I always enjoy carving stamps. After making mostly smaller stamps from rubber lino, I decided to make two that more or less fit the ATC format. The tree is a little smaller, but I think it’s still nice. I made a whole batch of cards from each design, so I can put them into the ATC Zine as a little goodie. People were delighted to find a card in the zine.
Category: atc
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Bear ATC 08/2026
A while back I rediscovered ATC cards. Not only by making a whole zine about them, but also in their traditional sense: by trading with other artists. Bearina agreed on a trade, and I painted a cute bear for her. It’s been ages since I made a card, and it took me a long time to get back into the groove. I still had some bamboo watercolor paper lying around, and I wanted to give it a go. I also experimented a little with the shading. I think this card turned out really nice, and I was glad that Bearina enjoys it as well. 🙂
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ATC Zine 07/2026
I admit that it’s been a while since I last made an ATC, or artist trading card. But since I have been making those since they came up in the early 2000s, I decided to make a small zine about them. This time I kept it completely black and white and used normal copy paper for the print. The drawings are made with my trusted pilot falcon fountain pen.
Zine details:
- format: A6
- page count: 16
- issues printed: 10 (for now)
- paper: 120 g/ms Xerox copy paper
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