• Milwaukee ATC home page
• Milwaukee ATC Flickr Group - membership is open to active participants in our group (i.e., you've attended at least two meetings, participated in the live trade at least once, and plan to attend future meetings)

General ATC Info

• Art in Your Pocket: ATCs - A good overview of ATCs with examples in many different media
• ATC article at Wikipedia
• Artist Trading Cards: A Collaborative Cultural Performance - the original Swiss site for ATCs
• ATCs - Exploring Art in Miniature - Squidoo page with resource links

Places to trade on-line - all these sites require registration and may have different trading formats and rules

• ATCs For All (AFA) - a friendly site open to all media and skill levels
• Illustrated ATCs is a juried sister-site to AFA, originally organized for hand-drawn & hand-painted ATCs but now accepting applications from mixed media artists since the closure of Mail Art World.
• Swap-Bot
• Artist Trading Card groups at Yahoo include:
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/artisttradingcards/
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ATC_World/
• Artist Trading Cards Flickr group (trades through Swap-Bot)

ATC & Art Supplies & other fun artsy stuff

In the Milwaukee area:

• Artist & Display (a strong supporter of our group!)
• Art'N'Oddities
• Artworks (Kenosha)
• American Science & Surplus
• Ben Franklin Crafts
• Bigsby's Sewing Center
• Greenfield News & Hobby
• Milwaukee Arts & Crafts Meet Up (you need to register with MeetUp.com to see the group info)
• Red Rubber Paper & Ink
• The Scrapbook Store (Greenfield)
• Legacy Scrapbooks (Cedarburg)
• Broadway Paper
• Baseball Cards, Etc. in New Berlin sells a variety of trading card sleeves

On-line sites recommended by our members:

• Altered Pages
• Collage Joy
• Dick Blick
• Dover Publications (get on their e-mail list and receive weekly links to free downloadable clip art images)
• European Papers
• The Graphics Fairy (Free vintage clip art)
• Kura-washi Paper
• Lazertran (waterslide decal paper - Artist & Display also carries their products)
• Manto Fev
• http://www.paper-paper.com (transfer papers, labels, decals etc for computer printers)
• Ten Two Studios
• Volcano Arts
• Your ATC Store

Magazines often featuring ATCs & mixed media techniques

• ATC Quarterly - a full-color printed 'zine dedicated to ATCs
• Art Trader - free on-line quarterly 'zine dedicated to mail art
• Monthly Muse - monthly on-line project 'zine
• Cloth Paper Scissors
• Quilting Arts
• Stampington & Co. publishes a number of art and stamping magazines

Techniques & projects

• Articles & How-to Guides at ATCs for All
• ATC Central - The Learning Zone - articles at Illustrated ATCs
• Go Make Something (includes ATC projects and more)
• Mirkwood Designs (includes templates for ATC envelope and cutting 10 ATCs from 8-1/2 x 11 paper)
• Utrecht's Learning Center

A sampling of
group members' art

• Carolyn Brady
• Ellie Burke
• Kimberly Butts
• Nina Ferreri
• Sue Fiebig
• Pauline Fritz
• Darlene Hagopian
• Jan Hoefler
• Mel Kolstad
• Lynne Larkin
• Gary Warren Niebuhr
• Kathi Pecor
• Mary Prince
• Ruth Robbins
• Becky Tesch

Art resources & other distractions

• The Commons - photographs from museums & archives around the world
• Artcyclopedia - art search engines
• Art-e-zine
• ATC clusters at Flickr (ignore the Air Traffic Control section :o)
• ATC groups at Flickr include
  Fabric/Textile ATCs
  Original Artwork ATCs
  ATC Treasures
• Collage Art links
• Copyright for Collage Artists
• Copyright in Visual Arts
• Library of Congress - U.S. Copyright Office - American Memory Collection - LOC Flickr page
• Google Image Search

Some ATC artists and group galleries

• B-muse
• Corinne Stubson
• Ed Beal
• Elaine Kerr
• Lisa Vollrath
• Lynn Dewart
• Autumn Sunflower

Colored Pencil books