How about... a page swap?

Should be inexpensive which... rocks my sox...
and everyone who joins will end up getting lots of unique pages that they can make a neat book or journal out of.
It would be spectacularly cool if we could keep this list going and continue this on and just keep switching partners!!!
We've started now, and new people are welcome to join once a month when we change partners.

Basically... you want to make or decorate four 5.5x8.5" sheets of paper - this way everyone gets the same size and can make a book out of all the ones they receive - ok? - that's equal to two regular 8.5x11" sheets of printer paper cut in half...(here in Canada anyway LOL), by the way.

You take your paper... you decorate it however you like... paint it with tea and bake it... draw on it, paint it with watercolors, emboss it, cross-stitch on it... whatever you want. Just try and make sure that it's able to be written on after, so that the receiver can use it in a journal!!! Happy

HOW DOES IT WORK?:
FIRST SWAP ONLY: YOU ARE MAKING 6 PAGES TO MAIL TO YOUR FIRST PARTNER!
After the first swap, you will make only 4. You'll receive 6 pages in the mail, choose 4 to keep, and 2 to send on to your next partner. You'll then make 4 new ones, and mail those 4 sheets ALONG WITH the remaining 2 pages that were sent to you originally. Make sense?

Example:
Mary receives 6 pages from Jane. abcdef
Mary keeps 4 of those, and makes 4 new ones. (abcd) ef [ghij]
Mary mails the 4 new ones AND the leftover 2 old ones to Tina. ef+ghij
Tina receives 6 pages from Mary. efghij
Tina keeps ANY 4, and makes 4 new. (fgij) eh
Tina mails 4 new ones with 2 old ones, to Paula. eh+klmn

LOL... does my weird example help at all?

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84 replies since 8th January 2009 • Last reply 8th January 2009

Reply #1:

I'm not sure about it but I think I read almost the same swap in an older swap thread here..
So I think the guys here already had that swap going..
Well but think I remembered it in a kind of book way..

But all in all a super cute idea ^^

*yay*

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Reply #2:

cool im up for it !

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Reply #3:

This sounds fun, I am in Happy

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Reply #4:

i am confused...is this like making a page out of a scrapbook or is it going to go in album or do we just end up binding them once we get the pages from everyone? ( my brain hurts, little miss emma decided to keep me up all night long)

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Reply #5:

the last thing you said was what I was going for, Sug.
Jessayah... a girl is sending her OWN book around and posted that...
If there was one about making pages to send to eachother I missed it

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Reply #6:

oh cool so we keep one page and pass one on? then keep doing pages with others until we all have a journal !
i think ?

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Reply #7:

It will take a long time (to have a journal), but I'm in! Ü

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Reply #8:

lol..sorry zoe shouldn`t sound rude.. Like I wrote..I wasn`t sure about it ;)

I think it`s a good idea..

So now I get it..
You want us all to have a few unique pages for a little scrapbook later,right?

We paint something..(2 pages in 4.25x5.5" ) then we send them to the next person.
He/or she keep it and send his own one to the next person.
Then we change Partner from time to time and do this again and again,until we have enough pages for a journal,right?

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Reply #9:

I had to read it 3 or 4 times before I got it but I'd love to do it. I Already have ideas brewing! We can do pretty much anything right?

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Reply #10:

I want toooo!

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Reply #11:

canwestartcanwestarrrrttt im gonna work on mine when my boy naps this afternoooon ! Happy

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Reply #12:

oh poop he slept for half hour! (to hot 35 deggrees!!!0) will start tommorow

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Reply #13:

sounds good! count me in!

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Reply #14:

Sounds like fun, I'm in!

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