Artist Trading Cards for a swap. These are my Doris Eaton/Zigfield collection. The images are from the book Century Girl.

ATCs featuring Zigfeld Girls

I've been having fun lately creating ATCs. It's fun to work in the 2.5 x 3.5 small format.

I had a challenge for hearts and used images of Doris and Charlie Eaton from the book "Century Girl - 100 years in the life of Doris Eaton Travis. Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies" by Lauren Redniss. Everyone in the follies were beautiful people and it's so much fun to work with thier images.

 My second challenge was mermaids. I was a little hesitant because I'm not someone who draws people. I started by creating cards with just tails going into the water. Hubby wasn't a fan so I decided to see if any of the follies girls would like to be mermaids. It appears that they were very happy to serve in this capacity for me. I was able to use some really old blue foil that I've had for many years on these cards. I like the look of just some foil but not too much.

I sent an email to Tim Holtz about this book. I hope that he can obtain copyright laws to some of the images and create a new series of his paper dolls.