Instead of Blogging..... ATC's
I've been busy with a lot of things lately, instead of blogging. One of those things is making Artist Trading Cards. (Also known as ATC's) At first I really resisted the idea. While I feel like I'm a creative person, I don't feel like I'm an ARTIST. That's such a loaded word. But for a few months I've been a part of a cool creative community group and our first project was ATC's.
And I found out that ATC's are a lot of fun, once I got over the artist word problem. The rules are the cards are never for sale, only traded. And the card sizes are 2 1/2 by 3 1/2. Other than that, anything goes. Pottery, scraps, collage, stickers, stamps, paint, cloth - anything is fine. And that to me is a lot of the charm. It's amazing what people come up with. And the size is freeing in a wonderful way. It's such a little thing, not a big canvas, not a huge ART project, not intimidating, just a tiny piece of creativity.
For more information on making your own ATC's look here.
You can see a lovely poem of a slide show with some more pictures of our show here.
4 comments:
Those are very cool.
Thanks, Kay. They are quite cool. I just love the concept.
That looks like a lot of fun - will you bring a couple of examples to the beach? I'd love to start doing something like this - get the creativity flowing again.
Janet, I'll try to bring some examples. Packing isn't going well at the moment, but I'll try!
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