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January Mini Zine

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Swap Coordinator:nataliefox (contact)
Swap categories: Art 
Number of people in swap:16
Location:International
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Last day to signup/drop:January 1, 2015
Date items must be sent by:January 31, 2015
Number of swap partners:5
Description:

Everyone will have the entire month on January to make a mini zine. This is a zine that uses only one sheet of paper, with your design on one side. This means that it can be folded to make your mini booklet without any staples, etc. You can have the zine about absolutely anything you like. This is super easy. Of course everyone should make an effort to make the zine as good a quality as possible, but essentially all you need to do is cover no more than one sheet of paper and then photo copy it.

You can do this if it's your first time making a zine or if you are super experienced. My idea is that I will do this swap every month. That way, if you wanted to give your zine a title and start from issue one, you can. Or you can plan to do one off's and join in which months you feel like. Having a small craft project once a month though, I think give you enough to keep you doing, but this isn't too time consuming.

So, you have the entire month of January to make and copy your zine. Then all you have to do is send it out!

The swap is international. You will send the same zine to 5 different people. Please rate a 5 if you get a mini zine, unless of course it is very obvious that the sender has made absolutely no effort. This is not newbie friendly, and I will remove swappers with too many 1s or 3s.

Let me know if you have any questions or other ideas!

Discussion

beenebag 12/30/2014 #

Shouldn't the mail deadline be a few days after Jan 31st, so we have time to make copies and get them in the mail? Maybe a week? Thanks.

nataliefox 01/10/2015 #

@beanbag - sorry I only just saw your message. I will make the next swap so that the deadline is a few days after the last day of the month

beenebag 01/16/2015 #

OMG...I just realized that this is NOT the mini zine swap I thought I was doing!!! I thought this was the day-by-day zine so I've been keeping a journal of sort as my zine!! Sheesh. OH well, I guess that's my theme for this zine:) HA! I think @soyprincesa2 is the host of the day-by-day zines. Anyway....that's why I was so concerned about the mailing date being on the last day:) You don't need to change anything!!!

fawnscrafts 01/21/2015 #

what exactly is a mini zine?

I have been told it is a mini type of magazine.

But the description in the swap reads like it is a paper folded in a manner that can make it like a blank notebook.

nataliefox 01/27/2015 #

@beenebag haha oops!! Well I guess what you send doesn't matter, so long as it's a zine. It also kills two birds with one stone if you can use what you've done for more than one swap @fawnscrafts yes a zine is a homemade magazine. A mini zine can be made out of one sheet of paper that's been folded to be in s book form. However you can also make one out of several sheets stapled together

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