Artist Trading Cards

I am a member of a small art quilt group that meets every other week for 3 hours to play around and explore our creativity. We call ourselves the Secret Artist Society (Sassy for short) and we have 9 members. I have learned so much from these ladies! As in any group, the diverse backgrounds of the individual members enhances the whole. Some members are fine artists, and they have shared a lot of knowledge, tools and materials that I never knew existed. (Brayers? Gel medium? huh?) Some of us were collectors of odds and ends that we knew we would use some day, in some project! Some of us just read Cloth, Paper Scissors and Quilting Arts and our hearts beat faster. Some of us have had pieces exhibited in National quilt shows, are teachers of these techniques, and all of us are interested/awed/fascinated and willing to get our feet wet. We are all passionate about fibers in some form or other, and our work here all gets sewn on in the end.
When the group first started, each week we played with a different technique. We did resist/discharging, monoprinting (with fish!) foiling, stenciling, altered books. What seemed to be missing was some continuity between the projects. So, our member Kathy came up with the idea of doing Artist trading cards, exchanging them, and then sewing them together into a 9 patch quilt.
My cards were a little late in coming together, since I was sidelined with the wretched illness acquired from the grandchildren for a week or so, but I finally finished them yesterday. I am happy with them! It's actually a little difficult to part with them. At the meeting where we exchanged them, the members all displayed all of their cards, and then went around and chose one card from each person. Since mine weren't finished for that meeting, I get to give each person a card that I think they would like. Who knows whether it would have been the one they would have chosen if given the chance. Probably not. Or maybe so. Whatever....