Altered Text Journals #1

The idea for these swaps were hatched in the forum. Thought it was great, so here it is.

As always, you buy or make a pocketsize journal, fill the first two pages, and send it on to your swap partner.

When you receive someone's journal, you fill 2 pages and hold on to it until the next swap. Then you send it out to your swap partner. And so on.

The catch is: these are altered text journals. So you stick a book page onto the journal page and you alter it. Draw, paint, stamp - you know, artsy stuff. You are free in your design. You can go about it like those altered text ATCs, or you can treat it like an altered dictionary page, or you can illustrate the text, or you can just freestyle it. (By the way, this is a really cool site for inspiration.) Whatever you do, make sure it remains obvious that you used book pages. If you're going to cover it entirely with paint and pictures, there is no point in using book pages. So some text must show. The book pages can be in any language you like.

Official pocket sizes are: 13x20cm or 5x8inch. They can be a little bigger but not much, and they can certainly be smaller.

No more than 30 pages per journal, and you follow the journal owner's lead in regards to using front and back, spreads, front and front, etc.

You all know the drill, right?

(For the newbies among us, don't forget to put your address and email address on the front or back page so people know where to return it to.)