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Decorative Paper Scrap Swap

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Decorative Paper Scrap Swap
Swap Coordinator:MissRuth (contact)
Swap categories: Paper Crafts 
Number of people in swap:102
Location:International
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Last day to signup/drop:February 27, 2010
Date items must be sent by:March 5, 2010
Number of swap partners:1
Description:

Round one was very sucessful, here's round two of the decorative paper swap!

This is a swap for those of you who hold on to lots of paper scraps to use in future projects, including cardmakers, ATC traders, Scrapbookers, bookbinders and multi-media artists! yes I'm talking to you!

I want this to be open to international swappers so that we have a chance to see interesting stuff from around the world. I'm limiting the size of the scraps so that postage shouldn't be too expensive - here's the guidelines

  • Scraps will be sent in a standard #10 business-sized envelope (the kind bills come in!) -No. 10: 4 1/8 × 9 1/2 inches = 10.5 × 24 cm - international folks, use whatever typical "long and skinny" envelopes that you use for business correspondence.

  • Stuffed envelope should only require the minimum amount of postage, one stamp for those inside the US, .98 for envelopes heading out of the country (international shippers, use letter post or airmail or whatever is cheapest, but not going to take months)

  • Size: as big as the envelope down to roughly 1/4 the size of the envelope, but no smaller please!

  • Please don't just send an envelope full of solid color paper - boring! Some pieces for collage are ok, but try to mix in some fun patterns.

  • No paper with pencil marks, erase marks, glue, tape, etc - rectangular pieces preferred! Trim them with some scissors!

  • You want to have the envelope be five layers deep - let me explain - either five pieces of paper that are as big as the envelope, or 10 pieces that are half the size of the envelope, or 20 pieces one quarter the size! Arrange them so the envelope isn't fat enough to be charged EXTRA.

Please take care when selecting your scraps - yeah, you might hate that ugly brown paste paper you created last week, but unless your partner's profile says "I just love BROWN paper" don't send it if you wouldn't be happy receiving it!

However, that being said, the swap is SENDER'S CHOICE, so no wish list. It would be great if senders read profiles though, to get a direction to go in.

The sending period is short - you should already have this stuff on hand, please don't buy any paper for this swap.

Open to Newbies who have a nicely filled out profile, but closed to anyone with 1s - I'm going to read everyone's profiles and I might ban you if you have too many unexplained threes.

Discussion

SaraswatiChB 02/19/2010 #

:-) I perfectly understand the "kind that bills come in", even though we have different letter formats... Perfect!

annychenghk 02/27/2010 #

Is partner list assigned yet?

Dafna 02/27/2010 #

I don't think so, I'm waiting too

MissRuth 02/27/2010 #

Partners aren't assigned yet! I stayed up too late watching the olympics last night ;)

I'll have them assigned by the end of the day - I have 96 profiles to go through - whew!

CraftyTweetie 02/27/2010 #

I have some really neat "digital" decorative papers that I can print out using a good quality jetink printer. Also, I often use papers from discontinued wallpaper sample books. Likewise, an artist friend of ours gives me very large scraps of homemade paper that he buys to line the beautiful stain glass memory boxes he makes. Can any of these types of papers be included in this swap? Thanks for the help.

Dafna 02/28/2010 #

I have a newbie question: partner assigned to me he/she also assigned to me?

girlwithoutaname 02/28/2010 #

not usually same partner assigned for such a large swap.You can check who is assigned to you by clicking on the rate your partners and coordinator.You won't rate them yet but it'll show you who's sending

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