#dyicad2025 week five and six

So even whilst super busy with Christmas in July I have tried to continue with my #indexcardaday challenge … I just didn’t get around to posting about it last week as I was on my holiday and didn’t remember to do a post! So a bumper one for you!

Started with shades of pink and red for the stars for day 29 and some simple outlines for the doodles! Thought this Tim Hoktz sticker was the right one for the sentiment!

Day 30 was done late in the day (colour has been impacted by the lighting – sorry!) but using a pattern stamp of the circles and then adding the wiggly lines to create some shapes to give it a funky coating of colour! Then added white posca doodles.

Day 31 is the halfway mark .,, and I decided to change it up quite a bit from the previous card with a cutesy image and some soft neutral colours . So sweet! Decided to keep the doodled background outside the frame for the bear. Also just noticed I missed a tiny bit on the left hand side! Doh!

Day 32 … I decided to do some colourful leaves and lots of lines! It was nice to change it up from green leaves!

33 – and this time back to flowers with this cute hibiscus flower stamped in a circle and then went to town on the doodled background – by this time I was off work which is probably why I had the time to do this!

Day 34 … I changed it up by using a script stamp all over the background and then concentrated on the doodles so the stamping isn’t the focal element but the sentiment and colours are what draw the eye instead. And went for all the greens for my colouring!

Day 35 and I went with lots of heart stamps designed by Darcy for Paperartsy – I know I’ve used one of these stamps already but I love it so I used it again! Simple doodles to create panels akin to the Darcy heart in the background and a fun blue, purple and pink colours scheme.

Day 36 and the most obvious change is the background (the turquoise is the mat on my work desk!) as we were in Devon in the lodge at this point!

The next thing to note is I did all the stamping ahead of time and just brought a limited number of alcohol markers and some pens for the doodles with me! So first morning waking up in Paignton and I made my coffee and then did some doodling and colouring in the quiet!

Went for some lines across the card with different pen marks in them and then three colours of alcohol markers. Cute!

Day 37 and again I was up first so made my coffee and made my card … the inspiration for these doodles flowers came from the curtain fabric in the bedroom of the lodge. So doodled flowers and splodgy circles of colour and the odd little doodled circles are what I went with! Love this one!

Day 38 – there is a theme to our holidays – I get up first and make a coffee and have my mindful doodle/colouring time! this time the stamped words were all different directions so went with blocks and then filled in the gap with some doodles. Added the colour and then decided the background behind the blocks and the doodles needed to be grey. Another one I think might make a good fabric design.

Day 39 – went for a full on patterned background with the stamped words being in one panel. Quite liked this bit of fun! Specifically like the one where I added extra black to make the green ovals/circles.

Day 40 I decided I hadn’t done many circle designs so made that the theme! Went with all the red and pink colours of the alcohol pens I had – plus a bit of shading with grey. I’m not great at circle shapes but liked the end result.

Day 41 we were straight out so didn’t have time to do the card until late in the day and inspired by the boat trip we had been on and the many fish we saw in the water … this is what I focussed on!

And my final card for the holiday and week six was done just before we packed up the car and left for home after our holiday – went for this fun pattern and coloured design.

Home safe and sound now and full craft room restored to me for the rest of the icad season but I am really pleased I managed to carry on with limited supplies and really did enjoy my few minutes of creativity whilst on our hols.

Happy crafting!

Catherine