It's NaCraMaMo (National Craft Making Month)

[tangotabby]

I've signed up to motivate myself to get OFF the computer and back into my craft room. I don't know whether or not I'll actually post every day, but I do plan to CRAFT every day :-) Probably ATCs, because I know it's doable. (I did a 365 day challenge a couple of years ago and did manage to make one every day for over a year, so a month should be

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[selenic76]

Nice! I love your thinking, you can make these cards out of anything!

Is there any place already where you swap these with people? Or do they just pile up somewhere :D

[tangotabby]

They just pile up :-) Actually I have binders full of them (they fit in the holders for baseball trading cards), which makes it easier to flip through and look at them.

I worked at a rubber stamp/bead store a while ago, and used to do swaps with the craft group that met there, but the store went out of business and the group drifted apart. There are online groups that do swaps, too, but I'm just not really interested. It's different if I'm making something specifically for someone I know :-) but I feel too much pressure trying to make things for someone I don't know; and I worry it won't be good enough or they won't like it, and the pressure spoils the process for me.

[selenic76]

Yeah, pressure spoils many things for me too, which is why I tend to avoid things with deadlines or too strict demands.'

I don't want you to feel like you have to make anything for trade, but if you have some that you want to offer, now you can use the new comm for that too :) Even thought the ATCs were meant to be traded for other cards, surely they can be traded for other stuff too? I bet many of them would make nice cards, like for Christmas, birthdays, etc, and they would be so unique! ^_^