An arty-crafty zine!

Do you like to make stuff? Tell us about it! Make a zine with an art-y or craft-y theme. You could:

• show pics of your creations - tell us where your ideas and inspiration came from, what techniques you used etc
• give project suggestions, with your own instructions (& patterns/templates, if relevant)
• share your tips for a particular technique you use
• include materials or a kit to make something you have mentioned
• include small samples of something you have made
• talk about why art or crafting is important to you, and what inspires you
• or tell the story of your first, mis-shapen stuffie

These are just suggestions: you can write your arty-crafty zine about anything that you like and extra inclusions are not essential (just nice!). You could theme your zine (eg recycling, mail art, ATCs, sock monkeys), or you could focus on a particular technique (eg needlework, mixed media, printmaking, wire jewellery), or you could make it a crafty mish-mash of allsorts – whatever gives you enough material to work with!

Please use a minimum of 3 full sheets of A4 (/letter-size) paper, but you can present in whatever format you like. The easiest is just to fold your pages in half for a 12 page half-size zine, or fold in half again for a 24 page quarter-size zine.

You will make 3 copies of your zine, and send 1 copy to each of your swap partners.

Ratings of 5 or just below only, and at least 5 postal swaps. I will check through participants & remove people I think are a potential risk, so please PM me to explain any unjustified comments or ratings, and I will take that into account. There is quite a lot of work involved with this swap, and I don't want to see anyone disappointed in return. The sign up period is 1 week, and the sending period is 4 weeks, to give you plenty of time to work on your ideas, so get creative, and have fun!

P.S. For anyone unsure about how to make a zine, or what one is, check out this link P.P.S. If you tried this link before & it didn't work, please try it again - I've updated it, & it's very helpful. :-)