the chicken or the egg...

from an antique postcard.

Emily recently suggested the idea of an egg shaped/Easter themed ATC swap. Sounds like fun to me. Here's what I'm thinking: I like the idea of a broad theme that can be widely interpreted. So "SPRING" is the theme. It could be intrepreted as the season, an object (like a bed spring or a clock part), a verb, something stream of consciousness based (like spring chicken, which came first the chicken or the egg, etc). I uploaded an egg shaped template to flickr for anyone interested in doing egg shaped atcs. Click the text link then right click on the template and click SAVE AS, make sure it will be saved in a folder you can find, and just in case, rename it something simple so you can run a search for it if you should need to. Once you have printed the egg template, cut it out along the INSIDE of the black line to maintain the 2.5" by 3.5" size!

The particulars:

The deadline for sign-ups is Monday, March 27th. To join all you have to do is email me (amy at aplcreations dot com) with your name, address and blog url (if you have one).

You do not have to have a blog to participate. International participants are welcome to play as well.

Each participant will make five artist trading cards to be mailed to me no later than Monday, April 3rd. 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. Each swapper 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, April 10th so that they will arrive round about Easter time.

A couple of bullet points on ATCs (courtesy of Cedarseed.com)
* The dimensions of the cards must be 2.5 inches by 3.5 inches.
* Sets of identical cards are known as editions and should be numbered (1/5, 2/5, etc.).
* Sets of cards based on a theme are known as a series.
* On the back of each ATC the artist writes part or all of the following information: name, contact information, title of the ATC and number if it's part of an edition.