Hello, dear friends (and that includes my Mama!)

I can’t believe how January went tripping right along, and here it is, almost to an end. I promised, quite a long while ago now, to share with you my ATCs (Artist trading cards) for the second swap I was involved in. Not that I forgot, but I didn’t remember to remember…until now!

Here are my cards for ATC swap #2: Freestyle! It was a little intimidating to not have more clear-cut guidelines…just whatever we wanted to do. In the end, it was a lot of fun.

I thought this was funny–I had the same little flowers that were featured on this magazine page that made up the background!

The little girl sticker came in a box of Japanese rice candy. The script is from the wrapper on my chopsticks at a Japanese restaurant and the background is again from a magazine.

The moon here is made of aluminum foil, although I still call it “tin”.

This was my favorite. The little bear is a foamy little bear that came in a big box of many other little foamy bears and hearts at the craft store (you just never know when you’ll need foamy hearts and bears.) The background is a magazine page (isn’t the little pincushion chair perfect?!) I also cut the face from a magazine. I just fell in love with that little face! The heart is made of aluminum duct tape painted with alcohol paints. You’ll see more aluminum duct tape work a bit later.

Another rice candy sticker! And an English lesson in progress, apparently.

More aluminum duct tape art. This is wonderful, amazing stuff. I love the look of metal art, but don’t have all the expensive equipment to do it. So…aluminum duct tape gives me the look, the enjoyment, but for a lot less money, and it’s really fun to work with.

I really enjoyed working with this medium…

I really did!

And now for the little envelopes made of magazine pages…

hee hee…I really like this one.

I love making art out of things I already have. The only thing I have bought specifically for ATCs are the alcohol inks to work with the aluminum duct tape. Other than that, it’s what’s on hand.

Pretty soon, I’ll be posting the pictures of the newest swap: Monochromatic.

Categories: Artist Trading Cards (ATCs), Gooseberry Art and Projects

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