Artist trading cards (ATC) provide the perfect size for a miniature collage. One could think that creating a small ATC would take much less time than making a standard sized card, but often that's not the case for me. When there isn't too much space to play around I tend to spend more time on the card design and on selecting just the right elements for my project; the card must not get too busy but then again it should not be too simplified, empty nor boring.
When I have collected the elements for my collage project I may realize that I'm not able fit all the planned fun things on a single ATC. The solution is to create a series of ATC's, in which the cards are connected to the ATC set by a common theme, technique and/or colour palette.
When creating these musical ATC's I first stamped and heat embossed the B&W main images. The images were too big to fit on one or even two cards so I made three backgrounds with Distress paints. I decorated the backgrounds with white acrylic paint dots and stamped music patterns, and before gluing down the main images I attached the colourful backgrounds on white ATC card bases (size 2,5"x3,5").
I really like my ATC trio! The cards are similar but yet unique :)
Here are pictures of the Visible Image products I used (click on the pictures for more info):
Wishing you a wonderful week!
Hi Elina. Creating a trio of ATC's is a brilliant idea!!! They look fab.
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Thank you Dot! <3
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