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Draw This Word - Handmade PC/Card

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Draw This Word - Handmade PC/Card
Swap Coordinator:IsadoraWing (contact)
Swap categories: Challenges  Art  Handmade 
Number of people in swap:15
Location:International
Type:Type 2: Flat mail
Rating requirement:4.95
Last day to signup/drop:September 1, 2012
Date items must be sent by:September 10, 2012
Number of swap partners:1
Description:

The object of this postcard game is simple: I will give an obscure, strange word from the more unused parts of the English language and you will draw an illustration of what you think it means on a blank postcard or blank greeting card without looking it up.

For example, if the word was "Kenspeckle", what would you draw? I might doodle a freckled Ken doll or perhaps a man named Ken speckling a canvas with paint.
Or let's say the word was "Smellfungus". You could go with the immediate vision of a mushroom with stink waves coming off it or perhaps a person very happily sniffing his feet. Mm-mm!

The point is, there's no wrong way to portray the word because you'll be illustrating it without looking it up first. On the back of the card, explain your thought process and how you came to the drawing that you did. As long as you receive a card with an image that was handmade and its corresponding explanation, you should rate a 5. You do not have to be a good artist; just a sense of humor and fun is required!

After you've made your card, you can look up what it means and have a laugh. It will be fun to see what your partner comes up with - maybe you will have had the same idea!

After sign-ups are complete, I will email out and post below the word that you will draw. You can use any kind of method to portray this word as long as the result is handmade, so collage and mixed-media are fine and dandy.

Participants must have been rated a 5 for at least 10 type 2 or 3 swaps.

Please message me or post below any questions.

Discussion

YayaStitches 08/24/2012 #

This sounds like fun but I am not rated for it yet. I will watch for this one again!

babynavyblue 08/24/2012 #

Are you going to email us the word or include it in the description??

IsadoraWing 08/24/2012 #

Yaya - great; I will be doing this again if I get a good group. :) Baby - I will be doing both.

ROCKIE 08/25/2012 #

Howt totally fun and creative!

ROCKIE 08/27/2012 #

My email HAS CHANGED...it is now= [email protected]. If you send it to [email protected] (that is on swapbot) then I won't receive it. SHould I drop?

IsadoraWing 08/27/2012 #

I think you can either leave it as is and I will amend the email list or you can drop and re-add because the system will have updated your email.

ROCKIE 08/28/2012 #

OH well I will try to get my new email on swapbot, until then you can leave it and amend it.

ROCKIE 08/28/2012 #

I changed my email address on my profile section. I hope it worked.

IsadoraWing 08/29/2012 #

Yep, it did.

ROCKIE 08/31/2012 #

Oh yeah!!! Thanks for checking.

IsadoraWing 09/ 2/2012 #

And this round's word to draw is:

venustation

Good luck! Don't look it up before finishing your drawing! Re-read the directions above carefully. Remember to give your partner a five if the card is on time, hand-drawn, and provides a rationale for how the sender came up with the drawing idea.

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