ATCs
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Monsters One and All ATC Swap
Here are the cards I received from the Monsters One and All Swap on ATCsforALL. The swap was to draw a monster and he could be whimsical, scary, etc. I received these at the end of April but completely forgot to post them.
“Hubert”
by Cindy D.
“Monster 3”
by Gena G.
by Sharon D. Below are the 3 monsters I created for the swap and a host card.
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Queen of Hearts Swap
Yesterday I received my cards from the Queen of Hearts Swap. This was a mixed media swap. The swap was to create three cards following a template that combined created the figure of the queen. There also had to be a heart on each card, the clothes had to be red and we had to use at least three techniques. This swap was a lot of fun.
Here are the awesome cards I received.
The head was created by Tracy,
the body was created by Monica
and the legs were created by Mary.Here are the cards I created for the swap. This time I didn’t make the host card. My husband thought it was neat creating cards that together created a figure so he asked to make the host card.
These are the cards I created. 
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Oh the Horror ATC Swap
Today I received my cards from Oh the Horror ATC Swap. This was my first swap on AtcsforAll. The swap was to create three cards inspired by a character or scene from a horror movie. They had to be hand drawn or hand painted. This swap was a lot of fun. I will definitely be participating in more.
Here are the awesome cards I received.
“Horror Express” by Evangeline D. 
“The Silence of the Lambs” by Michael K. 
“The Shining” by Judy P. Here are the cards I created for the swap. I made four cards so that the host could get one as a thank you for hosting the swap.
“Freddy Kruegar from Nightmare on Elm Street” 
“Kayako from The Grudge” 
“Ghostface from Scream” 
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My First Artist Trading Cards
As some of you know I love to collect postcards. A couple of years ago I joined postcrossing. Its a lot of fun receiving and swapping postcards with people from around the world. After a few months I wanted to try to create my own postcards to send out but was discouraged by the fact that even though people are not supposed to be picky about the postcards they get many people make lists on their profiles of the cards they do not want to receive and many of those listed that they did not want handmade cards. After a while I decided to do some anyway and did a few zentangle postcards but only mailed them out to family and when on the rare occasion I came across someone on postcrossing who didn’t mind handmade postcards.
So your probably wondering what the heck does this have to do with Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) and what the heck are Artist Trading Cards? Well after I was discouraged I did several searches for creative/art swaps and one of the things I came across was ATCs. ATCs are small works of art that measure 21⁄2 by 31⁄2 inches which is the size of baseball trading cards. They are created by artists and traded for other artist’s ATCs. It sounded interesting but I only came across yahoo swaps. I really wanted something more official. I planned to look further into it but then life got in the way as it always does and I just placed ATCs on a long list of things I wished to do someday.
Then towards the end of last year I came across Rhonda Chase‘s Creature Cards kickstarter. After the kickstarter ended Rhonda and I would email each other from time to time. I told her how I had wanted to create and collect ATCs for a while and that she was the first in my collection. She mentioned a few places I could look into swapping for ATCs. One of them was ATCsforAll. I looked into it and decided to join. Before I could start swapping I wanted to create a few ATCs so that I could have some ready to trade immediately. I created some zentangle inspired ones and some splotch monsters which were inspired by Rhonda.
I’ve created a few albums to post images of the ATCs I create and receive.
ATCs Available for Trade
ATCs Traded
My ATC CollectionHere are a few pictures of the ATCs I created. Though you can view each one individually in the albums listed above.
The first few ATCs I created. 
Splotch Monsters ATCs inspired by Rhonda. 
More splotch monsters ATCs inspired by Rhonda.
My husband created the splotches and I created the monsters.