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Artist trading cards
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Artist Trading Cards (or ATCs) are miniature works of art about the same size as modern baseball cards, or 2 ½ X 3 ½ inches (63 mm X 89 mm), small enough to fit inside standard card-collector pockets, sleeves or sheets. The ATC movement developed out of the mail art movement and has its origins in Switzerland. Cards are produced in various media, including dry media (pencils, pens, markers, etc.), wet media (watercolor, acrylic paints, etc.), paper media (in the form of collage, papercuts, found objects, etc.) or even metals or cloth. The cards are usually traded or exchanged rather than sold.
Any who here is my first attempts of ATC's....
Possibly inspired by the mini monsters that I see wandering around my home we have....
The Girl
The Boy
& Mess Maker!!!
I started collecting ACEO's (Art Card Eddition/Origional)a couple of weeks ago and love the idea of miniture art because my partner and I have very diffrent tastes in art so something I can collect and keep in a beautiful book keeps us both happy and appeals to both my hording and my stationary addicted personailty!
What Etsy has to offer....
Altered Art, ATC, ACEO,.....
That's a great idea! Yours look awesome. I'm impressed. :-)
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely idea!
ReplyDeleteI would love to start making them but I think it would be way addictive:) I just won one from a really amazing artist...she is to me anyway...:)
ReplyDeletewhat a neat idea, now if only I was crafty!
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http://baygirl32.blogspot.com
I'm so happy to see another jewelry maker in the A-Z challenge.
ReplyDeleteYour post is a great match for "A". I have never made an ATC, though I've been tempted.
Looking forward to future posts!
What a cool concept. Your first attempts are very good!
ReplyDeleteLove Mess Maker!
ReplyDeleteI look forward to your other alphabet posts!
http://gail-baugniet.blogspot.com
I always wanted to give them a try, but I have never really got around to make one.
ReplyDeleteLovely idea of making those ATC with the children faces.
I think that the one of mess maker is fantastic!
Didi you make them on paper?
I don't have the crafty skill for making ATCs. They sound like mad fun, though!
ReplyDeleteI have always wanted to make those cards but never have and prob. never will but they were great.
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