Catholic Trading Cards

June 23, 2010 By

Do you remember the Marian Trading Card swap over at Pondered in my Heart? I wrote about the cards we sent off here. Well, we got our new cards in the mail this week! It was so exciting- and I’m sure I was more excited than the 4 year old! 🙂 Kimberlee has a Mr. Linky up where everyone can link their posts about the card swap. FUN!

My daughter had such a great time making these!
Hand with paintbrush painting trading card
My daughter also made these- I posted about them here.
 
Trading cards with handprint pictures of Mary

So we mailed our cards off and waited patiently…

And here are the cards Lydia got back- too cute!
(The little pink Mary came from Karen’s daughter)
Displat of multiple Catholic trading cards
She was so excited!
Lydia displaying her trading cards
Here are my cards:
 
Display of Catholic Trading Cards
Display of Catholic Trading Cards

The cards I painted were all based on famous
paintings of Mary:

Maronna and Child, William Bouguereau

Side-by-side of Original and Trading Card

The Adoration of the Magi, Gentile da Fabriano

Side-by-side of Original and Trading Card

The Virgin and Child with Saints George and Anthony Abbot,
Antonio Pisanello

Side-by-side of Original and Trading Card

Small Cowper Madonna, Raphael 

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Side-by-side of Original and Trading Card

 

I got cards back from all over the country- Minnesota,
California, Georgia… and they’re just beautiful!
Catholic Trading Card Display
This was so exciting! Some of these cards have

amazing detail- I love them!

Check out this Artist’s site here! 🙂
(it’s Kimberlee’s son! I love this one!)

 
Angelus Domint Nutiavit Mariae Trading Card
 

I love that us moms got to “play”, too! 🙂

Trading card of Mary with "Queen of the Holy Rosary"

And I got a “reproduction” as well- Tanner’s Annunciation!

Side-by-side of Original Painting and Trading Card
Kimberlee is hosting another artist trading card swap in the fall for All Saints Day. I’m really looking forward to it! We will definitely be participating again! Don’t forget to check out everyone else’s cards. There were 575 total!
If any of these are your cards, please leave a comment and tell me! 🙂
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Comments

  1. Molly says
    June 23, 2010 at 5:49 am

    Your paintings are beautiful!!

  2. Karen says
    June 23, 2010 at 12:16 pm

    Ellie is thrilled to see the little girl who got her pink Mary card. I'm not sure which part of this has been more exciting for my kids. Making the cards, getting new ones or seeing their artwork on other people's blogs. They're loving it all!

  3. Alicia says
    June 23, 2010 at 3:21 pm

    Antonio is my son! He was proud to see his card on the internet! lol

  4. Gardenia says
    June 23, 2010 at 4:39 pm

    all the artwork are beautiful !

  5. Kelly says
    June 23, 2010 at 5:59 pm

    Wow!! You received some really nice ones! And I can't get over how beautiful yours came out. The one I did looks sad in comparison, lol.

    We had so much fun participating in the swap.

    Thanks for sharing and God bless!

  6. Kathleen's Catholic says
    June 23, 2010 at 11:31 pm

    This is such a beautiful idea–both in the art and in the trading/giving. Looks like this was a big success!

  7. Kimberlee says
    June 24, 2010 at 2:10 am

    Your cards were so very lovely – it's so cool to see the paintings that inspired you and view them side by side. And that's neat you got a reproduction back. Josiah is pleased you like his card. 🙂 Thanks again for joining!

  8. Jordana says
    June 24, 2010 at 3:20 am

    I got one of your cards and you got one of mine in return. I love all the ones I got. We had so much fun in creating ours.

  9. Nicole Stallworth says
    June 24, 2010 at 5:28 pm

    I got your Pisanello reproduction (lovely!), and that's my Tanner copy. It really is so much fun to create and receive and compare notes. I can't wait until November!