Each year, I do two months of gelliprinting challenges, and I love the feeling I have creating art every day. For years, Lauren has done two months of Index Card a Day art (June & July), so I decided to join her for that fun. You can see my daily posts on Instagram (@SmilynStef)
There are specific daily challenges and weekly themes. You can do them all or none ... they are just suggestions for inspiration.
I stayed pretty-on path for the first week as I got warmed-up.
My first one isn't really a sapling, but I have my little tree stamp small dimension with my layout. The A Muse tire swing stamp reminds me of my childhood and the hours we spent on ours that hung from the large hard maple tree in our back yard. I used watercolor markers to create my landscape.
One of my ICAD goals is to break-out neglected supplies, so or the day 2 Dots Challenge, I broke out some oil pastels to create my rainbow dots, and then I had to go through multiple tools to finally find one that I could use to draw around the oil pastel (Sharpie ended-up being the winner).
I have quite a collection of maps, so I used part of a California map for Day 3. I poked holes along several roads, and then I threaded a needle with some blue thread and stitched along the road. I finished with some clear stickers that had messages that encouraged me.
I used a paper towel roll and brown paint to create some coffee rings for Day 4 Espresso. Next I stamped more circles from Birgit's Mini Textures stamps from Carabelle Studio. I finished with a tiny cup of Espresso.
I inked the rainbow for the Day 5 Stripes Challenge.
For wildflowers, I found some stickers made from real wildflowers in my stash. I put them on a gelliprinted background.
For day 7, I punched out a Treble Clef from a piece of vintage music in my stash gifted to me from my dear Great Aunt Mary. It was fun remember her and honoring her with my art on an inky background.
I'm having fun working on the week 2 prompts.