Artist Trading Card Ideas
A place where you can find new ideas and swaps for creating Artist Trading Cards.
Artist Trading Cards (or ATCs) are playing card sized pieces of art. Like baseball cards, they are traded from artist to artist. They can be collages, paintings, drawings, quilts - basically any sort of art you can think of.
Artist Trading Cards (or ATCs) are playing card sized pieces of art. Like baseball cards, they are traded from artist to artist. They can be collages, paintings, drawings, quilts - basically any sort of art you can think of.
Featured Artist Trading Card
Artist trading cards: Computer Bug by Hil on Flickr
Create an Artist Trading Card Series
Copyright 2008 Gretchen Little
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Illustrate a Fairy Tale
Collage the scenes of your favorite fairy tale.5 points
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Invent Your Own Oracle Deck
Tarot, runes, or whatever!3 points
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Paper Quilt Blocks
Make each ATC a different quilt block0 points
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Artify Your Vacation Pics
Instead of making a scrapbook.0 points
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Plan a Wedding
Make an ATC for the cake, gown, rings, etc.0 points
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Collectible Birthday Cards
Send a new original creation every year.0 points
Different Artistic Mediums to Use
Most of the ATC's I've seen are mixed media paper collage.
But that isn't your only option. Here are some ideas for using other mediums.
Watercolor:
Colored pencil:
Ink Drawing:
Needlefelting:
Quilting:
Embroidery:
Beading:
Digital:
Polymer Clay:
ATC TIME 1 by Laineys Repertoire on Flickr
But that isn't your only option. Here are some ideas for using other mediums.
Watercolor:
A word: pod by Wiccked on Flickr
Colored pencil:
Coneflowers by Vintagepix on Flickr
Ink Drawing:
Swan_Maiden_color by anonevyl on Flickr
Needlefelting:
ATC Purple Flowers Reserved by konnykards on Flickr
Quilting:
Fall Color Series #1-6 by Vintage Pix on Flickr
Embroidery:
ATC Stitched Patchwork Print Traded by konnykards on Flickr
Beading:
ATCSecond on Timtex by prairieknitter01 on Flickr
Digital:
The road leads... by artful endeavors on Flickr
Polymer Clay:
Eye Tree by ArtistGirl19 on Flickr
Collage Technique Ideas For Your ATCs
- IMAGE TRANSFER - Image Transfers are ghostly cool. See Image Transfer for more info.
- VINTAGE IMAGES - The Collage Images group on Flickr is filled with free domain vintage art and photos.
- RUBBER STAMPING - ARTchix Studio is a good place to start.
- DOODLING - When in doubt, doodle. Doodle Art on Squidoo can inspire you.
ATC Ideas Bookstore
Artist Trading Card Workshop: Create, Collect, Swap
Amazon Price: $15.63 (as of 11/20/2009) 
Artist Trading Cards (Twenty to Make)
Amazon Price: $9.95 (as of 11/20/2009)
1,000 Artist Trading Cards: Innovative and Inspired Mixed Media ATCs (1000 Series)
Amazon Price: $19.79 (as of 11/20/2009)
Rubber Stamping Artist Trading Cards
Amazon Price: $16.47 (as of 11/20/2009)
Vintage Collage Ephemera for Artist Trading Cards
From Lisa Cook Studio on Etsy
Artist Trading Card Swaps
Even if you don't want to participate, swaps are a great way to mine ideas for your ATCs. Although Swap-Bot isn't the only place to find swaps it is the most consistent I've found so far. These aren't all ATC swaps but you can still get inspiration from the other types of swaps.
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- For the Movies... Part XI - http://swap-bot.com/swap/show/49531
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- Animals wearing Sunglasses ATC - http://swap-bot.com/swap/show/49530
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- Not For You Christmas Card - http://swap-bot.com/swap/show/49528
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- Favourite music videos - http://swap-bot.com/swap/show/49521
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- 10 photos email swap - http://swap-bot.com/swap/show/49520
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- Large Letter Postcard Swap - http://swap-bot.com/swap/show/49519
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- Book of the Month (December) - http://swap-bot.com/swap/show/49518
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- Let's Crochet Me a Granny Square - http://swap-bot.com/swap/show/49514
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- Handmade Angel Ornament Swap - http://swap-bot.com/swap/show/49511
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- LOLcat/macro swap - http://swap-bot.com/swap/show/49507
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- Snowflake ATC - http://swap-bot.com/swap/show/49506
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- The Chipmunks Christmas ATC - http://swap-bot.com/swap/show/49504
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- Fantasy Postcards - http://swap-bot.com/swap/show/49502
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- I NEED MORE EMBELLISHMENTS! - http://swap-bot.com/swap/show/49501
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- Strange Trees Photo Swap! - http://swap-bot.com/swap/show/49499
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More ATC Series Ideas
Copyright 2008 Gretchen Little
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Anatomy Flash Cards
Extra bonus points if you draw your own anatomy.0 points
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Altered Baseball Cards
Photocopy a baseball card and pimp it.0 points
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Mythologize
Immortalize your favorite pantheon.0 points
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Document Your Virtual Life
Create an altered ego on Second Life and tell it's more...0 points
Unusual ATC Techniques
- Art Techniques: Faux Metal ATC - Step-by-Step
- Turn paper into rusty metal.
Twitters About Artist Trading Cards
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- cbjfoto
- RT @artstudiosintl: RT @TheRita: Favorite ACEO Art Card - Artist Trading Card of the Day: http://bit.ly/3up94k
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- artstudiosintl
- RT @TheRita: Favorite ACEO Art Card - Artist Trading Card of the Day: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=17449812
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- TheRita
- Favorite ACEO Art Card - Artist Trading Card of the Day: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=17449812
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- alteredartsmag
- 50 precut Artist Trading Card (ATC) blanks: http://bit.ly/4xJkbP
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- barbaraburns
- printing out my students amazing Artist Trading Card envelopes for soldiers overseas; "From Me to You: Heart t ... http://lnk.ms/34K3S
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- TheRita
- Favorite ACEO Artist Trading Card of the Day: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=17444724 Autumn Delight
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- dontcallmedotty
- Craft supplies, artist trading card bases, beanie babies, etc.
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- JollyWinston
- I want to do a Mighty Boosh 'Artist Trading Card' group also. Create & Swap! http://www.atcsforall.com/
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- heidi2524
- http://writershelves.com/ post about non-written blogging and an artist trading card of a bat on a kite
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Downloadable Collage Sheets on Etsy
From phenomenon1859
Online Communities
Talk, learn, trade ATCs
Image courtesy of angellea on Flickr.
- Artist Trading Cards on Yahoo
- "We want all artists of all mediums to join us, share your artistic knowledge, make friendships with others all over the world and just have FUN! All types of ATC art will be embraced."
- ATC_World on Yahoo
- "If you love ATC's (Artist Trading Cards), then come join us! We have swaps running all the time, each listed in the database."
- Flickr: Artist Trading Cards
- "This group is for all creative people who love making, sharing and trading ATC's... (ACEO's can be displayed here too)"
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The Latest About ATCs from the Blogosphere
- Straight for the art: Alt-comix trading cards
- AdHouse publisher Chris Pitzer has put up a Flickr set of his Alternative Artist Trading Card Series. What exactly is that you ask? I'll let Pitzer explain: ...
Astarte's Mega-Zine for Lovers of Art and Craft
Go Make Art!
A high quality, downloadable, e-zine in the style of Somerset Studio or Cloth, Paper Scissors with articles by and about popular artists such as Claudine Hellmuth, Lee Silbers, Leslie Riley and others. Not only are there articles about everything from collage to polymer clay to felting to creativity and beyond, there is free clipart in every issue!Take it from someone who has subscribed to Somerset Studio from it's beginning, Astarte's Mega-Zine is in the same league. It's gorgeous and very much worth taking a look at!
Blog Posts from Google
Image courtesy of Suzee Que on Flickr.
- Waltzing Matilda: Artist Trading Cards
- Baseball trading card sheet protectors hold and organize your cards to trade and cards to keep perfectly! The girls and I have been having some fun with watercolors. Here are some others to give you some ideas. Labels: Art ...
- Bloomington Watercolor Society: Artist Trading Cards
- www.cedarseed.com/air/atc.html ยท www.louispohlgallery.com/artist-trading-cards.html includes some beautiful ideas from Hawaii. Submitted by your Brushstrokes editor. Posted by Jeanne Ellen Dutton at 5:43 AM ...
- Washington FAMILY Magazine: Artist Trading Cards
- Today is on the Mom Like Me segment on WUSA9 Amy Bevins, Assistant Editor of Washington FAMILY Magazine, shared information about Artist Trading Cards, a space-saving way to enjoy kid art. So what are Artist Trading Cards? ... You can find Chrely Miehl's article and more great craft ideas on the FAMILY Magazine web site, www.washingtonFAMILY.com. What other great ideas to you have for showcasing your children's art? Posted by Brenda@theFAMILYmagazine.com at 6:38 PM ...
- K & M Garage Sales & Hints: Artist Trading Card Exchange...
- Today, at S & B, we traded artist trading cards and they were so neat! We each ended up with 5 of them. We all enjoyed making them so much and the trading was fun. The picture does not do them justice. ... My name is Mary and my husband is Kit and we look forward to giving you good ideas and hints about shopping at a garage sale and also having one of your own. Garage Sales started happening in the USA in the 60's. Someone needed some cash and had things to sell and just ...
ATC Artist Friends
Image courtesy of ireneki on Flickr.
- Chatty Wacky Whims
- "Oh my! In these woods I live in you never know what you will come across in this wacky world of mine. "
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- artyfax artyfax Jun 20, 2009 @ 3:06 pm
- great lens full of very good usable ideas,
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- clemency clemency Jun 11, 2009 @ 11:37 am
- Great lens, very inspiring.
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- lakeerieartists lakeerieartists Apr 12, 2009 @ 9:23 pm
- Blessed by a squidoo angel.
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- vanillapud_vanillapod vanillapud_vanillapod Mar 4, 2009 @ 1:22 pm
- Love this one too! xxx
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- roarman roarman Feb 25, 2009 @ 8:43 am
- very cool... I had similar idea when I won Player of the Month so I created like a trading card of myself based on the site I won at... I use it as my icon/profile image now heh... neat lens!
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