HandDrawn/ HandPainted Watercolor Bookmark Swap - Due July 28, 2023

[locatray]

Swap Due Date – July 28, 2023
Sign-up Deadline – July 17, 2023
Withdrawal Deadline – None; just communicate via PM or this thread.
Number of Bookmarks – 3:3
Number of Participants – unlimited
Medium/ Theme – HD/ HP only (ink to outline is a-ok!)

Welcome to HD/ HP Watercolor Bookmark Swap!

Bookmark Guidelines:
1. Size is 2 inches by 6 inches. Use watercolor paper, if possible/ not required.
2. Each bookmark must be original and unique. Send art you’d be happy to receive!
No white backgrounds. No stickers. No bulky embellishments.
3. Do not attach a string or ribbon to the top. Do not punch a hole in the top. If recipients want to, that’s okay, but for mailing purposes, please keep your bookmarks FLAT.
4. Each bookmark should include on the back: your AFA username, date of creation, your location.
5. The subject of the bookmark drawing or painting is up to you! Anything goes.

Mailing Info:
1. Please mail bookmarks in a business sized envelope, protecting the lot of bookmarks with a simple piece of folded paper.
2. DO NOT BEND your bookmarks.
3. You may send a SASE, or an address label and postage. Either is fine.
4. If you are mailing from the U.S., one Forever stamp will cover the cost of returns.
5. If you are mailing internationally, please provide either 1 Global U.S. Forever stamp or 1 well-concealed dollar bill. If you do not have either, I will cover you. Please do not let this stop you from playing in the swap. International artists are welcome!
6. When you are ready to mail your art, please private message me for my address. If you have it, it has not changed.
7. A host bookmark would be greatly appreciated and loved, but is not required.

Feedback:
1. iTrader for me, your host.
2. You Rock/ Rep Points for artists of the bookmarks you receive.

Calling all bookworms! Who wants to play?
1. CiCiCreates
2. Terri F
3. wildholly
4. zhouzhou - withdraw
5. jo.on.the.go
6. 14CarrotGold
7. nanner
8. Tafkabecky
9. Evalila
10. catladybj
11. CherylS
12. JustJayne
13. ruthe
14. Makitso
15. dina54
16. YumYumTastyRocks
17. stacy
18. TrinaLD

[CiCiCreates]

Please sign me up!

[locatray]

Happy to have you, CiCiCreates!

[Terri F]

I would love to join please

[locatray]

Wonderful, Terri F! Thank you.
I am near certain that both you and CiCiCreates were in this swap the last time I hosted it -- In Oct 2012!

[CiCiCreates]

Sorry, I didn’t join AFA until 2015. But I think I did a bookmark swap hosted by BexMadeMe sometime after that. I love bookmarks (especially artist-made ones), I have a whole envelope of them in my bookcase!

[wildholly]

Add me please.

[zhouzhou]

It's been a while since I've made a bookmark! I am trying to catch up on cards, etc. I owe, but I think I'd love to sign up for this swap!!!

[jo.on.the.go]

Thanks for the invitation. I would like to join. I always have 3 or 4 books that I'm reading simultaneously, so I know that nice bookmarks will be used.

[locatray]

Welcome, wildholly, zhouzhou, and jo.on.the.go! I am really happy to have each of you.

For all: Tell us the book(s) you are currently reading!
I am nearing the end of Little Bee by Chris Cleave (2008) and it has been excellent. My book club is reading Oona Out of Order, which I have also enjoyed. It's quirky.

[jo.on.the.go]

I just finished re-reading Mists of Avalon, a story about King Arthur, told mostly from the point of view of his half -sister Morgaine. I am a big fan of King Arthur stories. I first read this book perhaps 30 years ago. My kids always say, "Mom, why do you keep reading stories about King Arthur? You know how it will turn out!"

I am currently reading Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn. It is a historical novel based on the life of a woman sniper for Russia, fighting against the Germans during WW II.

[wildholly]

I am currently reading, Bad Girl Creek by Jo-Ann Mapson. I love this book! The setting, a flower farm in California, follows four women's lives. Heart, wit, and lots of grit!

[kwailin777]

I'll be a lurker turkey for now...but I'm very interested!

[nanvan]

Thank you for the invitation - I'll lurk. I get very anxious when I join an HD/HP swap, since I mostly do collage. I'll see if I can make something I'm happy with, before I commit.

[Terri F]

I am currently reading, Bad Girl Creek by Jo-Ann Mapson. I love this book! The setting, a flower farm in California, follows four women's lives. Heart, wit, and lots of grit!

That sounds like a great book wildholly. I am gonna have to check that out. I am almost done with The Invention of Wings. , soon to start Where the Crawdads Sing

[14CarrotGold]

I’d like to play locatray.

I enjoy art tucked in a book page.

I’m reading ‘The Creative Act: a Way of Being’ by Rick Rubin. It’s been a fast read and reminds me of Julia Cameron’s writings and Elizabeth Gilbert’s ‘Big Magic’. Rick Rubin has a matter of fact tone and style that’s easy to read.

I picked up 7 watercolor books from the downtown public library yesterday!
I also enjoy reading and audio books on Libby but I won’t need bookmarks for those.

[14CarrotGold]

Terri F, I have not read Where the Crawdads Sing but I love fiction that includes naturalist themes. I recently finished a collection of short stories by Barbara Kingsolver and have Demon Copperhead on the bookshelf ready to crack open and start. I’ve love all of her characters and settings.

[locatray]

14CarrotGold, I'm happy to have you! Welcome!

[catladybj]

Lurking

[nanner]

Sign me up, please! Bookmarks are the best.