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Year of Your Birth ATC

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Year of Your Birth ATC
Swap Coordinator:vagabondindigo (contact)
Swap categories: Challenges  Themed  Artist Trading Card (ATC) 
Number of people in swap:8
Location:International
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Rating requirement:4.50 (unrated swappers allowed)
Last day to signup/drop:September 30, 2011
Date items must be sent by:October 7, 2011
Number of swap partners:2
Description:

The other day I was thinking about all the things that happened in 1975, the year I was born, that are rather amazing to me now. Born To Run by the Boss was released, NASA sent Viking I to Mars, Patty Hurst was captured, the Watergate conspirators were sentenced, Jaws was released to the terror of thousands, and Saturday Night Live started! It was snowing in Alaska on my birthday, and I swear I have loved cats from first look!

This is an ATC about the year you were born OR the year your partners were born. You will have a week from the sign-up to the send date if you want to ask your swap partner for thier birth year. This is a SENDER'S CHOICE, just meet the requirements. It needs to be something about what happened in that year of birth. You can be like me in the example and pick many things, or just one. Use YOUR interpretation, this is an ARTIST trading card.

Make sure your cards are the standard 3.5 x 2.5 inches, and try to put your best effort into the cards you send. You can draw, collage, paint, mixed media and even stitch your cards. Anything goes but please don't slap a sticker on it or use a single digital image and call it an ATC. Use your imagination!

On the back of each card include the artist name (your name or your swap-bot name, its up to you), title of the card and the date. Please include a note to your partners of what imagery you chose and why, so it all makes sense. We can all learn something interesting!

You'll have 2 partner's that you'll send 1 ATC each to. This is an international swap because I am fascinated by what cultural milestones we will see from all corners of the globe!

Newbies are welcome, I have been a newbie myself, but please have a rating above 4.5 if you are not! I reserve the right to ban anyone prior to assigning partners if I see unexplained 1's or 3's in profiles. I will angel if needed, please let me know if there are any issues! Please have a completely filled out profile and don't forget to rate your partners when you receive their ATC.

I would love for as many of you as possible to post pictures of your creations and/or what you receive. It would be very neat to see everyone's interpretation of this theme. Happy Swapping!

Discussion

Mistyinltown 09/15/2011 #

What a great idea! Love it!

MSturgill87 09/15/2011 #

LOVE this idea! I'll most likely join, I'm watching now to make sure I have time to really put thought & work into the ATCs :-)

vagabondindigo 09/15/2011 #

Thanks y'all, I am looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with :). Had not yet seen this idea in here, so thought I would give it a try.

Cosima 09/16/2011 #

Hello vagabondindigo, I don't understand if we make atcs with the year of birth of our partners or of our year of birth??? Or can we as senders select which year we take?

vagabondindigo 09/16/2011 #

@Cosima - you can choose. If you want to wait til you get your partner and ask, go for it. It would make an excellent extra step, as I would imagine most of us would like to see what others find interesting and artistically beautiful about our own birth year. :) however, if like me, you like to take a lot of time and get swaps completed prior to the sign up deadline, use your own year. Maybe thats the one you are most familiar with. Sender's Choice!

Cosima 09/16/2011 #

@vagabondindigo thank you for your answer. It is now clear to me.

Ladykisa 09/27/2011 #

Wow. I thought: How interesting! And started checking out what happened at the year of my birth. Zilch of interest. Sure, plenty of accidents and even some states being founded but...nothing that is memorable. Grrrrr. I guess I'm sitting out on this one :D

melimar 10/ 3/2011 #

I actually decided to do something interesting tho not very cheerful.. still counts right?

sweetred35 10/ 4/2011 #

What I decided to do is research the year of my partners birth and so many events come up. If google, it will give you a run down of everything from January to December. Hope this help!

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