Week 9 of Index-Card-A-Day or ICAD

 

It's Friday and time for ICADs.  Bleubeard and I are relieved we have made it through another, our 14th year of ICADs.  I'm joining Nicole for Friday Face-Off and Gillena for Art For Fun Fridays along with Tammy Garcia at Daisy Yellow (Index-Card-A-Day).      

Day 55: Flag.  Background is Encyclopedia.  Red dry erase color.  Postage stamp is Freedom Flag, a forever stamp first issued in 2023.  Names in red felt tip pen.

 

Day 56: Priority.  Background is vintage sheet music. Blue and red dry erase colors.  Postage stamp is Railroad Mail Car, 1920s.*  Names in red felt tip pen. 

*A part of the Transportation Series used in bulk rate postage and met the single-piece rate for first-class mailings presorted to a five-digit ZIP Code.  First issued August 16, 1988.      

Day 57: Colorful.  Background is Spanish text. Green, red, and blue dry erase colors.  Postage stamp is postcard rate Hot Air Balloon first issued in 1991.  Names in blue felt tip pen.

 

Day 58: Moon.  Background is Crossword. Green and blue dry erase colors.  Postage stamp is Neptune(?). Names in blue felt tip pen.

 

Day 59: Fly.  Background is Spanish text.  Red and brown dry erase colors.  Postage stamp is Christmas Angel (an Alterpiece at Metropolitan Museum)*. Names in red felt tip pen.

 

* The 1974 10¢ “Angel Altarpiece” postage stamp was issued by the U.S. Postal Service on October 23, 1974, in Washington, D.C., as part of its Traditional Christmas series. This stamp features a detail from a Renaissance masterpiece by the Italian painter Melozzo da Forlì (1438–1494).  The design reproduces Melozzo da Forlì’s “Angel with Trumpet,” a fresco fragment originally painted around 1480 as part of a larger composition, The Ascension of Christ, for the Church of Santi Apostoli in Rome. Melozzo was celebrated for his pioneering use of perspective and for the grace and serenity of his angelic figures, which appeared to float effortlessly in heavenly space. The fresco was removed from the church in the 18th century, and surviving sections—including this angel—are now preserved in the Vatican Pinacoteca and the Quirinal Palace in Rome.

 

Day 60: Vintage.  Background is Russian text. Green and brown dry erase colors.  Postage stamp is 1870s Coal Car, part of the Transportation Series, used in bulk rate (third class or presorted) postage.  First issued  July 19, 1988.  Names in green felt tip pen.

 

Day 61: Independence.  Background is Encyclopedia.  Red dry erase color.  Postage stamp is Independence Hall.*  Names in red felt tip pen.

*Originally known as the Pennsylvania State House, it is the site located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were debated and adopted. 

  I'm creating ICADs but am not on the sites where Tammy posts.  Therefore, this is the only place you will find Bleubeard's and my ICADs.  

Today I'm also joining Nicole at Friday Face OFF, and Gillena at Art For Fun Friday.

 

   

Thanks for visiting today.  Bleubeard and I hope you enjoy the ICADs and will let us know your favorites.  We hope to see you at these art blogs, too.  We are delighted you dropped by.

 

Friday Smiles will be posted this afternoon.