Index Card A Day Roundup

Last year I took part in a great creative project: Index Card A Day (you might remember me sharing my first few index cards here on the blog last summer!). With the project gearing up to start again, I wanted to chat about my experience and get my thoughts together in readiness for this year!

Index Card A Day (ICAD for short) is hosted by art journaler extraordinaire Tammy from Daisy Yellow Art. The premise is a simple one – create something on an index card every day during June and July. The something can be anything you like: a drawing, doodle, painting, poem, calligraphy, art journal, collage or anything else you fancy!

I found it to be a very freeing process and while I didn’t complete all of the 61 days and 61 cards (I think I made it to about 30!) I am really looking forward to giving it a go again this year and carving out some time each day to just play. As the project went on, I found myself revisiting the same shapes and ideas and playing with new colours and patterns. I had a circles and lines phase:

And a circle / flower phase:

Which led to a short-lived black and white phase (I couldn’t resist colour for very long!):

I also mixed in a couple of ‘draw something more than a simple pattern’ cards here and there when I had a day with more time to devote to the project:

And finally, I had a geometric intersecting straight lines sort of a phase inspired by patterns I used to make as a child – where you scribble over a sheet of paper and colour in the resulting shapes in a rainbow of colours:

And when I knocked my stack of index cards over on my desk (and then artfully tweaked the positioning for a quick photo!) they looked like this:

Lots of yummy colour and pattern! I’ll be sharing my cards again over on Instagram and in the ICAD Facebook group. I hope you’ll come and join me and play along too!

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Materials Used:

If you’re interested in the materials I’m using in this project, I’ve included them all in this post with lots of lovely links in case you want to do some art supply shopping (which I’m sure you do, new art supplies always make me smile!): Index Card A Day

ICAD useful links:

• Index Card a Day Index – Daisy Yellow Art
• ICAD FAQ – Daisy Yellow Art
• My Index Card a Day project