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Pocket Letter Newbies The ABC's Letter B - USA

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Pocket Letter Newbies The ABC's Letter B - USA
Swap Coordinator:jakeandnicksmom (contact)
Swap categories: Paper Goods  Photography  Polymer Clay 
Number of people in swap:16
Location:Regional - USA
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Last day to signup/drop:September 1, 2015
Date items must be sent by:September 12, 2015
Number of swap partners:1
Description:

Let do the Alphabet through Pocket Letters

This swap is for Pocket letter newbies, who want a chance to try out this new penpal craze, in a safe, judgment free swap. No stress, no worries. For this swap there is no wrong way of doing a Pocket Letter.

You will have one partner. Basically, you fill up a 9 pocket trading card sleeve with 2.5 X 3.5 scrapbook paper that is decorated, use things like quotes, stickers, ribbon ect., And, inside the back of the pockets you tuck in little goodies. They might be washi tape samples , ribbon, stickers, buttons, embellishments, tea bag, sequins, etc, The first pocket holds a nice letter from you, about a 1/2 page, in this letter, explain how each pocket represents your letter.

These will be a series of Pocket Letters Based on the Alphabet. This is for the letter B.

The rules for these pocket letters are pretty simple.
Choose a theme that begins with B, you can either do all the pockets in that theme, or do all 9 pockets with a different B theme.
For example: I can do a complete pocket letter with an Boat theme.
Or, I can do 1 pocket a boat, one a baby, one a Boy ect.
To make it easy, only 6 of the pockets need to be the letter theme, so 3 will be senders choice. But of course you can always choose to do all 9, its up you!

Get creative! you can do it!! You do not have to decorate the back of the pocket, only the front. Goodies in the back do not have to be the letter theme, they are senders choice.

Make sure the swap name and your Swapbot name is on there somewhere.

Remember: this swap is for people who are new at pocket letters, so if your picky, this may not be the swap for you

Try to keep things relatively flat, when you fold this letter into thirds, you can mail it in a long envelope. Open to swappers with at least a rating of 4.97, and has at least ** 5 type 3 swaps.** I will be checking profiles carefully. If you have recent or unexplained 1's or 3's please Pm me.

Send your swap on time, and don't forget to rate your partner. Think of your rating as a thank you note, its very nice to thank the person who took time to create something for you. Rate a 5 if it was sent on time ,even if you didn't like it. If you don't receive your swap please let me and your partner know before rating a 1 or 3.

We are going to do the complete Alphabet!
Some themes that begin with B
Boat
Boy
Baby
Bug
Bat
Baseball
Ball
Banana
Bear
Bird

Add your B words in the comments below!

Other beginner themes I am hosting include:

  • October- Halloween
  • November - Thanksgiving
  • December- Christmas
    So join one or join all, If anyone has ideas for future pocket letters or themes, I'm open to suggestions. There is lots of Youtube videos and Pintrest boards out there if you need ideas.

This is a US swap only, but if anyone is interested in hosting an international one, please PM me.

You can see some of my pocket Letters on Instagram: ohhowfun2012

Though Im not new to Swapbot, I am new to hosting, if there is any veteran hostesses who have ideas of how I can make this swap better, please send me a PM, I can use all the help I can get.

Discussion

Turtle3609 08/15/2015 #
  1. How long do you expect it to take to get through the alphabet? One every two weeks? That would be all 26 letters. And then, does the pocket letter go to the same person for each letter or will it go to a different person with each letter so that we get a variety even though we will eventually get the whole alphabet?
bluecrayons 08/16/2015 #

@Turtle3609 each swap you get different partners. but sometimes it maybe one you already had.

starrycat 08/16/2015 #

On the watchlist, but here are some suggestions:
Beach
Baskets
Brazil
Bavaria
Belize
Bulgaria
Belgium
Botswana
bottles
Batman
Bluebells
Buttercups
Bacon
Basketball
bread
bricks
ballons
buildings
bridges
buttons
bottlecaps
beer

ok.... I admit that some of these themes are strange and would REALLY take some imagination to execute..... but I wanted to at least mention them.... lol..... you never know what may strike your inspiration!

jakeandnicksmom 08/17/2015 #

@starrycat you came up with great ones, like you said its all about using your imagination! I hope you join us.

jakeandnicksmom 08/17/2015 #

@Turtle3609 my plan is to do 2 letters a month, every two weeks, some weeks I may combine letters, like maybe XYZ, but Im not sure yet, just depends on how it goes and the response I get to the swap. @bluecrayons thank you for answering the question about partners :) you ladies are awesome!!

bluecrayons 09/14/2015 #

sorry my pl was sent. i been without internet for past 3 days because of the storms so i couldnt mark sent.

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