Fill it! A minizine project : Issue 2

It says 1 partner in the upper part, and 5 partners in the description - FYI.

Thank you, I fixed it!

I've been watching and waiting for the 2nd one. Thanks for hosting it.

The first one was so much fun! My skills aren't great but practice makes perfect, right? :)

Those people watching, JOIN now! It's addictive.

Awesome, issue 1 was a Hoot! You just have to join.....{;-D

So much fun! Love this idea! and I still have a couple of Issue No. 1 to swap with people who also did that one. Just send me a message ... :)

Finally-a tutorial that got how to fold it through this thick head of mine! LOL I've been wanting to make a zine for a long time! TY

I wanted to make a zine since I read "How to Make Books". I love this swap, I just made my Fill it! zine and it was so much fun! Thank you so much - I can´t wait for sending them out ;)

Looks like fun! I've lurked long enough... I'm ready!

illustrate the sheet in your own way, does it mean we can use collage?

Dragonhead : Yeah, you can personalize the sheet any way you want :)

I have to say - I'm really sad you didn't make a cover illustration for this one. I know someone asked you not to, but I really wish you had. I might as well make my own from scratch, I figure. I loved the first cover because my partners and I adapted it just a little: added superpower vision, added a flexi-straw, etc. Please continue to give us the cover for the next ones! I love the idea that we don't know what we'll get and we can adapt it or not as we please. :)

I should also tell you: I'm having a lot of trouble centring the page. I don't know if it's my older printer not letting me or what, but I use A4 (Australia), not letter size, and it prints a larger gap of white at one end. It messes with the folding of the zine. I might have to trim it off this time. :/

Any ideas?

papercaper : Yeah, I tried an issue without a cover but adding a picture or an image (like for the first issue) was a kind of a challenge too... so the next template will include a cover ;) For the A4 format, some participants had problems in the previous swap with the actual template. I'll try to ajust the template using a blank A4 sheet and then, I'll scan it and make it available for download (I'll look at it tomorrow).

I´ve trimmed the A4 pages, but it would be really fine to have an A4-template, too. I´ve finished my zine already, but it would be great for the next time :)

I´m so excited to swap my zine, I love the idea of this swap so much!

is it ok to use clip art/collage/etc. instead of all doodles?

I can't wait to swap my zines... I made them already! And I actually liked the cover page being blank... It was fun to create something of my own... Anyhoo...Thanks again for organizing this swap!

McPaintPants : Yeah, collage and such are great!

papercraper : Sadly, I can't find any A4 paper around. I strongly suggest you, if you want the zine to fit perfectly to your paper format, to fold a A4 sheet according to the tutorial and to cut and paste every "minisheet" of the template on it... then to personalize it as usual. For the moment it will be the best I think. I'll try to find a way for the upcoming swaps to offer a template for both format of paper (letter and A4). Thank you.

I was wondering if anyone would like to do a private swap with me for issue #1? I missed it. :( If so send me a message please!! Thank you.

I joined Swap-bot just so I could take part in this. I'm nearly done with mine, looking forward to the swap :o)

Papercaper: I'm in Australia too, I got around the A4 problem by changing the print properties -- centred to fit, then folded the printout (the side edges of the "someone I love" page come in handy for seeing how wide the pages are!), then trimmed off the excess on both short edges. I don't know if mine's ended up a different size from letter paper users', but we'll see!

I have never heard of this kind of project. I even not know what it is a minizine. But I downloaded the chart and I think it must be funny, so I would like to join this one, but I thing it's very diffucult to send it out immediatly to 5 persons as I never did it before. I'm afraid my swappartners would be disipointed to get my minizine as I realy never made them before. Are there other people with the same questions? If so, please send me a pm to tell me why I should take part of this one. I realy won't to joined but I'm afraid that I wan't do it as should be done.

I also use A4 and I used the original size not fit to page. I then fold the paper hamburger then hotdog. After that I carefully fold the the other two folds making sure that the image is in the correct place (ie not folded). Then I cut the slit and put the zine together usually two pages will stick out (excess paper with none of the image on it) and I just trim those parts off.

wow, this is so fun! I can't wait to get trading, I've already printed off and mostly finished mine!

a friend of mine are also going to do the first one as well since we missed the original swap. I really hope you do this many more times, so much fun! I do have to say that I prefer the empty cover, it lest me do more to personalize it to my own style.

Thank you for your comments everyone. For those who printed extra copies of the first issue and/or missed the swap, feel free to send a copy to your partners with issue two!

Can I just make five of them instead of making one and photocopying it?

I am having trouble printing the template. If I choose no scaling it chops off the bottom of the page, and if I fit to printable area the folds are off. Did anyone else have this problem? I am using leter not A4.

I can't get my folded right at all ... UGH! I have tried the A4 too...

Can we join and fold it like a book?

Got it! It still doesn't print out centered, but I just folded and trimmed like the A4 users.

macfeat > Yeah you can make 5 "originals" if you want!

HannahsMommy07 > Did you look at the tutorial on how to fold the minizine in the swap description? It's not so complicated and the result is way better than folded like a book...

I also need someone to maybe private the first one with me? :)

I'd like to to do issue 1 too since i missed it...

I'm doing issue 1 and sending it out with my swaps. if any of my partners want to do the same that would be awesome!!

I'm going to do the same too!

The photocopier went postal (pardon the pun) and spat out extra copies! Anyone in Australia want to do a private swap for one of my spares? I apologise for being so exclusive, but the postage is really a LOT cheaper. PM me if interested :o)

I love this idea!!! Hope you keep doing these so I can join!

The next round will be hosted on April 6th. Thanks everyone for such participation! xxxx

Hi MissPickle and other zine swappers. I just got back from dropping my zines into the PO. Forgot that we are going into a looooong weekend here for Easter so I checked regarding the mail going. PO said that it will leave the sorting centre (where my zines are) tonight and will go to the city centre distribution where it will probably sit until the 10th. So expect a few extra days delivery of my zines. If you have any probs with this just let me know. I could try "message pigeon"..... lol. (We need a swap-bot mail service). Thanks for reading. Cheers, FreddFudd {:-D

Just got my zines out today. What a fun project this was : )

Hi swappers. I sent this out last week. I forgot to click the sent button. Oops.

Sent mine out on Friday a.m. (the 6th), some of you already have gotten them! WTG, USPS!

Hey all, Just wanted to let you know that I too had issues with template fitting on A4. I printed it out as is, cut a bit off the end and then folded. Really sorry if its not totally neat and exact. I think i may have to cut and paste it all for round 3. Anyone have any other suggestions?

Anyone printing onto A4

• my trick is to cut the A4 down to MissPickle's measurements (the paper that is...lol) 8.5 x 11 inches.

or 21cm x 28cm

Then I pop it through the printer and it turns out OK.

I did this all without my DH's math mind and I'm an Aussie Gal {:-D

I wasn't printing on A4 paper, but my printer did something weird to the original I printed to draw on, and when I tried to photo copy it there was no way it would fold right. So I had to do some serious photoshopping to get it back the way it should have been, but even then, my printer messed it up again, and it folded all wonky. :\ I hope everyone was pleased though! I had a lot of fun making it!