Animals Of The World Europe/ATCs/Open Medium/Due date: Oct 19

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Animals Of The World: EUROPE/ATCs/Open Medium/Due date: 10/19

I am going to be running a series of swaps about animals of the world. The region we are going to be working with next is Europe. Some of the featured animals of Europe are: great spotted woodpecker, grey heron, white swan, barn owl, peregrine falcon, brown hare, roe deer & red fox. Of course, it is not just limited to those animals but you must choose animals that are known to that country/set of countries. You will be making three ATCs with a featured animal on it. Each ATC MUST be different. You can add lots of layers & elements if you'd like but be sure to send an extra postage for each ATC that you send in for the swap to cover for your ATCs going to the other artists.. Stickers can be used very lightly & definitely not as the focal point.

For the most part I swap media for media. If you do HD/HP you will more than likely receive the same back. Same for collage/mixed media. All ATCs need to be put in to sleeves to protect them from the elements. Sometimes there are only a few ATCs in certain medias; if that happens you will receive random media ATCs in return.

To send your swaps please write the name of the swap on the outside of the envelope. Send a self addressed envelope with at least as much postage as it took to send your swaps to me. This is how you will receive your returns. International players will need to send a forever stamp to get their swaps back or two one dollar bills. I also have Pay Pal address, as well. International swappers please also send a large label with your name & address on it. I will provide the envelopes for international swappers. All other swappers need to provide their own envelopes. The mail in WA state tends to run slow since it has to go to so many places so please don't wait until the last minute to send your swaps. Late swaps will be returned to the sender with possible neutral feedback.


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View attachment 241307 Brechstein's Bat
Myotis brechsteinii
Found in Europe and Western Asia. It usually lives in woodland areas. The wingspan is almost 12 inches. It often roosts in tree holes, typically woodpecker holes.

View attachment 241308 European Boar
Sus scrafa
This is also known as wild swine, common wild pig, or Eurasian wild pig. It is distributed across almost all of mainland Europe with the exception of some northern areas of Scandinavia and European Russia and southern Greece.

View attachment 241309 European Wood Bison
Bison bonasus
This is also known as the wisent. It is the heaviest land animal in Europe, and is now found in northern central Europe and the northern Caucasus mountains

View attachment 241310 Elk
Alces alces
The elk, as it is known as in Europe, is called a moose in North America. It is Europe's second largest living land mammal.
 
I don't know about others, but as I go through images for my cards, I'm leaning heavily towards birds. I think that's partly because a lot of European mammals are also animals I might use for North America...not that I couldn't use them for both.

Just random factoid from me researching animals native to Europe....lots of birds!
 
CynthiaSillitoe said:
I don't know about others, but as I go through images for my cards, I'm leaning heavily towards birds. I think that's partly because a lot of European mammals are also animals I might use for North America...not that I couldn't use them for both.

Just random factoid from me researching animals native to Europe....lots of birds!
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That's a good way to look at it. We do seem to have a lot of similar animals compared to Europe....
 
You know what's funny? A friend, someone here in the U.S., mentioned to her son when he was little that A.A. Milne was an English author. Sort of an interesting aside that she didn't think much about until she had to mediate a dispute between her son and his first grade teacher over whether kangaroos or tigers lived in the woods of England.
 
How is everyone coming along? I wanted to send a reminder out that each ATC needs to have a different critter on it. The last couple swaps I have been lax about it but you really should put a different animal on each ATC. Carry on....
 
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