About The Zines Swap...

By now I hope potential participants have 

figured out the construction process.  

Once you make a zine, it gets easier to do again.

At first I couldn't decide on a theme for my zines, 

but as my attention wandered I noticed 

the two kitchen trash bags 

filled with scraps and snippets and 

images from magazines which have been 

sitting on the art room/craft room floor 

for many, many months. 

I'm embarrassed to admit that.

What I eventually chose to do 

was to mostly limit my zine designs 
to using bits and scraps that had 
been accumulating.  To begin with, 

I selected Gelli Plate prints 

from my rather large stack to use 

as backgrounds for these little booklets.  

The zines I've been putting together have 

turned out to be loosely color-themed:   

I have been collaging words or images to match 

or coordinate with my booklet backgrounds.
This is just one of many ways
to create a zine.

I hope everyone in this group swap

 has found inspiration to make something 

interesting, delightful or entertaining 

to share with the rest of us.  

Two participants besides myself 

have already sent in their art.  I can tell 

that this will be another wonderful 

group swap.  :)  

Honi