May Day-a-thon April 29 - May 3

[sniisk]

This is the May Day a-thon (ATART) on April 29 - May 3.

Sniisk is hosting. If you have questions, please put them in the thread. Answering PMs may take longer.

This a-thon will end when it's starting to look like Tuesday in the last timezone. However, don't take the given timelines too literally.

Because we are creating different sizes and forms of art here, it may be useful to inform others if your art piece differs from an ATC and is an inchie, a chunky or something else so we know the size.

Daily challenges (optional):
Fri: Spring, flowers, butterflies
Sat: Spring cleaning - finish cards you started, use items you've been neglecting, organize a part of your art space and then use something you had forgotten about and re-discovered
Sun: May Day, 1st of May, Vappu
Mon: Mothers and babies
Tue: Baby animals, after hibernation


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General a-thon info (for all ATARTs)

What IS an ATART?
It’s an All Types of ART marathon where you can create art, made over the same time in each time zone. This thread is going to be our crafting room.

HOW IT WORKS
Start creating art when it's time to start, then upload your lovely creations to your Athon gallery and post to the thread. Trading and chatting are going on all the time.
After all the trading is done move your creations OUT of the Athon Gallery and into their correct Galleries - 'Available ATCs' or 'Mail Art'

HOW TO ASK FOR A TRADE
When you find a piece of art you would like to trade, please SEND A PERSONAL MESSAGE (pm) to that person asking for a trade. Please DO NOT post requests for trades to the thread. It can get way too confusing.

Note: If you do make a trade, please be sure to send to your trade partner within two weeks. If you’re running late, communicate!

WANT TO COMPLIMENT AN ARTIST
And you will… remember you can click the You Rock button and leave it there. And we have "Like" and "Thank" buttons too.

HOW TO POST YOUR ART TO THE THREAD
From your atcsforall.com gallery:
It’s easiest to have two windows open.
1) Go to your gallery and open the image you want to insert.
2) Copy the row with [IMG] codes. (copy is ctrl+c and paste is ctrl+v in Windows)
3) Go to your post and paste the copies [IMG] code.
5) and then you're done.

Remember that images from the gallery can be small, medium or large. Find the word (or letters s m l) in the address and change it to 'small' or 's'.

NEW TO A-THONS? If you have any questions at all, feel free to pm me or post your questions to the thread. We have a lot of experienced art-a-thoners who are more than willing to help those of you new to this craziness.

[dsign49]

Thanks for the invite. I sure hope to play.

[fundygirl]

I'm excited to play this time since I was unable to participate in the last athon! Thanks for the invite!

[dithespy]

Bookmarking

[somnia]

Bookmarking!

[Seascape131]

Thank you for the invite...hope to play

[CastleQueen5]

I am glad you sent me a PM. I realize this is not a challenge hunt, but I am going to go invite others who might want to play. Starting with the CRRR and then with people I have traded with or who are new to swapping, and have joined swaps I was in lately.

OK only 15 minutes allotted to this task, then I need to work on some cards for swaps. OR I need to withdraw from the swaps.

[Tess True Heart]

This sounds like fun. Sign me up!

[AngelJoy]

Keeping my eye on this...thanks for the invite!

[sdowkes]

Thanks for the invite! I think I'll watch this one, so I can see what I need to do. If I'm right, I can make whatever I want - a tag, Skinny, postcard, ATC, etc., and I make something each day of the challenge. I'll have to practise how to upload pictures from my computer to this site (I do scan and put them on Flickr), and I also don't really know how to post "you rock" or anything else (except by a direct pm). So, best I watch and learn, for now. I might just do the challenge on my own, just for fun! Will I be able to find this group easily again?

[KESagers]

Checking in!

[Suzi]

Thanks for the invite! I hope to play!

[LuAnnP]

Nice to see some familiar avatars here. I shall be playing….

[nanner]

I'm subscribed and excited for this! Thanks for organizing, sniisk.

[theweavershand]

Thanks for the invite! I'll try to pop in.

[JustJayne]

Thanks for the invite. Looking forward to it.

[jo.on.the.go]

Looking forward to joining my friends here.

[CastleQueen5]

Thanks for the invite! I think I'll watch this one, so I can see what I need to do. If I'm right, I can make whatever I want - a tag, Skinny, postcard, ATC, etc., and I make something each day of the challenge. I'll have to practise how to upload pictures from my computer to this site (I do scan and put them on Flickr), and I also don't really know how to post "you rock" or anything else (except by a direct pm). So, best I watch and learn, for now. I might just do the challenge on my own, just for fun! Will I be able to find this group easily again?

You can find the link to the swap again under the USERCP, you can find the usercp, under quick links. Lots of links under that, but by clicking on USERCP, you can see all the threads that you posted a comment, which does subscribe you to the thread.

[nanvan]

Bookmarking - hope to play!

[sniisk]

As Castlequeen mentioned, this in a regular ATART. I will host my next challenge hunt in June. An ATART is open for everyone and you can create what ever you like. You can trade and do personal trades or make cards for swaps.

Does anyone have any ideas for optional challenges?