Early in 2007, Marge had a brainchild and asked some of her online friends if they’d be interested in an ATC Swap. “You don’t have to be Picasso to do this,” she cajoled, “and the smaller size of the cards make it not so intimidating as having to create something on a bigger scale.” Marge received a bigger response than she expected and the group has continued exchanging cards each month since March. In July 2007, Betsy agreed to come on as Assistant and has helped keep the project going with her awesome organizational skills.

Each month brings more artists to the swap and those creative cards fill our mailboxes (so much nicer than bills!)

This website is an online gallery of the cards that have been exchanged since Round 1 in March 2007.

What You Can Expect

1. An “Artist Trading Card” is a miniature art piece made on 2½ x 3½ pieces of card stock. These are the same size as a baseball trading card.
2. Each artist designs their own card from any art medium they choose such as stamping, painting, photography, stencils, magazine picture collage or anything that your imagination dreams up.
3. On the back of the card is the name of the “round,” date and the name of the artist as well as where they are from and they can be numbered if you wish.
4. The cards are traded among other artists and never sold.
5. Each month you will be sent a mailing address list of other artists that you will send a card to. If there are 10 people in the swap you will make 9 cards to send to each other name on the list and they in turn will send you a card so that at the end of the “round” you will have 9 beautiful cards from various artists.
6. Each round has a given theme to create your card around.
7. Each month has a deadline as to when you will need to send your cards out to the people on your list. The mailing deadline will always be the last Monday of the month but you can send them when you have them finished; there is no need to wait for the deadline day. We just don’t want them sent any later than that day.
8. Your cards can be all the same, similar in design or each one completely different from the others.