Sketch and completed ATC with a Christmas theme ( watercolour and ink) - copyright Wilma Simmons The current craze of card collecting amongst the youngest members of the family is the World Explorer cards from a supermarket giant. I am not promoting this, but there is little wonder that curious kids would want to collect this series of cards. I was thinking about card collecting yesterday, when my doll making group, Gumnut Dollies Newcastle made some Artist Trading Cards (ATC) for a Christmas swap with a group in Queensland. If you haven't heard of an ATC before , here is a Wiki explanation: Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) is a conceptual art project initiated by the Swiss artist M. Vänçi Stirnemann in 1997. He called it a Collaborative Cultural Performance . Artist Trading Cards are 2 1 ⁄ 2 by 3 1 ⁄ 2 inches (64 mm × 89 mm) in size, the same for...
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