Monday, September 17, 2007

Birch Bark Nature Notes ATCs


I did these artist trading cards out of birch bark I had taken off a fallen tree. It was a large tree which had been chopped down. The crown had snapped; a victim of the ice storm a few year previous. I took a knife, dug out sheets of thick birch bark and rolled them off the log. These ATCs didn't need to be mounted because the bark I made them out of was as thick as a hefty cardstock.
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3 comments:

  1. Chris TessnearSeptember 17, 2007 at 4:15 PM

    Love this. Have been meaning to try it. What medium did you use to add your images and text?
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  2. RonnaSeptember 17, 2007 at 5:03 PM

    Hi Chris:
    I used coloured pencil and a brown Sharpie marker. I had a tough time with the marker however. I hadn't realized that the birch bark has a powdery-like substance on it and it kept drying out the markers. I went though quite a few of them. Not sure what else might work better. Let me know if you figure it out.

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  3. Susan WilliamsonSeptember 18, 2007 at 12:55 AM

    These are gorgeous...the eggs particularly. I'm going up north this weekend, so I'll have to get me some birchbark!

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