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CI: Collaborative postcard 3

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Group:Colouring In
Swap Coordinator:PrairieKittin (contact)
Swap categories: Postcards 
Number of people in swap:10
Location:Regional - USA
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Last day to signup/drop:March 29, 2016
Date items must be sent by:April 6, 2016
Number of swap partners:1
Description:

Hi, everyone! I love the "pass and paste" type postcards, don't you? So, here is what we are going to do for this swap:

Take a 4 inch by 6 inch piece of heavy cardstock (think cereal box weight). Securely glue a coloring picture on it. (Make sure it's secure. This is going in the mail). You may use a pre-printed coloring card, if you have one. Mark it off into four sections. Colour only one of the sections. Put your initials or moniker in the bottom of the section.

Now, turn the card over and address it to yourself. Leave room on this side for others to sign in. (Come on, we've all seen postcards. You know what to do. Make this side look like a postcard). Remember to leave room for the stamp.

Put that bad boy in an envelope and mail it off to your partner. That's it. You're done. Be sure to sign up for all 4 rounds. Every time you get a postcard, just color one section, and stick it in an envelope and mail it off. You may follow the color scheme of your partners or not. It's up to you.

When you are the last one to finish a card, drop it in the mail naked and send it back to it's owner.

The only complicated part about this is.. if you receive a card that you have already done a section, or if you get yours back again (it happens), you can either sit out the round or start a new postcard. Your choice. Just remember to keep them in rotation. If you start a new one, you will have to put the old one back in rotation with the next round. (So, conceivably, you may get 2 cards in one envelope).
OK, got it? Let's play!

Now, for the dull part. Ratings must be high enough to be in this group (I do check, by the way). No flakers, of course. You must commit to all 4 rounds or at least promise not to keep someone else's card. Let's not ruin it for someone else, okay? I will angel, once the appropriate rating has been given. Etc. Etc. Etc.

So, just to recap. 4 by 6 inch postcard, marked off into 4 sections. Color one section. One card to one partner. Sign up for all 4 rounds.

This is Round 3

Discussion

theevidenceisme 03/ 3/2016 #

So, for each round are we putting a new card into rotation? Or, just getting a new partner to send the one we already have? I've never seen a swap like this before, but it sounds interesting.

Babsmomof5 03/ 9/2016 #

@theevidenceisme you send out your own in round one to a partner, and the one you receive in round 1 will be what you color and send out for round two. What you receive in round 2 will be what you color and send out in round three, etc. It's possible that you'll get your own back during the cycle, and it's also possible you'll get one you've already colored a section on, just depending on how oartners are assigned since it's random. However, I've done lots of these and I've never had that happen! BUT this will probably be a smaller participation swap, so I'm thinking that ups the ante a bit on receiving something you've worked on....either way, I'm in as it sounds wonderfully fun!

Babsmomof5 03/ 9/2016 #

And... @prairiekittin states in the description that if you do happen to receive your own, or ome you've colored on you can either end out a new one you create (meaning you'll have two circulating,) or you can sit out a round. I'm sure she will be hosting more rounds of this in case anyone does find themselves in a position to create a second PC!

PrairieKittin 03/29/2016 #

There will be more rounds. Thank you, Babs, for clarifying that for me.

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