The Bird Song Swaps - Greeting Cards & Art Tags

I also enjoyed participating in the greeting card and art tag swaps at Bird Song 2013.

Bird Song 2013 Greeting Card Swap

Hosted by Barb Buckton

This is my card creation

Tami Hacker

 Oops, I missed the email to increase our swap from 5 cards to 7 cards.  I only created 5 cards, so here are the 5 cards I received

Lynn Conley

Barb Buckton

 

Suzanne Wingfield

Lisa Stanton

Lee Wehner



Bird Song 2013 Art Tag Swap
Hosted by Stephanie Oyler

Swap Host tag by Stephanie, front

Swap Host tag by Stephanie, back

Lee Wehner, front

Lee Wehner, back

Lisa Stanton, front

Lisa Stanton, back

Lynn Conley, front

Lynn Conley, back

Linda McMillian, front

Linda McMillin, back

Terri Neibaur, front

Terri Neibaur, back

 Grace St. Clair, front

Grace St. Clair, back

Terri Wilkerson, front

 Terri Wilkerson, back

This is my art tag 

Thanks for browsing through our Bird Song 2013 swaps with me.  

Each swap was fun & amazing!!

Upcoming post: Four Bird Song projects... please check back to see what we created.

 

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The Bird Song Swaps - Matchboxes

Another fun swap at Bird Song 2013 were our matchboxes, hosted by Gail & Marj Sell.  Participants were matched with a partner.  Partners were encouraged to learn one another's interest and then create a work of art using an empty large kitchen matchbox, include a bird somewhere on it, after all this is Bird Song, and then fill it with goodies. 

Here are our participants receiving their matchbox swap

Close up of the matchbox Karla received

 

Group matchbox photos - incredible talent here!

My adorable matchbox was from Hope  

and it was filled to the brim with wonderful goodies!
Thank you Hope!

This is the matchbox I created for my swap partner Suzanne

Two more swaps to go...
Four projects to go...
See you again soon.

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The Bird Song Swaps- Rosettes

Mercedes Scott hosted the fabric rosette swap at Bird Song 2013.  As a swap participant, we were to create a fabric rosette brooch and include a vintage bird

pin on it.   

 

Beautiful Mercedes by the beautifully wrapped rosettes

 Mercedes offered a creative way to exchange the rosettes.  She made a lovely keepsake bird tag with a matching card.  She randomly handed out the cards, the participants then matched their card to the bird tag on the wrapped rosette package.

Here is the bird tag & card I received along with my wrapped rosette swap

The lovely rosette I received was from Lindy.  It was wrapped in two vintage hankies, and included vintage millinery as well as a Victorian era reverse carved glass & reverse-painted rose pin

Inside was Lindy's handmade GORGEOUS silk rosette and a sterling silver bird pin with a garnet eye!

I love every thought, every stitch, every little bit of Lindy's heart that she put into her rosette swap! Thank you Lindy!

Here are the other rosettes... every one of them was different and uniquely beautiful

 This cream on cream rosette was my creation.

Lindy & me after I received her amazing rosette

Laurie Jackson was the winner of my rosette swap

Aren't these rosettes amazingly beautiful?

Three more swaps to share...

Four art projects to share...

Please check back for more of Bird Song 2013.