Once again I decided to join in with the #indexcardaday challenge for June and July. Last year I managed the full year – who knows if this year I manage it – but hopefully if I keep things simple I can!
To try and keep simple I’ve decided to concentrate on stamps and doodling this year and although I will try to post daily on my instagram I will only post weekly or thereabouts over here on my blog.
I’m not following prompts or anything like that although the prompts are fun to see when you see how people interpret them – but I’ve decided to keep it really simple and just focus on pattern and colour instead!
I started with an Altenew stamp which was on the desk – one of the lovely florals from the Smile More stamp set. Stamped it in versamark and then coloured the background area and the centre of the flowers with grey promarkers and then had fun doodling the background area. I then added the Art By Marlene sticker as my sentiment and doodled the edge of this as a frame.
Next I used a very old wood block stamp of an eye. I doodled a connection between the eyes to create some wavy lines across the card. Then coloured the background with the two alternate colours of promarkers. Again a sticker sentiment from the same Art by Marlene set.
For day three I used one of the stamps Darcy designed for Paperartsy for the hearts as a repeating image, then doodled the background elements and added the colour with three greys and the claret colour using the promarkers – definitely feel like this worked the best so far. But then added the sticker sentiment and chose to colour that – not a fan of how that ended up but hey ho!
On day 4 I chose one large stamp – Splendid Bouquet from Altenew.
I doodled inside the petals, thickened the outline and then coloured the leaves with grey … wasn’t entirely sure about it … so chose the sentiment sticker accordingly. Now I quite like it but it took time to grow to like it!
A bonus on day four was that I also made the cover card … again Paperartsy stamps and then doodled the background elements and used my promarkers to colour. I chose some stickers to finish off for the ICAD part.
Quite pleased with how that turned out!
Onto day 5 … this time I did my card over the course of two sessions – one before and one after work!
The circles were stamped using a Kim Dellow Paperartsy stamp and then coloured with my promarkers and then I doodled the wavy lines and added some doodles to the circles – and of course the sentiment sticker!
Day 6 I changed it up a bit by stamping the flowers using different shapes and with the Purple coloured distress ink.
I then went back to stamping in black using the versafine for the centre of the flowers. Then I used promarkers to outline the flowers. I added the doodles and then coloured the background with the dark grey promarker.
Love the mottled and varied depth of colour in the flowers from using the distress ink. So pretty!
Day 7 I did a lot more doodling – the benefit of it being a non working day! I also chose a different style of stamp for the focal image with this old stamp from Stamperia.
Loved this! I also delved into the sticker stash and chose a Tim Holtz one to change it up from the Art by Marlene ones I have been using!
So that is week one done and dusted … I’ve just finished day 8 … so will start off the blog post for next weeks collection in a minute ready for sharing next week.
Happy crafting!
Catherine
Inkyfingeredcat 
Love these patterns – great start to your challenge
Thanks