Saturday, May 30, 2009

Sweet Sentiments Tag Swap Pink-attitude


These tags were assembled for the Itty Bitty Book Club (on Flickr) as part of a swap hosted by Mary Ann (follow your bliss)...Each participant made 15 tags...could be the same one copied and embellished 15x or could be all different...Obviously these are all different...I literally cleaned house with this project...all scraps and recycled bits of paper and ephemera...some images were received in swaps, some cut from catalogs...or torn from old books...or snipped from wrapping paper...if anything looks familiar, it probably is...an old (2005-ish) calendar provided the words of inspiration or affirmation that formed the theme-Sweet Swntiments...each tag has one to provide the "Sweet" and then I went " window shopping" (there's another whole blog...does anyone go window shopping anymore?) and I found lots of bits and pieces to carry each message...one of the most fun swaps I've ever done and certainly one of the most "Green". Needless to say, lots of pink showed up...and even more Pink Thoughts...Thank you, Beverly for hosting Pink Saturday, and congratulations on its success...I'm off to visit some of the others...and to work on a fun swap for Paper Cowgirl Retreat coming up in June.

10 comments:

Claudia said...

Lovely tags! Happy Pink Saturday!

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Sorry, I had to delete 2 comments because mine tripled itself!

Lisa said...

Beautiful!
Happy Pink Saturday!
Hugs, Lisa

fitty's pinky rose cottage said...

happy pink saturday! love the tags..

jeanne said...

Your tags are wonderful. What fun you had with this. Yes, I do go window shopping from time to time. Happy pink Sat.

Hugs..Jeanne

Beverly said...

Happy Pink Saturday, Laverne.

Your tags are wonderful. I love using my bits and pieces to create. The swap members will be thrilled to receive these.

Char said...

OOOOOhhhh I love love love tags, yours are great, what a wonderful thing to get to look at, happy pink saturday, Char

Beansieleigh said...

These tags look beautiful! I have really seen some nice ones, and have thought about trying to do some of my own sometime. They look like fun to do! Happy Pink Saturday, and hope you're having a wonderful week!



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