making art

Many of you, dear readers, know that I am a creative soul.  I love to create.  Projects, clothing, gifts, handicrafts, happiness.  I think my favorite being something, anything, I have created by hand.  So I try, really try, to fit creativity into my everyday, but oftentimes fall short.

So, I am excited to take part in the "Index Card a Day" (ICAD) project sponsored by Daisy Yellow.   So much about it seemed fun and doable.  Though I have to admit that the biggest hook for me was that it could be done in, say, 5 minutes a day.  Even I can spare five minutes.

So, of course, I wanted to first create a cubby to make ICAD easy and fun and portable.   Using all items I had on hand, I gathered color pencils, markers, and a huge stack of blank index cards into this wire tote.  (That tote has been around awhile, I first got it as a bathroom caddy long ago when I went off to college.  I turn 40 this year.  You can do the math.)

So art is being created.  A bit each day.  In different spots all over the house. 

The kids have been creating too.  Which makes ICAD even that much cooler!  I am pleasantly surprised how easy it has been to carry that cubby about and use as a perfect creative distraction when needed!

I haven't yet decided exactly how I will share our daily notecards, but I will share them somehow.  For now here is a look at some of our first ones.

My first attempt.  Still not quite finished.

Lovey.  There are 30 more that are pretty similar.  Love.

Big Brother.  One of his favorite subjects, always.

My recent mantra.

I used one of the optional prompts.  Which got me thinking differently.

Even Daddy is getting in on the art action.  He said he always pictured the card perpendicular.  Hmmm, I never did.

Lovey added some of her touches to this after I was done.

Those are Honey's hands holding each card.  I asked for his help out of necessity for good lighting, but then realized how much better I liked each card because of his hands framing each one, giving it both humanness and scale.  He's been hired for the summer.