butterfly tags...

I finally did something with the large collage sheets made during the PaintPaperPaste workshop.

Well, to begin with- I hated this collage. Nothing looked right. The color was all wrong so I added another layer of paint. Hated it. Added more layers of paper. Still hated it. Tried one more time to add color and it got even worse! I decided to throw the entire thing away (I've finally gotten to where I can do that- after all, it's only paper!) but was so lazy it just sat in the pile at the end of my worktable for days.

Eventually, I ended up cutting it into tags. Once I had a nice little stack, I grabbed the stamps that were sitting on the table in front of me and started stamping randomly all over them. After all, I was planning to just throw the whole mess away! What did I have to lose?

Hmm. What ended up happening was that I didn't actually hate them any more. I was maybe even starting to like them... so I went ahead and spritzed them with some Glimmer Mist and they had a little golden sparkle to them. Next I added some hand-dyed seam binding to the top and I liked them a little better. Once I put the tiny butterfly images onto the bottom it really brightened the whole thing up. What do you know? I actually liked them now!

Guess you never know.