped a bit wonky - but that's okay.  Today's icad is "puzzle" - so I put together just enough pieces to cover an index card and then traced them.

Have a wonky creative day.

Buttons and Quotes

Today's icad prompt was "Hello, my name is…" and when I said that out loud and put my name in the blank, I started singing the song!  So I pulled out my jars of my Grandma's buttons….

and started sewing some on my index card.

Here is the quote page I did last night while watching tv with my daughter.

Hope your day went well!

Create each day!

Joan

icad Day 2 - Circus

The prompt for Day 2 of icad was circus.  I pulled the "Your Amazing" Stampin'Up! stamp set out of my stuff for my Open House on Friday and used the elephants from it.  I was also  able to find some of the Designer Series Paper with a circus theme - so now I'm wondering if I may end up  keeping the stamp set.  But I just may have to…..step right back!  Can't keep everything!

I'll be back tomorrow.

Have a great day.

icad2014 #1

Well - we're off and running! The theme for the first week of icad is "Text" - of any kind, cut out, written - and I don't have to use that prompt if I don't want to.

The daily prompt for the first day was "prism".

I drew the prism and then the spectrum coming out from it.  I had doodled on the face of the prism, but then decided that it would be a good place for the definition of prism -and it fit perfectly.  I have an old paperback dictionary that's falling apart, so it's become my "arting dictionary".

Having fun!

I'll be back soon with today's card - 

toodles

icad2014 warmups

I'm totally today is the first day of this years "Index Card a Day" - icad.  Tammy gave us some warmup exercises to do and, although I didn't do all of them, I have a few to share.  The pieces in the photo above are my watercolour practice sheets which I've cut into index card sizes for icad.  I may not use them all this year - but they're ready if needed.

The second warmup exercise (the first was to do a puzzle of some sort - crossword, sudoku, jigsaw…I've been working my way through all my jigsaw puzzles, so I had that warmup covered!)….anyway, the second warm up was to write 3 Haiku poems - not my favourite poem type - but I managed to write two on art journal pages that I'd already completed.

I never got around to doing more doodles on this micro bead page - so the Haiku fit in perfectly.

Warmup #3 was to take an index card on an adventure and doodle your name.  My deck may not have been much of an adventure - but I got my name doodled.

Warmup #4 was to create a "mobile icad creation station".  I am using the same box I used last year - it's a Stampin'Up! Paper Pumkin box - perfect size!  I travel with my watercolours and a jar of Golden Self Leveling Gel for collaging on index cards as the need/inspiration arises.

There is one more warmup to do - I may get to it today - I'll share when it's done.

I will definitely be sharing my icad day 1 card!

Have a great creative day!