This last post is all about playing with the framing of Artist Trading Cards.
This project began with a piece of ephemera I found in my travels but that required many changes before it could be presentable. It really was a mess to start with!
Please respect my copyrights and follow the red letter Guidelines listed at the foot of this post. Thank you.
Three of these frames have been derived from a single bit of online ephemera, that of an old menu with a window cut in its front page. I found it in the digital collections of www.nypl.com, but this was quite a while ago. Since that point, it lay buried in amongst a load of other ephemera files I had found here and there. Today, it finally gets its chance to shine. From an artistic standpoint, these might be sandwiched, as it were, between layers, leaving something peering from their diamond shaped windowpanes and with other things overlaying them. It could be fun!
The remaining three frames were self generated using Photoshop processes and features in my old and handy PSE8 (I know - who knew anything so outdated could continue to be so useful?). I went for simplicity along with narrowness and vividness of color with those three. Very challenging to get each differing one to look right with the initial trio. These frames may be merely printed onto card stock and finished without cutting into them, but they may also be cut to resemble physical frames. Such cuts need to be carefully done, of course. Perhaps either a trusty X-acto Knife or extra careful use of a good cropping station will do for such a process.
For a look at the entire PPS ATC collection, including past and present sets, etc. please follow this link HERE.
Happy Artist Trading Card Creativity!
This project began with a piece of ephemera I found in my travels but that required many changes before it could be presentable. It really was a mess to start with!
Please respect my copyrights and follow the red letter Guidelines listed at the foot of this post. Thank you.
Three of these frames have been derived from a single bit of online ephemera, that of an old menu with a window cut in its front page. I found it in the digital collections of www.nypl.com, but this was quite a while ago. Since that point, it lay buried in amongst a load of other ephemera files I had found here and there. Today, it finally gets its chance to shine. From an artistic standpoint, these might be sandwiched, as it were, between layers, leaving something peering from their diamond shaped windowpanes and with other things overlaying them. It could be fun!
The remaining three frames were self generated using Photoshop processes and features in my old and handy PSE8 (I know - who knew anything so outdated could continue to be so useful?). I went for simplicity along with narrowness and vividness of color with those three. Very challenging to get each differing one to look right with the initial trio. These frames may be merely printed onto card stock and finished without cutting into them, but they may also be cut to resemble physical frames. Such cuts need to be carefully done, of course. Perhaps either a trusty X-acto Knife or extra careful use of a good cropping station will do for such a process.
For a look at the entire PPS ATC collection, including past and present sets, etc. please follow this link HERE.
Happy Artist Trading Card Creativity!
PPS™ATC Sixpack: Frame That Card!
Download HERE
Display version
(lower quality than the download)
You are free to:
Use the above ATC frames
in artwork that can be shared,
given or traded.
You are not free to:
ever sell them for any reason
even if you alter them beforehand.
Thank you
for helping me to
keep free things free!
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