ICAD Week 4

This was such an unusual week for me.  I had to spend a lot of time in my mom's tiny senior apartment kind of watching over her (while staying out of the way).  Thank goodness for ICAD and my art-on-the-go kit!  Two and a half days of nothing but sitting around.  Yes, she has a TV.  No, she doesn't have cable.  And she isn't much of a conversationalist anymore so I was pretty much on my own for amusement.  Below are my cards for the week and a lot of extras.  Most of them are backgrounds because I was operating on very little sleep and it got increasingly difficult to create.

Here is the weekly prompt:

 

And here is the daily:

And here are my cards for the week:

 

Beach Umbrella

 

Star Wars - old postage stamp borders

 

Brown - image from www.alteredpages.com

 

Maple Leaves

 

Magnifying Glass

 

Album Cover

 

Robot

And, in no particular order, here are my extras.  Most still need work and may show up later in the project.

 

 

 

 

Have a great week everyone.  HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY to all of my fellow Americans



I.C.A.D. Week Two

I fell a little behind this week.  I got caught up in a prompt that just did not speak to me. I just got stuck for a couple of days on "toy camera" and then I shook it off and did my own thing to get back on track.  Here were the prompts for this week:

 

 

And here are my cards!

Mandala - I had no idea and had to look it up

1. Oriental art. a schematized representation of the cosmos, chiefly characterized by a concentric configuration of geometric shapes, each of which contains an image of a deity or an attribute of a deity.

2. (in Jungian psychology) a symbol representing the effort to reunify the self. 

Alphabet - clipped from coupons and advertisements

The Beatles-the sub is clip art

Toy Camera?  I don't think so.  ;-)

Paisley

Book Review

Magenta

Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you're playing along with this fun challenge.  Nothing wrong with spending a few minutes being creative every day!!  Happy Crafting!

ICAD Week One

So, it's the end of the first week of the Index-Card-A-Day challenge and I am proud of myself for completing one card each day!  I created most of these on my lunch hour sitting in my car with the windows down and the radio on.  I have an on-the-go art kit in my car just for this challenge.  It's a nice relaxing break in the middle of the day.  The photo I shared of my on-the-go kit last week is kept in my purse.  I expanded it a little bit for the car.  I'll try to get a photo of it this week for you.

I'm working on some areas of my art that I am less comfortable with, such as drawing my own pictures and lettering.  I am so used to rubber stamping that I haven't spent a lot of time doing things by hand.  I chose to follow the suggested theme daily prompts.  There is an overall weekly prompt as well, but I used mostly my own writing instead of cutting them out of magazines, etc.


Week One was cut out phrases, etc.

Daily Prompts

Here is what I did this week...

Prism

Circus Tent

My Name Is...

Puzzle

Galaxy

Nail Polish

Yellow (Images from Altered Pages)

I also had a road trip this weekend.  I went to the annual warehouse sale at US Art Quest / Art Papers Online.  So much goodness in one place!!  There was an entire room of sale items and full-priced items were 25% off.  Super fun to wander the aisles and see all the wonderful art supplies and gorgeous papers.  Here is just a sampling of what I picked up...

Over 50 sheets of 2' x 4' paper

Art Supplies on top of my big box of paper!

Perfect Paper Adhesive, 101 Heavy Molding Paste, Matte Finish spray

Mica flakes and hand made paper packs

Rubber stamps (new and used), Mica tiles, wire and an awesome metal tin with see-through lid

Thanks for stopping by!  Until next time, have a wonderful week and Happy Crafting!!