Penpals, Scrapbookers, Postcard Artists and Other Creative Types

[Tommi]

Originally Posted by Gemme

Methinks Lionpaw has usurped Ami for fastest project doer(s) now.

Arrrrrrrrre you reeeeeeaaadddy to ruuuuummmmmmmmmmmbbbble???

Yes.. I am rumbling with mine.

[Admin]

Hey All,

I hope this doesn't sound condescending or anything but I just wanted to tell each of you who participates in this thread how much I appreciate the spirit of community here.

I love reading the collective artistry and seeing you all share with one another and appreciate very much the friendliness and community spirit that I see happening here.

Much love to the Penpal, Scrapbookers, Postcard Artists, and Creatives thread!

xo

[Pixie]

Originally Posted by Diva

~Love the idea of having different chapters in the book and we all contribute something to those chapters.

~Love the idea of the base being the same size and we go no larger than that size. (Did Pix say a regular sheet of paper size? Like that!)

~I think ONE person collecting all our art ~ rather than sending the book around ~ is BEST. I seem to remember a couple of those pass-around books from the dash site getting 'lost'......um.....No. And did I read that Pixie is volunteering to take on this task!? WOW! <~~for you, darling

~So.....how will the chapters be chosen? What about this........... 6 chapters:
Chapter I ~ P
Chapter II ~ L
Chapter III ~ A
Chapter IV ~ N
Chapter V ~ E
Chapter VI ~ T

And that gives us pretty free rein, huh? You likey? (Though I'm on with Pure's idea of using some of the sketchbook themes, too. Even though I might be a little "Happy Thought-ed" OUT! <giggle> )

And maybe, for the cover, the swirly round logo dead center? Just a thought....

Originally Posted by Tommi

Theme: Welcome to Our Neighborhood
By
Penpals, Scrapbookers, Postcard Artists and Other Creative Types on ButchFemmePlanet.com

A coffee table book. (8.5 X 11 bound)
Submission Deadline: August 1, 2011 .
From 1 to a maximum of 4 pages
(Gives pixie time to photograph, compile, organize, and post pics in Raffle Thread)

No Theme: Any media, craft style, art, that fits on something that can be bound and contained within an 8.5" X 11" cover. Artist's license =Geopgraphic, artistic or personal, private, or professional work from our worlds, all genre in one book. Flat or 3-D


We are geographically so diverse and exciting, could be auto-bio, fact or fiction, writing, drawing, painting, crafting, photography of us, who, what, where, when.

Originally Posted by cara

Please see my replies below in orchid.

Originally Posted by Gemme

I think that we should choose the chapters in a democratic fashion and then all of us participating should do a page or so for each chapter. If we start soon, then we can do it over time, so it won't be so daunting a task.

We have 8 months if everyone wants to do a Reunion book.

Originally Posted by purepisces

I like the idea of doing a “book” where we all contribute a few pages. We could have one theme for the whole book or we could have chapters and have everyone contribute a page for each chapter.

If we wanted to gear it specifically for the reunion we could have chapters on: coming out, identity, acceptance, community, sexuality, family, etc.

Or we could do it more like the sketchbook project where you pick from a theme like:

I’m sorry I forgot you
Below the surface
A day in the life
Happy thoughts
Secret codes
Lines and grids
A record year for rainfall … etc.

I think it should be more than a monthly project. Maybe it’s something we can work on in the background of our regular projects. We’ll need to make sure we set a deadline that would give Pixie plenty of time to put the book together for us.

Originally Posted by amiyesiam

So are we just going to do the bash project or are we going to do a monthly one also?

I think we should have more time to do this, but not so long as to put it off and still be running late LOL

Do we want to start it now or do we want to do it as say a june, july, aug project?

What size do we want it to be? square rectangluar , big, med or small?

Do we each want to do a page or do we want to do the book thing and each do a "chapter" (2 or more pages)


Some of you did the sketch book projects what can you tell us about them?

Hiya everyone I was just wondering if we had decided how we wanted to do the reunion book..... I quoted some of the said ideas.....to help us choose

[Diva]

Originally Posted by Diva

Kids........

This is the 10th. And I have only received 11 packages.....Here is the list....

1. Diva (received)
2. Tommi (received)
3. Gemme (recieved)
4. katsarecool (Not received)
5. Cara (received)
6. ami!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (received)
7. Jennifer (received)
8. diamondrose (received)
9. lionpaw (Yolanda and Lisa) (recieved)
10. purepisces (received)
11. pixie (received)
12. LeftWriteFemme (received)
13. Ebon (received)


Sorta defeats the purpose to have them in by the 4th in order to have them to You by Valentine's Day....I'm mailing them Friday. No matter what. Just giving You a heads up, my lovelies!

I received Cara's late last night or early this morning! Thanks!

[cara]

Originally Posted by Diva

I received Cara's late last night or early this morning! Thanks!

Phew!!!!

[amiyesiam]

Originally Posted by Gemme

Methinks Lionpaw has usurped Ami for fastest project doer(s) now.

Arrrrrrrrre you reeeeeeaaadddy to ruuuuummmmmmmmmmmbbbble???

Ha! they are 2 and I am 1 and they have more time than me LOL

but they can have 1st place cause they are nice!

[Gemme]

Originally Posted by amiyesiam

Ha! they are 2 and I am 1 and they have more time than me LOL

but they can have 1st place cause they are nice!

I thought it was because you're busy knitting scarves for the Steelers team.

[amiyesiam]

Originally Posted by Gemme

I thought it was because you're busy knitting scarves for the Steelers team.

Not a steelers fan
and have been knitting LOL

[Gemme]

Originally Posted by Pixie

Hiya everyone I was just wondering if we had decided how we wanted to do the reunion book..... I quoted some of the said ideas.....to help us choose

I still like my idea of everyone doing a page for every topic/chapter, but if the majority goes another way, I won't cry....for long.

Tommi and Diva laid out the P L A N E T way of doing the chapters pretty well. I think that would give us a lot of leeway in terms of what each letter or topic means to us as individuals.

I also liked pure's idea of having chapters that had topics similar to that of the sketchbook project. I didn't participate in the project because I didn't want to spend the money to purchase the book, pour my heart and soul into it and then send it out into the world. I'm more possessive of my work than that would allow.

So, whether we break the chapters up into letters, numbers, hieroglyphics, or sketchbook-like topics, I'm in.

I think maybe we should consider some serious topics too, like gender and identity and silencing and acceptance. Since it's for a project for our community, I think there should be a visible tie from the book to the community.

I agree that the size should be uniform and something that's easy to do (not trapezoidal), so the 8.5x11 works for me. We should also remember to leave about an inch free from clutter and most decorative items, as it will be the section where it's bound. Now, I'm okay with it being on the left or top but I think I'll get too confused if it's on the right or bottom.

My .02.

[Gemme]

Originally Posted by amiyesiam

Not a steelers fan
and have been knitting LOL

I'm going to look at that as being half right versus half wrong.

[amiyesiam]

Originally Posted by Gemme

I'm going to look at that as being half right versus half wrong.

well that would be about half right!

[amiyesiam]

Originally Posted by Gemme

I still like my idea of everyone doing a page for every topic/chapter, but if the majority goes another way, I won't cry....for long.

Tommi and Diva laid out the P L A N E T way of doing the chapters pretty well. I think that would give us a lot of leeway in terms of what each letter or topic means to us as individuals.

I also liked pure's idea of having chapters that had topics similar to that of the sketchbook project. I didn't participate in the project because I didn't want to spend the money to purchase the book, pour my heart and soul into it and then send it out into the world. I'm more possessive of my work than that would allow.

So, whether we break the chapters up into letters, numbers, hieroglyphics, or sketchbook-like topics, I'm in.

I think maybe we should consider some serious topics too, like gender and identity and silencing and acceptance. Since it's for a project for our community, I think there should be a visible tie from the book to the community.

I agree that the size should be uniform and something that's easy to do (not trapezoidal), so the 8.5x11 works for me. We should also remember to leave about an inch free from clutter and most decorative items, as it will be the section where it's bound. Now, I'm okay with it being on the left or top but I think I'll get too confused if it's on the right or bottom.

My .02.

THANK YOU Gemme!!!!!!

this sounds good

1. so what we need to know is "Do you want to do a page in each chapter?"


If 10 of us sign up and each do a page in a 6 chapter book
that would be 60 pages plus front and back covers, and possibly a chapter " " page for each chapter for about 68 pages. This is a lot of pages. Plus bulk from the art work.

Pixie can you bind all that together?


2. Do we want to do the PLANET Idea?
Do we want to chose for our selves what each letter is for or do we want to decide together what each letter stands for?

3. Gemme is right there has to be an edge to bind or it has to be smaller than the page in order to mount on a correct size page

[nycfem]

I think that's too many pages because of the bulk of the art work. It's also a lot of work (still recovering from the sketch book project). What if we wait to see how many of us sign up and then based on that number figure out how many pages the book should have (maybe 30?), and then maybe each of us could do a page for a few chapters instead of all 6. Then we could have time to focus on quality vs. quantity and not be as overwhelmed. Just a thought from Princess Laziness

Originally Posted by amiyesiam

If 10 of us sign up and each do a page in a 6 chapter book
that would be 60 pages plus front and back covers, and possibly a chapter " " page for each chapter for about 68 pages. This is a lot of pages. Plus bulk from the art work.

[Tommi]

Jumping off place.

The Planet: A Book Created by Penpals, Scrapbookers, Postcard Artists and Other Creative Types

Chapters
1~P
2~L
3~A
4~N
5~E
6~T

Deadline to Pixie: August 1, 2011

SIGNUP Below:
1. Tommi
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Sign Up Cut Off Date: March 1, 2011
Submit as many or as few as the artist in you deems possible. Some chapters may have more or less. Art books especially, can be stochastic. Like Diva said, choose the letter for you. P=perhaps, postcards, persuasion, passion, people, purple, etc ...L=Life, Love, lovely postcards, lakes, lost and found, lemons = lemonade, and on and on. A=Anatomy, animals, etc.

1 page of your choice to coincide with the letters of PLANET (I know some may not feel up to doing 6 pages) Or up to a maximum of 3 pages each to the letter of your choice. Gender topics, astronomy, children, pterodactyls, painted, glitter glazed stickered scapbook swatches of any and all topics, just assign it a letter. Maybe just a beautiful poem or story, or photograph

Covered and Bound by pixie and presented to a lucky winner in Little Rock.

[nycfem]

Jumping off place.

The Planet: A Book Created by Penpals, Scrapbookers, Postcard Artists and Other Creative Types

Chapters
1~P
2~L
3~A
4~N
5~E
6~T

Deadline to Pixie: August 1, 2011

SIGNUP Below:
1. Tommi
2. Jennifer
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Submit as many or as few as the artist in you deems possible. Some chapters can have more or less. Art books especially, can be stochastic. Like Diva said, choose the letter for you. P=perhaps, postcards, persuasion, passion, people, purple, etc ...L=Life, Love, lakes, lost and found, lemons = lemonade, and on and on. A=Anatomy, animals, etc.

1 page of your choice to coincide with the letters of PLANET (I know some may not feel up to doing 6 pages) Or up to a maximum of 3 pages each to the letter of your choice. Gender topics, astronomy, children, pterodactyls, painted, glitter glazed stickered scapbook swatches of any and all topics, just assign it a letter. Maybe just a beautiful poem or story, or photograph

Covered and Bound by pixie and presented to a lucky winner in Little Rock.

[Diva]

Originally Posted by nycfembbw

Jumping off place.

The Planet: A Book Created by Penpals, Scrapbookers, Postcard Artists and Other Creative Types

Chapters
1~P
2~L
3~A
4~N
5~E
6~T

Deadline to Pixie: August 1, 2011

SIGNUP Below:
1. Tommi
2. Jennifer
3. Diva
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Submit as many or as few as the artist in you deems possible. Some chapters can have more or less. Art books especially, can be stochastic. Like Diva said, choose the letter for you. P=perhaps, postcards, persuasion, passion, people, purple, etc ...L=Life, Love, lakes, lost and found, lemons = lemonade, and on and on. A=Anatomy, animals, etc.

1 page of your choice to coincide with the letters of PLANET (I know some may not feel up to doing 6 pages) Or up to a maximum of 3 pages each to the letter of your choice. Gender topics, astronomy, children, pterodactyls, painted, glitter glazed stickered scapbook swatches of any and all topics, just assign it a letter. Maybe just a beautiful poem or story, or photograph

Covered and Bound by pixie and presented to a lucky winner in Little Rock.

Yea! This is gonna be a blast!!!

Oh hey.....what if we just wanna do all 6? Is that ok?

[Diva]

Unrelated.....

I just posted 3 pictures: Angel (a 16x20 piece), a close-up of the Angel quote and Battlefield (an 8x8 mirror)

[nycfem]

Tommi, I just want to make sure I am understanding. So, if I wanted to just do one page (as opposed to the option of doing multiple pages), then I could pick only one of the letters and do only one page and that would be my contribution to the book? Please post and cofirm YES or NO. Thanks, Jennifer

Originally Posted by nycfembbw

Jumping off place.

The Planet: A Book Created by Penpals, Scrapbookers, Postcard Artists and Other Creative Types

Chapters
1~P
2~L
3~A
4~N
5~E
6~T

Deadline to Pixie: August 1, 2011

SIGNUP Below:
1. Tommi
2. Jennifer
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Submit as many or as few as the artist in you deems possible. Some chapters can have more or less. Art books especially, can be stochastic. Like Diva said, choose the letter for you. P=perhaps, postcards, persuasion, passion, people, purple, etc ...L=Life, Love, lakes, lost and found, lemons = lemonade, and on and on. A=Anatomy, animals, etc.

1 page of your choice to coincide with the letters of PLANET (I know some may not feel up to doing 6 pages) Or up to a maximum of 3 pages each to the letter of your choice. Gender topics, astronomy, children, pterodactyls, painted, glitter glazed stickered scapbook swatches of any and all topics, just assign it a letter. Maybe just a beautiful poem or story, or photograph

Covered and Bound by pixie and presented to a lucky winner in Little Rock.

[Tommi]

Jumping off place.

The Planet: A Book Created by Penpals, Scrapbookers, Postcard Artists and Other Creative Types

Chapters
1~P
2~L
3~A
4~N
5~E
6~T

Deadline to Pixie: August 1, 2011

Like Diva said, choose the letter for you. P=perhaps, postcards, persuasion, passion, people, purple, etc ...L=Life, Love, lakes, lost and found, lemons = lemonade, and on and on. A=Anatomy, animals, etc.

[COLOR="Black"]1 page of your choice[/COLOR] to coincide with the letters of PLANET (I know some may not feel up to doing 6 pages) Or up to a maximum of 3 pages each to the letter of your choice. Gender topics, astronomy, children, pterodactyls, painted, glitter glazed stickered scapbook swatches of any and all topics, just assign it a letter. Maybe just a beautiful poem or story, or photograph

Covered and Bound by pixie and presented to a lucky winner in Little Rock.

[Tommi]

Originally Posted by nycfembbw

Tommi, I just want to make sure I am understanding. So, if I wanted to just do one page (as opposed to the option of doing multiple pages), then I could pick only one of the letters and do only one page and that would be my contribution to the book? Please post and cofirm YES or NO. Thanks, Jennifer

In my humble opinion , YES.