Index Cards -- Check

Stamps --- Check

Markers and Paint --- Check

Excitement --- Check Check

I have decided to take this challenge this year and it starts tomorrow!  I am super excited.  I have been thinking about this challenge for the last month. I decided that I want to focus on creating little pieces of art with stamps.  

If you are not familiar with this challenge, you can get all the answers from Daisy Yellow's blog.  Here is a link to the FAQ page for the ICAD challenge.

Here is the skinny: ICAD stands for Index Card A Day.  The idea is to create small pieces of art each day on a index card for 61 days.  It is about creating everyday on an easy medium that is quick to grab.  You are suppose to focus on the act of creating more than on the creation itself. It helps you learn to live a life of creativity .  I am also using this as a challenge to update my blog everyday as well for 61 days!

I think it is a great way to start the "habit" of creating.  It is also a wonderful way to play with your supplies, learn your supplies, and think about using your supplies in ways you may not have done before.  Personally I have a habit of starting and stopping my crafting.  This stops my brain from thinking in a creative way, and can make it feel harder to start up again.  I want to break that habit.  I am going to focus on making something instead of making a perfect work of art. Hopefully at the end of July I will see how easy it is to be creative each day, and will feel more confident using my supplies.

I am giving myself one more rule for this challenge.  I must use at least one stamp on each index card.  I want to practice my stamping.  I also want to try and force myself to think about using my stamps in different ways. After 61 days I should get lot of use out of my stamps. 

Daisy Yellow also has prompts for each day/week of the challenge, in case you need some inspiration.  You can create what every you want each day, but she gives these prompts in case you are not sure how to start or how to continue.  I am going to look at them, but I am not going to restrict myself to just these prompts.  I do sometimes need a moment of inspiration, so I will check them out.  Here is a link to the icad index that has the prompts schedule near the bottom of the post.  

The prompts for the first week were posted on May 29, 2016.  

I hope you come back and check out my creations throughout the challenge. 

Happy Crafting!