Altered Text Journal #2

Update Nov. 28, 2013: The send deadlines for all swaps that and around Christmas have been postponed to December 31. Update Dec 27, 2013: send deadline for this swap has been postponed with two more days on request.

If you're new, you buy or make a pocketsize journal, fill the first two pages, and send it on to your swap partner. You receive someone else's journal and you fill it with 2 pages of altered text, and you hold on to it until the next altered journal swap. Then you send it to your swap partner, and so on.

If you've joined before, it's the same as the above, only without the part where you make your own journal.

The catch is: these are altered text journals. So you stick a book page (or a newspaper page/clipping, or a magazine page/clipping, any text will do) 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.)