retailers

Distribution 500+
We reprint back issues on demand.
Issue 1 & 2 both now up to 700+
We sell ALL around the world.
Australia and America being the most popular places.

AUSTRALIA
Amitie Textiles
Bentleigh Authorised Newsagency
Bird In The Hand Zine Distro
Brunswick Bound
Crafty Mamas
Incub8r
Leeloo
Nicole Mallalieu Design
Pussycat Black
Raggedy Anne
Sticky
Threadden
Winterwood Toys

Issue 5 contributors

Issue 5 is our biggest yet! It's crammed full of fabulous articles and has heaps more colour.

Thanks to all that send in articles for Mixtape, without you this would not happen. So, here are our contributors for issue 5.

• Amelia
• Claire
• Diana
• Gemma
• Johanna
• Kylie
• Laura
• Lauren
• Leisl
• Martine
• Megan
• Michelle
• Shannon
• Steph
• Suzie
• Andrea
• Tara
• Simmone
• Jacky
• Marissa

Pop in and visit them to see what kind of treats you are in store for and while you're at it don't forget to pre order your copy from our store!!!!

If you would like to contribute to Mixtape please email me at submissions.mixtapezine@gmail.com. You can send in finished work or email me with some ideas and we can go from there.

Nichola

Inspirational magazines

We love Bust, Venus and Frankie (just to name a few) and I adore Marie Claire Idees. I just picked up the latest issue from amitie this morning and have been drowning in the pages.


First of all this super sweet quilt and all things green (my favourite colour)



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Speaking of inspirational magaZINES
Issue FIVE of our baby is up for pre-sale NOW. Shipping August 1.
Tell ya friends, tell your lover(s) just tell anybody who cares...

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Justine x

word of mouth

She told her and her told me and we all skip together tra la la.......

The Cupcake Project

Draw a picture of a cupcake and then email or snail mail it.
It will then be posted on the Cupcake Project blog.
• The image can be black & white or colour, drawn, painted, sketched, a collage, a doodle, done with pencils or felt tip pens, spray painted, sewn....whatever you want!
• It can be realistic or you can let you imagination run wild
• It could be your idea of the perfect cupcake
• Or your dream cupcake

It's all about getting in touch with the bit of creativity that is inside us all but we don’t always connect with. Cupcakes are so much fun and make everyone happy.

City wants to see if she can get people from all over the world involved in this.
So please spread the word to people you know. Get your kids involved, your friends, co-workers. Have some fun!

Send your cupcake picture to either:
city@orcon.net.nz
or post to
City Down, PO Box 31871, Milford, Auckland

Go on! Make time for the small things and tell her mixtapezine sent ya!

Justine

Mixtogether inspiration

Our second Mixtogether meet will be held in August with a gift theme of 'Creative Journals'.

"You are to make or buy and decorate a journal along with some bits and pieces to use with the journal. These bits and pieces could be pencils, pens, stamps, stickers, paints etc. In fact anything that could be used in the journal to help your recipients record their creative ideas."

I will be posting some inspiration for those attending the meet over the next month.

Rbanks shows us how to make our own woodblocks. A great little tutorial over on Instructibles.

ADVERTISING in 2008

Has all sold out! Thanks guys we appreciate your business and community spirit!

Issue 5 Aug 2008 (due date: June 10)SOLD OUT!
Issue 6 Nov 2008 issue (due date: Sept. 10)SOLD OUT!
Dec 2008 SPECIAL KIDS ISSUE! (due date: Oct. 10)SOLD OUT!

We are not taking bookings for 2009 issues, but if you would like to be notified when we are please email us at mixtapezine@gmail.com with the subject line:
I WANT TO ADVERTISE IN 2009 please include your name and your business URL.

Justine

making time for the small things: Softies for Mirabel

July 25th - Deadline for Auction Softies
July 27th - Softie Auctions Begin Online
August 25th - Deadline if you want your Softie to go in our Window
August 30th - Window Display Finishes
December 13th - Final day for Donations for Xmas Appeal

If your toy includes buttons or other objects that could be swallowed - it will go to children aged 5 and up.

PLEASE donate a Softie! This photo shows last years window!
Find out more about the Mirabel Foundation here.

Advertising in our zine pt 2

We only have 10 pages of advertisements per issue and the spots fill quickly.

Issue 5 Aug 2008 (due date: June 10) IS SOLD OUT!
Issue 6 Nov 2008 issue (due date: Sept. 10) IS SOLD OUT!
-Special collectors edition first 30 copies (different cover in special pack)then normal print run

We have a couple of spots left for Issue 7
Dec 2008 SPECIAL KIDS ISSUE! (due date: Oct. 10)
Please email if you are interested
NOW SOLD OUT June 15/2008

We are not taking bookings for 2009 issues, but if you would like to be notified when we are please email us at mixtapezine@gmail.com with the subject line:
I WANT TO ADVERTISE IN 2009 please include your name and your business URL.


Cheers
Justine

Specs
300 dpi jpg, tif, eps or Press Ready PDF preferred.
Payment
We will send you a paypal invoice once we have confirmed your spot

ALL RATES IN USD
2008 PRICES

Inside Front Cover (full page) Color: $70 -- 138mm wide x 200mm high *
Inside Back Cover (full page) Color: $60 -- 138mm wide x 200mm high*
Outside Back Cover (full page) Color: $70 -- 138mm wide x 200mm high*
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Full page inside Color: $50 -- 138mm wide x 200mm high*
Half page inside Color: $30 -- 138mm wide x 100mm high*
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Full page inside B+W: $25 -- 138mm wide x 200mm high
Half page inside B+W: $20 -- 138mm wide x 100mm high
Small inside B+W: $10 -- 62mm wide x 62mm high

(nearly) mid-week freebie

Aimee wrote an article for us in issue 4 on how to make a good mixtape.
Aimee is also one part of Melbourne duo osh10

osh10 create a luscious trip hop world; melodic, hypnotic soundscapes and songs with funk and electronica sensibilities that seduce!


We have TWO copies of their gorgeous cd to give away.
To win simple email us at feedback.mixtapezine@gmail.com and tell us why we should send you one!

check out more of them here

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Check out our wall of fame! this is my kitchen wall and you can see a sneak peak of issue 5's covers (both covers appear on one issue and come with a fabulous story behind them)
Issue 5 will be up for pre-sale at the end of June.

Justine x

new retailer/ new regular conributor

I spent yesterday meeting up with Isy and Pip.
Isy is our latest retailer, she owns and runs a superb gallery in Fitzroy called in.cube8r. You can pick mixtape up from her for $6 and while you are there check out some top of the range artisits. We will be running a feature article on Isy with her amazing story in a mixtape issue early next year. It will come under the banner of "Business Profile".
So if you are an independent business and would like to be featured, please email us submissions.mixtapezine@gmail.com with the title BUSINESS PROFILE. We'd love to hear from you. Our first "Business Profile" will be on Nicole Mallalieu. in issue 6.
After visiting Isy I met up with Pip at a local cafe where we sat and talked for a good hour about many a topic. When then walked along Gertrude Street and I popped into a paint shop for a "special purchase" which I will blog about later in the week.


We are also VERY proud to let you know that Andrea aka Hula Seventy has come on board as a regular contributor, her first article will appear in Issue 5 and it is on one of her many collections! To me personally Andrea is nothing short of inspirational, she writes beautifully and takes stunning photos, go on and check out her blog and don't forget to let her know mixtapezine sent ya!

Justine xx

some buttons for ya blog?

We are a triangle here over at mixtape. Nic, myself and my husband Simon (and of course all our wonderful contributors).
Simon does all the design for mixtape and alot of behind the scene work. He has kindly made a couple of buttons for us:




Feel free to put them on your blog and if you do send us a comment so we can check out your space.
If you can't work out how to do it email us and we will send you the code.

YAY!

we love BUST

I got my latest copy of BUST in the mail on Monday and was stoked to see one of our fabulous retailers Leeloo with their very own ad. Proud, proud, proud. Nice work Angela.

Justine x

Mixtogether August 08

The next 'Mixtogether' meet will be held on Saturday August the 9th. This blogmeet will have 12 bloggers (including ourselves).
Everyone attending is to make one gift, we will then place all the gifts into a big basket and play lucky dip! The theme for the gifts for this meet is 'Creative Journals'. You are to make or buy and decorate a journal along with some bits and pieces to use with the journal. These bits and pieces could be pencils, pens, stamps, stickers, paints etc. In fact anything that could be used in the journal to help your recipients record their creative ideas.

There is a cost of $15 per person. For this we will provide food and drinks and you will receive a small gift.

You must have a blog and be living in Melbourne (or visiting on that date).

The first 10 peeps to email us at mixtapezine@gmail.com are in. Please title your email 'Mixtogether August 2008' . We will confirm your place via email.

SORRY THIS IS NOW FULL, NEXT ONE WILL BE IN OCTOBER 2008

sneak peak

A sneak peak of all the goodness mixtapezine provides.
Feel free to share the love of this post. Tell all your crafty mates.
We'd love you to!
Thanks to Simon for putting this together for us, we could not do this without you!

Justine xx

mixtogether #1

Yesterday Nic and I hosted our first of many "mixtogether" afternoons. We had previously organised 2 blogmeets last year and this is just an adaptation of that which we have molded in with our baby "mixtapezine".
The theme was "Use what you have". So the deal was that you had to come along with a handmade bag made from your stash and fill it with whatever took your fancy. It was great to see everybodys interpretation of the theme.
So we handed the gifts out randomly to the 10 crafty chicks that attended. We all then took a turn opening our gift and reading out aloud the card that accompanied it.
Oh what fun!! all the gifts were amazing, made and thought about with love. I kinda cheated as I picked Kirstys parcel (she makes me smile always) I will write about my gift over at my blog.
Anyhow so that was the first part of the afternoon, then we went onto what will be a given at all future meets our "Signature Quilt".
We asked all participants to come to the meet with a piece of their favourite material pre cut and then we gave everyone a piece of white cotton on which they were to write their name and then embroider it.
Here are a few that were finished yesterday. We will keep you updated on the progress!


Thanks to the following:
Sharon
Fi
Carly
Corrie
Kristy
Cam
Christie
Kitty
and my beautiful friend Jenny who kindly lets us all hangout at her heavenly store every meet xx

We will be running these meets every two months and each one will have a different theme. If you live in Melbourne and have a blog and are interested in attending please email us at
feedback.mixtapezine@gmail.com and register your interest.

Justine & Nichola xx