September 2025 Prompts Swap, Due September 25 2025

Tafkabecky

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Swap Due Date - in my mailbox by September 25, 2025
Signup date - sign ups will close on September 15, 2025
Withdrawal date - none, but please communicate
Number of Cards - 3 for 3
Number of participants - unlimited
Medium: anything handmade with love. Please no metal and no bulky heavy embellishments.

Edit August 4, 2025: Issues at the post office are getting worse, not better. Extremely slow mailing times and almost everything I've gotten in the past 2 weeks has been damaged. Please consider this before signing up and/or mailing. Mail early, and tape your envelopes. I am just now getting stuff for last months swap that was mailed 3 weeks before the due date. One of them was an empty envelope and the other had one card and a torn return label in it. This is extremely frustrating since our hobby requires the USPS do do their job efficiently. There is little we can do about this. Please mail early, and tape your envelopes, then cross your fingers and hope for the best.

September 26, 2025 All returns will go out tomorrow. Thank you!

Edit to add: October 20, 2025- I will archive this swap on October 30, 2025. Thank you!

***KINDLY PLEASE READ EVERY WORD OF THIS SWAP, IVE HAD A HANDFUL OF PEOPLE NOT READING THE GUIDELINES. THANK YOU!!!

September 2025 Prompts:
  1. The color Yellow should be displayed somewhere on each card
  2. An image from a book or magazine
  3. Part of a food label/packaging
***All 3 prompts should be on all of your cards. All of your cards should display all 3 prompts. You may add whatever else you want, but must include all 3 prompts. ***

The subject matter is up to you :-)
*No religious or political ATCs. Please and thank you.

Requirements/Guidelines:
  • 3 different ATCs, MADE WITH LOVE by you. (can be very similar to each other) Please make sure to send cards that you would be happy to receive. Art is very subjective, but your cards should not look like a child has made them.
  • You must sign up by leaving a comment here in this thread telling me that you would like to sign up. Please do not ask to sign up through a private message. Thank you.
    Each ATC should be in their own plastic sleeve. If you do not have plastic sleeves or are unsure about what type of plastic sleeves are appropriate please send me a private message. We will work it out :-)
  • On the back of your ATCs neatly print : Your real name, USER NAME, swap name, your location, date you made the card. (and any other info you wish to include)
  • Please, no plain white backgrounds.
  • No childrens stickers, and let's try to limit the amount of stickers we use.
  • NO BULKY OR HEAVY EMBELLISHMENTS, THIS INCLUDES METAL. NO METAL. ATCs with bulky/heavy embellishments or metal just do not mail well. They usually arrive damaged and/or the envelope it came in is damaged. Sometimes it's ripped so much that the cards are almost falling out. So please, NO BULKY EMBELLISHMENTS. Bulky is anything thicker than a coin. This helps everyone, including the postal workers. Thank you for reading this.
  • 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" firm card, not flimsy paper. At least as thick as a baseball card.
  • ATCs only, no APCs
  • A host card is always very much appreciated, but never required.
Mailing/Postage
***PLEASE MAIL YOUR CARDS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. THE MAIL IS RIDICULOUSLY SLOW. Be prepared for your ATCs to arrive a bit later than expected.
And please put tape on your envelope. A lot of mail has been getting to me torn up. Please protect your artwork by using tape.

I WILL PROVIDE RETURN ENVELOPES FOR EVERYONE, PLEASE DO NOT SEND AN ENVELOPE.
*Please include a LARGE, neatly printed label of your address
*PM me for my address. If you have my "807" address, it is still correct.
*Remember, clearly labeled envelopes arrive faster than embellished envelopes.
U.S Players: Please send one or two forever stamps.
International Players: Please send one global forever stamp, or a well concealed $1 bill (USD) If you do not have access to either of these, please PM me. We will work it out :-)

Feedback/Reputation:
Feedback will be given to each player when their cards are received by me.
*Please be kind and leave feedback for me (the host) when you receive your returns. And thank the artists who's cards you receive by leaving a short note in "Reputation" in the swap thread.
Feel free to ask any questions here in this thread or by private message. There is no such thing as a stupid question. :-) I check my private messages daily. I check this swap every few days.

Who wants to play?

Tafkabecky
Mybrokenart RECEIVED
KerensaC RECEIVED
Allegrae RECEIVED
CynthiaSillitoe RECEIVED
Leydab RECEIVED
Dsign49 RECEIVED
Luk RECEIVED
ArtyTeacherB RECEIVED
SiouxCitySue RECEIVED
BetsyG RECEIVED
Byronicwoman RECEIVED
Tatntole RECEIVED
Evilmomlady RECEIVED
Donnacr RECEIVED
Cleopatra RECEIVED
Woo Woo RECEIVED
Mace RECEIVED
 
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I seriously look forward to this every month.
Like, normal life in my house stops. Laundry stacks up, I forget to eat, I only want to be in the studio to make your prompt atc's!
Its a problem (one that i LOVE to have) Lol.
Please sign me up
 
Clearly my issue this time is going to be the food packaging. I just spent quite awhile looking at things in the pantry....
I know what you mean! I have a desk piled up with ‘rubbish’ now that I fished out of the recycling bin (it’s clean, don’t worry!) My husband said ‘why do you have all this old packaging in here?’ 😂
 
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