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20 MIN Zine Challenge

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20 MIN Zine Challenge
Swap Coordinator:lawchick (contact)
Swap categories: Challenges  Zines  Letters & Writing 
Number of people in swap:10
Location:Regional - USA
Type:Type 2: Flat mail
Last day to signup/drop:February 4, 2017
Date items must be sent by:February 21, 2017
Number of swap partners:2
Description:

What can you make with 1,200 seconds?

Zines are having a moment again. They're little self published works of magic, on ANY topic(s) you want: poetry, politics, art, ideas, comic strips, stories, non-fiction, journaling, memoir, brain dump, drawings, even total randomness.

  1. Gather all of your paper crafting supplies, markers, glue etc.
  2. Set a timer for 20 minutes.
  3. Create a mini zine with all of your might!
  4. STOP when your 20 minutes are up.

A mini zine is made from 1 sheet of standard 8.5 x 11 inch paper. Fold it and cut it along one edge and BOOM you have 8 mini pages to work with.

Never made a zine before? Try it! You may get hooked! You may become a collector. For help with folding mini zines, check out these links. It's super easy; I promise!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4Pb5tLQ4NE

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/70579919136790530/

A suggestion: fold two sheets of paper into blank mini zines. You'll create on one and the other will be your template. Number each page of your folded blank mini zine template. Use big numbers. Unfold your template -- now you'll know which order the pages will end up once folded and you'll know which pages need to be created upside down. Use this to keep track of your pages while you make your zine.

Once you're all done, photocopy your zine and send 1 copy to each of your 2 partners. Spread your creation. It's gonna be great!

4.95 and above to play. Non-rated with detailed profiles may join. Message me with questions or concerns.

Discussion

Kraftylady777 01/18/2017 #

LOVE this idea, but I have a question: Do all the pages of the Zine have to be filled out ? The perfectionist in me feels like my Zine wouldn't be "good enough "

lawchick 01/18/2017 #

@kraftylady777 I'm sure your zine would be plenty good enough. ☺️ I think the aim is to send something that would resemble a complete zine. I don't think you should be rated down for not filing every page, but it should be the goal. Hope you'll join in and thanks for the question. 😊

jimmyconnors 02/ 9/2017 #

Hey, I'll use A4 (8.27 x 11.7) rather than Letter formatted paper, I guess that is okay?

lawchick 02/17/2017 #

Absolutely ok to use A4! (Sorry for late response on that.) :)

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