Final ICAD 2026

Okay, here's the last ICAD post for 2026, "ready to go"?

Sometimes I get quite literal when I start with the word first.

Quintessential, a rose overwhelming the horizon

A new hand cream box was too beautiful (and too similar to my "landscape-ish" style) not to use here.

Information pathways

Goodbye, Boring! Those shapes were traced with objects on my worktable, the rounded square was a TJ's mint tin, the long ovals are the bottom of a pencil sharpener.

 

I used the 1SE app to make a video of all 61 of my cards this year. As most of the pictures are "live" they have movement to them instead of being static pictures. So it's a little bouncier than previous compilation videos I suppose.

Final ICAD - part 1 of 2

 Here are somewhat more than half of the remaining ICAD pieces I haven't posted yet. Starting with the EXIT if you're not interested.

I'm splitting this up into two posts as there are quite a lot of them to get through.

I really like this one, as ominous as it is, it's even more dire if you turn it 90°.

All the blues TOGETHER

Not sure where this one came from, but if I had to wear a crown, it would involve purple velvet.

A gifted bottle of Baiju, I did some deconstruction and rearranging.The holographic sticker on the upper right hand side didn't photograph well.

A really WILD mess.

Joy explosions.

FAR may be my favorite of this bunch.

The world as seen from a different view, centering Greenland.

I couldn't help it, Goodnight Moon is such a great color inspiration.

Partial ICAD Catch-up

 I've been working on doing my ICAD pieces for this sort of lost month of July. 

They are being done one by one, but more than one per day so that I can catch up by the end of July when the ICAD event ends. 

So, here's half of my July ICAD pieces.

A lot of these are using text from the brochure that I got at the Los Angeles Public Library

Grommets is one of my all-time favorite words so I was happy to find it in print to use!

We have a brand-new Pride Flag hanging up on our house.

I really like how this one turned out. This is from the label for the index cards that I'm using this year for ICAD.

That's one big batch. Still catching up on the rest for July, but getting pretty close.

Here's Hoping

 

Well, it's been a long, endless, dumb month for me so far. I've been very ill with what is very likely the parasite Cyclospora that's the subject of a lot of news these days. More testing will determine that, but thankfully my doctor listened to my begging and treated me "as if" I had it and the new antibiotics worked almost right away. Here's hoping!

I've been so ill that I literally haven't even sat in my chair in my workroom since 7/4 until today. That's a whole lot of ICAD days that I've missed. I found out quickly that I still can't sit up for very long at a time. I got surprisingly weak surprisingly fast and am trying my best to take it easy to regain my energy as soon as I can.

I finally felt like doing something creative today, but I wasn't up to sitting at the machine and sewing. Instead, I dragged my ICAD box of tools onto the bed and tried to use my lap desk to get some of the cards done. It felt good to use another muscle that has been weak. Here's hoping I can sew tomorrow maybe.

Think it might be time to go back to growing my own lettuce from here on out.

12 Days of ICAD

 

I wish I could see a structure like this in real life.

These two go together.

Easy Peasy Lemon Squeeze

The most bulbous stoplight ever

This one might be my favorite of the bunch. Hopefully I didn't need these tickets.

Maybe this is the completely unconscious "before" of the clear hues rainbow-y Pride card I did at the beginning of June. I say completely unconscious because I didn't sit down and make this as an intentional "before", it just happened and I noticed the similarity afterward when I was sorting the cards into date order. Interesting how that works.

Sound waves?

Celebrating the end of June by tearing up the calendar page.

Not really raspberries.

Sometimes there are inspiring candy wrappers around to use: FEEL the JOY

History standout

This is the end of the ICAD download for now.

ICAD Check-in

The The forever

For all those flat-earther debates

I'd like to make a quilt out of this one.

An abstracted view of California highways.

Sometimes a mission is unclear or confusing

The ruler at the bottom is a printed tape that was used to secure a box that was sent to me.