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ARTIST TRADING CARDS

Artist Trading Cards are individual art miniatures which pass hand to hand. Their current popularity among artists and hobbyists was sparked by M. Vänçi Stirnemann, who began trading sessions in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1997, and popularized ATCs via the internet.

The only standard requirement for an ATC is that its height and width measurements be 2.5" x 3.5", either portrait or landscape orientation. The sky can be the limit for every other aspect of the art.

In the world of ATCs, there is no thickness limit, either, but people customarily make them thin enough to fit inside the standard card collector pockets, sleeves or sheets.

Some people are sticklers about archival qualities, but art does not necessarily have to be "forever" so many people use whatever materials that fit their artistic needs.

It can be a little book, a small box full of treasures, an expanding accordion pleated...something, whatever you can imagine that will fold up into, or compress to, or hide behind a 2.5" x 3.5" "cover" or facade

Some of my original handmade ATC's

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