Altered Books RR

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About Altered Books RR

I started this group for a swap-bot altered books RR.
You're welcome to join the swap using this link:

www.swap-bot.com/swap/show/1350

I think it would be a great idea to have some other altered book photos as well, for inspiration, but I'll limit them, because the purpose of the group is to see our own books in process.

The rules:
The idea is for each participant to start their own art book, and send it on for others to create in. In the end, all books return to their original owners. This will be ongoing, and I'll open a new swap for this purpose every month. If you want to join:

1. Create your own book - it can be an altered book, a notebook, journal, scrapbook, boardbook - it's up to you. Design the covers, and anything else you want inside. You can choose your own theme for the book, too, but most importantly, include a page/cover with all your details, including your address, so the book can be returned to you.

2. Send the book to your current swap partner.

3. Once the swap partner receives the book, they'll have two weeks to create a page/ spread in it. If you received a book with a theme - stay within the theme. At this point, a new swap will be set up, and you'll send the book you now have, to your new partner.

4. If you've received a book and after you do your spread in it, it's complete - send it back to its original owner.

5. Be fair. The idea is to create creative pages. Show what you can do. Create fun, interesting pages! If you haven't had time to do anything in the book, that's fine. Just send it on to the next partner. Don't keep it after the send date.

I'm sorry, but I will only be accepting either people with a 5 rating (or if you think you deserve a 5 but don't have one, you can mail me), or people who have an online site/blog/flickr showing that they've participated in this type of swap before.

The swap is international. I've created a Flickr group for this purpose, so we can all post photos of the books!

Does it make sense? Let's play then! :)