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OCT: Halloween Mail ART

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OCT: Halloween Mail ART
Group:Zines, mail art & other cool stuff
Swap Coordinator:MissThundercat (contact)
Swap categories: Challenges  Seasonal  Mail Art 
Number of people in swap:10
Location:International
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Rating requirement:4.90
Last day to signup/drop:October 17, 2011
Date items must be sent by:October 29, 2011
Number of swap partners:2
Description:

It's just around the corner, the wonderful spooky time of year, HALLOWEEN. I thought it would be fun to do a themed mail art swap :)

Objective;
For this swap you will make 1 mail ART piece for 2 partners (2 mail art pieces made in total) decorated in a Halloween theme. What is mail art? This wiki page says it best Decorate a postcard or an envelope and send them naked (without an envelope for postcards and empty for an envelope) to your partner. Minimum size is a standard 4x6 inch (10x 15 cm) postcard/envelope and BOTH SIDES need to be decorated, but make sure the shipping address is readable.
Since Halloween is right around the corner, this is fairly a quick turn around swap, but since it's not profile related, feel free to start making your creations right away. All mediums are allowed, anything goes, just do your best work, keep it to the theme and have fun!

The obvious bit; You already had to have a rating of 4.9+ with no recent no-sends/late swaps, 1s or 3s to join this group anyway, so the same stands for this swap. The rating filter is in place so if you drop below that you're automaticly dropped from the swap. But I will check participants before sign up to see if anyone has late swaps on their dashboards, so if there are any concerns please contact me about it.

*image if from a wonderful artist on etsy Eyefun

Discussion

bluemonkeymama 10/15/2011 #

Watching for now, but I have a question - is it ok to add a piece of cardboard inside the envelope just for stability?

MissThundercat 10/17/2011 #

yes, of course that is okay :) I hope you will sign up, would love to see what you will create :)

violin21 10/17/2011 #

I've joined the swap, I can't make them until Friday as I am at work all week would this be ok???? I can use a card the size of a postcard and decorate it how I like in the theme of halloween. I want to be sure as I don't want a 3 rating again because someone didn't like what I did before. It had really knocked my confidence in swapping.

MissThundercat 10/18/2011 #

@violin21 thank you for your questions! if you stick to the theme & swap requirements and do your best effort, people can't, and let me repeat, CAN NOT, rate you down just because they didn't like what they received! I'm sorry that this happened to you before :( This is sender's choice, and is open to all mediums. So feel free to express yourself as creatively as you like. You can start on your project whenever you like :) Send by date is october 29th, so if you can send before then, that is what matters most :) thank you for signing up and have fun :)

violin21 10/18/2011 #

Thanks Miss Thundercat :)

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