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A-Z crafting Compendium Letter A

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Group:Crafting Queens
Swap Coordinator:TAnn (contact)
Swap categories: Crafts  Art  Journals 
Number of people in swap:5
Location:International
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Last day to signup/drop:March 31, 2010
Date items must be sent by:April 14, 2010
Number of swap partners:1
Description:

Hello Queens

Bear with me I am making this up as I go along.

I have always wanted to make a journal about the A-Z of crafts and have been putting it off forever so I thought why not make it into a swap.

There will be a new letter posted each fortnight (alphabetically) and the idea is you make a page all about crafts of any kind starting with the letter of the swap.

The pages should be a standard size so we can paste them into our jounals when we receive. I thought to fit in a 11.5 x 8 book would be fairly standard

So what do you need to do.

Create a least one page about a craft beginning with the letter A. For each letter you should include either A finished product,(ATC, bookmark, Inchies, Dottees, etc) A photograph of a finished product (obviously for larger projects or your prize winning oil painting LOL etc), or a pattern to follow (knitting, crochet, cross stitch, recipes etc). Any type of crafting is acceptable.

So for A you could do an ATC. Explain all about ATCs and include a finished ATC, or you could to an Art Journal page, explaining the background to your page and including a photograph of one you have already done.

The A could also stand for a technique rather than a finished product such as Alcohol Inked...... something.

I have said every 2 week for the next swap to go live but I am happy to change this (please comment below) as it could take a long time for our journal to be complete. Or we could do more than one letter at a time.... I am completely open to suggestions.

So in summary one (or more) pages about a craft starting with the letter A, with an explanation and example, to one partner.

International

The boring bit....No newbies for this one (sorry) no one or threes in the last 3 months and a rating of 4.95 or above with 10 complete type 3 swaps. I know that may seem harsh but this will be a very time consuming swap.

Any question please post below.

Discussion

iLoveMail 03/22/2010 #

Great idea for a swap! I have a question: can we use instructions printed from the internet or a how-to page from a magazine, or does it have to be entirely handmade? I don't mean just gluing something to the page, but just something to make it easier to finish, giving us more time to decorate/embellish or write notes on the page. Does this make any sense?

TAnn 03/24/2010 #

Yes it makes sense. As you have explained it, not just gluing a page in and calling it done, then yes printed instructions will be OK to use.

kiwivandal 03/24/2010 #

I'm a little confused, so we make the craft we are describing (say an ATC for example) we inclue the instructions and a picture on teh page only, or do we include the actual ATC also?

TAnn 03/24/2010 #

If you are making something small like an ATC yes you include it on the page. If what you are writing about is too big for a page then you include a picture or a pattern to use.

ducktapegurl 03/24/2010 #

This swap sounds so fun and I think it will really help me branch out and try new crafts!

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