ATC Phone Book Paper Technique: ATC Workshop Book

3 ATCs to 2 Members, 6 ATCs total. This is an international swap. Minimum rating 4.7. No one with more than one “1� rating in their history. No newbie’s.

About this swap

This is the 10th ATC swap in this series and this time we will try the technique “Phone Book Paper� technique featured on page 34-37.

The necessary ingredients for this swap are: phone book pages, gel medium, scissors, acrylic paint, baby wipes.

I experimented with this already and feel that the glazing medium is optional—you can add a little water to the acrylic paint to get a similar effect if you are trying to avoid buying glazing medium. Also the book lists an opaque pen as optional and I agree. To finish the ATCs as in the book you can use any papers or whatever else you want to use to further decorate the phone book paper backgrounds with.

The actual theme of your ATCs is up to you as this swap is based on a basic technique for the background paper only.

General Info

We are continuing in the series of ATC swaps based on the techniques taught in Bernie Berlin’s book “Artist Trading Cards Workshop: Create, Collect, Swap� published in December 2006 by North Light Publishers.

If you didn’t do other swaps in this series, that is okay, join in on the swaps that interest you. If you already own this book perhaps you are itching to try some new techniques. Maybe you would like to see how others interpret this technique, so let’s swap ATCs with each other. And if you don’t yet own this book and you want to learn some new and interesting techniques then perhaps you’d consider buying the book and joining our swap!

Before you commit to this swap please already own the book or have access to a copy from your library. Make sure you have the necessary tools and ingredients on hand before the swap closes. It would not be fair to sign up then not make the ATCs and say “I don’t own the book or the right materials�.

Due to the nature of this book being copyrighted and the fact that the whole book is based on teaching the reader art techniques I do not feel comfortable posting the full directions of this technique online as it could very well be against the law (a copyright violation).

The book is fantastic. If you don’t yet own it, you can purchase this book online through big bookseller sites or see if your local craft store or rubber stamp store is selling it. The ISBN-10 is 1581808488 and the ISBN-13 is 139781581808483. The book was published in the United State of America. I have no idea what the availability of this book is to foreign countries, but the swap is open to International members so long as you have the book and the materials and want to participate. (Someone told me that anyone can buy online from book vendors but will just pay more in shipping fees.)

Please allow ample time to make these ATCs. I have found through my own experience that when learning a new technique and when using new materials mistakes abound and errors are bound to happen in the experimentation process. So please give yourself enough time to make these ATCs so you can send out high quality work as well as send the ATCs out by the deadline. The date to send the swap by is a rule of this swap. Please follow the rules or you may receive a rating of “3� instead of “5�.

You are free to join this swap and not join future swaps in this series. You are free to not join this one but to join other swaps in this series. You don’t have to sign up for all of them, just the ones you want to do and the ones that you have time to do!

Now that the rules are out of the way I wish you luck and fun while trying this technique. If you want to read more about this book to see what it is like, I have published a book review of it on my blog which you can read here.

http://christinemmatcs.blogspot.com/2007/05/my-book-review-artist-trading-card.html

Thanks! Have fun!