Have you seen them ? Those adorable, creative little baseball-sized cards that start off blank and end up looking like any artistically themed topic you can imagine to design ? They are being traded all over the world, practically.
You start off with a sheet of white cardstock (to begin), and cut the paper in 2-1/2 x 3-1/2 inch rectangles. Where you go with it after that is only limited by your imagination.
HISTORY OF ARTIST TRADING CARDS
(wiki)
Artist Trading Cards (or ATCs) are miniature works of art about the same size as modern baseball cards, or 2 ½ X 3 ½ inches (from plain white cardstock paper) small enough to fit inside standard card-collector pockets, sleeves or sheets. The ATC movement developed out of the mail art movement and has its origins in Switzerland.[ Cards are produced in various media, including dry media (pencils, pens, markers, etc.), wet media (watercolor, acrylic paints, etc.), paper media (in the form of collage, papercuts, found objects, etc.) or even metals. The cards are usually traded or exchanged rather than sold.
M. Vänçi Stirnemann is credited in many circles with popularizing the modern artist trading card in 1996, holding trading sessions in Zurich, Switzerland. This resurgence of interest of Artists trading cards has spawned the popular ACEO (art cards editions and originals) movement. Many people consider art trading cards and ACEO cards to be one and the same. Others feel they are decidedly different pieces of art. Clubs, trading sessions, and online mailart communities have largely replaced the original concept of trading the cards during individual encounters, and many ATC workshops end with a trading session. (end wiki)
Inspiration from the web…
Template for an artist trading card envelope ! A fun option.
Have you considered making a matching envelope for your ATC ? Well, one woman
has ! She shares a free online template for doing just that ! Click on this humongous link to go to her webpage where you can print out a full sized template to cut. I just printed one for my family and I’m going to make a few copies and laminate them so they are easily reusable.
You can google “artist trading cards images” and you’ll see thousands of stunning card designs to give you, and/or your child(ren) a lot of creative ideas to get you going.
If you have an idea to share about how to use various techniques for making the cards, please share and let others know, too. In our family, we have a special place for using rubber stamps and tissue paper. Rubber stamps are easy enough, but the tissue paper goes on in layers . I’ve made a thin glue with regular Elmer’s glue that I mix with hot water to thin it down a lot. I wet the paper as I’m placing it upon the card and it sticks the paper in place where it’s needed, but it dries clear. Layers, it all works.
ARTIST TRADING CARD MONTHLY SWAP
This is a CT based group that makes and swaps artist trading cards once a month with other homeschoolers, following assorted themes for each month. All ages, including parents, are welcome. To subscribe to participate, send an email to: ArtistTradingCardSwap-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
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Have you found a template to make a label for the back of the cards with a place for name, locations, etc?
We just cut our cards to the standard size, which is 2.5 x 3.5 inches. On the back, I have a rubber stamp that we can use, because it is simply lines, with nothing on them. We can write whatever we want. That's as close to a "template" that we might use. What I did find is a template for making an envelope - or more of a sleeve to put them in. However, I've seen others just laminate the cards, instead. Let me know if you want the template and I'll get the website page link for you.
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