All posts tagged: The 100 Day Project

100 Days of Altered Cards 71-80.

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We are almost at the home straight of The 100 Day Project and I was thinking why I like it so much.  I like challenges with prompts and instructions which are usually a month long, but this is a different beast.  Over three months of the same (ish) project which you thought up yourself and only really have yourself accountable for. I post my cards on Instagram every day using the hashtag #100daysofalteredcardsbycatseatdogs and that is pretty much my accountability. I know, I know, it could have been shorter! So, here are ten reasons I like The 100 Day Project so much. 1. The time frame is huge but so satisfying (especially once I got into double digits). 2.The body of work you make is going to be fairly big and hopefully useful 3. You can’t help but land on a style or a way of working which you enjoy. 4. I have learnt to work small. 5. I have learnt to take off the pressure to create something amazing each time.  There is always another go …

100 days of altered cards 51-70

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Only 30 more days to go, one month of the 100 Day Project and all done.  I am enjoying seeing these little cards made into something new.  Now I have a collection of them I am wondering what to do with them when I am done. I think I will put them into a photo style album maybe using the Project Life pages and albums. Looking over them as a whole some have become mini art journal pages.  You can tell when we started to swim at the YMCA as part of our regular summer routine and when the poppies came into bloom in my garden. If you fancy a challenge which is not quite as long as the 100 days, Rachelle at Tinkerlab has a new Tinkersketch prompt list for July.  It is a fun thing to do for a month, the prompts are vague enough to allow you to do your art thing, but there is also enough guidance to keep you going. I think the ‘Swim’ card is my favorite, I just …

100 Days of Altered Cards by CatsEatDogs, Days 31-50.

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I have made it to over half way in The 100 Day Project!  Yay! I am really enjoying altering my little box of vintage playing cards, little artworks with no pressure. Well apart from the ‘one a day’ pressure of course! The first 30 cards in the project are here  and here. If you want to follow my project daily over at Instagram, my hashtag is #100daysofalteredcardsbycatseatdogs.  Happy Tuesday x        

The 100 Day Project 2016 11-30.

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I am very proud of myself.  I have not skipped a day yet or had to play catch-up in this year’s 100 day project.  This is mainly due to the fact that I only have a playing card size piece of art to make.  Sometimes I will cover the card completely and sometimes I work with the image which is already there. As I work my way through the 100 days I am drawing on more and more of my art journaling experience and treating many of the cards as mini journal pages. I like to see the original cards with the altered version.  The only one which I couldn’t tell the original card was number 26 because I layered on so much gesso. I couldn’t see the original card at all, I even tried shining a flashlight through it! Only 70 cards to go!  If you want to follow along with my 100 day progress on Instagram my hashtag is #100daysofalteredcardsbycatseatdogs. Happy Thursday!  

‘I Like’ Friday. The 100 Day Edition. Days 1-10

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  The 100 day project.  One hundred days of constant, consistent artwork.  I have 10 days done and now I am into double digit days and still going strong, mainly because I am loving these little pieces I am creating each day. My project is to randomly pick out a playing card from a box of over 400 vintage cards (not all different) each day and alter the picture side.  I have been using the picture as part of my final card on some days and some I have completely covered in paint and made my own image. I am posting each card on Instagram using the hashtag #100daysofalteredcardsbycatseatdogs. So far I have doodled and gesso’d in black or white. I have stamped and collaged and tied ribbon. I have even written a little tiny story. What will be on the next card?  I am not sure, but I do keep a section in my ideas notebook for ‘100 day project’ specific ideas which I keep adding to, so that is a great back up …

Weekly Photos 16/52

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Phew, another hot week here in the Mid West! I haven’t seen many mushrooms this spring but these caught my eye.  I think they look like cookies! A few natural bits and bobs gathered on one of my many walks with the dog. The 100 day project started this week and I have managed to alter a playing card every day so far.  Someone picks me a card out of the box and I art it up! We had field day at school on Friday, it was a lovely sunny day and the kids all had a great day. The adventures of the clay beads continues, this week I glazed them.  I can’t wait to see how they turn out. We had a peek at the full moon on Friday when it was high in the night sky.   I hope you had a lovely week and another lovely one ahead. Happy Monday x  

The 100 Day Project 2016

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What could you make/create/invent for one hundred days straight?  What do you want one hundred of? Pages in a novel (it would be a great start to a book!). Learn a foreign word. Make a pattern every day. Use one colour in a photo or a sketch. Sketch a face. Photograph the same scene – see how and if it changes. Make an altered playing card collection. Design an alphabet. Run a mile (100 miles would be an impressive achievement). Invent a recipe (another book in the making). All kinds of things you could do and by one hundred of them you would be pretty good I think. I did the 100 day project last year and I drew/made or photographed a mandala a day and it was a very good project.  Over one hundred days, you really get into it and turn out some wonderful things and some rather terrible things, but the main thing is to keep doing these things until you have achieved that one hundred day point. My mandalas are all …

My favourites from The 100 Day Project.

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This mandala was the final one for my time with The 100 Day Project hosted by The Great Discontent magazine and the fabulous Elle Luna. I loved the process of drawing a mandala every day and I came up with many surprises, the main one being that I could draw something every day, not get bored and I liked most of them! It just shows what you can come up with a bit of a boost, a great idea and a little structure. If I had to draw ‘anything’ every day I might have struggled more with the blank page for three months, but the mandalas were lovely to draw and paint and photograph. I have picked ten of my favourite mandalas to share from my 100 days of making mandala journey. This one started with the lettering in the middle and I enjoyed using the cupcake colours. Number 16. Doodles was the name of the game here. It was nice not to have to draw the grid to start the mandala. Number 28. Another …

Through the Lens Thursday 26, Seasoned. And How the 100 Day Project is going for me.

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This week’s prompt for Through the Lens Thursday is ‘Seasoned’.  Should I photo a seasoned dish (I am no food photographer, so no!)? How about some seasoning?  Maybe some herbs from the garden?  Or how about a photo about being a seasoned person? Seasoned the noun rather than the verb, I want to be a seasoned artist, I don’t want to be seasoned with salt and spices!  A seasoned parent is the route Greta at Gfunkified and one of the inventors of TTLT took.  Her lovely picture of her children is testament to her skills as a seasoned mother. This led me to thinking about the 80 days I have been involved in The 100 Day Project and whether I am becoming a seasoned mandala artist or a seasoned follower of challenges thrown out there in media land?  Probably neither, but I have been really enjoying the project and the amazing work being produced by the many many 100 day project participants.  I have stuck to it and made a new mandala every day, some …

Weekly Photos 25/52

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Almost half way through the year and for some reason it doesn’t feel like it is whizzing by which makes a nice change. We are fully submerged in summer until August and always thinking of things to do which is not always easy now the kids are getting older. No-one wants to pop to the park anymore with nothing but each other and a bag of Goldfish for entertainment. Highlights of our summer to come are likely to be the ‘Minions‘ movie and going to see the polar bears in their new enclosure at the zoo.  It gets super duper hot and humid here, so we have to be out and about in the mornings before the sun becomes too melting. Some photos from the past week. 1. Following a week of constant rain some mushrooms have popped up in the woods, this Chicken of the Woods is a spectacular one and edible.  Would you eat it? 2. Teeny figures I found thrift shopping on Cape Cod, the fella with the long nose can also …