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 PWA offers many supplies to help you
make fun and creative ATCs to trade! There are endless ATC designs
possible using just O'So Sticky Tape and Micro Beads. Then add in
images from our beautiful Collage Sheets, and papers from our
Collage Scrap Packs and parent sheets of Handmade Paper. A plethora
of ribbons and fibers, not to mention Punchinella, little bitty
tags, microscope slides, and altered
puzzle pieces will add that finishing touch to your small
canvases! And when you are done with your creation, PWA offers
plastic sleeves and storage pages to protect and display your
priceless collection!!
For one week only, PWA is offering a special "ATC Bundle" to help
get you started, replenish your supplies, or assist you in meeting a
current swap obligation! Each Bundle includes 10 ATC Storage Pages,
1 package of 100 ATC Sleeves, and 1 Pre-Cut ATC Pack in 3 color
choices! (Each ATC Pack include 100-130 pieces of quality cardstock
already cut to ATC size for you.) We are offering the ATC Bundle for
only $9.50, which is $1.25 savings over buying the items separately!
You can find this special on the website here:
http://www.pennywisearts.com/specials.html This
special offer expires at midnight on Tuesday, Oct
30th.
You can order
directly here:
The ATC supplies shown above can also be purchased separately on our website:
ATC Pre-cut Packs:
http://www.pennywisearts.com/miscpaper.html
ATC Sleeves and Storage Pages (bottom of the page):
http://www.pennywis earts.com/curiosityshop.html
By Hitomi Nakatani |
By Kathy McDowell |
By Chriss Grabb |
For more inspiration, take a look at the following Online PWA Class;
Suzanne's ATC Collage Cards:
http://www.pennywisearts.com/archive1/ATC_Collage_Cards.pdf
Also, many of the techniques found in the Online Class Archives can
be applied to an ATC-sized canvas, so be sure to take a look at the
other offerings too!
http://www.pennywis earts.com/classarchives.html
What Are Artist
Trading Cards?
By Wikipedia*
Artist Trading Cards are individual art miniatures which pass hand
to hand. Their current popularity among artists and hobbyists was
sparked by M. Vanci Stirnemann, who began trading sessions in
Zurich, Switzerland, in 1997, and popularized ATCs via the internet.
Artists have produced miniatures for trade or self-promotion in many
eras and places, and the current trend is thus part of this larger
context. Nevertheless, at the present time, the phrase Artist
Trading Card is usually taken to refer to cards of the type promoted
by Stirnemann. The only rule for these cards is their size (2.5 x
3.5 inches, the same as commercial trading cards, such as baseball
cards and cards for trading card games). There are, however, certain
conventions usually observed by those who make and trade these
cards, such as the expectation that they be traded, not sold, and
that they be created as unique works or small limited editions of
prints. Artists generally sign, number, and date the back, and may
also include a title and contact information.
Artist Trading Cards are typically made on a base of card stock.
However, ATCs have been created on metal, stiffened fabric, plastic,
clay, glass, balsa wood, leather, embroidery canvas, acetate, heavy
watercolor paper, and many other materials. The art on the cards can
be done in any media: textile arts, pencil, watercolor, acrylic,
oil, collage, scratch board, mixed media, assemblage, digital art,
calligraphy, beadwork, rubber stamps, carved soft block stamps, pen
and ink, colored pencil, airbrush, pastels, and many others -
anything artists use.
Outside the Box ATCs
The only standard requirement for an ATC is that its height and
width measurements be 2.5" x 3.5", either portrait or landscape
orientation. The sky can be the limit for every other aspect of the
art.
In the big, wide world of ATCs, there is no thickness limit, either,
but people customarily make them thin enough to fit inside the
standard card collector pockets, sleeves or sheets.
Some people are sticklers about archival qualities, but art does not
necessarily have to be "forever" so many people use whatever
materials that fit their artistic needs.
It can be a little book, a small box full of treasures, an expanding
accordion pleated... something, whatever you can imagine that will
fold up into, or compress to, or hide behind a 2.5" x 3.5" "cover"
or facade.
*All text is available under
the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. The full content of
the article above can be viewed at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist_trading_cards
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