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Artist Trading Cards are 3.5" x 2.5" mini wonders of art!, because of their small size they are very addictive to make and a fantastic collectors item!
The purpose of this page is to act as an information database to the wonderful world of artist trading cards!
Here you will find the all important links to various atc galleries, techniques and projects, clubs, events and items you can buy especially for artist trading cards!
I am an atc addict myself and am constantly searching for new ideas and inspiration for this art form. This requires a lot of searching on google which can be very time consuming. I decided to start up this page as a way to bring together all the atc links to information, techniques, products and artwork out there! In one easy to find atc information portal..
Contents at a Glance
ATC Virgins
Links for atc newbies, with help and ideas on how to get started with this artform
- Artist trading cards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Artist trading cards explained by Wikipedia
- Cryptic Creativity Artist Trading Cards
- Beginners Guide To Artist Trading Cards
- Art in your Pocket: ATCs
- Excellant guide to atcs for those of you are just starting out!
- LisaVollrath.com Artist Trading Card Basics
- Introduction to ATCs
- Emus Guide To Artist Trading Cards
- With lots of useful information for newbies
- Frenzy Corner Mini ATC Site
- Information on atcs for the beginner with some links to browse.
- Getting Started With ATCs
- Introduction To Exploring ART In Miniature By Trish Bee
- HiNgE Online presents: Artist Trading Cards
- Site with details on ATCs, galleries plus free printable atc templete (note this does not work on A4 sheets paper)
- Self Representing Artists Online Art Magazine
- Online magazine featuring a how to make and use atcs article with inspirational samples.
- Stray ATC Cards
- Donate your spare unwanted atc's and have them featured on this sites galleries.
Techniques And Projects
Links to ideas, projects and techniques all using artist trading cards
- An Altered Artist Trading Card Book by Belinda Schneider
- Fantastic tutorial on how to make a booklet to store your atcs in
- Fabric Artist Trading Card by Karenann Young
- How to use fabric in your atcs
- Burning Artist Trading Cards by Karenann Young
- Burning the edges of your atcs to give them an olde worlde look.
- Mixed Media Artist Trading Cards by Karenann Young
- Gorgeous collage style artist trading card class
- ATC Necklaces by Jen Kinton-Bailey
- Fantastix wearable artist trading card tutorial!
- Articles, tutorials, and information - Artist Trading Card Forums
- Various articles on getting started with atcs and techniques etc.
- Artist Trading Cards - An Arizona Sunset -
- Make an artist trading card using recycled report covers, travel brochures and pizza parlour menus.
- Creative Disortion ATCs
- Gorgeous collage style atcs, check out how to make nail polish backgrounds for your atcs too!
- How To Get 10 ATCs From One Piece Of Cardstock
- Not applicable for A4 sized paper!
- Simple ATC Books
- Straight forward ATC book project for inserting your own atcs.
- Simple Folded ATC
- How to make 2 fold atc!
- Glitz-Oh ATC's Gallery
- Gorgeous and inspiring collage themed atc artwork
- Collage Techniques With Vellum - ATCs
- Using vellum and collage sheets to create collage style atc tutorial
- ATC (Artist Trading Cards) Project Ideas - Free Reprint Articles
- ATC (Artist Trading Cards) Project Ideas - Free Reprint Articles
- ATC Holder
- A fun project for making a holder for ATCs, business cards, or anything your ART desires.
ATC Freebies
Free downloads, graphics, fonts, media and templates to use in your ATC art
- Typo Background Generator
- Create fantastic digital backgrounds for your artist trading cards. Simply enter text in the box, ie LOVE, then click to generate a fantastic arty printable background for your atcs!
- Red Castle Tag Printing Freeware
- Once you have downloaded and installed the software; start the program, then input the following settings to the following size to print a template sheet of ATCS:
* Make the Tag size: 2.5 x 3.5
* Select: SQUARE
* Uncheck the print punch hole option
* Click Print!
* Viola! Instant ATCs Template Sheet! - Mirkwood Designs - Artist Trading Card Envelope
- Make cute little pockets for your atcs
- Artist Trading Cards - Templates
- Envelopes, atcs and swap tracking forms
- Mirkwood Designs - Artist Trading Card Cutting Diagram
- Please note that this will not work for A4 sized paper.
- Scrapability Vintage and Retro Images
- Lots of links for downloading free vintage images
- ATC Holder Template
- The Stampers' Sampler ATC Template
- Aisling's Clipart
- Two pages of free clipart for collage and assemblage artists,
from Aisling D'Art. - Silent Ladies & Gents
- Silent Ladies and Gents photo galleries of silent film stars.
- Old Fashioned Photos
- Antique Photographs ready to download and print for free. Updated monthly.
- Free Background Papers
- Various styles of background papers to print out for free.
- Miss Mary's Victorian Image Collection
- For collage, digital scrapbooking, decoupage, graphic design.
- Ten Two Studios Virtual ATCs
- Design & Send a Virtual ATC from Ten Two Studios choosing from different backgrounds and images.
ATC Eye Candy
Online art galleries and websites featuring inspirational artist trading card artwork
- Art-E-Zine ATC Pages
- Atc galleries grouped together on one easy to access menu
- ARTChix ATC Galleries
- Ive died and gone to ATC heaven!
- ARTERRATICA
- Artist Trading Card Exchange Gallery
- Artist Trading Cards Forum Galleries
- Beautiful creations from the various swaps!
- ARTIST TRADING CARDS SITE
- Lots of galleries and information on atcs
- ATC Blog At Live Journal
- Eye candy and musings
- Atc Gallery by Dentan
- Gorgeous atcs in various themed galleries
- ATCS By Liz
- More inspirational artwork!
- B-Muse ATC Gallery 1
- More delights from B-Muse
- Baileys Bliss Artist Trading Cards
- Collage style eye candy!
- Cedarseed Galleries
- Lots of cool painted atcs
- Der ATC Workshop
- German site featuring lots of atc eye candy
- Ed's Artist Trading Cards
- Computer graphic and digital art style atcs
- Empress Dragon Arts: ATC Gallery
- Lots of atc sets and collections to view
- Flickr: Artist Trading Cards Group
- Gorgeous inspiring creations from this flickr community
- Haptotrope Gallery
- Unusual painted style atcs
- Erotica Collection ATCs
- Nervousness EROTICA Artist Trading Card Swap Gallery
- The Karmic Fish Gallery
- The work on this page was created by a variety of fabulous artists. The theme was Karmic Fish and was open to interpretation.
- Artist Trading Cards at the Kudsu ATC Gallery
- More atc inspiration to whet your appetite!
- Artist Trading Cards By Lynn Dewart
- Gorgeous atc creations in every theme imaginable
- Den Tan's Mixed Media ATC's
- Various collage style atcs
- Michelle RichardsBoo Atc Creations
- Lots of collage and arty atcs to drool over
- Magma2red's ATC'S
- The ultimate web site for artist trading cards, art, computer art, cg, and haiku.
- Mail Artists ATC's
- Mailart resource for ATC's, postcards, envelopes, and artistamps
- Marjorie's ATC Gallery
- Lots of atc artwork to inspire
- Marlies' Creative Universe: Artist Trading Cards
- More atcs to inspire you in your quest for atc domination!
- Modern Gypsy ATC Side
- Gorgeous creations
- B-Muse Artist Artists Trading Cards Gallery 2
- More ATCs From B-Muse
- Aileens Artist Trading Cards
- Artistic creations reaching outside the margins...
- Palimpsestic ATC Site
- Collage style atcs in various themes
- Self Representing Artists Galleries ATCs
- Mop up the drool on your way out cos these things are aweinspiring!
- Serendipity Backgrounds Bmuse ATC Swap
- B-Muse Art Gallery of a Serendipity background themed atc swap.
- The Official ART-E-ZINE ATC Swap
- More inspiration than you can shake a stick at!
- Tracy Roo's Artist Trading Cards
- Lots of gorgeous vintage style atc inspiration!
- Tracy Roos ATC Swap
- ATC Gallery using images from an ATC Swap - INSPIRATIONAL!
- Moss Hill Studio ATCs
- ATC's to make you drool
- Altered Visions ATC's
- Gorgeous collage style atcs
- ATC Gallery 4/17
- Lenna Andrews Atc Gallery
- Family ATC swap
- We are family theme gallery
- Colorful ATC swap
- Inspired by the True Colors Somerset Book
- Summer Pleasures ATCs
- Gorgeous is the only word which comes to mind!
- Transparent Wings swap
- Gorgeous winged themed atc gallery - Ive died and gone to heaven!
- Vintage ATCs
- Old fashioned style atcs by Cris Cunningham
- Kellys Atcs
- Stunning creations by Kelly Snelling
- ACEO's & ATC's By Chrysti
- Gorgeous colourful collage style atcs
- ATCs Colors of Mexico Swap
- Gallery on B-Muse
- Artella's ATC Swap Land
- A forum for the publication of Artella Magazine's ATC swaps
- ZNE ATC Card Swaps
- ATC Card Swaps Gallery
- Cindy Couling ATC Gallery
- Gorgeous Artist Trading Cards by Cindy Couling
- Assemblages and ATCs of Rande Hanson
- Assemblages and ATCs of Rande Hanson
- ATC Collages
- Gorgeous mini collages
- mrswas ATC Gallery
- Gorgeous collage style atcs
- Artist Trading Cards By Sue Pieper
- Beautiful collage creations
- Wings Theme ATCS
- art-e-zine Artist's Trading Cards trade with the theme of Wings
- Bernie Berlin's ATC Gallery
- Gorgeous atcs by the goddess herself!
ATC Swaps
- Swap Bot
- For the latest ATC Swaps hosted on Swap Bot simply click on the 'Current Swaps' link on Swap Bot. Then from the drop down menu select the ART section for the latest available atc swaps.
Latest ATCs On Flickr
Gorgeous Recent Uploads Featuring Artist Trading Cards
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- Isabella Isabella Jul 22, 2008 @ 8:57 am
- I introduced ATC's to my fifth graders to use for creating an exciting and intersting way to present bok reports, study for tests, and so forth. We are starting a school-wide exchange this fall. Just love the uninhibited artwork the children produce.
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- http://chriss-rollins.blogspot.com http://chriss-rollins.blogspot.com May 14, 2008 @ 5:55 pm
- Hi, I run this blog for 'The Artist Trading Club' and it's members, guests and visitors and Should you wish to know more about joining the club then please feel free to contact me on this Email address.. chrissylamata@live.co.uk
We have our very own 'ATC Queen' Dottie, she may only be used for 'challenges that we the club set' she may not be used for any other purpose she belongs to our club... taking her away from her family and friends could be very traumatic for all concerned. Please respect our feelings, thank you. :)))xxxx
come visit our blog where we swap til we drop.
http://chriss-rollins.co.uk
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- ce2consulting ce2consulting May 1, 2008 @ 9:13 pm
- Great collection of links on ATCs. I'm just starting my first atc project.
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- rattytatty rattytatty Apr 4, 2008 @ 11:05 pm
- Hi
I have just started a new group called Explore a new craft. I would love you to join the group. I am hoping that it will be a place where you can explore crafts that you are thinking of taking up, whilst sharing your experience with others who are thinking of trying out your crafts. Your lenses would be a great addition to the group
yours tracey
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- Celly Celly Mar 16, 2008 @ 3:09 pm
- I love ATC , thanks for the great links !!
http://atc-challenges.blogspot.com/
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- annie annie Feb 25, 2008 @ 12:49 am
- here's a great forum to trade atcs that just opened recently: http://www.atcsforall.com/
its very active and theres a lot of great swaps going on :)
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- arlee arlee Feb 6, 2008 @ 6:44 pm
- Just wrote a tute for textile artists/mixed media artists ATCs:
http://arleebarr.squarespace.com/tutorialstechniquesprojects/2008/2/5/making-fabric-atcs-and-postcards-arlee-style.html
Will also spread the word re this Lens :}
Amazing how much work can go into such a little gem of art!
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- artyfax artyfax Feb 5, 2008 @ 4:50 am
- Great Lens and many interesting links. I found this format via aceo's but now heavily into swapping and have made many friends.
Have lensrolled and favourited this lens as it seems to be so very uesful
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- Boatbird Boatbird Oct 25, 2007 @ 6:50 am
- Am in the process of putting my ATC's into a gallery on my website http://www.dragonflyriver.com . follow the links on the left :)
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- floatinglemons floatinglemons Oct 19, 2007 @ 1:13 am
- Great lens! I've just started creating and collecting ATCs so you've been tons of help, thank you!
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