ICAD FAQ

3x5" index card, pitt pen, sakura gelly roll

Index-Card-A-Day Challenge

I put together this FAQ in response to all of the questions I've received via email! [warning, verbose]

What do I do to start? Start by June 16 and create something on an index card [~ 3x5" lined card] every day through the end of August. This is not a fancy schmancy challenge. You don't have to be on twitter or flickr or facebook or have a blog. Just index cards.

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Index-Card-a-Day {ICAD} Directory

3x5" index card, gellyrolls... icad #64

The ICAD FAQ {frequently asked questions from the original challenge}
The ICAD introduction {how it all began}
ICAD: The monthly challenge starting September 2011
The ICAD badge
Post your index cards at The Daisy Yellow group at Flickr
A zillion things you can do with an index card
Index card ideas
Thoughts on this crazy daily challenge
Ideas for your stack of finished index cards
Hanna's guest post: Index Card Art

Summer 2011 Weekly Prompts

• Week 1
• Week 2
• Week 3
• Week 4
• Week 5
• Week 6
• Week 7
• Week 8
• Week 9
• Week 10
• Week 11
• Week 12
• Week 13

September Monthly Theme

• Week 1
• Week 2
• Week 3
• Week 4

October Monthly Theme

• Week 1
• Week 2
• Week 3
• Week 4

Playing with Acrylic Textures {ICAD}

This set of cards has squiggles and free form play with the colour shaper tool and golden fluid acrylics. No smashing, no stamping {more about the colour shaper in this post}.

These are my favorite cards to do collage and mandalas.

I love, love, love the random textures.

3x5" index cards, fluid acrylics

Index-Card-A-Day {ICAD}: Oct #4

Creative prompts for the last week of October!

Please add a link to the most recent blog post on ICAD or to a recent ICAD uploaded to Flickr and say hello in the comments. I am curious to learn whether you plan to continue ICAD in November and December. For those with the most hectic schedules, I would suggest trying the 25 card goal, spread as you wish throughout the month. In other words, do a few cards here, a few cards there, when you can. It will be a few minutes of zen, of peace, of color, of pattern amidst the craziness of the holidays. 

I have a boat load of ICADs to post, and I hope to do that today!

alphabetized + indicized

3x5" index cards

the mandalas are in red sharpies

Index-Card-A-Day {ICAD}: Oct #3

Weekly prompts for the third week of October.

It's also time for a new week of linky love! I've noticed the linkies have been declining, but I see lots of artwork in the flickr group, so not to worry!

Index-Card-A-Day {ICAD}: Oct #2

Weekly Prompts for the second week of October.

If you created index cards last week, please share! Add a link to your most recent flickr upload or blog post with your index cards. Thanks!!!

Index Updates!

Two recent index cards, in pitt pen.

Index-Card-A-Day {ICAD}: October

The {100% optional} monthly themes for October! The monthly themes are macro-level prompts. You can use any or all, literally or figuratively. I hope that you find these prompts leading you in a bunch of directions. You could doodle waves, write quotes about the sea, draw patterned lines within seashells or add gesso to your acrylics to get super peachy pastels for your art journal.

Here are the prompts for the first week of October!

Please add a link to your most recent index card post on your blog or in your flickr photostream.

Index-Card-A-Day {ICAD}: Sept #4

oops! forgot to write #10, so let's make it... "surfboard"

Prompts for the rest of September.

Please add a link to your most recent index card post on your blog or in your flickr photostream. Please visit a few people's posts and say hello so everyone feels comfy and welcome.

NOTE: I'M MOVING ALL OF THE ICAD POSTS TO THEIR OWN SECTION. MOST OF THE LINKS ON THE ICAD POSTS WILL BE BROKEN UNTIL I CLEAN EVERYTHING UP. HERE'S THE NEW SECTION, UNDER CONSTRUCTION. THE MAIN SECTION OF DAISY YELLOW WILL FOCUS ON ART JOURNALING AND DOODLING AND CREATIVITY.