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The final 13 index cards

For completeness, I thought I’d share the last 13 index cards I made for my ICAD book, as well as the cover. (on review it seems I’m missing one - so here are 12/13 - LOL)

And here is what i made for the cover art.  

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ICAD 2022 Finale

Here are the 2nd half of my index card a day challenged from Tammy Garcia at Daisy Yellow Art

Now to put them in a book!  

ICAD 2022 - 1 - 30

It’s year 12 for the Index Card a Day (ICAD) challenge from Tammy at Daisy Yellow Art  I’m playing along daily on Instagram, and yesterday marked the end of the first 1/2 (roughly) of the challenge. Here are my first 30 cards:

 

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ICAD wrap up

Wow, I can’t believe it’s over already!  This definitely felt like the fastest ICAD on record.

Starting with Day 57

Day 58

Day 59

Day 60

And finally wrapping up with Day 61 and a big thank you!  That thank you is to Tammy at Daisy Yellow Art  for this fun challenge, our group moderators in the Facebook group, and all the people who’ve looked at, commented or “liked” my work in that same group or on my Instagram page, or of course on this blog - thanks so much!

 

And here is a “group shot” of all (or most) of the cards plus some bonus warm-up cards.  Why most?  Well I think I messed up on my counting so I ended up with 62 cards in theory, but one is “missing” (temporarily I’m sure - happens pretty much every year).  So this picture shows 61 cards + 10 bonus cards.

 

Now last but not least, people do ask what I ‘do’ with my ICADs.  I put them in a book.  I like to use a book with black pages as my cards tend to be so colourful.

Here’s the cover of this year’s book.

And one of the pages inside - this book fits three cards per page very nicely.

And I have room for about 40 more cards.  I’ll fill it up with either more index cards or some postcards.  We’ll see what I feel like.  My project this August is 31 square collages.  They aren’t going in the book - I’ll be making cards out of them for birthdays and other special occasions.  If I’m smart, maybe I’ll make some of them holiday themed!  Haha - doubtful in August.  

Thanks so much for joining me today and looking at my ICADs - I hope you enjoyed them.

ICAD week 8

This week is the penultimate week for ICAD - wow that went fast!

Starting with Day 49, which wrapped up that three day “mini series” started last week. The black and white design is a photocopy of some of my doodles I’ve been doing recently exploring various patterns.  You’ll see more of these as we go along this week.

Day 50 - more photocopied doodles, and a connection to card 51…

Day 51 - the connection is this is the lower part of the same face used for card 50.

Day 52 marks the beginning of another three-day miniseries - the common element here being the lovely lady pictured here, who for many years was the muse of ARTchix Studio.

Day 53

Day 54

Day 55

That’s it for this week - Thank you so much for joining me today.  I hope you’ll join me next week to see the ICAD wrap up.  

ICAD Week 7

Another week of ICAD has flown by - here are my latest cards.

ICAD is the annual Index Card a Day challenge founded and hosted by Tammy at Daisy Yellow Art  .

Starting on Day 42 - I love this train stamp!

Day 43

Day 44

Day 45

Day 46

Day 47 kicked off another mini-series.  I found these three great collectible cards in my stash of stuff.  The third one will be at the start of next week..

Day 48

That’s it for the week.  Thanks for joining me today!

ICAD Week 5

Wow, another week has flown by.  We survived a heat wave here in the Pacific Northwest this week and let me tell you it is not my thing!  Temperatures topped out at around 105 F / 41 C and since most people (including me) don’t have AC in their homes, the inside temps rose to almost that.  We are back to normal now thank goodness.

Starting with Day 28:  A few people said they see watermelon in this card - I see it too now!

Day 29 - Climate change was definitely on my mind this day during the heat wave.

Day 30 - I was grateful to be off work this week.

Day 31

Day 32 - I enjoyed being inspired by this wonderful modern art postage stamp.

Day 33

And Day 34

 

Thanks so much for joining me today - stay cool.  

ICAD Week 4

This week marks week 4 of ICAD - the Index Card a Day Challenge from Tammy at Daisy Yellow Art

Starting with Card 21 (after some numbering issues from last week have been corrected - thanks to Elizabeth).

Card 22 began a new “miniseries” of cards that feature a postage stamp that I’ve cut out the image from.

Card 23

And the last of this little series, card 24

Back to the usual mixed media collage with card 25

Card 26

And last but not least - card 27

Thanks so much for joining me today!  Stay safe and cool.

ICAD - week 3

Another week of index cards for the Index Card a Day challenge from Tammy at Daisy Yellow Art

Picking up on Day 14

Day 15 was the last day of my little “mini series” of butterflies - I can’t say they won’t be back!

Day 16 - do you see a bridge?

Day 17 -

 

Day 18

Day 19 - features some cranky little blind contour portraits.  Haha.

And Day 20 features some more of my doodles.  Every once in awhile I cut some of the “good ones” out of my notebook and ICAD is the perfect place to use them.  :)

Thanks so much for joining me today!  See you next week.  

ICAD week 2

Here are my next 7 cards for the Index Card a Day (ICAD) challenge from Tammy at Daisy Yellow Art.

Starting with Day 7:

Day 8

Day 9

Day 10

Day 11

Day 12

And last but not least - day 13

 

Thanks so much for joining me today!  See you next week.