"Halloween Skull" - ATC

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I created this using GIMP 2.10.12.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Rhinoceros Playing Card" - ATC

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This week's Three Muses challenge was "Alter A Playing Card."

I created a new playing card over a standard size playing card.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.12.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Evil Eye" - ATC

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I created this using GIMP 2.10.10.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"The Black Bird" - ATC

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I made an Artist Trading Card (ATC) / Playing Card with an underlying dark theme, corresponding to my current world view.

The words are from The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe.

People in ancient times viewed Ravens as being messengers between the two worlds of the living and the dead, possessing prophetic knowledge and being harbingers of Death.

I created this using GIMP 2.8.18.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Ancient Symbols" - ATC

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I made an Artist Trading Card (ATC) / Playing Card with an underlying dark theme, corresponding to my current world view.

The matching postcard for this can be seen here.

I created this using GIMP 2.8.18.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"The Crow" - ATC

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I made an Artist Trading Card (ATC) / Playing Card with a Crow theme.

I created this using GIMP 2.8.18.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"The Moon / Tarot Card" - ATC

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I made an Artist Trading Card (ATC) / Playing Card with a Tarot Card Moon theme.

I created this using GIMP 2.8.16.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Flapper Fortune Teller" - ATC

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This week’s Three Muses challenge was "Flapper."

I made an Artist Trading Card (ATC) / Playing Card with a celestial / fortune teller theme.

I created this using GIMP 2.8.16.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

"Alphabet Card - Z is for Zebra" - ATC

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This week’s Three Muses challenge was "Alphabet Soup."

I made an Artist Trading Card (ATC) Alphabet Card featuring Z for Zebra.

I created this using GIMP 2.8.16.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

Bird - ATC

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This is the bird ATC that I mailed in my Train Series Mail Art Envelope. The images are from a DuckDuckGo search.

Heart – Playing Card / ATC

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This week’s Take A Word challenge was "Hearts."

The vintage images are from a DuckDuckGo search.

The font is QumpellkaNo12 Medium

The words are from the Nine of Diamonds vintage Gypsy Witch Fortune Telling Card number 39.

"Sea Food" – ATC

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This week's Fun With ATCs challenge #95 was "Black/White/Red."

Here in the United States today is Labor Day, the unofficial end of Summer. The start of school for children in my part of the country used to be after today, but now a lot of schools start in late August.

I created this in GIMP version 2.8.6.

The vintage advertisement images are from a DuckDuckGo search.

The background red check tablecloth pattern is from here.

"Seahorse" – ATC

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I created a nautical theme ATC.

The vintage images are from a DuckDuckGo Internet search. Unlike Google, DuckDuckGo respects your privacy.

"Metropolis" – ATC

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This week's Fun With ATCs challenge #91 was "Classic Films."

I created this in GIMP.

The images are from an Internet search.

The font is Metropolis.

"Flowers / Blumen" – ATC

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This week's Fun With ATCs challenge #90 was "Flowers / Blumen."

I created this in GIMP, and I applied G'MIC filter Artistic - Dream Smoothing to it.

The images are from Combinaisons Ornementales by artist Maurice Verneuil.

"Card Suits Flapper" – ATC

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I created a card suits themed ATC with retro background colors.

The vintage images are from an Internet search.

"Pastilles" – ATC

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I created an ATC around the scene of children playing on the beach.

The vintage images are from an Internet search.

The font is Simplesnails ver 4.0 ,

"Fortune Teller" – ATC

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Next week’s Wicked Wednesday ATC challenge #84 is "Show us the Future."

I  created a fortune teller theme around the sexy pinup girl with the crystal ball.

I actually made this piece back in March, because the challenge site includes a sneak peek for several weeks in advance, which is great of them to do! Shortly after I made this, the challenge site changed their rules to say they only wanted hand crafted ATCs, so I'm not posting this onto their site, because I want to respect their rules. Unfortunately this will most likely be the last piece I post that is based on their weekly theme.

The vintage images are from an Internet search.

The font is Captain Howdy (ouija board font)

"King of Cups" – Tarot ATC

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This week’s Wicked Wednesday ATC challenge #83 was "Tarot Symbols (pentacles, wands, cups, swords)."

Tarot is one of my favorite themes, and one I haven't done in awhile. But the challenge site wants hand crafted ATCs, not digital creations, so I'm not posting this onto their site, because I want to respect their rules.

The vintage images are from an Internet search, including the Library of Congress.

The font is intimacy.

"Butterfly" - ATC

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The images are from an Internet search.