[Gemme]

Originally Posted by GeorgiaMa'am

One more thing I would like to ask you all about:

For those of you who applied something wet (paint, glue, etc.) to your ATCs, how did you get your cards to lie flat? I did the best I could, but mine are definitely warped.

-Georgia

Okay, you have some options with this.

You can apply gesso to both sides before you start to paint/decorate/etc and that will help straighten the paper out a bit more.

Using dense or high quality paper helps too.

You can adhere the paper to something firm, like a cut piece of corrugated cardboard and that will help it maintain a flat shape.

Another option is to flip the piece over face down and leave a heavy object, like a big book, on top of the piece overnight.

Now, for the other issue.....

I'm all for clarification. In this particular wrangle, like nyc said, it's a little different because the project was based on a particular mail out date versus a particular receiving date. I'm not going to throw Breathless under the bus since her project isn't here yet for that very reason. Would it have been nice to have it by now? Sure, but Canadian/American postal services don't have a history of running especially expeditiously so there will be some leeway there.

It's about balance. If the project isn't here within a reasonable amount of time, then we'll have to revisit that because two weeks is the longest it's taken, in my personal experience, to get a standard package from point A to point B.

As for nyc's point about postage, I see things differently. That should be part of the decision folks make when they decide if they can participate in a round. I always take postage into consideration as well as time frame, materials, inspiration, theme, etc. I don't think it's out of line for me to ask how long it would take for a package to get to the UK or to Canada or wherever and to dish out a few more bucks, if necessary, to get it to the destination within whatever time frame it needs to be.

I think the changes are great because everyone that's considering participating needs to be crystal clear going into projects and rounds.