Ongoing ATC gallery & discussion for 2021

Just the other day I was looking at the bits and pieces on my craft table and I set one thing aside in case I joined the swap and had a chance to claim @roler :wink: Well I had my chance! Ha! :laughing: I have less crafting time than usual this month but I can manage an ATC or two :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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Awww that’s so sweet! Thanks so much for thinking of me! XD

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I would love to join this swap! And I have met all the requirements, BUT, I live in Sweden. And I know that the post is not always superfast. Im not sure that if I mail an ATC it will arrive in the time-frame that is set, and I just see myself posting another one, and another one… In an evil spiral of slow post. :sweat_smile:

So I was wondering are most of the people in this swap from the US, or are you from all over the world?

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This is a great swap for international friends! We’d love to have you! Mail can even be slow within USA.

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Most people are from the US because that’s where most of the people on the forum are from. But international swappers are always welcome, and we do know it takes a bit to get across the ocean, no worries! (When Jemimah joins, it’s been running about a month for things to get into New Zealand; you’re bound to do better than that.) Come play!

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@skrutt Happy Mail is also all over the world, everybody is welcome! When it only costs a stamp it’s not too hard to send far, far away :).

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Join! It’s always fun to have new people. :tada:

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Received my last card from the May swap today. kait1371 chose my Canada theme, and made me a maple tree with a moose crossing sign. I think this is the first card in my (quite large) collection made with oil paints. Cool!

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From @bluebird for my sunrise theme! Beautiful colors!

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I love all these ATCs! The creativity is outstanding!

I wanted to share my latest ATC, which is also an alerted playing card. I call it Love 479.

I decided to add a word phrase as a focal element after doing all the background layers without a direction/final design in mind. I grabbed the closest book, which was “The Prophet,” by Kahlil Gibran, and limited myself to words on pages 4, 7, and 9 because of the rub-on numbers I used. The numbers were chosen at random.

I really enjoy what my brain came up with… can it be an ATC if you don’t trade it? Asking for a friend. 🥸 hehe

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Cool!

I got a map from @megwell of a ridiculous construction detour route near her house:

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Crazy detour!!!

From L2L fir sea life
Created from a master board. Very cool!!


Thank you!

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Bonus: Upside-down, it’s one of the coolest things I’ve ever drawn.


Seriously, I couldn’t draw a head like that if I wanted to.

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I received two ver different and very cool atcs today!

First up, with special help by the talented @storerboughtcreation, an Operation Use Up Yarn atc from @roler! I love the sea turtle card and matching postal stamp, too!

(Not too bulky at all!)

Next up, from the talented @curiousfae, “Dandy Bird,” inspired by anthropomorphic birds on tumblr by maimido

Kelli- he reminds me of the turkey vulture watercolor atc I almost sent you.

Thank you both so much!

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That dandy bird is very cool! And the yarn ATC is clever. I like the border- kind of ties it all together.

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Love the dandy bird and the detour- that’s ridiculous! And I love stashbusting in creative ways like that yarn ATC. :grin:

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From @Lynx for my trivia theme:

Q [on the back]: What is a ferrule?

Thanks, Laura!

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So many fantastic ATCs! That dandy bird in particular is just making me grin so hard! …May have to add anthropomorphic animals to my list… :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Meanwhile, I finally started working on one of the goals I set myself for this year, which was to make one ATC for MYSELF for each of the topics on my list. So here’s the card I made myself for my “medieval bestiary” theme:

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That’s a really cool card, and fun idea to make yourself atcs.

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This is an excellent goal! (and one I keep vaguely thinking of doing also, and then not cough getting around to…)

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