creative chix deco rr
'Deco' in this case, stands for decorative booklet; a small booklet that is decorated. A deco is sent from one participant to another until it returns home to it's owner. Below are pages done in a Deco Round Robin I was involved in through the CreativeChix Yahoo Group. Our exchange had just a few rules set up by our hostess, Laura: Each person makes a front cover and a back cover for their deco. Each person picks a theme for their deco. The players send their deco to other players in round robin form until the deco returns home to it's owner, with a turn around time of 3 weeks.
A deco is a small book, usually no bigger than 4"x 5". Create the booklet and enough pages for each participant to work on and include these pages when you send your deco out. Each participant does 2 spreads (or 2 single pages, in my case) in your deco. They can match or be totally different. The only rule is to do pages that represent what you think matches the book owner's theme. To begin with, you will want to do the first page.
- Here is how I started my FAMILY theme deco for this RR, doing the cover and a few pages:
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The deco fits in this little tin! I glued a fabric transfer ATC to the front; a picture of my immediate family (my sons and my husband Steven) at our wedding last June. It's exciting to send this off and see what people will do with my Family theme. Participants are: Lyn Avedikian, Maria Garcia, Belinda Spiwak, Joan M. Lawrence, and Chris Young.
Lyn Avedikian added to my Deco in late March - very coOL, I just love what Lyn added!
Below: Maria Garcia in Lenna's Family Deco - I love Maria's pages! Thank you.
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March 12, 2006: Last week I received Chris Young's beautiful Deco with the theme of Archetypes. I will share scans of her own deco and how she started it, as well as what I did in her deco. I did a 2 page spread on the archetype "free spirit". Chris did a page on the archetype "nurturer" and a page on "lost souls".
Chris Young's Deco Cover, inside cover and one of her pages.
Another page by Chris & Sign-In (Tags)
Below, Lenna's 2-page spread and sign in tag, front & back . . .
(transparency image on bottom right is from Alpha Stamps)
For me, working on this theme was a challenge, but one I was glad to accept!
~ lenna 03/12/06
Joan Lawrence's Deco Cover, Nature's wings: click on image for full-size
view
Lenna's pages in Joan's Deco - completed 4/9/06:
I used ARTchix Studio images and watercolor crayons. ~ lenna 4/17/06
Belinda Spiwak's Deco Cover - Egyptology:
Lenna's pages in Belinda's Deco! ~ completed
4/9/06
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I finished off my work in this deco exchange in May
2006, by working in both Maria's and Lyn's Decos - Maria had a Wonder Woman
Theme!
. . . and Lyn had a Circus Theme - fun!
My Deco will return home soon : ) ~ Lenna 05/26/06 . . . . .
It has arrived in my mailbox on June 23rd!! It is so fun to see it again with all of the work inside. LooK!
Thanks to Lyn Avedikian, Maria Garcia, Belinda Spiwak, Joan Lawrence, Chris Young and the CreativeChix yahoo group for this great exchange!
