ICAD 2019 - Week 8 & 9

 

ICAD 2019 - Week 7

It's been two weeks since the Index Card a Day challenge has finished. I enjoyed getting my head around the prompts, to be creative everyday in June and July.

Here is Week 7 (I am so behind in sharing). There is two more weeks, 8 & 9, which I will share on Monday.

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Index card a day - Week 6

36. Thesaurus

37. Botanical 

Inspired by the crabapple tree near my front door, it is all but bare now in it's winter sleep

38. Clue

Professor Plum, in the library with a dagger? A quick pencil drawing saves the day again.

39. Color chart. 

Water colour and sharpie

40. Blueprint

Blueprint is basically a blue background with white diagram. Plenty of blue from paint, paint chips, fabric and a dodgy, sewn white cotton house block plan.

41. Card catalog

A creative take on a library catalogue card. I was reading this novel at the time.

42. Keychain or charm

Pencil and paint chip

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Index card a day - Week 5

29. Terra cotta

Terracotta warrior just rolls off the tongue and was one of things that came to mind for this prompt. Again, good old pencil drawing has given me a quick finish for a card.

30. Lemon or Lemonade

Water colour, texta and sharpie

31. Mismatched

Blue and green should never be seen unless there's something in between. I remember hearing this saying passed around at high school. Does it really break any fashion rules though?

 32. Caramel

I used a small glass tile I found in the bottom of my wardrobe of all places, when I was getting out the sewing machine(which lives at the bottom). I used it for a stamper with watercolour to create these square caramels.

33. Ogee

This prompt had me googling for answers. Ogee is an S shaped line or moulding, usually in architecture. Most images showed an archway, where the top and bottom lines of the arch end up parallel.

34. Constellation

Inspired by The Bachelor promo, "Okaaay...I'm a Gemini".

35. Pine tree

Pine plantations are plentiful in our part of the world. Every now and then we go out and collect pine cones for our wood fire. This is one of those cones.

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ICAD 2019 - Week 3

day 15 - storm

Torn paper, paint chips and cloth

day 16 - chandelier

Water colour, gold and silver sharpie

day 17 - wood or bench
This one I went out to our paperbark tree and stripped off some of the bark to create a scene.

Day 18 - Yearbook

Day 19 - yellow
This card incorporates a range of different mediums. Origami paper, cloth, water colour, sharpie and colour pencil!

Day 20 - Vitrina
The paint chips are really getting a work out.

Day 21 - guitar

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Index card a day 2019

Index card a day for 2019 begins tomorrow. In case you've never heard of it, ICAD(for short) is a creative art challenge that runs from the June 1st until July 31st. This is the ninth year anniversary for the 61 day art challenge.

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I have only participated once before, in 2016, where I used the hashtag #aliciaobrienicad when posting photos of my completed daily cards. I'm going to continue using it this year on Instagram and Facebook.

In 2016 I used lined, 6 x 4 inch index cards, because that's all that was available in our local newsagent. The cards fit perfectly in a gift box of the same size and I still have my cards from  

that year stored away in the box.

The newsagent had only blank index cards the other day, so I am working with a blank canvas this time round. I am excited to get started!

Let it be known, I love stationery. Accumulating new paints, pens and markers for the challenge was a joy! My previous ICAD efforts included a lot of using paint sample chips also, so I am going to relieve the local hardware store of some of those today. I've already used them on my title card for this year and really loved using them in 2016.

The other medium I realised I had a liking for was using black felt pen over a water colour background, so I will try to explore that again this time.

Are you an arty, creative person? Tell me about your last fling with creativity.

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ICAD 2016 - The ninth and final week

The final week for ICAD 2016, was way back on the last week in July! 

I have finally done the last two prompts I hadn't gotten around to doing. We were rather busy at the end of July, with a gym concert and a trip to the snow, and the index card a day challenge was a casualty. 

I posted my cards every week, so to dot all the I's, here is that last week of prompts, almost three months late!

• Week 1 
• Week 2
• Week 3
• Week 4
• Week 5
• Week 6
• Week 7
• Week 8

Week 9 

#57 Stickers

#58 Graffiti

#59 Hopscotch

#60 Sorbet

 

#61 Path