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ATC Made of Metal **Revised ☺**

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ATC Made of Metal **Revised ☺**
Group:ATC addicts club
Swap Coordinator:ARTG33K74 (contact)
Swap categories: Artist Trading Card (ATC) 
Number of people in swap:5
Location:International
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Last day to signup/drop:March 22, 2013
Date items must be sent by:March 29, 2013
Number of swap partners:1
Description:

Round 1, March 2013.

This is a chance to work with METAL! (Guitar solo.) Actually, it is really easy to work with metal using metal repair tape. Feel free to add other metal components to a metal repair tape base.

You will send out 1 ATC to 1 person. The ATC must be a standard size of 2.5" x 3.5".

Have are steps and tips. I started off with ideas from Bernie Berlin:

Metal Artist Trading Cards

â–º Please read the complete instructions & tips linked to above.

â–º Paper the back side so it looks finished. Please sign and date your work.

â–º Include your screen name, the name of the swap and the round number in the envelope when you mail it.

â–º I will angel any flakes after you give them a 1 rating. Please communicate first as a card may be lost in the mail.

â–º Please message me with any problems with partners or any technical problems.

This is really fun. You can put metal tape accents on many art objects. A small roll cost me $5. I'm moving into some metal inchies and twinchies now.

Update 3/5/2013: If you want to use aluminum foil or another workable metal, please do! The heavier / thicker aluminum foil comes out better. ☺ The metal tape is really nice since it is sticky on the back, you can peel away the paper and stick it on a core. (I use cut blanks from cereal boxes.) Maybe use E6000 or other strong multipurpose glue to make a piece of foil or metal sheeting stay on its card.

Kimberly Butts (work shown above) wrote an article on metal ATCs in Art Trader Magazine which you can read online for free here in Issue #8.

She advised me:

"I buy 38 gauge tooling foil from Dick Blick. It's the cheaper aluminum (two toned) foil that comes in a roll 12" X 25 feet for about $21. This particular product is always silver on one side and either gold, copper or brass toned on the other side.

If you want other colors you can find them at Ten Seconds Studio online. They have teal, mocha, etc. and I think they come in 12 inch square sheets. They are more expensive per square foot that the one from Blick of course."

Discussion

dobie256 02/22/2013 #

Hope this link works.

Metal Artist Trading Cards Hope this link works.

Nice tutorial. I have made several ATCs using flashing tape. I will try to have time to join this one!

ARTG33K74 02/22/2013 #

LOL that is typing when NOT AWAKE 8) Sorry! Link is good now in description of the swap.

ARTG33K74 03/ 5/2013 #

Sorry about the revision 3/5/2013 - I had a great question on using foil and another artist also directed me to her article on metal ATCs. Kimberly Butts also sells workable ATC metal blanks for $1.00 each plus shipping in her Etsy shop if you wish to try these.

dobie256 03/ 5/2013 #

I made ATCs out of flashing tape, embossing folders, and alcohol inks last year and they turned out great. For this swap I did a free hand design on flashing tape which I will color with alcohol inks. I also took a heavy metal base and ran it through and embossing folder and then made a tiny foil embellishment for it using the foil off the top of a yogurt container. There are lots of types of foils and tapes and metals that will work well for this project.The two-toned tooling foil from Blicks sounds great. I'll have to check that out!

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