The Index Card a Day challenge (ICAD), hosted each year by Tammy at Daisy Yellow is in full swing. I plan to show my cards here once a week on Sundays. I am also posting them each day on Instagram and the ICAD Facebook group.
The day before we started I made a “title card”. Note to me - get a new Exacto knife blade!
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6
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Well, it’s that time of year again - time to get ready for the Index Card a Day (ICAD) challenge. Hosted by Tammy at Daisy Yellow this annual event is free to join. Simply alter an index card a day from June 1 to July 31 and post your cards on your blog, on Instagram, and/or in the private Facebook group. Hope you’ll join.
I’ve made a few warm-up cards in the last week. This year, I’m using library index cards that were gifted to me last fall. I like the fact I can let the words show through or not, and I plan to preserve that wonderful red strip at the top!
Thanks so much for joining me today - I know I have not been posting much here lately. It’s been a very busy time.
Well, it’s been an exciting week. ICAD wrapped up, I had four paintings accepted for a show at the Federation Gallery in Vancouver (3 will be in the gallery and online, and 1 will be online only), and I found out that one of my collages was accepted for an upcoming book on collage. Wow!
let’s start with the end of 2020 ICAD.
That was a wrap for this year. I made my “heading” card at the end this year:
This is what they look like all in one place (61 + 9 bonus cards).
I decided to keep the momentum going - I’m going to make a square collage each day of August. Here are the first two.
Speaking of collage - I finished up the challenge of tiny collages with five final entries - each around 2” square:
I also said goodbye to my latest submission to The Sketchbook Project. My favourite contribution so far (this is number 11 for me).
Front cover:
Inside front cover:
Final spreads:
And inside back cover:
That’s a wrap. I have a couple more things that I’ve done today but I will keep them for next week. I’m a day late posting this. It’s a civic holiday here so my days are all mixed up. Thanks so much for joining me today - stay safe!
This week was busy as usual. First off, I completed a couple of small paintings (10” square).
I also carried on with the Index Card A Day challenge (ICAD).
I also made a couple more 2” collages. I picked these two stamps because I liked the colours. I decided to look up how DDE and the Queen got along and found reference to them having a very cordial relationship. The article said she even sent him her favourite scone recipe. Hmm... not sure about the fact check on that but you never know right?
I also played around with some gelli printing on black paper which I really thought turned out to be quite rich. I found some nice thin black paper so it will be good for collage.
That’s about it. I finished my sketchbook for The Sketchbook Project but haven’t finished working out which photos I still need to take - I’ll post the end of the book next week.
Thanks so much for joining me today! Have a great week and stay safe!
This week was busy as usual. First off, I completed a couple of small paintings (10” square).
I also carried on with the Index Card A Day challenge (ICAD).
I also made a couple more 2” collages. I picked these two stamps because I liked the colours. I decided to look up how DDE and the Queen got along and found reference to them having a very cordial relationship. The article said she even sent him her favourite scone recipe. Hmm... not sure about the fact check on that but you never know right?
I also played around with some gelli printing on black paper which I really thought turned out to be quite rich. I found some nice thin black paper so it will be good for collage.
That’s about it. I finished my sketchbook for The Sketchbook Project but haven’t finished working out which photos I still need to take - I’ll post the end of the book next week.
Thanks so much for joining me today! Have a great week and stay safe!
This week marked the end of the 100 day project. I had a lot of fun doing this project - it didn’t seem like a chore at any time.
I tried to take a group photo of all 100 - it was hard but I managed to get this one:
I spent a couple of hours putting them all into a book today too! Here’s a shot of the edges of the book.
And one of the pages open.
I also continued to work on the index card a day challenge (ICAD)
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Thanks so much for joining me today. Stay safe out there!
This week I’ll start with my latest painting, titled “Celebration”. It’s 20” square on cradled wood panel and will be presented in a black metal frame. This one is truly mixed media as it includes collage, gelli prints, acrylic paint pens, graphite pencil and water soluable crayon in addition to acrylic paint.
Next, let’s look at this week’s 100 day project cards.
These exes are from a hand-carved stamp I made recently.
The comedy and tragedy masks are also hand carved by me.
The background here is a mix of acrylic ink (the gold-coloured dots and lines) and water soluble crayons.
The shapes along the right side are another hand carved stamp.
And this last card has a piece of personal ephemera. I found some old wedding presents when I was going through my parents’ things and found this shipping label on one of them. From my dad’s uncle and his wife. All are long gone now.
Next let’s look at this week’s index cards from the ICAD challenge.
A little citrus sliced hand-carved stamp as well as the black marks below.
These “lanterns” are also my hand-carved stamps.
I’ll finish up with a couple of pictures of our local wildlife. Young deer are prevalent right now.
And this goldfinch has been hanging out at our windows for a week now.
Baby quails out for a walk under supervision.
Thanks so much for joining me today. I’ll be back next week. In the meantime, stay safe.
Glad to be all caught up - this should be a shorter post!
Let’s start with a completed painting. This beauty is 24” square on wrapped canvas - I can’t wait to frame it.
Now on to the latest index cards for the Index Card a Day challenge - this week, we passed the half way mark.
First up, card 29. I used one of my new hand-cut bird masks I made recently.
July 1 was Canada Day, and I actually remembered to use a Canadian stamp this year. :)
For card 32 I skipped the bingo number in favour of this beautiful postage stamp. These are my rules to break after all!
Card 33 features one of the new hand carved stamps I made this week.
Card 34 was for July 4, and I also remembered to use a US stamp that day! Also featuring another hand carved stamp.
And last one for this week - card 35.
Now I’ll catch up on the latest pieces for the 100 day project - we are getting really close to the end. The reason I don’t have seven this week is because I got ahead of myself (again) and messed up the numbers. The last day will be July 15.
This one features yet another simple hand carved stamp.
Here’s a spread for the Sketchbook Project. Apparently I’ve moved away from COVID and onto adultery - haha! This book must be mailed by August 15 which is just around the corner. I have 2 full spreads and 1 half spread left so no problem!
This one is an abstract that is the first page of the book.
I’ll sign off with one final 2” collage diptych.
Thanks so much for joining me today. Stay safe.
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.
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.