snowbear nudged the atc bug...
The lovely Theresa of Rock-Paper-Scissors has a picture of a VERY cool artist trading card she made recently. The mere mention of the words "artist, trading, card" was enough to awaken the atc bug in my brain. I find these tiny works of art so fascinating and at the same time so inspiring. Any time I have ever made a run of ATCs I have always come away with fresh ideas for other projects. I even had a few published in Art In Your Pocket. At least I'm pretty sure I did. It was a limited run and I didn't order a copy of the book in time so I can't be positive. If you have a copy of this book, I would love to know how it looks.
Anyway, since the bug is up and ready to go I've decided it is time to host an ATC swap. What do you say? Are you in? It's really easy and FUN too. You don't have to have a blog to participate. International participants are welcome to play.
Never heard of artist trading cards before? Check out these links:
Logistically speaking:
Each participant will make five artist trading cards to be mailed to me no later than Monday, January 30th. Regardless of the number of participants, each person will receive back a random selection of five ATCs plus an extra little treat from me. I will mail out the divvied ATCs on Monday, February 6th so that they will arrive just in time for Valentine's Day.
The theme this round is "My _________ (insert your own adjective here...vintage, funky, crappy, whatever) Valentine." I don't know about you, but I sort of miss decorating a shoebox to sit on the edge of my desk for all my pals to put valentines into for me. This can be our "grown-up-kid" valentine swap if you will. I will scan all of the cards and set them up in an album on Flickr. Also, so as not break the bank on my end, stateside folks, please send along two 39 cent stamps (or one 63 cent stamp) with your cards; those across the pond, please send $1.70 along with your cards.
To join in on this swap, all you need to do is send me an email (amy at aplcreations dot com) with your name, address, and blog url (if you have one). This will be fun so spread the word!
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At the end of business today we have four swappers (plus two little guys who want to play too) signed up for the swap. The more the merrier, folks! Get the kiddos involved too. Logan and Caleb are going to make their own to swap too. I'm going to make an extra couple of sets to swap with them. BUT! If we get a couple of other kiddie swappers to join in, I'll run a separate swap for them and mail them separately so that each kiddo gets his or her own swap package in the mail too.
01/11/06
We're up to eight, possibly nine, swappers (plus my two little ones). I can already tell you the Flickr album is going to be awesome to behold just from the first folks to jump in on the swap. Can't wait!!
Anyway, since the bug is up and ready to go I've decided it is time to host an ATC swap. What do you say? Are you in? It's really easy and FUN too. You don't have to have a blog to participate. International participants are welcome to play.
Never heard of artist trading cards before? Check out these links:
- From Cedarseed.com: a great collection of information and links.
- From BellaOnline.com: a handful of links to different useful articles.
- From Flickr: an ATC cluster
Logistically speaking:
Each participant will make five artist trading cards to be mailed to me no later than Monday, January 30th. Regardless of the number of participants, each person will receive back a random selection of five ATCs plus an extra little treat from me. I will mail out the divvied ATCs on Monday, February 6th so that they will arrive just in time for Valentine's Day.
The theme this round is "My _________ (insert your own adjective here...vintage, funky, crappy, whatever) Valentine." I don't know about you, but I sort of miss decorating a shoebox to sit on the edge of my desk for all my pals to put valentines into for me. This can be our "grown-up-kid" valentine swap if you will. I will scan all of the cards and set them up in an album on Flickr. Also, so as not break the bank on my end, stateside folks, please send along two 39 cent stamps (or one 63 cent stamp) with your cards; those across the pond, please send $1.70 along with your cards.
To join in on this swap, all you need to do is send me an email (amy at aplcreations dot com) with your name, address, and blog url (if you have one). This will be fun so spread the word!
* * * * *
At the end of business today we have four swappers (plus two little guys who want to play too) signed up for the swap. The more the merrier, folks! Get the kiddos involved too. Logan and Caleb are going to make their own to swap too. I'm going to make an extra couple of sets to swap with them. BUT! If we get a couple of other kiddie swappers to join in, I'll run a separate swap for them and mail them separately so that each kiddo gets his or her own swap package in the mail too.
01/11/06
We're up to eight, possibly nine, swappers (plus my two little ones). I can already tell you the Flickr album is going to be awesome to behold just from the first folks to jump in on the swap. Can't wait!!
posted by Amy at 4:45 PM
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