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Altered Text ATC

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Group:All about ATC
Swap Coordinator:JuliasAlteredArt (contact)
Swap categories: Artist Trading Card (ATC) 
Number of people in swap:8
Location:International
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Rating requirement:4.90
Last day to signup/drop:August 6, 2012
Date items must be sent by:August 27, 2012
Number of swap partners:1
Description:

For this swap you will be making 2 ATCs for 1 partner. The ATCs will be using a technique known as Altered Text. For those who are unfamiliar, altered text is when you take a page from a book and use it as the background of the ATC, you then can use whatever medium(s) you'd like to cover all but a few words that make up a phrase, sentence, short poem, ECT. There are tons of examples on Google, Flickr, YouTube, and other areas of the web, if you need a bit of inspiration. If there is enough interest in this swap, I'm thinking about making an Altered Text Series of group swaps (where each swap would have a theme that the text would have to fit into). Please feel free to ask questions or leave me comments either here, or thru PM. To join this swap you will have to have a rating of 4.9 or better with no unresolved 1s or 3s. Also, make sure to use sturdy materials for your ATC back and include all your info (your name, your swap-not handle, the name of the swap, date...etc). Have fun& happy swapping!

Discussion

Johkup 08/ 4/2012 #

I have never made Altered Text so does it have to be a piece of actual book page or is any other text ok? Like newspaper or something like that? And what about language? Can I use Finnish text?

JuliasAlteredArt 08/ 5/2012 #

Johkup, for this swap the text background should be a page from an actual book. English would be perferred (that way your partner will understand what the ATC says), however, I think that if you included the English translation on the back of the ATC, a page in a foreign language would be fine. Hope this helps and welcome to the world of altered text, hope you decide to stay :) Oh feel free to pm or comment here with any other questions or comments. Julia

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