Index cards Sept 20-25

I started last week highly motivated to use the new bunch of ICAD prompts.  My favorite of the bunch was Art Deco so after googling for inspiration, I settled on this:

I painted an index card with gold paint and then cut out all the little holes  with an x-acto knife and placed it on top of a painted background.  (should have switched to a new blade - the edges are a little ragged, but by the time I noticed I didn't feel like starting over)

The next prompt was Television and I worked really hard on this and then totally hated the way it came out and I almost threw it away.  I was deep into my funk at this point (wearing the crazy pants for a few days).  When I emerged from the dark side a few days later I could see what I needed to do to salvage this.  I don't have a picture of the old version, but trust me when I tell you this is much improved.  

(the card is cut into the shape of the TV but after scanning it I could only crop it into a rectangle so this picture makes it look like a TV on a white index card)

 So while I was in the aforementioned funk I was having NO index card love, so I found a half-finished card from a series I did over the summer and scribbled on the white ink and called it a day.

 

 At this point I've abandoned all hope of following the prompts, but had a very good time using up the paper scraps that have been piling up in my scrap basket.  Haven't done an ICAD collage in a long time.  It was so much fun, I did two in a row.

Finally, more experimenting with my luscious water soluble oil pastels and a random scrap of text that I hadn't used in a different project.

As always, head back over to Daisy Yellow to see what my fellow ICAD-ers have been doing this week and to show Tammy some love!