Monday 29 February 2016

Metallic Tangling

We had guests last week so my tangling tackle had to be cleared away and I simply didn't have any free time to tangle on my knee. Of course it is all good because we had such fun. The weather was glorious and we had some lovely walks along the beach.
We have three islands just off the coast which people are always entranced by, here is Shenick Island which has the remains of a Martello Tower on it. At low tide you can walk across to this island, but you have to be quick because the tide comes in again very quickly.
Now that we, and most of our friends, have retired there seems to be a new game everyone likes to play. Several times lately we have been asked to get the blood pressure machine out to see who has the lowest blood pressure!! It is sad what our lives have been reduced to :-(

For the Diva's Challenge this week we have a guest CZT, Amy Broady, who has given us the challenge of using something metallic. My first thought was to rush out and buy a Kit Kat so that I could use the metallic wrapper to tangle on, but I have given up eating chocolate so I was very good and resisted. I suppose someone else could have eaten the Kit Kat, but that wouldn't have been fair -:( Instead I got some aluminium paper out of the kitchen drawer to use instead. I thought I would try using the Identi pen I was given for Christmas and managed to produce this:-
I decided that it was rather basic so I used the Vermal tangle around Amy's name to create this tile. The letters are drawn with a metallic gold pen.

21 comments:

  1. I would win the blood pressure game. Mine is so low it's amazing that I'm alive LOL! This getting old is not much fun though. You certainly live in a beautiful place. I was thinking of tangling on foil but then a different idea came into my head. Nice to see yours. Pretty shiny looking!

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  2. I've never heard of an identipen. Is it like a stylus? Whatever it is, it did a very nice job on the aluminum foil. (Or, alumninium foil since you did it in the UK). Good job resisting the KitKat. I have put myself on an unofficial Weight Watchers diet after getting on the scale following our trip. Eeek.

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  3. I LOVE the tangles on the aluminium foil! It is so effective.
    And I like your pictures from the Irish east coast. I love Ireland and I am a little bit jealous ;-))

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  4. Wow!! Aluminium foil.. A clever idea!! and beautiful tangles..

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  5. Great idea and very beautiful glims and glans. Lovely.

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  6. Yt great minds think alike except you have done your diva challenge I didn't get a chance yet, my first thought was foil too!.
    Looking like your having the nice blue skied sunny but cold weather too 😊

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  7. Wow, I love what you did with this challenge. Aluminum foil, no less. Great piece!

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  8. The aluminum "tile" is excellent. It looks like it embossed a bit too. Love it!

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  9. You really made me laugh quite load after I read about the 'game' with your friends. We are retired too, but our friends didn't 'invent' that game (yet!?) and I certainly son't tell them.
    I love the tangling on the foil and wonder if other tanglers have thought of doing that.

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  10. very original idea to draw on an aluminium foil, your drawning shines all over, I like it!

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  11. I don't know the Identi pen, but I love your tinfoil 'tile' :-)

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  12. I love that foil technique! It reminded me of my costume design days making primitive looking armor appliques out of thin copper sheeting.

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  13. Wow! Fantastic shiny tile! I love the concept and the execution. And what a glorious place you live. Axxx

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  14. So clever ! I love the aluminium tile! I wonder what it would look like if you didn't use ink, but just etched it? Thanks for sharing the pictures of the beach. I'm happy you have such a beautiful place!

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  15. I just "discovered" Identipens too and they seem to work on just about anything but I hadn't thought of foil. This looks excellent. I loved the photos too. There is something about the sea and sky that pulls at my heart. What a lovely place to live.

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  16. Thanks for sharing your photos, looks lovely. Creative choices for shiny. Have a brilliant day! Cheryl

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  17. What lovely views you have. Great idea to tangle on the foil. nicely done!

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  18. I want to walk on this beach,too. Ireland will be one of our next holiday destinations with our caravan. I love that idea with the aluminium paper, it is great to tangle on something that is normally used for other things.

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  19. Love your tinfoil tile and your ode to Amy is so fun.

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  20. Love the foil. I will have to try the Identipen on it. I imagine Glaze would work too, since it is non-porous.

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  21. Very lovely aluminium tile! Wonderful idea!

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