82 Cards ATC Challenge

82CC: Creature Feature ATCs

December 11, 2011

It’s been a while since we had an 82 Card Challenge update.  These are some we’re working on right now. They look like blobs, don’t they? Back in August or so, the Artist took the amazing Carla Sonheim’s equally-amazing Imaginary Creatures online class.  (Which is fabulous, by the way, and if you get a chance to [...]

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On Edible Ink and Making Stuff

February 4, 2011

Before we begin today, the artist would like to make a public service announcement. Someone found the Wishkeepers site today by searching for “will ingested papermate pen ink kill you?”.  And while we applaud this fellow creative’s…uh…creativity, we feel we should mention that no, papermate ink probably won’t kill you.  However, we also don’t think [...]

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82 Card ATC Challenge #002 – Time

February 2, 2011
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We’re a little pressed for time this morning, but wanted to remind you that the daily creative prompt is over there in the sidebar, perfect for artists, art journallers, orcreative souls to play with today.  (And since the Artist has no REAL apples in the house, the green apple timer got picked up for this [...]

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82 Cards ATC Challenge: It Begins

February 1, 2011

We admit it.  We were a bit excited about the start of the 82 Card ATC Challenge.  The Artist wasn’t going to stay up late last night, burning the midnight oil and painting little cards with gesso, but, well, uh… It’ll probably be another couple of days before there’s another card from here, but we [...]

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Some Artists’ Trading Cards Q&A: Materials and Supplies

January 28, 2011
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Since yesterday, when we talked a little about the upcoming ATC CHALLENGE, there have been a couple questions that we’ve been hearing repeatedly.  So rather than answer them in the comments (or elsewhere), the monsters decided to just lay it all out there here, since you might have the same questions. TRADES? ATCs, for our [...]

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ATC Challenge: 82 Cards, Anything Goes

January 27, 2011
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In a fit of Must Have It-itis once, the Artist picked up several boxes of papers at a local store.  Fabriano papers are pretty exciting, you have to admit, and when the boxes of cold-press watercolor cards went on sale…well, it was like a siren song that nobody could resist. Several years (and several moves) [...]

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