Pwetty Crayons!

oh this one is cute! i'm so in! is it okay if we fold our drawings to fit in the envelope?

would be allowed to send a box or pack of crayons too.. i found boxes of 24 crayons - crayola for .25 .. i bought 20 boxes...lol..

HAHAHA you can send crayons if you want... or colouring books, for that matter. It might be a neat idea to get hearts that way. :)

And - yes you can fold your pictures. Try not to fold them into a ridiculously small shape, but folds are a-okay because it costs 41 cents to mail a letter and 93 cents to mail a friggin manilla envelope (rant...)

-Jesse

I wasn't going to join any new swaps for a while.. BUT YOU CONVINCED ME. This one is AWESOME. :)

ps- I LOVE the olive green crayon. :D

What a fantastic idea!!! and I'm with Jessica Fancy, I love the olive green crayon... mine is a nub at the moment. Whee! An excuse to buy new crayons.....

What a very fun swap idea! I can't resist!

Totally cool swap! I just have to get it done without my kids stealing the crayons. Or the colouring book.

any particular theme for the colouring page? Or is it down to us to decide. I love this swap!

I'm very excited and can't decide which one I should color!

Only crayon? so no crayon batik then, since you have to use a bit of paint too.. darn.

Crayons only. The point is not to be super crafty, dreamerkins, it's supposed to be childlike and innocent - remembering the days when you could colour for hours and not get bored. Also - did you know that colouring has been proven to reduce stress? :O

ALSO! You can pick any colouring page you want - or you could draw your own picture! Doesn't matter what image you draw/colour, but please nothing.. gross. Use discernment. :P

-Jesse

OH. :D

I'm on a colouring frenzy. I always buy lots and lots of boxes of crayons.. for no apparent reason, during school supply sale time. Hooray for this swap. :) It's a good lift-your-spirits, fun kind of thing.

I would love to do two partners. I think we'd have plenty of time to do two coloring pages.

If anyone else wants 2 partners.. if a bunch of people want it, I'll change it. :P

-Jesse

Yes, two partners! I love this idea, I haven't used crayons since I was little.

I'm not an artist by any stretch but love to color. I just went out and bought a brand new box of 96 crayola crayons. I've told my kids they are off limits and belong only to me. Ü How detailed of pictures are you thinking? Not sure where to find detailed coloring pictures online. I keep finding kids sites with very basic pictures. Any ideas? Thanks. Ü

LvPoohBr2- I found if you search for Art Nouveau, it comes up with a lot of really detailed pics for coloring. Art Nouveau is an art style that incorporates both realism and line drawings. Alot of them are black and white, and perfect for printing out and coloring. You can search them through google, or if you like fantasy, try looking on elfwood.com, and use their search engine to search for Art Nouveau. I found lots of beautiful pics dying to be colored.

thanks for help. Ü

Haha you people and your fancy artsy ways.... I'm just colouring lisa frank pictures. Cough.

-Jesse

I did one artsy one and one cutesy one. I never thought about Lisa Frank. I'll go see if I can find some of hers on line. Ü

I vote for two partners!

2 partners it is, then! :)

I really liked this idea, but since the number of partners has increase I will have to drop as I just can't justify the cost of postage anymore.

Just a quick request, if anybody changes details of swaps such as the deadline and number of partners and things can you inform the participants, I only picked up on the increase in partners when compiling a spreadsheet for all my swaps and if I hadn't I would have been stuck sending to both partners.

You're right, that was unfair of me. And I noticed that once it went up to 2 partners, the number of people signed up dropped. I think I'll be changing it back down to one partner because it's not right for me to go around changing the swap once it's already set up.

-Jesse

http://www.janbrett.com/activitiespagesartwork.htm

Here are some fun coloring pages!

http://www.maryengelbreit.com/FreeFromME/ColoringPages.aspx

Here are some more great coloring pages!

Hmmm. I don't see how anyone would consider this swap expensive to send. We can just fold our completed picture and mail it like a letter, right? Or maybe I missed something?

i love coloring. i am mostly doing this so i have an excuse to not be doing anything but coloring.

it would be cool for my partner to make their own humorous coloring page. i will give you a heart if you do that :)

I just went and bought some new crayons blush - They are Crayola Twistables, I can't wait to get started!

I use the olive crayon!

weren't we supposed to get our partners today?

Tamipal - yes you can fold it like a letter, but some people who live in other countries, it costs a lot to mail overseas. In America it costs 90 cents to mail (almost a dollar) a regular letter overseas, and I could see how someone could afford to send one of those letters, but not two.

Boxsquat - swap-bot doesn't let you assign partners until like 12:01 on the day AFTER sign-ups... that way people have a whole day on the final day of sign-ups to be sure if they want to join or not.

Partners will be assigned shortly - I'm going through profiles now. :)

-Jesse

Thanks for the clarification, Candy Star. It is a shame postage is so expensive.

first to send!!! yay!!

gck: Your swap is on it's way from Southern California. Ü

Hi Gayle! Your swap is on the way from Canada!

Merozoite your swap is on the way

Jesse, yours is headed to you :)

Also, I have received from gck

godda love the lisa frank coloring books with beautiful pictures and tear in share pages..

mines been mail. enjoy

These went IN my mailbox today, but the mail has already ran, so they'll be out on Monday! BTW - I leave tomorrow for vacation until NEXT Saturday. So, that's the reason I wont be reading/responding to messages! Maybe I'll get lucky and pass up an internet cafe.

Ahh! Okay, so I just went to buy my copy of the 7th Harry Potter book, and found the Harry Potter Deluxe coloring book with pages from all five movies. I'm re-doing my package now so I can use these sheets. Whee!~