Trading card treasures

the long version

Join in the popular craft of using photos, scrapbook papers, embellishments, and supplies to create your very own stunning photograph “trading cards.” Test your creativity on petite-sized cards, then give them as a gift, trade them, or keep them for yourself. Learn how you turn your own photographs into tiny works of art that can be used as artist trading cards, embellishments for greeting cards and scrapbooking pages, and altered books. Trade cards online, through magazines, and in groups, use them as invitations and greeting cards, or frame them as tiny works of art. Find inspiring new ideas and experiment with techniques, tools, and materials while using up those hard-to-discard paper scraps Did you know? Artist trading cards have been around since the 16th century! Try your hand at your own modern layout.