The exhibit took place for the SAFTH International ACEO Art Exhibit. The exhibit took place in April 2012 and benefits non-profit children’s cahrities. Learn more by visiting SAFTH.com.

These art cards were created using layers of tissue paper, glitter and only glue. Sherri says “the camera did not pick up the true colors.”

You can find many more great ideas for displaying ACEO and art cards in your home at  Corey Brown’s hub on hubpages; How to Display ACEO and Art Cards.

Don’t forget to visit ACEO and ART CARD BLOGGER to check out the gallery and hot artists in the field of ACEO and artcards!

Club ACEO Addict is a club on Deviantart.com intended for the serious and not so serious ACEO artist.  There is a member gallery on the site, a forum and a monthly theme for ACEO. The site is currently looking for someone with an extra hour or two each week to help maintain the site. For more information visit ACEO-Addict on Deviant Art.

If you join Devian Art, you can create your own ACEO group. The possibilities are awesome on this site.

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I have received a request to follow up on the debate between Art Cards and ACEO. The debate lies in how these cards are collected. ATC enthusiasts only trade their cards while artists who produce cards for monetary benefits sell them as ACEO. Production of these cards is similar: both meet a guideline of being produced on a 2.5″ x 3.5″ format. The measurement standard was taken from the same standard that trading cards, like baseball cards, use.

The website www.artcardist.com was created in order to bring both forms of the card together. Since conception of the idea to create Artcardist.com in 2009, neither ATC artists nor ACEO artists have really come together in any real terms to merge the two together. However, and I find this to be quite ironic, it is not unheard of for ATC artists to produce ACEO for the benefits of selling and ACEO artists can participate in an ATC trade. The most noticeable difference is the blending of terms. ACEO when used as a search term will bring you to information on ATC while ATC used as a term in a search engine mostly brings up art card trading results or results for Air Traffic Controller.  Try google searching both terms and click image results. See what you come up with!

It is my experience that in two years the term ACEO is used more often to describe an art card. Possibly this is due to the fact that the ACEO is a commercial term and advertisement has brought the term to the mainstream just like when you order a “Coke” in a restaurant, you may actually get a “Pepsi” since cola is truly the desired request. Eventually, the term ATC may be synonymous with ACEO except among a very small audience.

Production of the art card is still a very exciting activity. Sites like eBay and ETSY have quite an active movement for selling ACEO. Facebook has many groups dedicated to the trading of ATC. Any way that you decide to participate with these cards is fine. There are many talented artists who use them to promote themselves. As a collectible, art cards are inexpensive and endearing!

For more information visit whatisanartisttradingcard.blogspot.com

Artists Trading Cards on Facebook….Just look at all the great artists you can meet.

Click Here to join Artists Trading Cards

Dots and Dashes
(Hostess: Vanessa Melton)

Polka dots, lines, circles, dashes, all of the above. This swap is all about your interpretation of dots and dashes.

ALL MEDIUMS WELCOME.
This is a 4/3 swap. Please send your best work on clean, sturdy cards, with your information neatly on the back. Max of 2 sets per person please. Late sets will be sent back unopened.

POSTAGE ALERT!!!
Stateside Residents —-send SASE (at least $.72 worth of postage) or postage stamps (at least $.72 worth) and I will provide the envelope. If you do not send loose postage or SASE, please include $2.00 to cover postage and your envelope.
International participants —– send $3.00 (in US dollars or US postage) or an extra ATC related to the swap. I will provide the packaging and envelope.

Start Date: July 3
Deadline: August 14

Address: Vanessa Melton
4521 Cleveland Dr
Plano, TX 75093
(label the envelope: Dots)

by Pam Gaulin

“Both beginners and seasoned artists can all benefit from an Artist Trading Card mail art trade. In the mail art swap, artists make and send in cards to a host, who sorts the cards and mails them back out. While this sounds simple enough, and it is, there are still some basic tips to follow to make the mail art exchange go smoothly.” READ MORE…

Organized by Mary Alice Dickenson, The card is a three for three trade. On Facebook she says

“We all love our cars! Old, new, antique, sporty, racy, practical, covered with mud, shiny fresh from the car wash, dogs in the back seats, bumper stickers and “artwork” hanging from rear view mirrors, convertibles, sedans, racy cars, NASCAR cars….”
This is a 3/3 swap.

Start date: March 1, 2010
End date: March 31, 2010

Put your name, email, medium, and title on the backs of the cards.
Any medium on standard 2 1/2 x 3 1/2″ ATC cardstock. Please put the cards in plastic sleeves. Be sure and include $.72 postage on your self-addressed envelope.

Mary Alice Dickenson
PO Box 138
Angel Fire, NM 87710-0138

Start Date: November 17
Deadline: December January 8

Address: Vanessa Melton 4521 Cleveland Dr Plano, TX 75093 (Label the envelope: Angels)

Karen Valentine

Karen Valentine

Karen Valentine's Halloween art cards: "I thought this would be a good time to share with you some art cards I made for Halloween. I hang them from wire swags or set them up in easels for the few weeks before Halloween. Each one is made from lots of different images all put together to make the finished piece. I like the old fashioned (hah!) method of cut and paste rather than doing it all digitally."

Karen Valentine says at her blog My Desert Cottage: ” I was born and raised here (in the Arizona Desert), but my heart belongs to places where flowers grow, trees thrive and the sound of babbling brooks lull me to sleep. Unfortunately, that is not to be for me…so I make the best of what I have. I love the whole cottage lifestyle and that is what I have tried to create for myself and my family. This is where you will see my second hand finds, vintage style, and my artwork with a vintage flair! I hope you enjoy looking around!!!”

SOME FESTIVE NEWS: There is a big Halloween Blog Party going on Saturday over at A Fanciful Twist.