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Create This Art Journal Round Robin

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Create This Art Journal Round Robin
Swap Coordinator:shinyserra (contact)
Swap categories: Art 
Number of people in swap:5
Location:Regional - US Only
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Rating requirement:4.99
Last day to signup/drop:June 30, 2017
Date items must be sent by:July 13, 2017
Number of swap partners:1
Description:

For this round robin I am taking my inspiration from Moriah Elizabeth's "Create This Book" that she published. I have been following her on YouTube and been watching her complete pages in her book and I am so in love with it. Here are some links to give you some background, please check them out:

Intro to the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIwa7_XM8o4

Examples of Moriah completing a few of her prompts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWmj-hCAhXo

Image of a finished page spread: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fLFq-0BkesI/maxresdefault.jpg

OK, so now that you get the idea behind her book, it's time to get into how we will create our art journals!

  1. First, you will either make your own art journal (just make sure the pages are thick enough to prevent bleeding, like mixed media paper) or use a store-bought art journal with heavy pages. You can choose any number of pages you'd like as long as it's at least 30-40 pages.

  2. Then, you will create a cover or if you are using a store-bought journal then you will decorate the cover. Be sure to decorate the back too.

  3. Next, you will add your name, Swap-Bot username, e-mail, and mailing address on the inside of the front cover. This will ensure that your journal is easy to be sent home. Also, please include the name of this round robin (Create This Art Journal) somewhere on the front cover or inside front cover. There are lots of collaborative journals going around and we don't want this one to get lost in the mix.

  4. Next, you will create an arty, creative prompt on each page spread (so the other people in the swap will use both left and right side of the spread for each prompt). See Moriah Elizabeth's examples in her videos but try to come up with your own prompts. NOTE: For this round robin, the goal is to have people do as many pages as they'd like, within reason of course, so that everyone can work on several pages each round. So if you have a 60 page journal you should create a prompt for every 2 page spread, making 60 prompts.

  5. When your covers are decorated, your information is added to the inside front cover, and when all of your prompts are written out on the pages, you will put your journal in a secure envelope and mail it to your partner with tracking. Please use the comment section below to add your tracking number and who you sent it to for each round.

  6. When you receive your partner's journal, work on as many prompts as you'd like. Please complete more than one. Be sure to use the entire 2 page spread for your work. You may use any medium unless otherwise specified in your partner's prompt (like if the prompt is: create a collage of food items out of magazines). Then when you are done with your prompts mail it to your assigned partner again. Repeat until you receive your original journal back.

If at any time you feel like you won't be able to continue with this swap, PLEASE send any current journals you have back to the owners. Also, you have approximately 2 weeks to work on each journal so when you get a journal to work on start on it right away and send it off in a timely manner. If there are still blank prompts at the end of this round robin, feel free to trade them with others to get them done or work on them yourself. If anyone has any questions, comments, or concerns, please don't hesitate to use the comment section below or private message me.

There is a long sign-up by date so feel free to get started on your journals right away if you join. I hope to see lots of your creative journals! Have fun with this :) #createarteveryday

Discussion

Artstamper 06/ 8/2017 #

I'm tempted to join this because it looks like lots of fun. First I have some questions. About what size book? With this many pages a big book could get expensive to mail. Is it 15 to 20 sheets to make 30 to 40 pages? I'm not trying to split hairs but in some round robins I have gotten some really big books!

shinyserra 06/ 8/2017 #

I am thinking 30 pages front and back for a minimum. The size journal I'm going to use is around 5x8 inches width and length and I believe 50 pages. If you use media mail (I think that's an acceptable way to mail these books) shipping should only be around $3 and some change. Regular mail they may cost around $4or $5. It all depends on how thick all of your books are really. I hate to limit the size to only thin books because I would rather leave it open to have people complete several pages out of each book.

shinyserra 07/ 1/2017 #

Hey everyone :) Since we'll only be sending our journals to 4 other people, make sure you take advantage of the "do as many prompts as you want". At the end of this swap we can all decide to do another swap with the same journals if our journals are still kind of bare or we can finish our journals ourselves. I'll take a poll towards the end of the swap. Partners have been assigned so let's have fun and get started!

shinyserra 07/ 1/2017 #

Just a note to everyone - there is a participant in this swap who was just rated a 1 and I am 100% certain this is an unfair rating. The rater is brand new and is waiting on a re-send but rated a 1 before contacting anyone. I have decided to let the participant join this swap, as she had a perfect rating for years (an original member) until this incident yesterday. So, her rating is a 4.97 now (but was a 5.0 when joining the swap) and I am sure that her rating will return to a 5.0 very shortly. I don't often bend the rules but this was an unfortunate situation so I wanted to be up-front with everyone about it. Thanks :)

Artstamper 07/ 3/2017 #

Sent mine to Julybaby59 today tracking # 9500 1153 7184 0766 81

Artstamper 07/ 3/2017 #

Sent mine to Julybaby59 today tracking # 9500 1153 7184 0766 81

user2148 07/ 9/2017 #

@AZmom875 sent yesterday - the postal lady wouldn't let me mail it with tracking ecxept certified! Won't be going back to that post office!! Sorry, but here is the tracking number #7016 0910 0002 3001 1607 it will be there tomorrow!

AZmom875 07/11/2017 #

I picked up the journal a the PO User2148. It is lovely. I am glad you explained why you mailed it certified. I bet it had something with being so lightweight. I am sorry you had to pay so much. I will work on it and mail it along.

AZmom875 07/11/2017 #

My DC to Shiny 9449009699939098644973

shinyserra 07/13/2017 #

I sent mine to @Artstamper on 7/11. Tracking #9549016328127192091027 It is a heavy one so make sure to send it using MediaMail. It will cost approx. $3.12 this way.

Artstamper 07/17/2017 #

Received Shineyserra's and am working on it now.

AZmom875 07/17/2017 #

I am mailing to Shinyserra 9449009699937754697295

This is USER2148s, journal to ShinySerra.

shinyserra 07/20/2017 #

Received @AZmom875 s journal today. Can't wait to get started!

user2148 07/27/2017 #

Sending @Julybaby59 journal to @AZmom875 today. Tracking # 9114 9014 9645 1171 3665 90

AZmom875 07/28/2017 #

I got today User2148, I better get moving to send this to Shiny.

Julybaby59 07/29/2017 #

Okay I have done some prompts...who and when do I send it to the next person???

Artstamper 07/29/2017 #

@Julybaby59 Keep sending to the same person you sent yours .Are you ready for me to send shinyserra's to you?

Julybaby59 07/30/2017 #

Yes....I will do...

Artstamper 07/31/2017 #

@Julybaby59 Shinrserra's journal is on it;s way to you. Tracking #9549 0153 8851 7212 0882 08.

user2148 08/ 2/2017 #

Received @artstamper book today from @julybaby59 Gorgeous book!! Browsing through now to pick out my fav prompts! @julybaby59 has already done some wonderful spreads!

Artstamper 08/ 2/2017 #

Thank you @julybaby59

AZmom875 08/11/2017 #

I'm mailing off July baby59's lovely journal to shiny. Be back later with tracking. Breading to PO soon

AZmom875 08/11/2017 #

Mailing off July baby 59's journal to @shinyserra heading to PO now. Brb w tracking

AZmom875 08/11/2017 #

This is tracking for Julybaby59's Journal to Shinyserra,
9500 1110 2622 7223 0803 91 expected delivery Monday

user2148 08/21/2017 #

Hey @AZmom875 I am mailing you @Artstamper book today! Tracking: 9500 1126 2886 7233 1616 81 it's expected to be there 8/23. Have fun!

Artstamper 08/22/2017 #

Received User2148 and AZmom875's journals from Shineyserra today. Some beautiful pages!

Artstamper 08/22/2017 #

Received User2148 and AZmom875's journals from Shineyserra today. Some beautiful pages!

AZmom875 08/23/2017 #

I got today, from @User2148 nikki, @artstamper journal. This is a great journal. When I am done, I will mail it to Shinyserra.

Artstamper 08/30/2017 #

Sent AZmom875 and User2148's journals to Julybaby59 today. tracking # is 9549 0153 8852 7242 1000 85.

Artstamper 08/30/2017 #

Sent AZmom875 and User2148's journals to Julybaby59 today. tracking # is 9549 0153 8852 7242 1000 85.

user2148 09/21/2017 #

I have @shinyserra journal! Received yesterday - It is looking amazing!!

AZmom875 09/26/2017 #

ShineSerra, I have artstampsers journal going out to you

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I think this makes you the last artist or player.

user2148 10/ 7/2017 #

Update: I rec’d my journal back! Thank you all so much for your amazing work!! I would’t mind sending the out for another round to fill more pages - just a thought! ... I also have @shinyserra book which I’m done working in and @AZmom875 book which I’ve just started. I’ll be mailing them both off to @AZmom875 soon - hopefully before next weekend!

AZmom875 10/13/2017 #

I got my own journal back, and Shinyserra's too. I think that makes USER2148 complete. I will be done with I mail off Shinyserras, in the next 2 weeks.

Artstamper 10/14/2017 #

Who has Julybaby59"s journal? I haven't received it yet. It should be my last one.

AZmom875 01/10/2018 #

I am mailing ShinySierras home to her today. It was lost in my KEEPer journal area. SO sorry.

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