ATC (Artist Trading Cards)
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Working on a video for this process right now and thought I'd share the image. :) If you want a free PDF of these to print off and play with yourself, please PM me your email and I'll send it off to you!
These are a 'new thing' for me, so I'm just getting my chops yet. :)
I love books... and one of my earliest memories is the frustration of having to wait to be read to. I was reading before I went to school, and have continued to do so most nights before bed through to my adult life.
I love illuminated writing and went to see an exhibition at the V&A in London where they had so many books in Gothic style... and I was mesmerised.
If I have kids, I will make sure they get read to before they go to sleep. I believe that it's a beautiful gift to give your children - a love for the written word - and allows them to paint their own pictures in their imaginations.
These are my first ATC's I have ever done :) This is my Earth Goddess ATC for the Goddess ATC swap on Swap-bot. The Goddess is made from clay and painted with acrylic paints to give it a 3-D look. The background is made from a piece of scrapbooking paper mounted on cardstock.
UPDATE 0830/06: Didn't your mothers ever tell you to be careful what you wished for??! Muwahahaha The invasion has begun!!! Part 1. Part 2. It is all YOUR faults btw, I am blaming you. hehe
One of the cards I did for the (April) monthly Artistamp ATC swap I host. Had a blast making him and have images of screaming vegetables in my head now that want to come out.
5H-ATC Boeing 737-2R8C Air Tanzania @ Dublin International Airport (scanned from 35mm print / Canon EOS 1000FN)
From the same linoleum block print as the Night bird one. The block is larger than an ATC, so these each feature a different part of it (except the bird on the right is the same one as in the Night bird ATC). The background is archival deco paper.
Available for trade.
I had fun creating this one. I was making the ephemera magnets I posted a couple weeks ago and decided I wanted to do an artistamp ATC. I've made notes on where the individual elements came from.
This artistamp is also available on a one-of-a-kind, handmade, collaged magnet on Etsy for $3.50 and I am including one of these ATCs as a gift to the buyer. I say gift because I do not believe in selling ATCs.
ATC, pitt pen, watercolor (personal collection)
The start of my month long project for February:
Pieces of My Heart - 29 Days of Love & Devotion
project info: atailoredline.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.html
Asst papers, gems, old book page, clay face painted with antique white acrylic (made from a mould, nice and chunky!)
i designed this ATC for an asian themed nervousness.org swap. i stamped some charactures on the background then covered it with some asian themed colors. i added the cutout from a magazine and the two stamps.
I made these ATC's for a swap at Milliande's Ning Group. The ATC's had to have a hand carved stamp on them. Sweet! This is do-able for me... ; )
ATC using torn paper collage, distress ink, rubber stamp, tag, silk flower, heart brad and fibers. Created for vintage swap.