Author: Ingrid Murray
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ICAD 2026: Weeks 1-3
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The Index Card a Day (ICAD) creative challenge is a free, open event that asks participants to create index cards from June 1-July 31. It’s celebrating its 15th anniversary this year! This year — my first since having my daughter — I’m using painted papers and vintage books to create my…
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ICAD Prep 2026
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ICAD — the daily Index Card a Day project hosted by Tammy Garcia of Daisy Yellow — kicks off June 1. This will be my return after a year off to have my daughter, and I’ve been preparing cards.
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Create Like a Child
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Over these last six months, I have finished exactly one art journal spread, and for good reason: we welcomed our first child to the world.
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Change, art, and hope
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“it’s been a very strange thing to stare down a huge life change. I know that I will be a different person on the other side, but have no way of truly preparing for it or knowing what it will look like until I live it. I think about that…
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Transitions
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I’ve had a lot of big transitions in the past few years, from moving to Germany to leaving my job to pregnancy to rehoming a beloved pet. What I’ve found is that that liminal space in the middle of change, where the past and the future butt up against each…