Wine anyone?

What a week! Tanglepatterns.com posted my tangle Maryhill! It was very exciting to see it scroll up! And then I had more viewers to my blog in one day than the previous month! People seem to be enjoying it and that's fantastic! Maybe I'll see it in your artwork one day and that will be fabulous! Tanglepatterns was one day, and the next, I'm able to log in as a CZT to the Zentangle® website! I'll be lost in those resources for a while! But before all that....

The (guest) Diva challenge this week is B.Y.O.B. using a favorite beverage in your art or as inspiration. Gotta say, I'm not a big wine fan. My first choice BYOB was Cherry Coke. I drizzled a little on a tile. Got a blob I kinda liked. And waited for it to dry. And waited. Finally I sopped up some up with a paper towel. I tried to dry it with my heat gun. It was a sticky gooey mess. Still tried to tangle Poke Root around it. (Cherries, get it?) ok, too planned, too structured for the Zentangle method, at least for me. But I kept going anyway. Even tho I was trying to go around the sticky mess, I managed to get some in my pen nib. Should have gone with tea, no sugar! Lets try again....

So does drinking the Cherry Coke while I made my friend's birthday card count? Her favorite color is burgundy. Wine may be pretty close to the top for her beverage of choice too. I used the same 3D die technique as last week's dragonfly. This is also a Spellbinders die. Sorry, no actual wine here. I used Copic Multiliner in Wine for the ink color. Shading is with Faber-Castell Polychromos and graphite pencil. The black ink a Sakura Pigma Micron. After completing the tangle, I mounted it on burgundy cardstock (shaded with copics to try and match the color) and then mounted on an A2 card base. The nice thing is it will lie flat for mailing and the wings easily pop out for the 3D effect.

Here is another no tangle card using the same technique. Dies by Spellbinders (gears) and Sizzix Hero Arts (caption rectangle). I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder as a stamp and inked with a Big and Juicy rainbow pad before using additional die cut gears as masks or stencils and used copic markers with an airbrush. Best of all, I used my P-touch label maker for the sentiment....why hadn't I thought of that before?

And finally, just wanted to share this Auraknot, Organza Again drawing from my art journal.

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