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Junk Mail Challenge ATC Swap

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Swap Coordinator:ChristineMM (contact)
Swap categories: Challenges  Art  Artist Trading Card (ATC) 
Number of people in swap:15
Location:Other
Type:None
Last day to signup/drop:February 28, 2007
Date items must be sent by:March 15, 2007
Number of swap partners:2
Description:

You will make 3 ATCs for 2 partners, send each partner 3 ATCs, for a total of 6 ATCs for this swap.

This is an ATC swap in which you are challenged to use junk mail for the main part of your ATC’s design. You may embellish the ATC with non-junk mail items or art mediums (ink, rubber stamp, paint, fibers, whatever you want!). Just have the main image or text come from junk mail. In other words 100% of the ATC does NOT have to be junk mail. Anything you receive in the mail unsolicited and not subscribed for is considered junk mail in my opinion—anything from charity donation requests to mail order catalogs to whatever. You can use the envelopes, the stamps that came on them, or the inside of the security envelopes, too. (You cannot use pages from magazines that you pay for.)

You may make your ATCs in any style or theme as you choose. You may use transfer techniques so long as the images etc. are from junk mail.

Artist Trading Cards must be 3.5 x 2.5 inches in size. The ATCs will be originals, no photocopies allowed.

Swappers must have a rating of 4.5 to take part although newbies are welcome. I have had way too many "no sends" lately. Anyone with a a no send to any of the swaps I host will be banned as well. It is not fair to not send your swaps. The "send by" date is the date the swap must be postmarked NOT the date it must be received by.

PLEASE DO TAKE THE TIME TO RATE YOUR PARTNERS. Per the Swap-bot guidelines, those who follow the swap rules should be given a rating of 5, those who send but don't follow the rules should get a 3 (I take that to mean also, the ATCs are received with a late postmark date) and those who send nothing should be rated a 1.

This is an international swap.

Thanks for playing!

Discussion

mcall 02/23/2007 #

I\'m snooping in my junk mail already. Thanks for hosting this ChristineMM.

Chinita 02/27/2007 #

I was going to host a swap just like this--I get so much junk mail!! Thanks for offering it.

ChristineMM 03/ 1/2007 #

Have fun swapping everyone!

AlteredAddict 03/ 2/2007 #

Sharon and Hannah I put my ATC's in the mail today.

StuffbySteph 03/ 3/2007 #

This was a fun challenge! Mine went out to Lorraine and to Jeannie this morning ;)

AlteredAddict 03/ 6/2007 #

I received my first set of ATC's in the mail today from Margot, They were great thank you and I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the Lion one - I'm a Leo:-)

Thank You!!! Theresa

AlteredAddict 03/ 6/2007 #

OOPS! Thank You for the book mark Margot it is very pretty!!

Thank You

boatingbelle 03/ 9/2007 #

Thank you Janet for the Junk Mail ATCs which arrived today.A nice set of cards - and extra bits! Regards, Margot.

FarStarr 03/10/2007 #

Cards are on their way to stixbrowntn and Stuffby Steph today. THanks ChristineMM, this was a fun challenge!

ChristineMM 03/12/2007 #

Joe B your ATCs went out today. Enjoy!

ChristineMM 03/14/2007 #

Mandy F your ATCs went out today. :)

ChristineMM 03/15/2007 #

PROBLEM ALERT I am going to contact the people directly to see if we can figure out a 'work around'.

Yesterday swap-bot list owner confirmed for me that one of our members deleted her swap-bot account after this swap was already in process.

I think this is a new problem for swap-bot and we don't have official rules for how to deal with this.

This person now has a track record of not sending out swaps. Her rating was fine when this swap closed out. Her swap bot id is "serenityrae22".

My goal would be to have the people who are supposed to send to her to NOT send to her. Those who are to receive from serenityrae22 should get the ATCs from the other swap members.

Please check your records and if you were supposed to send to "serenityrae22" be aware. I am going to do private messages now to the affected people.

Sorry this happened!

boatingbelle 03/16/2007 #

I am really cross that the cards I sent to this person are in effect wasted. If one of the disappointed receivers would like to get in touch with me I will send them a copy of the cards I sent out.

StuffbySteph 03/16/2007 #

FarStarr, your atcs arrived and they are great:-) I love the fact you did them completely with junkmail bits and I really appreciate the creativity :) Thanks very much!

FarStarr 03/17/2007 #

Christine, Thank you for the junk mail...I recd them today.

Steph, I'm glad they made it to you. Thanks for the note!

FarStarr 03/21/2007 #

I recd junk mail from littledragon today. Thank you!

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