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ATC Glass-Like Resin Technique: ATC Workshop Book

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Swap Coordinator:ChristineMM (contact)
Swap categories: Challenges  Art  Artist Trading Card (ATC) 
Number of people in swap:8
Location:Other
Type:None
Last day to signup/drop:October 5, 2007
Date items must be sent by:October 26, 2007
Number of swap partners:2
Description:

3 ATCs to 2 Members, 6 ATCs total. This is an international swap. Minimum rating 4.7. No one with more than one “1� rating in their history. No newbie’s.

About this swap

This is the 8th ATC swap in this series and this time we will try the technique “Glass-Like Resin� technique featured on page 56-57. The necessary ingredients for this swap are: clear embossing pad, clear ultra-thick embossing powder (“UTEE�), heat gun, brush, acrylic paint, rubber stamp.

General Info

We are continuing in the 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.

If you didn’t do other swaps in this series, that is okay, join in on the swaps that interest 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.

You are free to join this swap and not join future swaps in this series. You are free to not join this one but to join other swaps in this series. You don’t have to sign up for all of them, just the ones you want to do and the ones that you have time to do!

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 to see what it is like, 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

laury55 10/12/2007 #

christine, yours are together with the resin fresco ATCs

animalchatter 10/22/2007 #

Cards went out today from Santa Fe to 123Poggy123 and dolly...hope you enjoy! Karen

ChristineMM 10/26/2007 #

By the way when I was making my ATCs last week I noticed that the directions say to do one thing but most of the examples in the photos don't do that technique. There were plenty of examples in the book of some that just had the resin on the top to make it glass like with a collage underneath or other rubber stamped design underneath.

I had a hard time with the technique to push the rubber stamp into the warm UTEE, ruining them in the process.

I like the effect of the resin on the top too and that is how I made mine in the end.

redwing480 10/31/2007 #

I,too, had to try it a few different ways. First I used 140lb watercolor paper which is pretty heavy and it worked but the cards wanted to curl and pieces of it were cracking off. Even the ones that stayed flat, I was afraid that they would get cracked in the mail. Then I tried it on chipboard and it worked much better. Initially, I also had problems with the UTEE not wanting to stay adhered to the acrylic background, I finally ended up using alcohol inks and pigment paints.

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