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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.

Featured Artist Trading Card 

night daisies ink ATC by candy-n29 on Flickr

Create an Artist Trading Card Series 

Copyright 2008 Gretchen Little

Illustrate a Fairy Tale

Collage the scenes of your favorite fairy tale.4 points

Invent Your Own Oracle Deck

Tarot, runes, or whatever!2 points

Play Paper Dolls

Start with a basic paper doll, and give him/her/it more...1 point

Alphabetize

Create an ATC for each of the letters of the alpha more...1 point

Design Your Dream Home

Put different elements of where you'd love to live more...0 points

Catalog Your Garden

Make an ATC for each of the plants in your garden, more...0 points

Paper Quilt Blocks

Make each ATC a different quilt block0 points

Artify Your Vacation Pics

Instead of making a scrapbook.0 points

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.


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 

ATC Ideas Bookstore 

Artist Trading Card Workshop: Create, Collect, Swap

Amazon Price: $15.63 (as of 07/13/2009) Buy Now

Rubber Stamping Artist Trading Cards

Amazon Price: $18.21 (as of 07/13/2009) Buy Now

1,000 Artist Trading Cards: Innovative and Inspired Mixed Media ATCs (1000 Series)

Amazon Price: $19.79 (as of 07/13/2009) Buy Now

Artist Trading Cards (Twenty to Make)

Amazon Price: $9.95 (as of 07/13/2009) Buy Now

ATCs on You Tube 

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Artist Trading Card Demo

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What are Artist Trading Cards?...

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Collaged Artist Trading Cards

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More ATC Series Ideas 

Copyright 2008 Gretchen Little

Anatomy Flash Cards

Extra bonus points if you draw your own anatomy.0 points

Altered Baseball Cards

Photocopy a baseball card and pimp it.0 points

Library Cards

Make an ATC for all the books in your personal lib more...0 points

Mythologize

Immortalize your favorite pantheon.0 points

Document Your Virtual Life

Create an altered ego on Second Life and tell it's more...0 points

Unusual ATC Techniques 


Image courtesy of Porti on Flickr.

Art Techniques: Faux Metal ATC - Step-by-Step
Turn paper into rusty metal.

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)"

An Artist Trading Card Gallery 

*aTc background FReeBie* by sPaRK*YouR*iMaGiNaTioN

*aTc background FRee...

FReeBie CoLLaGe iMaGe ViNTaGe BaLLeRiNa by sPaRK*YouR*iMaGiNaTioN

FReeBie CoLLaGe iMaG...

60 Minutes.  Can you make it? by allenreichert

60 Minutes. Can you...

Artist Trading Cards by 'Playingwithbrushes'

Artist Trading Cards

ATC Travel 1/Available for Trade by Laineys Repertoire

ATC Travel 1/Availab...

ATC Heritage 1/Available for Trade by Laineys Repertoire

ATC Heritage 1/Avail...

ATC Travel 2/Available for Trade by Laineys Repertoire

ATC Travel 2/Availab...

ATC Heritage 2/Available for Trade by Laineys Repertoire

ATC Heritage 2/Avail...

ATC TIME 3/Available for Trade by Laineys Repertoire

ATC TIME 3/Available...

ATC B&W 2/Available for Trade by Laineys Repertoire

ATC B&W 2/Availa...

ATC Time 4/Available for Trade by Laineys Repertoire

ATC Time 4/Available...

ATC B&W 1/Available for Trade by Laineys Repertoire

ATC B&W 1/Availa...

The Latest About ATCs from the Blogosphere 

Alameda Calendar
Artist Trading Card Group, 1-4 pm fourth Saturdays monthly. Storytelling Swap, 7-9 pm first Tuesdays monthly, Town Center, 523 South Shore Way. ...
Alameda Calendar
Artist Trading Card Group, 1-4 pm fourth Saturdays monthly. Storytelling Swap, 7-9 pm first Tuesdays monthly, Town Center, 523 South Shore Way. ...

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!

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Blog Posts from Google 

Image courtesy of Suzee Que on Flickr.

Artist Trading Cards
She is with a group of ladies that create these beautiful pieces of art on 2.5 x 3.5 pieces of fabric and swap them. I've already been brainstorming with ideas to create my own. I love lighthouses and blackwork so the design I'm working ...
Women's Press » Blog Archive » Hooked on Artist Trading Cards
I've been scrapbooking for years, and I routinely surf the net looking for new and exciting ideas to try. During my many searches, I kept noticing sites dedicated to Artist Trading Cards or ATCs. Not knowing what these were, ...
Tutorial Tuesday: Artist Trading Cards Help Get Creativity Flowing
The book (also sold by some of Amzaon's used book sellers), Kaleidoscope: Ideas and Projects to Stimulate Creatvity by Suzanne Simanatis mentions mailing art to friends and even to yourself. It reminded of Artist Trading Cards that I ...
Interview with board game creator Alf Seegart and artist Ryan ...
You improve your bridge's value (thereby scoring points) by trading in cards from both your food supply (energy for repairs) and tolls collected (building supplies), scoring the lesser valued set of cards you trade in. .... Everyone seems to have their own ideas. I was inspired by what I thought would be the most iconic and fun parts of each. TC: How long did it take you to develop all of the art used in Bridge Troll? Ryan: The process from beginning to end took about ...

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. "

What do you think? 

artyfax wrote...

great lens full of very good usable ideas,

ReplyPosted June 20, 2009

clemency wrote...

Great lens, very inspiring.

ReplyPosted June 11, 2009

lakeerieartists wrote...

Blessed by a squidoo angel.

ReplyPosted April 12, 2009

vanillapud_vanillapod wrote...

Love this one too! xxx

ReplyPosted March 04, 2009

roarman wrote...

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!

ReplyPosted February 25, 2009

 
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