Craft: Supernatural ATCs

Every time I join a new artist trading card series on swap-bot, I try to come up with a new look or style for the cards. Here are the ones I made for the most recent Supernatural character ATC series.

I started with a white background and my Supernatural tattoo rubber stamp, one of my best investments ever, created by dragonflycurls on Etsy.

I decided to keep the black & white look by going grayscale for all of them. I picked one photo of each character and then 2-4 smaller images that represent the character in some way. I cut them as best I could, so there was no whitespace around the edges of each image. The result looked pretty good, especially together as a group:

On the backs, I put another image of the character, in color this time. This was especially fun for characters like Meg and Ruby who then got to be represented one way on the front of the card and with a different “meat suit” on the back of the card.

Here are the individual cards:

Dean (impala, sawed-off, Samulet, initials as carved into the impala)

Back of Dean ATC

Sam (laptop, the colt, Tuesday calendar page, his initials as carved into the Impala)

Back of Sam ATC

Impala (cassette tape, license place, LEGO brick)

Back of Impala ATC

Castiel (angel sword, angel banishment sigil, upside-down FBI badge)

Back of Cas ATC

John (John’s journal, impala)

Back of John ATC

Bobby (reference book, wheelchair, flask)

Back of Bobby ATC

Crowley (devil’s trap, cell phone picture, glass of Craig)

Back of Crowley ATC

Ruby (necklace, knife, the devil’s trap she was trapped under in an episode)

Back of Ruby ATC

Meg (goblet of blood, zoroastrian symbol, devil’s trap she was under)

Back of Meg ATC

Lucifer (map with Detroit, pitchfork, angel sword)

Back of Lucifer ATC