Bird Giveaway

This tag is one that went awry in many ways which I will not point out to you. It's a piece that was ambitious and did not work though taught me many valuable lessons in construction, working with this paper I love, and in painting. So it took me many hours to complete and I am so 'done' looking at it that I'm going to give it away. I thought it would be fun to just pull a name out of a hat from the comments section on this post. If you want to leave a comment but don't want to put your name into the hat, just mention it in your comments. The giveaway is open to the Tag Tuesday team and players on the sidebar only, in keeping with the spirit of our lovely group. I hope that Carolyn won't mind a giveaway. My tag is a swallow with a wee sprite hitching a ride to some unknown destination. He is wrapped in gold bullion.


Here is a close up of the bird with sprite under construction with only one thing wrong. I decided to snap a shot before I continued in case I wrecked this tag completely.


Here you can see the size compared to one thin dime (Canadian money), as well as my bounty of gold bullion. It's all coiled tight and so you just pull it out between your fingers and it unravels into a thin lovely piece of wire.


Here's the finished tag in situ. I'd wanted it to be able to stand on its' own with a counterweight to balance but my design was so drastic that even a weight wouldn't do the trick. For the photo I held it in place. It would have been really fantastic if it had worked. Even so, the tag is useable, and I learned how to make this type of tag. In future I will probably try again.


I enjoy this group very very much. Thank you Carolyn for your vision and work. Hello to my fellow mates! *smiles* Norma

p.s. I'll draw from the hat early Tuesday of next week.