Pink Bird Studio

ICAD Day 29

Some of the other participants of the Index Card A Day (ICAD) challenge have been making the cutest little houses on their cards.  I had to try it. 

Not a favourite of mine but I'm not hating it either.  It was fun to do at any rate!

Sunday Postcard Art - Put a Hat on it!

This week's theme at Sunday Postcard Art is "Put a Hat on it".  Fun!  I had some leftover grey/silver paint from my summer of color piece so I thought I would play along with the same colour scheme. 

Not super thrilled but it's ok - not sure what happened wih her nose!

ICAD Day 28

Four weeks of making an index card a day and I think I have re-established my creative "habit". 

Thanks to Tammy and all of the other artists participating in this project!

SOC 4 - Lavender, Grey, Plum

This week's colours for the Summer of Color 4 challenge are Lavender, Grey and a touch of Plum.

I was originally going to leave the centre of my flower plain (it is a rubber stamp), but at the last minute I thought I would make it plum.  Yikes it was too dark and too opaque so it looked like an actual plum had landed in the middle of my flower!  After being pleased with my card I now hated it and thought I ruined it.  Then I decided to try to salvage it with some white gel pen (which I then blotted so it wasn't so bright).  I'm back to being happy with my card, but it's probably a(nother) good lesson in knowing when to say "enough"! 

ICAD Day 27

I doodled up these cute "birds of a feather" for day 27!

ICAD Day 26

Today's index card was inspired by a music video.  Like the music or not you will probably like the artistic style.

This was a magazine image over a watercolour background accented with various pens.  The model did NOT have a huge pimple on her nose  - that was the result of me not being patient enough to wait for the background to completely dry.  However, I kind of liked it because I think there is far too much air brushing and "perfectness" in the magazine world so I left it!

ICAD Day 25

Back to basics - collage and stamping.  Red sky at night, sailors' delight as they say.

ICAD Day 24

For my Index Card a Day project Day 24 I deconstructed a bingo card and added to my index card.  Not thrilled with it or any of this week's cards but I have been experimenting more which is good.  I could just make variations of the same card 61 times but that wouldn't be as interesting (for me anyway - it might be nicer for people to look at!).

 

ICAD Day 23

Well this one surely did not end the way I intended.  I was planning on leaving the map circles as is, encircled by red inktense crayon, but they looked too stark against the umber background so...I covered them up so they became part of the background instead of the focal point as was originally my intention.

I don't usually mind if things go in another direction than what I planned (which is usually rather loose at the best of times) - do you?

ICAD Day 22

Three weeks of making "something" every day and posting it, like it or not, and stillhaving fun on Day 22.

Not my greatest card today but I tried something new that I think has some potential.  I scrunched the card up while it had wet-ish gesso on the first layer and then straightened it out, leaving an interesting texture.  This is something I have done before with printer-weight paper but try it with much heavier paper and the paper will crack.  The index cards I have are quite flimsy so it worked.  I will probably exploer this again.  Until then, here is my Day 22 card.  For clarity's sake, the word is "Truly" - my goodness my handwriting leaves a lot to be desired!