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Final Catch-up post - 2 more weeks in review

Phew!  I am going to try to keep up better in the future.  This catching up has been a lot of work!

Let’s start off with the last two weeks of the Index Card A Day Challenge (aka ICAD):

18 is probably one of my favourites.  I love the background, but mostly I like the woman looking out over the building - kind of like we are all doing at the moment as we start to venture out a bit more, which is why I thought the capture “inching forward” went well with the card.

And here’s another COVID-type card.  Don’t you think a fashionable space helmet would be a great idea right about now?

This one has a subtitle: sometimes Mr. Peanut forgets how recognizable he is.  I crack myself up.  

Yes, I did cut out images from stamps...

The birds in the next two cards almost hit the recycling bin.  You see they were originally from pairs of birds, and so their tales were obscured by their mates.  As I went to toss them in the paper recycling I stopped and thought - what if I just replaced their tails!?

And finally, we reach today’s card, 28.  We’re almost 1/2 way through ICAD already!

Now it’s time to catch up on the 100 day project, which will wrap up in a couple of weeks.

Other things I’ve been doing:

A bunch of tiny (2” or under) collages for an online challenge:

Some random postcards:

And last but not least, a journal page.

Thank you so much for joining me today while I got caught up.  Hopefully as of next week we’ll go back to weekly posts that will be a bit less daunting!

Stay safe.  

Sunday Postcard Art - Torn / Broken

This week’s theme for Sunday Postcard Art  is Torn and/or Broken.  I chose to do a torn-paper collage with various magazine images.

Thanks so much for joining me today - I will be back tomorrow with my week in review - this will be my last “catch up” post and then I’ll be back to my regular weekly routine hopefully!  

 

Stay safe everyone.  

Still Catching up - x Weeks in Review

Last week we made it to May 31.  So this week, let’s try to make it through 1/2 of June. Catching up is hard work!       

Let’s start with a look at my entries for the Index Card a Day challenge, affectionately known as ICAD.  This year, this creative challenge is in its 10th year. I figured out this is my 7th year participating.  The challenge was started by Tammy Garcia at Daisy Yellow Art  This challenge is not about making masterpieces, but about building a daily creativity “habit” that fosters creativity for its participants, and brings them all the benefits of living a creative life.  

Here are my first 14 cards.  I have decided to start with two common elements for each card.  First of all, each card will start with a gelli print, directly onto the card.  Secondly, I’ve placed a bingo number on each card that indicates the card number (1 - 61).  Ok there’s three - thirdly, I’ve decided that each card will be landscape orientation.  

I found these words in an old typing book and thought they were perfect for Tammy’s idea of creative “habit”.

This next one was fun and a “happy accident”.  I started with a single image.  My plan was to alternate the floral picture with the picture of the little girl and then I skipped one of the girl by mistake.  Then I realized I could actually make her a twin!  It would have been a much different result if I’d stuck to plan. Her face would have been very distorted, which would have also been fun, but in a different way.

And this one was actually created with the lower part of the girl’s portrait as she is holding grapes - no scrap too small!

Ok - enough ICADs for one week - let’s go see what’s happening on the 100 day project.

And last but not least there were a bunch of other odds and ends.

A mixed media painting on paper:

And a couple of mixed media, monochromatic, postcards.

Thanks so much for joining me today while I catch up on my back catalogue!  If I can keep on track we’ll be all caught up by next week and then we can go back to weekly updates.  Stay safe.

Sunday Postcard Art - Gypsy

This week, the theme for Sunday Postcard Art  is Gypsy.  The song Gypsy by Fleetwood Mac popped into my head from long ago, and I’ve used some of the lyrics here:

To the gypsy

that remains

her face says freedom

with a little fear

I have no fear

I have only love

Part of the song also references lace and paper flowers, and I’ve thrown in some fortune telling images for good measure.  

Thanks so much for joining me today.  I’ll be posting another post shortly for my week(s) in review.  Stay safe.

Catch-up continues - x weeks in review

Today I’ll catch up to the end of May.  That will give me a fresh start next week to catch up from June 1, which coincides with the beginning of the Index Card a Day Challenge (ICAD).  

Let’s start with the 100 day project updates:

I made a couple of mixed media postcards:

For some reason the other one doesn’t want to show up as a photo, but it was similar in a slightly lighter palette, just me playing around with shapes and marks.

I made a collage for the Februllage online challenge and was thrilled to have it featured on their Instragram feed.  

 

I also did a few ‘warm-up’ cards for ICAD, although not really necessary when I’m already doing a daily project, it was fun nonetheless.

 

 

Last but not least, here is a group shot of my outgoing postcards for the IHanna DIY Postcard Swap:

Thanks so much for joining me today as I continue to catch up for the past couple of months.  Stay safe out there!

Sunday Postcard Art - Fruit

This week’s theme for Sunday Postcard Art  is Fruit.  I made a simple little collaged and painted pair of pears.  

Thanks so much for joining me today!  I will carry on my catch-up posts from May tomorrow.  Stay safe everyone!

Catching up - x Weeks in Review

Well, I didn’t realize I was this far behind!  The last “week in review post I made was on May 3, and here it is June 7.  I don’t want to make one giant post, so I think I’ll try to do a couple of weeks at a time until I’m caught up.  I’m participating in the 100 day project, and now the Index Card a Day Challenge has started, so I’m making at least two pieces a day.  Add painting and journalling and you can imagine that catching up is going to be a big job.  So let’s get started:

Here are a couple of weeks of the 100-day project, starting where we left off:

Now I’ll fill in some of the other activities from the same period.

Lots of mixed media / collage happening here.  Some are postcards, one was  birthday card and some are just for fun.

A little abstract of Venice for a local art contest.

And some art journalling.  I’m working on a new journal that includes a lot of interactive pages.  This is the opening page, that invites you to “come in”...

And when you open the “doors”, you find this lovely.

Last, but not least, an altered index card as an ICAD warm-up.

Thanks so much for joining me today.  I hope you are staying safe as the world adjusts to our “new normal”.  Take care! 

Sunday Postcard Art - At the Beach

It’s been quite a couple of busy weeks.  I missed participating in Sunday Postcard Art  two weeks ago, and then last week I posted my card to Instagram but never got around to a blog post.  This week I’m making a point of participating.

The theme is At the Beach, and I decided we needed a mermaid.

Hope you’re all staying safe as the world finds its footing in the “new normal”.  Thanks so much for visiting.

 

Take care!