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Magazine Journal

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Swap Coordinator:martingale (contact)
Swap categories: Journals 
Number of people in swap:6
Location:International
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Rating requirement:4.96
Last day to signup/drop:January 15, 2014
Date items must be sent by:February 26, 2014
Number of swap partners:1
Description:

This is a month long journal which we will keep for our partner, but the twist is that each of the 30 entries needs to somehow incorporate a magazine cutting. It can be a picture, an article, words or anything else from a magazine. Then, each entry needs to somehow relate to the cutting or, vice versa, the cutting needs to relate to the entry.

I'd love you to be as creative as possible. The journal can be mostly written, it can be decorated, it can be mostly art or it can be a combination of all of them. Each entry can be different or you can theme the journal as you want. Entries can be anything from a comment about your day, to a poem, to a collage, to a story, to any random musings which take your fancy - see this as a completely creative exercise.

If you need some ideas for entries, how about:

  • Write about something you did that day and find a picture from a magazine which illustrates it and stick it in e.g. you walked the dog in the park, so find a picture of a dog.
  • Stick in an article which you enjoyed reading and write some commentary about it, or highlight the best bits.
  • Create a collage from random magazine cutouts
  • Write a poem using a magazine headline as the title
  • Find a book review in a magazine and then write your own thoughts on that book.
  • Use pictures to do a 'top 5' of something - foods, outfits, books...
  • Write a short story using a picture as the prompt

The key specifications are:

30 entries, each dated (you don't have to start at the beginning of the month, and as I am giving more than 30 days to complete this swap, they don't have to be consecutive)

Each entry must incorporate something from a magazine - any magazine and a mix of magazines is all fine

That's about it! Let your creativity flow! As this is a time intensive swap, I will be checking profiles carefully for 1s, 3s and late swaps and I will angel if necessary.

Discussion

grandmaroro 01/ 6/2014 #

Journal dimensions? Composition book, moleskin journal, or handmade??? Just need a size. Hate to use a comp for only 30 pages, but will if that is the requirement.

Tommy123 01/ 7/2014 #

what is the format of the magazine ? a4 ?or a5? or a mini zine ?

martingale 01/ 7/2014 #

Thanks for the questions. The journal can be as large as you like (obviously, this is an international swap so you will need to consider postage) but I would say no smaller than around A5. That said, it can be handmade of course.

I would expect an entry per page would be about right, although you can make entries longer than a single page if you like.

Tommy123 01/ 7/2014 #

i am just started ! :-) i really like this swap :-) i become so happy of this !

inamerica8 01/12/2014 #

Does the pages have to be in the original notebook/journal or can I take them out and bind them and make them a nice cover?

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