What Can You Do With an Index Card?

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
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!

More ideas!

a. use a color you LOVE combined with a color you NEVER USE.
b.  open a magazine, turn to page 17, cut 4 words from the page, staple to index card.
c.  invent an illegible font.
d.  caffeine.
e. fingerpaint.
f. Throw out 3 bags of stuff you don't need, no-one wants, and you won't use. Used straws. 1999 cell phone charger cord. Oprah Magazine from 2003. Expired coupons for grapefruit. Half a pair of sunglasses. Melted plastic kid scissors. Expired peach jam. Dried Cadmium yellow acrylic paint.
g. draw the weather
h. stamp your fingerprints on the page and write up your arrest report.
i. doodle on the index card using the lines as a part of the doodle.
j. document your mom's recipe for peach pie on an index card
k. explain your job from your dog or cat's perspective
l. write the back inside jacket cover blurb for a story about your worst vacation ever. And best.
m. describe your trick for cooling off when it's 86 degrees + humid {frozen lemonade gatorade slightly thawed}
n. use spices to create your card.
o. black gesso and colored pencils
p. put on the B-52s and draw psychedelic flowers on your card
q. can you write the alphabet with your non-dominant hand?
r.  what subject would you never be asked to teach?
s. what do you not do that most people do?
t. how tall is your stack of finished index cards?
u. write down the main color of your screen background: do a mind map, writing down words you associate with that color {here's a mind map for PURPLE}
v. drawing the label for something in your bag or pocket is great drawing practice.
w. i want the wacky layout of this post, the incorrect punctuation, lack of capitalization to get you out of your comfy zone of calm, pastel colors.
x. make your index card look like illegal graffiti on the side of a train car
y. draw an iced cream cone with three scoops, label the flavors and decorate the cone
z. write a sentence from the lyrics of a great song... repeat in various writing styles and pretend fonts, smushing as many repeats on your card as you can

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