2010 Swap Calendar

[rlovew]

2009 Calendar: http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2028431

Sign-ups
January:
Jan 8- Magic Kingdom - Disney Is Terrific COMPLETE
Jan 14 - Sketch Page Swap- AlexWyattMommy COMPLETE
Jan 3- Embellishments(bought)- Mickeyteacher COMPLETE


February
Disneyland- Hopemax COMPLETE
Feb 25- AtoZ ATC's- Michi Belle COMPLETE
Feb 12 - school- Disney Is Terrific COMPLETE
Recipe- VickiV/PrettyinTink COMPLETE


March
4th-Disney Hollywood Studios- morgansmom2000 COMPLETE
12th- Sports/Activities- AlexWyattMommy COMPLETE
6th- Making Pages Swap- MazdaUK COMPLETE
6th- Prima Flowers- MazdaUKCOMPLETE


April:
resort- Hopemax COMPLETE
9th- Tags and Topper- AlexWyattMommy COMPLETE
April 30th Animal Kingdom- PrincessNancy96 COMPLETE
Autograph Pages- rlovew COMPLETE
Newbie- mla1977 COMPLETE


May:
ABC Disney Page Swap- Nemomom07COMPLETE
cruise- Michellepooh COMPLETE
Deco Squares- Michi Belle- postponed

June:
June 25- Character- Disney Is Terrific COMPLETE
June 2- Color- ZerotoHero COMPLETE
Paper Piecing- Hopemax COMPLETE

July:
1st - Disney Page Sketch Swap- AWM COMPLETE
5th- Epcot Elements- MickeyTeacher COMPLETE
23rd- Everyday- DIT COMPLETE

Card Swap - Morgansmom2000 COMPLETE
Card Candy Swap- morgansmom2000 COMPLETE
13th- Pass-It-Forward- mycutiepatooties COMPLETE

August:
7th ~rolodex Disney & Non - Partyof3 COMPLETE
7th - 4x4 Monthly Rolodex - Party of 3 COMPLETE
7th - rolodex address cards - Partyof3 COMPLETE
Dining- rlovew COMPLETE
Recipe- VickiV/PrettyinTink ~ on hold til 2011



September
Other parks- (seaworld, universal, and such)- Mom-to-2-Princesses COMPLETE
9th- ABC letter swap- AWM COMPLETE
slide mounts- Lovemy3kiddos/ PN96 (mentor) COMPLETE

October:
1st- Tag Book - AlexWyattMommy postponed til 2011 per AWM
Disney Duo/Couples - tyniknate COMPLETE
Holiday Elements- 123SA COMPLETE

November:
11/5 Surprise- LM3K

Due Dates:
January:
22nd- Out of the Parks
22nd- Epcot/DHS/Event Page Swap


February:
1st- Event Swap
Embellishment

March:
19th- Magic Kingdom
25th- Sketch Swap

April:
6th- prima swap
9th- school
16th- Making Pages
17th- Disney Hollywood Studios
30th- Sports and More

May:

June:
1st- Tags and Toppers
16th- Animal Kingdom

July:

August:
6th- Color
10th- Pass It Forward
27th- Character

September:
Paper Piecing ~ 9/24



October:
MAW/ABC ~ 10/8
Card Swap ~ 10/8
Card Candy Swap ~ 10/8
Dining Swap ~ 10/25
slide mounts ~ 10/29
Rolodex Disney & Non ~ 10/29
4x4 Monthly Rolodex ~ 10/29
Rolodex address cards ~ 10/29

November:
Everyday Swap ~ 11/5
Other Parks ~ 11/17




December:
ABC Elements ~ 12/7
Disney Duo/Couples - 12/10

January 2011
Holiday Elements ~ 1/19/2011
Surprise ~ 2/11/2011

Smaller Swaps- we are looking at adding 2 of these per month into the calendar. See first post above for hostessing guidelines. If a name is beside the swap they were the last hostess of the swap and they have first dibs in hostessing the swap again. If they post or pm me they don't want it I will take their name off the list for it. If I have a suggested time for a swap it is due to the fact that it is a swap were are in the process of doing or have just completed.
examples:

out of parks (fall time)
events (fall time)
pets
surprise

Technique Swaps (1 per month)- anything that is technique driven or more of altered art than for our books
examples
Shakers
Altered Paperclips
Paper Bag Albums
ATC- Michi Belle

Gift Swap (1 per month)- swap designed to be gifts for other
examples:
roladex- Partyof3
planners
Altered Binder Clips

Purchase Swaps (1 per month)- buy something and send it in, should be due within 6 weeks(for our international swappers)
Grocery Bags- Party of 3
Jar of Whimsy

 

[rlovew]

Hostessing:

Hostessing a swap:
1. Check in on your swap at least once a week.
2. Respond to questions promptly.
3. Once you have received items put them somewhere safe until everything arrives.
4. If someone's items are not up to standard let them know and work with them on correcting the situation.
5. Once you have the items divide them out for people quickly and mail them out. Make sure you are keeping on top of this and staying in contact as you do this.

Larger Swaps(Red): we ask that you have been swapping with us for at least a year before hostessing these- they take a lot of work to organize and divide. I am also asking for each hostess to limit themselves to 1 of these swaps for the year.

Other Swaps(smaller/technique/bought)- we ask that you have been swapping with us for at least 6 months and have participated in at least 4 swaps. I ask you to limit yourself to hostessing 3 of these for the year.

Thanks,

Rebecca

 

[PrincessNancy96]

sending PM
My first swap was way back in 2006!

 

[AlexWyattMommy]

I think we should include the hardest part about hostessing.

Telling someone when their items aren't made to the guideline minimums. Whether that be layer amounts, embellishment level, size, or quantity. If we don't tell the swapper, they can't grow. Style, colors, types of embellishment are not eligible for critiquing.

Examples {off the top of my head, not anything that really ever happened}

Making only one of the element when it states two. One mat or one border or one mini folder instead of two - same or mixed. Some swaps only require one and some require two, this is where you really need to double check each of your swaps before mailing them-I have done this myself and had to mail in the other items

Having only a single layer on a tag when it says it needs to be double matted.

Not embellishing a photo mat.

Only sending in one element choice when it states pick two element choices.


I am guilty of not checking items as they arrive. When I had two swaps due close together, I didn't want to mix up the items. Now that we are spreading out the hostess duties, this won't be an issue for me anymore. I will check the items as they arrive, so if there are problems, they can be resolved before the due date.

 

[PrincessNancy96]

Maybe not only PMing the swapper to explain... we should highlight in a different color and BOLD the amount needed in the sign up (maybe it's missed in all the wording)...
maybe it will grab their attention.... its an honest mistake and that is exactly what you are saying..... so don't think I'm insinuating anything else...

I have a checklist to make sure.... wonder where that is..
Double matted
Embellished once
Embellished twice
Topper/ 1 element
2 elements..


Boy, I am overly anal about getting things right... eeeeekkkk..

 

[AlexWyattMommy]

I'm sure they are honest mistakes. We aren't the only board that some people swap on and there may be different guidelines for those boards.

I take the sign up post and copy and paste it into Word. I then edit it down to - WHEN DUE/MAIL BY
- How Many Element Choices or Pages
- What Way Embellished (single, two, triple[ATC])
- The Element Choice Guidelines (bolding #PP)
- Just My Groups

Print it out and keep it with my swap ideas.

When I'm hostessing, I keep everybody's groups and print it out.

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

looks good Rebecca!!

I think we are going to have a busy swapping year ahead of us. I've seen a lot of great ideas.

 

[rlovew]

Bumping up for people to start filling in other parts of the calendar. Once again please let me know you first swap on the board wehen you ask for hostessing duties.

Rebecca

 

[PinballFamily]

I think we should include the hardest part about hostessing.

Telling someone when their items aren't made to the guideline minimums. Whether that be layer amounts, embellishment level, size, or quantity. If we don't tell the swapper, they can't grow. Style, colors, types of embellishment are not eligible for critiquing.

Great! This info would be helpful. As someone who has only joined the scrappy world (and the dramatic excitement of swaps!!!) in the past year, I'd echo the clarifications and maybe add "paper standards" to the list of specifications. I learned quickly about the different paper types, brand names, thicknesses, textures, etc. But some folks might not. Not everyone knows about 65# or 80# cardstock paper or whatever, but maybe some guidance like "Bazzill or equivalent weight cardstock" or something like that...IF that is important to the hostess or majority of the swap participants. Since a lot of the patterned paper can be flimsy/delicate, maybe require backing it with heavier stock, to at least protect it during shipping? Just thinking out loud...since no one wants so much effort to get damaged during mailing.

 

[morgansmom2000]

Rebecca, I'd like to hostess a card swap at some point in the year too. Just throwing it out there.

(I started swapping with the Rolodex ABC swap that NEE hostessed, not sure when that was exactly!).

 

[rlovew]

Rebecca, I'd like to hostess a card swap at some point in the year too. Just throwing it out there.

(I started swapping with the Rolodex ABC swap that NEE hostessed, not sure when that was exactly!).

That was 2 summers/falls ago- summer/fall 2008

You are listed as the previous hostess(you will find it under smaller swaps)- just post the month you want it and I will add it in.

Rebecca

 

[morgansmom2000]

That was 2 summers/falls ago- summer/fall 2008

You are listed as the previous hostess(you will find it under smaller swaps)- just post the month you want it and I will add it in.

Rebecca

Sorry, I must have skimmed over that. How about July? Will that work? I'm easy and can be moved around as needed

 

[hopemax]

Yes, I am still interested in doing the DL swap. I just hope that there are enough Disneylander's around by Feb, so many are still MIA.

I'll also do the paper piecing swap again, I am thinking summerish, after the DL swap is done.

 

[rlovew]

Yes, I am still interested in doing the DL swap. I just hope that there are enough Disneylander's around by Feb, so many are still MIA.

I'll also do the paper piecing swap again, I am thinking summerish, after the DL swap is done.

If Feb doesn't work when it comes up we can set it back later in the year- most people that are heavily involved in that swap don't do as much in the other Disney Park swaps.

I have paper piecing down for June for now.

Rebecca

 

[rlovew]

Sorry, I must have skimmed over that. How about July? Will that work? I'm easy and can be moved around as needed

I have got it down.

Rebecca

 

[party of 3]

rebecca,
i'd like to do the rolodex one and the bag one as well.
i'll think about dates and get back to you. is that ok?

 

[rlovew]

rebecca,
i'd like to do the rolodex one and the bag one as well.
i'll think about dates and get back to you. is that ok?

That is fine- I would suggest waiting till at least April for the bag one as you just finished that one up.

Rebecca

 

[mla1977]

I would like to do the newbie swap. I've been swapping for a few years here, but haven't hosted, so I will keep it small. I would like to have it be MK themed (since I don't have much for MK in my stash!). I'd like to start it at the end of April with it due in June.

If a spot for a recipe swap becomes available, I'd like to host one of those too.

 

[rlovew]

I have you down for the Newbie Swap in April.

Rebecca

 

[PrincessNancy96]

I'd like to take slidemounts in August if that would be okay!

Due end of Sept.

Are you making a list of the due dates too so we don't have them all ending at one time???