Artist Trading Cards (ATC)

Artist Trading Cards are small pieces of art work that are created and swapped between ATC collectors around the world. They are all the same size 3.5in x 2.5 in and can be made from anything; including scrapbooking.

Cuttlebugs and Creativity

Well Summer is in full swing here in Oz. And I’ll be honest with you; I haven’t done much in the scrapbooking line for a few months. But I haven’t shut up shop entirely. My Tuesday night craft group ensures that I still keep projects on the go. Last year I introduced Marla to the [...]

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Artist Trading Card (ATC) Swaps

You might remember me writing about a Christmas Card Making in July event I went to that was a whole bucket load of fun. Well following on from that, Marla invited me over to a regular Tuesday night craft session that she and a few friends hold each week. I’ve mentioned in previous posts that [...]

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Me Time with ATCs

Just lately life seems to be just work, work and still more work. I’m sure you know the feeling. I really felt I was getting stale so I decided to block out an afternoon of  ‘me’ time and get reconnected with my ‘touchy feely’ self. I decided to make some Artist Trading Cards, which I [...]

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3 Different Techniques for making Artist Trading Cards

I thought it might be fun to make three different Artist Trading Cards, one in each genre, using some of the brocade lace on each of them to link the three together. And you can see each of the different styles and tell me which you prefer.

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Victorian Calling Cards – the first ATCs?

Like many people I make my own business cards for Scraps of Mind. Those of you who receive my free daily RSS Feed may have noticed the logo at the top. Well that is basically my business card. I simply created it in Photoshop Elements, merged the layers and then duplicated the resulting layer until [...]

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Black is the new Black

Well it appears that Black and White is back at the top of the list in the fashion stakes. So it’s no surprise that Scrapbooking fashions have mirrored this and Black and White colour schemes are the current scrapbook fashion trend too. Now I’m not a trendy person. I find keeping up with trends to [...]

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Trading ATCs

Since my post about Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) I’ve had a few questions from people who are interested is making them and are wondering how to trade them. Well ideally Trading Sessions are conducted by groups around the world where creative people can get together, meet each other, enjoy each other’s work and chat. But [...]

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Artist Trading Cards

In recent weeks I have started to become interested in ATCs (Artist Trading Cards). These are miniature artworks created on 2 ½ X 3 ½ inch card or playing cards. They are not supposed to be sold but are traded with other artists for works of their own. The original concept began in Zurich, Switzerland [...]

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