ATCs: Halloween Bird and a Good Boy.
UPDATE -- The Halloween ATC was one of the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Winners! Thanks to the SSS Design Team! Happy weekend, everyone! I hope you are enjoying it - they never last long enough. Today, I am sharing two ATCs for a swap. If you are new to Artist Trading Cards (ATCs), these are little works of art that are 2.5x3.5 inches. Basically, they are the size of a baseball card or a poker card. The themes for these were based on the profiles for two different people. One person liked blackbirds and Halloween, and the other liked the color turquoise and the Tim Holtz crazy dogs. These are the cards I came up with: I started both of these cards the same way: I glued bookpages from an old book to Canson watercolor paper. When it was dry, I lightly brushed gesso over the bookpage to push it to the background a bit. I don't want to cover up the page completely, and you can still see the text peeking through. On...