I sent the Artist Trading Card at the bottom of the page earlier in April. I started with an idea from an ATC that I sent several years ago (top ATC) and also included an ATC (middle with carved sun) even more years ago. Since I didn’t make a duplicate of the bottom ATC, I decided to take a photocopy and document what I did on this page.
Washi tape, gelli prints, die cuts, ribbon and quilling paper.
I recently became aware of something called a pocket letter, which is an ATC page protector stuffed with stuff. I’ve joined two Facebook groups which exchange and display them. This is the first one that I’ve done: a combination of die cuts, artist trading cards, and ephemera.
I made three Artist Trading Cards for this series. To protect the ATC in the mails, I made the frame card on the right. The theme for this mingle was flowers. All swaps at OSA require at least one stamped image. I used this poppy flower image from Hero Arts.
Pearl Filling with Tallies (Line Weaving Forum), Escalator, XYP, Zopetto patterns. The line weaving mojo challenge is from Line Weaving Community Forums.
Patterns: Spider, Tangleflake, Moocha, Stacked Cones.
In high school, I remember using brightly colored covers to protect the school provided text books. Occasionally, I would use a brown paper bag instead. I am now keeping a bullet journal, and found the soft floppy black cover to be both drab and annoying. Using a Trader Joe’s bag and some coordinating washi tape, I made a cover for it.
Ready to go for the Index Card A Day 2015 Challenge: I found this index card box the other day and it now contains my 2013 ICAD cards and some blank index cards. I wasn’t able to participate last year and am looking forward to it this year. The card in front of the box is my first card from 2013.