A Turkey Revisited

Hi Everyone

I want to welcome to my newest follower, Pamellia. Glad to have you joining me.

I wanted to post this right after Thanksgiving but I got busy and I just forgot. So, let's regress to a few weeks ago, Thanksgiving. I hear some laughing. OK OK

I live in the greater Cincinnati area and ever year the Cincinnati Enquirer, our local newspaper, holds a contest, Dress the Turkey. They publish a large line art drawing of a turkey in the newspaper.. The contest says to dress it however we want and submit it. They give a deadline and the winners and others are published on Thanksgiving Day. I love Zentangle® and since there is so much open space on the turkey, I decided to tangle this cutie.

After I tangled this turkey I colored it with Pan Pastels to add to his personality. I loved how this turned out,  and wanted to share this before Thanksgiving was long gone.

Well it time for you (and me) to come back to the present, back to preparing for the upcoming Christmas holiday, you know, the shopping, the decorating, making cards and all the other things we do at this time of the year.

I am submitting this to the following challenges:

• A Little Bit Crafty - Anything goes.....but NOT Christmas!!! (#89)
• Altered Eclectics -  ANYTHING GOES (#22)
• The Sisters of Craft - Anything Goes (#72)

Have a great week.

Bliss

Hi Everyone,
I have just returned from a week in Florida, attending the Collins Show, taking classes, doing M&T's at the show for Craft-Dee BowZ and having a fun time at Disney. The show was wonderful and I met so many great store owners from all over the U.S.I even ran into a few owners that I knew. Took a class from Tim Holtz and it was really a great class. Show & Tell  with my class projects will be next week. This week I have a few posts already scheduled and Craft-Dee BowZ is having a fun Blog Hop coming up Thursday and Friday. I need to get my blog hop project finished. The theme will be Halloween, that's always a fun theme to work with.Please try to join us for a fun blog hop.

When I packed for my trip, I decided to work on a few Zentangle tiles since it's been so long since I have tangled anything.So I took along tiles and my micron pen to work on something on the trip down. On the flight down, I worked on a tile just to shake off the cob webs. I sat next to a lady from Lebanon, Laura, who asked about the project. As we chatted she mentioned that she and her husband were flying back on the same day as I was and we had all reserved the same seats for the return trip.

Waiting in the airport for the return trip, I made Laura a tile for a gift. (Sorry I didn't think to take a pic). Laura was so surprised and loved the tile. We chatted all the way back and she was going to pick up a Zentangle book and try her hand at it.

Since I was in the Zentangle mood I decided to do another tile and color it with the new Pan Pastels I received while I was away.

Here is my newest Zentangle tile:

I matted it with a few different colors of card stock added a simple sentiment and wella..........

The sentiment was stamped using VersaMark and I covered the ink with an orange pearlescent Pan Pastel color. Yummy. I also used other pearlescent colors on this tangled piece.

SUPPLIES USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps:  My Sentiments Exactly -YT575 True Friends Paper/Card Stock: Pink, Yellow, Purple, White, DP Ink:VersaMark Dies Used: Heartfelt Creations Posy Patch HCD701 Accessories:Rhinestone, Pan Pastels, Corner Punch, Flower Punch

I am entering my project in the following challenges:

• Anything Goes with a Twist Challenge 01 -- Anything Goes (#91)
• Sister Act Card Challenge - No. 77 - Anything Goes (#90)
• Crafting By Designs - Anything goes (#157)
• Crafting with Dragonflies -  #36 Anything goes (#45)
• Inspiration Destination - #1 Anything goes (#69)
• Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes (#176)

Hope you have a great week and mark your calendar for the Craft-Dee BowZ blog hop It will start at 10:00 P.M. Wednwsday Oct. 8. Hope you will join us.

Monday Morning Musings

Hi Everyone,
I have two things for you today.......
1. I just posted a new card over at the ippity do da blog so click here to check that out.

2. I have a new zentangle® design I thought you'd like to check out. I tangled 4 tiles and then framed them. This piece was hard to photograph since the glass in the frame likes to reflect my lighting. So if you see reflections, my apologies.

 

 The above  4 pictures are pictures of the individual tiles in the frame.

Here are the four tiles under glass together as one art piece. I am so pleased how this piece turned out. The frame is actually a frame with glass on the front and the back and the tiles are embedded between the glass pieces. So, its a see through mounting.  I placed the framed piece in front of a black backdrop to photograph and now it's hard to see the frame. But I know you want to see the tiles and the tangle designs not the frame. LOL

Hope you enjoy this.

Have a great day,