A photograph of a crayon illustration on blank white 3x5 index card featuring a monster or alien creature. The creature has an apple-shaped body in light green, two round orange feet, two orange hands coming off either "shoulder" with only 4 fingers, and one orange, elongated head featuring a single orange eye and mouth with three teeth. The words, "I bought a box of crayons!" are written beneath the illustration with a black pen.

I mean, it pretty much says it in the image, but I bought a box of crayons. Which is fun and also, kinda hard top do art with because dollar tree crayons are not great art tools. But, hey, that's what I can afford.

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A selection of 18 pieces of index card art. Many are collages, several are watercolors, and a couple are marker sketches depicting a wide variety of subjects. Most were inspired by prompts from the #icad2025 #dyicad2025 Index Card a Day art challenge.

Thanks to @tammy999.bsky.social for hosting the Index Card a Day art exploration! It was a joy to participate.
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Now that ICAD is over, I feel a bit lost. That’s okay, I’ll find myself again through other creations. In the meantime, here are this year’s cards in a pile, in their resting place and a look at all my index cards in their resting place.
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A collage of predominantly pinks and reds, featuring a pink rotary phone and a bowl of raspberries on a background that includes white stars and circles on red, pink flowers on cream, a pattern of pink dots, and more. The text "you are lovely" is cozied up to five small gray circles featuring small red berries.

Cozy, delicious, and connected. What's not to love?

Index Card a Day • Prompt #61 love
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ICAD 60 & 61
2 months of daily art on index cards. Thanks to everyone who has looked, liked and commented. I really appreciate it. ❤️
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A scene of Black-eyed Susans against a purple watercolor background. The flowers are inside a bold green and black frame. The frame sits in the midst of a background of strips of paper that radiate out to the edges of the canvas. The strips of paper are in shades of purple, green, and yellow, some with botanical motifs.

Now Showing: The Golden Garden

Index Card a Day • Prompt #60 marquee
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ICAD 58 & 59
Only 2 more to go.
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A luchador in green mask and pink and green tights and boots strikes a pose while bellowing "Arggh!" as represented by an enormous upside down bright pink speech bubble. In the top right corner of the canvas is a small pink house with a green roof. The house is upside down. In the top left a green alien head floats underneath a line of text that reads "This house is turned upside down."

Show up with style even when the world is catawampus.

Index Card a Day • Prompt #59 Upside Down
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ICAD 56 & 57
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Against a backdrop of yellows, greens, and blues depicting various nature motifs, a tree decorated with small floral patterns and a black-eyed Susan grow side-by-side standing tall at nearly the same height. They stretch from the bottom of the index card canvas to the top.

Encourage each other to grow.

Index Card a Day • promptless creation
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ICAD 54 & 55
I love how the ink colours mix together.
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An index card canvas depicts a river collaged with pieces of paper in shades of blues and browns, including several spiral shapes. On either side of the river abstract designs show green fields with clumps of purple and red flowers.

Swirling along through fields of flowers.

Index Card a Day • Prompt #54 river
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ICAD 51, 52 & 53
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A sunset over the ocean takes on a weird quality when small circles cut from the larger image that was used to make the background are glued on top of it. The circles appear as though they could be celestial bodies or magnified details of the background, depending on how your brain interprets the juxtaposition.

Yesterday's prompt had me spinning in circles. 😆

Index Card a Day • Prompt #52 gyroscope
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A collage made on an index card features a tan and gentle orange archway with ogee elements attached to a large dark tree trunk. The tree is surrounded by small purple flowers and golden light filters through the trees around it. A pillar adorned with a human figure in the same colors and style of the archway stands next to the tree. A verse from Richard Hughes' poem "Ecstatic Ode on Vision" is placed in the top third of the canvas: "I saw the World's arches, / The spreading roots of light, / The high wordy pillars / That hold all upright, / The deep verbal fundament / Whereon rests sure / The world on thoughtful vaulting, / Interlocked, secure."

The world's arches lead to so very many places.

Index Card a Day • Prompt #51 ogee (new vocab for me!)
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ICAD 49 & 50
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The photograph shows a piece of index card art which is set at an angle. On the index card, clouds are sketched using white, silver, grey, and blue. Two of the clouds resemble hooded human heads; large blue rain drops fall from the clouds, including appearing to fall from the eyes of the depicted faces in the clouds; a string of blue beads, one of which looks like a raindrop, cascades down the right-hand side. The text of a couplet from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "Midnight Mass for the Dying Year" is pasted in the bottom left corner: "The hooded clouds, like friars, / Tell their beads in drops of rain."

Index Card a Day • Prompt #50 clouds
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A grouping of four fish with yellow markings and a single yellow taxi swim together across a background of blue and purple. The words "Is all our company here?" are also a part of this index card collage.

Solidarity! Find your company and swim together.

Index Card a Day • Prompt #48 taxi
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A little video to show how my “pivot” ICAD works.
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ICAD 45 to 48
Not as inspired for these but at least I did something.
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A cream-colored gift tag with the image of a bee surrounded by plants printed in brown sits at a diagonal on top of a bright background made from multi-colored strips with different patterns. Glued on top of this are several cut out flowers and a few lines of text from an Emily Dickenson poem: "Like trains of cars on tracks of plush / I hear the level bee: / A jar across the flowers goes, / Their velvet masonry."

With exuberant thanks to the pollinators!

Index Card a Day • Prompt #47 gratitude
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A small watercolor painting on an index card. The background is a variety of greens, blues, and purples. A dark purple arrow runs from the top right corner toward the bottom left corner. A bright blue arrow veers off this arrow bending upward toward the top left corner where the words "minds opened" are collaged.

Go ahead and pivot – let your thoughts expand with curiosity!

Index Card a Day • Prompt #46 pivot • Weekly theme watercolors
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The text “quiet contemplation / the glory and majesty” is collaged on top of a watercolored sunrise.

Looking to the sky for wonder and inspiration.

Index Card a Day • Prompt #45 Terra cotta • Weekly theme watercolors
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A rough watercolor of a gently spiraling staircase with lavender steps, red edges, and purple railings against a yellow background. The handwritten text reads “…up…up, up, up, up the stairs we go…”

Up, up, up, up, up the stairs we go.

Index Card a Day • Prompt #44 staircase • Weekly theme watercolor
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ICAD 44. Staircase. I like how it turned out.
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ICAD 41, 42 & 43
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A 3"x5" index card canvas features a cutout giraffe on a background of colorful paper strips predominantly featuring many shades of pinks and purples. A handwritten haiku reads: kaleidoscope peace plant your feet, still quiet strength stretch up, tall, full height

Wishing you kaleidoscope peace and the opportunity to stretch yourself in bold directions!

Index Card a Day | Prompt #43 Giraffe | Mini Challenge #haiku
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An abstract design of dots, dashes, and lines made with a bronze colored metallic gel pen.

Doodle dots and dashes!

Index Card a Day – Prompt #42 Bronze

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A green and orange rectangle of woven paper rests on a background of a dictionary page featuring the words checker, checkerboard, and checkmate (among others). In the bottom right corner, a black and white image of a light-skinned woman waving from a small inner-tube sits in the center of a black and white spiral.

Check in, check it over, check this out!

Index Card a Day – Prompt 41 Checkerboard
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