Trading Card Treasures by Carol Heppner
Martingale/Chapelle
Carol Heppner, a writer and mixed-media artist has, authored a new book that was released in September 2008 titled Trading Card Treasures: Sharing Cherished Photographs. This new book is published by Martingale & Company (www.martingale-pub.com), and is available in national book and craft stores, as well as Internet warehouses such as Amazon.com.
Trading Card Treasures shows you how to integrate cherished photographs into spectacular cards that encapsulate special moments in life. Photograph trading cards are an infusion of photographs and paper arts techniques, including scrapbooking. The photographs can range from fun, family events to portraits, where the photograph subject is the focus of the trading card. Carol shares her superb knowledge of mixed-media craft techniques and photography to bring both worlds together. The “trading” in trading card comes from the popularity of exchanging personal keepsakes, whereby friends and family share cards that can be prominently displayed, added to a scrapbook, or presented as a gift. For artists that enjoy making artist trading cards, they will be thrilled to see the new techniques applied by Carol to advance the practice into the modern digital photography era.
You will learn about creating a basic photograph trading card, including tips to make the photography outstanding. Chapters include basic photograph trading cards, bifold and trifold cards, and card holders. Moreover, Carol includes a full chapter “beyond paper”, where the reader learns how to make photograph trading cards that incorporate metal and acrylic, found at craft stores, into unbelievable works of art when combined with paper. Carol provides her expertise on using ink with metal step flashing, polymer clay, and other materials that transform cards into extraordinary pieces of artwork – with the photograph the main focus. Dozens of sample projects in the book explore different compositions and layouts. The reader will learn how to make trifold cards, for example, that capture an entire day at the zoo in a sequence of photographs, which tells more of the story than a single photograph. The goal of each trading card is to capture memories, people, and places in time. After reading this book, the reader's cards and photographs will never be the same.
There many crafting tips throughout the book as well. It's a great book for your crafting library.
Chapters include:
Basic Photograph Trading Cards
Bifold & Trifold Photograph Trading Cards
Beyond Paper (fabric, acrylic, aluminum, embossed metal and more)
Photograph Trading Card Holders
Patterns
You can create the cards in the traditional ATC size, or enlagre them to create greeting cards.
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