What Can You Do With an Index Card?

{reposted from summer 2011}

3x5" index card #46, pitt pen

What can you do with an index card?

1. Write a list
2. Take notes at university
3. Collage or colorful collage or fishy collage
4. Doodle a spider web
5. Write a haiku about breathing
6. Make a Map of an Imaginary Island {Sew Much Progress}
7. Doodle in ink {DIY Sara}
8. Collage it into an art journal page
9. Draw a flower
10. Do monochromatic art with REM lyrics
11. Draw a gridded doodle
12. Doodle mandalas
13. Write your grocery list or to-do list
14. Work in lots of dimensions
15. Doodle using the lines with Sakura micron 005 markers
16. Doodle your dark thoughts
17. Itsy bitsy teeny weeny doodles {stargardener}
18. Watercolor
19. Origami
20. Paper cutting
21. Stitch or cross stitch or embroider
22. Do a social art experiment at your book club meeting
23. Cut into strips and weave
24. Make a video creating metallic art {Timeless}
25. Write a story
26. Design a game
27. Write a quote or another quote
28. Plan a workshop
29. Write in block letters and write the alphabet
30. Fill with colored doodles
31. Draw vertical psychedelic doodles
32. Design a blog badge
33. Motivate yourself
34. Draw squirrels or giraffes
35. Do art with the kiddos
36. Stamp
37. Add swirly wires
38. Embellish with pencil shavings
39. Use it as a book mark
40. Draw a psychedelic elephant
41. Rainbow doodles
42. Recycle into an art journal page
43. Do a mind map (card #23) or brainstorm
44. Do a word search puzzle
45. Sketch a thing
46. Document moments of your vacation
47. Glamorize your word-of-the-year
48. Double up your cards
49. Design whimsical women
50. Write recipes
51. Embellish
52. Make a mosaic with the cards in the flickr pool!

Ideas for art journal fodder to spark your index card art...

1. Create Journal Fodder
2. 20 Things Dare {20 Things Not Used in My Art Journal}
3. 20 Things Dare Squared {20 Things Used in My Art Journal}

Comments

[Melanie]

Wow that's a great list!

[Pippa Gore]

Great list, I hadn't realised my index card for a wordsearch was No.44 LOL, thanks for the link Tammy!

[Pippa Gore]

I blogged about this over on my little blog http://pjbear-determinedscrapper.blogspot.com/2011/07/blog-time-yet-again.html