Colorful Southwest Swap! | Due June 20

EraserQueen

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Swap Due Date – In My Hands June 20th
Signup/withdraw date – I don’t care.
Number of Cards - 3 for 3 or 6 for 6
Number of participants: 40 (you may join a waiting list if the participant list is full!)


Colorful Southwest Swap!
Any media welcome! (see details below)

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I have never visited the southwest of the USA, but I Love looking at pictures and learning about the Indian cultures native to the area! The landscape, animals and people (not to mention the food, clothing, buildings and decorative items) all lend themselves to brilliant colors, vivid oranges, bright blues, intense reds, brilliant purples, sunny dazzling yellows, pinks, greens…I could go on and on..

Create 3 or 6 cards featuring southwest themes and make them colorful! Inspiration links are below! PLEASE LOOK AT THEM :D to get an idea of the color and theme of this swap! There are some great artists there:

VERY colorful Southwest artwork! Poeple/landscapes/etc. http://www.tuotiart.com/southwest-art-decor.htm

Great example of the color aspect of this swap! https://www.nietofineart.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=21_30&osCsid=e7ff8f8c3c83b5725c20d6bab0a14425

Beautiful southwest buildings and landscapes (These types of buildings would look good as cut paper collage!) http://www.dreamgraphicsaz.com/page4.htm

Great Kokopelli imagery and other art: http://www.14ushop.com/lazart/southweststyle.html

Great plant life: http://www.steinsouthwestart.com/Original%20Oils.htm

Pretty Horsie XD http://marciabaldwin.artspan.com/large-view/ABSTRACTS/115667-3-0-733/Painting/Abstract.html

Nice figures: http://www.ruthstarr.com/Art_Gallery/Images/SoWestWomen.jpg



OMG You must read the following! Some of you don’t and when you mail your cards, I can tell you didn’t ;) Pleas do not use too much tape, remember to add my address to your SASE and send an extra stamp to help with internationals. Please read the swap guidelines it only takes a few minutes. Thank you.


Requirements and Specs:


Cards Due: In My Hands June 20th

Cards: 3 for 3 OR 6 for 6

If your cards exhibit extreme lack of intention or poor workmanship, and there are no other cards with witch to swap them out of equal creation, I will return them to you using the SASE provided! Send what you would like to receive! (For insecure artists: if you’re insecure about you art, you’re doing something right LOL, honestly: if YOU like it, we will too!)

Please read these threads if you have not, to ensure your trading success!

ATC 101: How to Make an Artist Trading Card

HOW TO: Pack & Mail your Cards for Swaps


Media and Card Specs:


  • Cards are welcome in ANY medium! Fabric, papers, paints, go for it. I ENCOURAGE layers! Don’t slap on a photo of a cactus plant from a travel magazine and call it an ATC

  • (No digital ONLY (meaning, please add other media to your digital card!) and NO photocopies). Each card needs unique hand-added-additions.
  • Limit embellishments to THIN only, please.

  • Nothing bulky or heavy or your cards will be returned to you at your own expense: this isn’t a chunky ATC swap *hug*

  • Put your USERNAME on the backs of your cards (to make sure the other artist's know whose work they received and so I don't give you your OWN cards back!)

  • Please put clear plastic sleeves on your cards!

  • DO NOT tape the daylight out of your cards! A single strip of that cloudy scotch tape will be sufficient! Pleas fold the ends to create a little tab so I can easily remove it. Don’t make me eat your cards in frustration LOL.





SENDING INFO:


  • US players Send a SASE (Self Addressed, STAMPED envelope) please, with 44 cents on the envie, please. Send a 17 cent stamp if you send me six cards!

  • ALSO, each U.S. participant is requested to send one Loose stamp (44 cents or more) to help cover international returns. This is a swap method I employ, in order not to limit international players. We are having an economic crisis right now, so if you seriously don’t have an extra, I will spare you my teddy bear wrath, but really, it’s less than 50 cents!

  • International participants must send a self-stick label and I will cover postage and envelope. An extra ATC (in this theme only please lol) is nice, but not required. PLEASE send US postage or a dollar bill instead if you have it!

  • Put your USERNAME on your return envelope please! (the back flap is perfect!) Your SASE MUST HAVE my Address written in the Upper Left Corner!! My PO NEEDS a return address, and if I have to write my address a thousand times, I will get really cranky, my hand writing will get bad and if there is a problem, your returns won’t come back to me and will be lost forever.

  • Players - when you receive your cards for the swap, remember to leave iTrader for the Host (me) and Rep Points for the people you received cards from! The Mods spend a lot of time correcting iTraders that should have been Rep Points.

Participants:

Eraserqueen

1) katilady
2) hokeycokey
3)artofmagi
4) WyvernSian
5)Gee
6)Topdecker
7) Nancy
8) Acacia.rose
9)RoOskie ???
10)kstyles
11) stlbarb
12) Patti
13) spineofafish
14) Bright-Spark
15) okwiccan
16)tsfiberart
17)novasmem
18)terryart
19)tutglenna
20) camcas
21)ptrish42
22) Joni Owens
23) trini70
24) Tags
25) NEW Sunswirlgirl
26) LindyLu
27)colours ???
28) schaefme
29) LadyWatersnake
30) Spiced Coffe
31) stichinwitch
32) aznfg???
33) Lois ???
34) Blackstar
35) bluelotusflower
36) RhondaCat64
37) eileen
38) Ethereal_sheep
39)DADAology
40) FireRaven
 
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OMG those cards are so cute!!! Ok, I'm convinced. Sign me up :)
 
yay! WyvernSian, you caved! LOL And Thank you SO MUCH for the compliment :)

Welcome also to gee and Topdecker! :jiggy:
 
This looks so tempting, but I have been trying to not join any swaps right now as I have too much jewelry to make. I will keep an eye on it and might be back.
 
after seeing your cards, I soooooooooooo want to participate! But I better not :/ Maybe one of these days I'll see if I can come up with some in any spare time I can find... but yeah, I really need to stop signing up for stuff! LOVE LOVE LOVE your cards for this, EQ!
 
EQ -

Thought I had best run this by you...

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Black paper on a COLORFUL swap is pretty thick-headed.

I am hardly objective about it; if it doesn't have enough color saturation / eye candy, let me know and I will move on to something more traditional.

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