Index Cards 13 – 19

Days fly by so quickly, it’s already Friday and time to show you my latest index cards. Yep, ICAD 2015 is still going strong and I still play along.. although I must say this weeks’ prompts had me a little puzzled. I had to force myself and give myself a push to still work with the challenges. I found some of the them real difficult but I managed to work through that and I made an index card with each prompt. They may not all be that good, but I pet myself on the shoulder for keeping up with the challenge and prompts!

First, two index cards with the prompts from week 2

Week 2 – Theme: Painting
ICAD #13 –  Blueberry & Plum

Gelli-monoprint with acrylics, cut out text and doodling with black and white marker.

Week 2 – Theme: Painting
ICAD #14 –  Salt & Pepper

Gelli-monoprint with acrylics, cut out text and doodling with black marker.

And here’s the series of Week 2 all together

 

On to this week then – week 3 – and the theme is ‘collage.’ Usually collage is not a problem for me, but this week I did not really could get a grip on it… Looking back on what I created I find most of the cards a bit cliché. Oh well, my work cannot be awesome all the time now can it? Even I suffer from a lack of inspiration every now and then. So cliché or not… here they are

Week 3 – Theme: Collage
ICAD #15 –  Route 66

Scrap of paper map showing route 66; image of an old route 66 postcard decreased and printed and a stamped image of a hitchhiking girl, colored with pencils.

Week 3 – Theme: Collage
ICAD #16 –  Greeting Card

“Greetings from Zeeland” – cut out magazine photo of a lady in traditional clothing from this region, border with washi tape, stamped and cut out lettering.

Week 3 – Theme: Collage
ICAD #17 –  Wabi Sabi

I had a lot of problems with this one… what the hack is ‘wabi sabi’… I spend some time searching on the computer and at the end I decided to cut some sort of circle from a magazine page and just glue it to the card.. and I actually like it a lot!

Week 3 – Theme: Collage
ICAD #18 –  Tree House

I combined a cut out tree-trunk and an image of a bird house. Stamped and colored the girl (‘Alice’)and gave her a cut out bird in her hands. The clouds are stamps and I finished it off with a bit of doodling.

Week 3 – Theme: Collage
ICAD #19 –  Snow Globe

The inside of the ‘globe’ is a collage of magazine clippings (mountains, woman swimming.) I added the snow dots with a white Posca pen. The globe is accentuated with water paint (Caran d’Ache neocolor water-soluble pencils and a wet brush.)

On to the weekend then. I have a lot of creative plans but should do a little housekeeping too, so let’s see what the days bring… but in all cases: Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World!