ICAD Weeks Seven and Eight

With July winding down it also means that ICAD is winding down.  A few days more and August will be here.  It seems to have gone by quickly.  Here are Weeks 7 and 8.

Day 43 - Lilac

Paint Pens, Watercolor Pencils, Micron

Day 44 - Roundabout 

(There is a difference between a Roundabout, a Rotary, and a Circle which I didn't know.  I thought they were just names for the same thing.)

Micron, Paint Pens

Day 45 - Kaleidoscope

This looks like it took a long time, but once I got into the flow of making those squares it seemed to go quickly.  

Stabilo Markers

Day 46 - Pond

Do you call these cattails or punks?  I asked HWNSNBP to get us some so we could burn them while we're working outside as a way to deter some of the bugs.  He reminded me that he tried to get some a few years ago and got wet feet.  

General's Watercolor Pencils

Day 47 - Record Player (Off prompt unless you equate the grooves of the marker and the vinyl circles with a record.)

Markers, Vinyl punch outs from some new pencil cases

Day 48 - Cupcake (Off prompt)

I was playing around with my Zig Metallic Dot Markers and these birds showed up.

Day 49 - Tropical

I had done something similar in a sketch book last year.

Microns, Generals Watercolor Pencils

Week 8

Day 50 - Typography (Off Prompt)

My hand just wanted to make these scribbled circles.

Stabilo and Micron Markers, Graphite Pencil

Day 51 - Blur

Zig Clean Color Dot Markers

Day 52 - Ice Cream

Some fruity ice cream cones.

Dollar Store potted paint, Micron and Stabilo Markers, Watercolor Pencils

Day 53 - Botanical

Micron and Watercolor Pencils

Day 54 - Translucent

This was an experiment that didn't work out as well as I pictured it would.  I used a piece of white tissue paper for the sun hoping that it would be translucent.  The writing was on the card already but it wasn't readable so I traced it on the top of the tissue paper.  (For a couple of days last week we actually had a lot of smoke here on the east coast from the fires on the west coast.  It really did make the sun look like a red ball in the sky.

Acrylics, Micron, Tissue Paper

Day 55 - Tendril

This was a font I found online.  

Microns and Stabilos

Day 56 - Encyclopedia

Who else learned how to spell ENCYCLOPEDIA from Jiminy Cricket?

Micron, Derwent Inktense Pencils, Gel Stick

So the final stretch is here and although I enjoy doing these cards I am looking forward to taking a break from challenges for a while.  I have to get back to my card making as I'm falling a little behind on my Christmas cards, and I have so many ideas that I want to try with some things that have accumulated on my work table.