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Recycled Food Packaging Postcard Swap

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Swap Coordinator:takinghearts (contact)
Swap categories: Crafts  Newbie  Handmade 
Number of people in swap:20
Location:Regional - USA ONLY - Sorry!
Type:Type 2: Flat mail
Last day to signup/drop:June 19, 2010
Date items must be sent by:June 26, 2010
Number of swap partners:2
Description:

Recycle cardboard food boxes into postcards for your partners. Postcards must have a note (could be a quick note) about yourself to receive a 5 rating. You will have two (2) partners to send to. Postcards must be sent naked (without envelope) and stamped.

Must have atleast a 4.9 rating. Newbies allowed with well-filled profiles. I will check profiles before assigning partners.

USA only -- if enough interest, I may set up an international version. Please let me know if you'd like me to make this swap and ongoing swap.

Discussion

alexalgebra 06/14/2010 #

Awesome!! I totally cut out the sides of a cookie box the other day because the design was PERFECT for a postcard :D

takinghearts 06/14/2010 #

I've been cutting up boxes for the past few days for this. :)

CraftyTweetie 06/15/2010 #

Although for this particular swap we need to use food boxes, many tissue boxes now also come with beautiful designs on them. Likewise, the wrappers of some food items are often quite fun and interesting, especially candy wrappers. For example, I just recently made an M&M themed bookmark for a swap using M&M stickers, the cardboard insert that came with them as the base, and images cut out of large bags of M&M's. It really looked cool, if I do say so myself. :)

joonberry 06/15/2010 #

Can we embellish the postcards with paint, other recycled bite, etc.?

takinghearts 06/15/2010 #

The postcards can be embellished as long as you can still see what it was originally from. :)

obsequies 06/17/2010 #

Aww, if you do an international one I'd love to join...this sounds fun ^.^

alexalgebra 06/21/2010 #

@takinghearts does that mean the brand name still has to be on it? I was going to cover mine up and integrate the box design in with something else.

aprettykitty84 06/21/2010 #

@alexalgebra I think as long as you can still recognize a character or a brand name or something like that, it will be fine. Like if you used a Trix box, you could cover TRIX as long as the bunny was showing, I think most people would recognize the Trix bunny. Does that make sense?

alexalgebra 06/22/2010 #

Oh, it's not a known brand. It's from a box of Trader Joe's cookies, LOL! It just had a really cool design on it.

aprettykitty84 06/24/2010 #

I would say go with your instincts. Make it look however you like as long as you can tell it was from a food box.

pennyblack 07/ 4/2010 #

What fun - will definitely be in if you decide to do an international version (o:

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