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ATC Magazine Paper ATC Workshop Book Technique

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Swap Coordinator:ChristineMM (contact)
Swap categories: Challenges  Art  Artist Trading Card (ATC) 
Number of people in swap:18
Location:Other
Type:None
Last day to signup/drop:July 27, 2007
Date items must be sent by:August 17, 2007
Number of swap partners:2
Description:

3 ATCs to 2 Members, 6 ATCs total. This is an international swap.

About This Swap This is the FOURTH ATC swap in this series and this time we will try the technique “Magazine Paper� featured on page 24-25. The necessary ingredients for this swap are: magazine paper, gel medium, scissors. Various ways to color the images are: paint, dye ink pads, black marker and opaque pens (you choose what you want to use).

Who Can Join Now the rules for who can join. Due to problems with “flakers� on Swap-bot I have tightened my hosting requirements which as resulted in a very high compliance rate (hooray). I will not accept newbies to Swap-bot (sorry)---you must have at least three ratings in your file to join--there are many ATC swaps for newbies that you can join in order to get rated by your swap partners. A person can have no more than one “no sends� on their file. The minimum rating is 4.7. As host I also can choose to ban anyone for any other reason that I see fit, that is my right.

General Info About This Swap Series I am starting a series of ATC swaps based on the techniques taught in Bernie Berlin’s book “Artist Trading Cards Workshop: Create, Collect, Swap published in December 2006 by North Light Publishers. I submitted this idea to the forums here on Swap-bot and there has been interest expressed so here is another swap in this series. You may join one or all of the swaps in this series, it is up to you.

If you already own this book perhaps you are itching to try some new techniques. Maybe you would like to see how others interpret this technique, so let’s swap ATCs with each other. And if you don’t yet own this book and you want to learn some new and interesting techniques then perhaps you’d consider buying the book and joining our swap!

Before you commit to this swap please already own the book or have access to a copy from your library. Make sure you have the necessary tools and ingredients on hand before the swap closes. It would not be fair to sign up then not make the ATCs and say “I don’t own the book or the right materials�.

Due to the nature of this book being copyrighted and the fact that the whole book is based on teaching the reader art techniques I do not feel comfortable posting the full directions of this technique online as it could very well be against the law (a copyright violation).

The book is fantastic. If you don’t yet own it, you can purchase this book online through big bookseller sites or see if your local craft store or rubber stamp store is selling it. The ISBN-10 is 1581808488 and the ISBN-13 is 139781581808483. The book was published in the United State of America. I have no idea what the availability of this book is to foreign countries, but the swap is open to International members so long as you have the book and the materials and want to participate. (Someone told me that anyone can buy online from book vendors but will just pay more in shipping fees.)

Please allow ample time to make these ATCs. I have found through my own experience that when learning a new technique and when using new materials mistakes abound and errors are bound to happen in the experimentation process. So please give yourself enough time to make these ATCs so you can send out high quality work as well as send the ATCs out by the deadline.

The date to send the swap by is a rule of this swap. Please follow the rules.

Now that the rules are out of the way I wish you luck and fun while trying this technique. If you want to read more about this book I have published a book review of it on my blog which you can read here.

http://christinemmatcs.blogspot.com/2007/05/my-book-review-artist-trading-card.html

Thanks! Have fun!

Discussion

ChristineMM 07/ 4/2007 #

I spaced out the dates to sign up and to send by due to summer busy-ness.

alteredtome 07/ 6/2007 #

ChristineMM,

I just bought this book today. It is so neat. I have made hundreds of ATCs so am always looking for new ideas. This book is full of things I have never tried. Thanks for hosting these swaps!

Chris

lvpoohbr2 07/ 7/2007 #

I'm bummed that I missed the first few swaps. I had seen them posted and didn't realize that the atc book I had was the one you were using. :( I won't miss any of the future ones now. Thanks for giving me an excuse to put this book to good use. Ü

Moominbrooke 07/17/2007 #

This has been a great series, and I always look forward to the next installment. I've made tons of backgrounds for later use with the first few techniques.

ChristineMM 07/21/2007 #

I hope everyone is having fun making the ATCs for this swap. I grabbed some free magazines at the library and they will be my source material.

ChristineMM 07/29/2007 #

I am trying to clarify something with one swapper who signed up in order to decide whether to ban her or not. I am ready to assign partners other than this one thing. So just hang in there please for a little bit. If I don't hear from her by tomorrow morning I told her I'll ban her and then assign the partners at that time. I do realize it is time for me to assign the partners.

In the meantime go ahead and make your ATCs and have fun! :)

ChristineMM 07/29/2007 #

Partners have been assigned. Happy swapping everyone!

BetsyG 07/31/2007 #

Nicole Introvert and silverfishstudio - your cards are in the mail. Let me know when you get them. ChristineMM - this one was very challenging for me. At least I can say I tried it, although I doubt that I will try it again. Oh well, off to the next one now!

vintagepix 08/ 2/2007 #

I received a great set of card today from Altered Tome! How did you know that we had a gassy kitty in our household? :D

heehee, Carolyn

vintagepix 08/ 3/2007 #

I've posted my cards for this swap on Flickr, but if ChristineMM and Felicia Artistic prefer surprises, don't peek! Right now the ATCs for this swap are the first photos in my swap-bot set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vintagepix/sets/72157600780888674/

I had a lot of fun with my magazine collages!

laury55 08/ 9/2007 #

posted mine today to Carolyn & Christine...I hope they'll arrive shortly, if they don't, be patient as I live abroad

user4831 08/12/2007 #

Dorothy and Janet your cards are ready to go!!!!Carolyn

vintagepix 08/14/2007 #

I received my cards today from laury55 - great magazine collages! Thanks!

ChristineMM 08/14/2007 #

Artistic and DenimDrifters your ATCs went out this morning. I hope you enjoy them.

ChristineMM 08/14/2007 #

Laury55 your ATCs are fantastic. They arrived safe and sound. I really love these, great job!

FarStarr 08/15/2007 #

Cards are on their way to Reb and Poggy123....

Artistic 08/16/2007 #

My ATCs went out today to my partners. Enjoy!

F.

ChristineMM 09/ 6/2007 #

Two things from your hostess:

  1. Please take the time to rate the swappers who sent you ATCs. (Some of my recipients are not rating me so I know some of you are not doing ratings.)

  2. If anyone was flaked upon for this swap please PM me with the person's name. I want to ban anyone from my future swaps who flakes on past swaps of mine.

Thanks.

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