ICAD 2013 - Week 2

Week 2 of ICAD and I've still been playing along. I might end up doing two cards one day and none the next but I'm determined to have the full 61 cards by the end of it... it just might take me longer than the 61 days. I'm terrible for joining these challenges and then not staying the distance so that in itself is a mini challenge I have set myself.

Day 8 - I printed the bird birthday card  I had made a couple of weeks ago directly onto the index card . (Original is here) It came out paler than the original - my printer is rubbish. So I picked out the black bits again in acrylic paint and then Glossy Accents. I know I've got the lyrics slightly wrong but I didn't have much space so took a bit of licence with that - I hope Mr Cohen doesn't mind ;)

Art printed directly to card
Acrylic Paint (Reeves)
Glossy Accents
Alpha Stamps

Day 9 - I'm a pretty rubbish stamper so you wont believe how chuffed I was to get the cat on the ravens back first time. Wasn't quite so chuffed that I misjudged how much room the text would need. 

Acrylic Paint (Kaiser Colour & Reeves)
Stamps (Cat = Stampotique,  Raven = La Blanche)
Alpha Stamps

And did you notice the raven was silver? Eh? Eh? Maybe a relation to my crow ;)

Day 10 - I just wanted to see if it would fit on the card... it did!

Acrylic Paint (Kaiser Colour)
Alpha Stamps

Days 11 & 12 - I posted about these on Friday  for Summer of Colour and Tutorial Try-Out. You can see how I did them if you click here.

Collage
Acrylic paint (Kaiser Colour & Reeves)
Watercolour pencils (Derwent)
Posca pen

Collage
Acrylic paint (Kaiser Colour & Reeves)
Watercolour pencils (Derwent)
Posca pen
Fineliner
Various stamps

I'm running a few days behind so this isn't a full 7 days but I'm really happy with the way my little stack of index cards is starting to build up. It's a great way to try out new techniques on a little, inexpensive canvas so to speak. 

Thanks for stopping by today :) If you are doing ICAD too, be sure to leave me a link so I can visit you.

SoC - Tutorial Try-Out - ICAD

Going for a hat trick, so I am.

Kristin has postponed any further Tutorial Try-Outs for now while she enjoys all the challenges that are out there this summer. So I've gone back to the beginning to do some of the ones I missed. The first one was Tam's Paint Over Collage tutorial.

I thought I would combine the tutorial with ICAD so my pieces are done on a 4x6 index cards. I'll post the rest of this weeks cards in a separate post. Summer of Colour  has started for 2013. Yay! The first colour combination is Citron Green and Turquoise so that was the colour scheme I went with first.

Collage
Acrylic paint (Kaiser Colour & Reeves)
Watercolour pencils (Derwent)
Posca pen
Fineliner
Various stamps

The collages that are the basis of my pieces - please excuse the shine, they're covered in glue.

This next one hasn't scanned to well - it reads Love Shine a Light around her halo.

Collage
Acrylic paint (Kaiser Colour & Reeves)
Watercolour pencils (Derwent)
Posca pen
Fineliner

I really enjoyed this tutorial. It took much longer than I thought it would but mainly because you keep seeing different things to add and I am not good with letting layers dry. I really got into it and do enjoy this technique - it's like an extreme version of doodling on catalogues and magazines :) I will definitely use and incorporate this technique in the future. I'm not to happy with my faces today but overall - I love how they both turned out. I've already started a much larger scale one on a sturdier base. These index cards don't like much abuse.

If you'd like to check out the tutorials Kristin has listed so far, click here.
If you'd like to take part and link up with Summer of Colour, click here.
If you'd like to check out Index Card a Day, click here.

Hat trick accomplished!

Many thanks for stopping by today :)

WW Collaboration - Red, Black, Teal & Copper

Virginia and Sarah - don't look if you want a surprise :)

I thought I'd do a little update on the collaboration I am taking part in. I started here with my Poe inspired piece and that's on it's merry way around the group. I've since received three more to work on and am showing you the two that have left me again.

First was Sarah's. Her theme is Copper & Teal. This was the piece I made to fit onto her card.

Gelli Print background
Stamping with photo canister & Donna Rodgers stamp
Acrylic Paint (Kaiser Colour & Reeves)
Doodling

This is what it looks like slotted onto Sarah's card, it's sitting under Sarah's starting piece - the circles that are echoed in my piece from hers was a happy accident.

Next up is Virginia's. Her theme is Red & Black. This is the piece I made to slot onto her card. Being a real Rock Chick - I'm hoping she'll forgive me the Michael Bolton lyrics (Man, I had such a thang for him as a teen! Well - his voice anyway. Shut UP!) Anyhoo - I kept "hearing" Time, Love & Tenderness when I was doing this - so on it went. Don't think it shows up to well in my pictures.

W&N Galeria Modelling Paste
Acrylic Paint (Reeves)
Masks (Tim Holtz - idea-ology)
Alpha Stamps

And again, how it looks with the other pieces so far. It sits with Virginia's starting piece, then Sarah's and then mine. 

Next I have Susie's Steampunk inspired piece. Now I love the look of Steampunk but I always struggle translating it into something - so I am stalling with this one. Especially since the bits already on it are so good. I'm a bit scared of ruining it. Thinking cap on!

I'm really loving seeing these come through the door - especially as they get more layers on them. Can't wait to see what my Poe looks like when it comes home!

Thanks for stopping by today :)

ICAD 2013 - Week One

After watching a few of the bloggers I follow have a lot of fun with ICAD (Index Card a Day) last year - I thought I would join in this year. This is a two month project hosted by Daisy Yellow with optional prompts and themes. I think the main idea is to get you creating, every day -  a jump start to your creativity. Click the logo below to read all about it in detail.

So this is my first week of cards. I'm using 6x4" cards and they are lined on both sides. (Nicked from Craig's office.) I thought I would join in originally just as a bit of fun but I really get the exercise now. It really does loosen you up - in my case I do no forward planning each day so couldn't tell you ahead of time what will be on each card. What you see is what spills out of my noggin :) So far I haven't used the prompts or themes but I might do as the two months progress.

Day 1:The first day I started stressing out. What do I do? What do I use? Where do I start? So in the end Day 1 didn't get done until Day 2. This was the result of me just telling myself off. I wrote over the words about five times in different pens, drumming it in - my version of lines at school.

Gelli Plate print (Kaiser Colour Acrylics)
Gesso (Baby wiped over and scrubbed off)
Perfect Pearls Mist (Painted on, not sprayed)
Various pens (Posca, Copic, Fineliner, Biro...)

Day 2: I'm terrible for comparing what I do to other people. Even people who don't do anything remotely similar to me but that I admire. Another message to myself. Many apologies to the UK readers if you get a certain ad stuck in your head.

Gelli Plate print (Kaiser Colour Acrylics)
Gesso
Balzer Designs mask
Perfect Pearls Mist (Painted on, scan hasn't picked it up - it's through the middle section)
Alpha Stamps

Day 3: I got a bit over eager and didn't wait for the paint to dry - so she didn't stamp properly. I then had to wait (impatiently) for the paint to dry and drew over the dodgy printed image with a fineliner. All the time I was doing this I was having a little boogy and going "beep beep!" in my head. No, I don't know why either but that's the reason behind the words today.

Acrylic paint (Kaiser Colour)
Stampotique Stamp
White Posca Pen
Alpha Stamps

Day 4:  Because it was sunny. Not to hot, not to cold. Perfick. And it made me smile.

Acrylic paint (Kaiser Colour & Reeves)
Alpha Stamps
Fineliner pen

Day 5: No idea how this one came about. Started off with a card that had the left over yellow from my sun scraped over it. Decided to go abstract and did some primary shapes to form a body. Kind of. Was thinking statue at this point. Didn't like it so rollered over the whole thing with gold and bronze. Decided I might like it after all, so scrubbed at it with a wet wipe. Liked the look of it emerging through the paint so added some black round the edges. Decided it needed... something. Went at it with my Posca Pen and this is the result. Totally surprised to see an angel but I do quite love her.

Acrylic paint (Kaiser Colour & Reeves)
Posca Pen

Day 6: This one is my attempt at being topical. This stencil always makes me think of jelly fish. (although Devvie says it's cookies and Pheebs says it's dinosaur scales...) So, it was on the news the other day that this summer is going to see an invasion of jellyfish in the Worlds oceans. They're going to be everywhere, coming at you - storming cities... maybe not quite that bad. But you get my drift. (Ahaha! See what I did there?) This is my invasion.

W&N Galeria Modelling Paste
Stencil (Balzer Designs)
Acrylic Paints (Kaiser Colour & Reeves)
Perfect Pearls Mist

Day 7: Two little skullies. I think they need words but I can't think what. Maybe something to add later. These were a complete pain to photo - all the rest are scanned. I tried scanning, taking a photo under artificial light, photo under the sun, photo in the shade... I think it's where I used so much Gesso on the base? Maybe it's reflecting the colours or something. The blue is much paler and brighter in real life - it's the same blue as on my sun card. 

Gesso
Watercolour Paints
Acrylics Paints (Kaiser Colour & Reeves)
Hand cut masks
Posca Pen

So that's my first week. I'm enjoying the process, I'm enjoying trying out little ideas and new techniques and I'm just enjoying playing - full stop. Are you doing ICAD this year? Let me know so I can come see your cards. 

Thanks for stopping by today :)