Penpals, Scrapbookers, Postcard Artists and Other Creative Types

[clay]

I got my vision board today! Thank you, Soft Silver!
It is so me. Great job!!

[nycfem]

Postage Stamp Project
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We all know what postage stamps look like, but what if we could design one ourselves? Let's see what we can come up with!

Parameters:

1. Make 1-3 postage stamps for each participant that signs up for the project.
2. The size can be any size from inchie size up to 5 X 7 for each stamp.
3. The theme is whatever you want it to be. Let's get creative!!
4. Be sure to have a denomination of your choice or "forever" on your stamp just like the post office.
5. Please include $7 with your project for the wrangler to send you back fabulous artwork from your friends in this thread.

Sign up is from now until Monday, Feb 20.
Due date will be March 19th, with a grace period ending March 26.

1. Nanners
2. Clay
3. Besame*
4. Nycfem
5.
6.
7.
8.

[nanners]

Bumping! Only 3 more days to sign up!

[GeorgiaMa'am]

Dear Everyone -

I received my vision boards in the mail today, and it was such a surprise! Y'all's thoughtfulness and caring really touched me. I'm still a little teared up.

I can feel the positive energies coming from your works. I so very much appreciate you all for thinking of me.

[Soft*Silver]

I have not received a vision board. I don’t know if it’s lost in the mail or it got delivered to a wrong address. Was there a tracking number?

[nycfem]

Mine arrived yesterday. Hoping you receive yours today!

Originally Posted by Soft*Silver

I have not received a vision board. I don’t know if it’s lost in the mail or it got delivered to a wrong address. Was there a tracking number?

[nycfem]

Bumping the new project! Being wrangled by Nanners!

Originally Posted by nycfem

Postage Stamp Project
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

We all know what postage stamps look like, but what if we could design one ourselves? Let's see what we can come up with!

Parameters:

1. Make 1-3 postage stamps for each participant that signs up for the project.
2. The size can be any size from inchie size up to 5 X 7 for each stamp.
3. The theme is whatever you want it to be. Let's get creative!!
4. Be sure to have a denomination of your choice or "forever" on your stamp just like the post office.
5. Please include $7 with your project for the wrangler to send you back fabulous artwork from your friends in this thread.

Sign up is from now until Monday, Feb 20.
Due date will be March 19th, with a grace period ending March 26.

1. Nanners
2. Clay
3. Besame*
4. Nycfem
5.
6.
7.
8.

[nanners]

Correction: Sign up goes until Tuesday, February 20.

[Soft*Silver]

I said I wasn’t going to do this, but I’m going to!


We all know what postage stamps look like, but what if we could design one ourselves? Let's see what we can come up with!

Parameters:

1. Make 1-3 postage stamps for each participant that signs up for the project.
2. The size can be any size from inchie size up to 5 X 7 for each stamp.
3. The theme is whatever you want it to be. Let's get creative!!
4. Be sure to have a denomination of your choice or "forever" on your stamp just like the post office.
5. Please include $7 with your project for the wrangler to send you back fabulous artwork from your friends in this thread.

Sign up is from now until Monday, Feb 20.
Due date will be March 19th, with a grace period ending March 26.

1. Nanners
2. Clay
3. Besame*
4. Nycfem
5.soft silver
6.
7.
8.

[Gemme]

Originally Posted by nanners

OK, so I love looking at new postage stamps when I go to the post office and I always think I could create one that would be awesome. My creative mind gets flowing and..... the new project (if everyone wants to try this) could be to make our own postage stamps.

1. Does anyone want to try this?
2. What would you like the parameters to be? (I'm thinking much larger than a normal postage stamp, because some of us would have a very difficult time doing something that tiny. My eyes aren't what they used to be!)
3. Should do 1 or a series of 4 on same page?
4. Feel free to make any suggestions, comments, or tell me I'm crazy...LOL!

And by the way, has anyone heard from Gemme? She hasn't been on here since 1-11-24 and I'm worried about her.

I'm here! lol Just doing that adulting thing by working tons and paying bills and being too tired to do much of anything else anymore.



Parameters:

1. Make 1-3 postage stamps for each participant that signs up for the project.
2. The size can be any size from inchie size up to 5 X 7 for each stamp.
3. The theme is whatever you want it to be. Let's get creative!!
4. Be sure to have a denomination of your choice or "forever" on your stamp just like the post office.
5. Please include $7 with your project for the wrangler to send you back fabulous artwork from your friends in this thread.

Sign up is from now until Monday, Feb 20.
Due date will be March 19th, with a grace period ending March 26.

1. Nanners
2. Clay
3. Besame*
4. Nycfem
5.soft silver
6. GEMME
7.
8.

[nycfem]

It was really nice getting too surprise GeorgiaMa’am with a set of projects she did not expect (the vision boards). How would folks feel about the wrangler gwtting to choose someone every project and secretly filling in the members of the project that we will be sending them a package too? It could be for someone who’s on a break or for Angie as the site leader, whomever the wrangler chooses, as long as they have been a part of the penpal community in some form, whether it’s doing projects or being on this thread. it just feels like such a special thing to do! I’m not just asking members of this project, but everyone in the penpal community, meaning people who read or participate, or who are on a break, etc.

[GeorgiaMa'am]

Parameters:

1. Make 1-3 postage stamps for each participant that signs up for the project.
2. The size can be any size from inchie size up to 5 X 7 for each stamp.
3. The theme is whatever you want it to be. Let's get creative!!
4. Be sure to have a denomination of your choice or "forever" on your stamp just like the post office.
5. Please include $7 with your project for the wrangler to send you back fabulous artwork from your friends in this thread.

Sign up is from now until Monday, Feb 20.
Due date will be March 19th, with a grace period ending March 26.

1. Nanners
2. Clay
3. Besame*
4. Nycfem
5.soft silver
6. GEMME
7. GeorgiaMa'am
8.

[nina03]

Hello beloved crafters! Nanners sent me a sweet text to tell me about this current project, and sadly I need to sit this one out. Max had scheduled/expected surgery this past Monday. Five days before that, I had unplanned surgery for something else. Thankfully, we have a lot of wonderful friends and family locally taking care of us. Pretty much as soon as I'm recovered, I'm going to a work conference out of town at the beginning of March. That all feels like a bit too much to juggle and still get my projects done on time. I don't want to risk being late, or not getting it done, so I'm sitting this one out. I really want to join in on the next one, though. Meanwhile, I hope you have fun with the stamps, and I look forward to joining you again this spring.

[clay]

Originally Posted by nycfem

It was really nice getting too surprise GeorgiaMa’am with a set of projects she did not expect (the vision boards). How would folks feel about the wrangler gwtting to choose someone every project and secretly filling in the members of the project that we will be sending them a package too? It could be for someone who’s on a break or for Angie as the site leader, whomever the wrangler chooses, as long as they have been a part of the penpal community in some form, whether it’s doing projects or being on this thread. it just feels like such a special thing to do! I’m not just asking members of this project, but everyone in the penpal community, meaning people who read or participate, or who are on a break, etc.

Jen...I have done this for some people, just surprise them on my own! They all LOVED being thought of.

I have also been included in getting surprised when I couldn't join in, and from some other folks on the Planet! I LOVE it so much when someone cherishes me enough to do that! Some was a drawing, once I got extra, as in a roll of washi tape, or a note card that warmed my soul, esp when someone took the time to do so! I have been sent Christmas presents in past. When I was diagnosed with colon/uterine cancer back in Dec 2011, one of our own crafters sent me a goody box for when I got home...books, a sweet card. I was so touched by that gesture!

So, this is a great idea.

[nanners]

SIGN UP IS CLOSED! READY, SET, GOOOOOOOO!


Make 7 (sets or singles) and send to me by March 19, with a grace period of March 26 or I'll let my cats play soccer with your beautiful stamps!The 7th one is for a mystery person who will get a surprise in the mail.

1. Make 1-3 postage stamps for each participant that signs up for the project.
2. The size can be any size from inchie size up to 5 X 7 for each stamp.
3. The theme is whatever you want it to be. Let's get creative!!
4. Be sure to have a denomination of your choice or "forever" on your stamp just like the post office.
5. Please include $7 with your project for the wrangler to send you back fabulous artwork from your friends in this thread.

Sign up is from now until Monday, Feb 20.
Due date will be March 19th, with a grace period ending March 26.

1. Nanners
2. Clay
3. Besame*
4. Nycfem
5. soft silver
6. GEMME
7. GeorgiaMa'am


"The rule is if one of our projects is received by the wrangler more than seven days after the due date, or one of us drops out of a project for whatever reason, that person is welcome to continue posting but is not allowed to sign up for a group project again until four months from the latest date that the project was supposed to be due. No exceptions. This rule applies to participants and to wranglers. Wranglers must mail out projects within one week of the latest date that the projects were supposed to be due. In addition to waiting four months before being able to join a penpal project, the person who has not met the latest deadline must post directly on the penpal thread within a week of missing the latest deadline stating that they have not adhered to the deadline (reason is welcome to be included or does not have to be) and, most importantly, the date on which they will be able to return to participating in the penpal projects. They must scroll back and add themselves to the bottom of the list of any other participants who have not met the late date for any project for 2023. If that is not done, then the member is welcome to participate in the thread with "thanks" and reps and thread chat but not to participate in any future projects for 2023. The reason for this is personal responsibility, so that we have a running record right on the thread that is easy to refer back to when needed. And for the purposes of clarification, if someone drops out before the deadline to sign up has been closed then they are not excluded from future projects because they are still following the rules.

Example: Bitsy misses the late date for a project. Within a week of that late date she must scroll down and find the most recent list of people who have missed the late date in 2023 and copy that list to a new post and add herself. Bitsy's post would look something like this:

'Sorry, I had the bird flu and missed the late date of 2/21/23. I can start participating in new projects on 6/21/23. I have added myself to the list below:

1. Tony (missed the late date of 1/28/23, able to participate 5/28/23)
2. Bitsy (missed the late date of 2/21/23, able to participate 6/21/23)

This rule must be posted in its entirety at the bottom of all new projects that are being wrangled so that members can thoughtfully consider whether we wish to commit to a new project."

CURRENT ON HOLD MEMBERS:

Zero, zilch, nada, everyone can participate!!!!

[Soft*Silver]

I don’t want Nycfemme to think I didn’t appreciate her vision board…. But I never did get it.

[clay]

Originally Posted by Soft*Silver

I don’t want Nycfemme to think I didn’t appreciate her vision board…. But I never did get it.

Oh no, I am so sorry, Soft!

She has a tracking # so should be able to check it out, where it went??

[Soft*Silver]

I’m sure nanners does have a tracking number. this is not her fault in anyway shape or form! The post office makes mistakes. It happens!

[nanners]

Soft Silver,

I thought everyone had gotten their vision boards…I threw away the tracking numbers. I feel bad about this and I’m so sorry. I do hope you get it soon.

Truth: one time when we did paint chip projects, the wrangler sent me mine back, but I never got them. I figured they had just gotten lost in the mail. But I received them one year later, no kidding!

Also, I have learned my lesson to be really sure about everyone having theirs before I throw away the tracking numbers. I’m so sorry.

[Bèsame*]

Originally Posted by nanners

Soft Silver,

I thought everyone had gotten their vision boards…I threw away the tracking numbers. I feel bad about this and I’m so sorry. I do hope you get it soon.

Truth: one time when we did paint chip projects, the wrangler sent me mine back, but I never got them. I figured they had just gotten lost in the mail. But I received them one year later, no kidding!

Also, I have learned my lesson to be really sure about everyone having theirs before I throw away the tracking numbers. I’m so sorry.

I think if you go back to the post office with the date you mailed and a zip code, it can be looked up.