Have you ever tried something and it didn’t exactly come out like it did in your head? I do (sometimes n a pretty regular basis) and it can be really frustrating, whether it is in art or in life.
That’s about how this week’s Diva Challenge (#320) came about for me, to use Margaret Bremner, CZTs tangle Dansk. I had started something in my black Venice Journal whilst experimenting with white ink in my “FrankenPen” set up. It was clogging like crazy, the paper was too bumpy, and it just didn’t work. But it’s my Venice Journal (one of 2 small handmade books I purchased in Venice, hence the name) and I can’t just tear out the page and go to the next one. So it sat on my desk for a week or so, then I thought, I can just tangle around it and it will be ok.
And now the page is rescued.
BTW…if you would like your own “FrankenPen” to experiment with, you can get it here. I include regular fountain pen ink with it, and it has a twist-type empty refillable cartridge in it as well. I do endorse the use of any non-clogging inks that will work in a fountain pen. Both the Bleed Proof White and Pen White clogged like crazy, so I don’t recommend those, but there are many other lovely colors on the market that work well. This is the last one I tried with Pen White before I basically ruined this nib:
It was grand fun, and thankfully, the pens are not expensive. I really had an anger management moment with it.
On the nicer side of regular pointed pen tangling, I got these done this week, both before and in our class on Saturday. 
That last one has Relief Paint for the gold accents. It really does give it just a bit of dimension and is really easy to use. I have a few tubes of it in the shop, in 3 shades of gold, a copper, and a silver. I even tried it on a rock.
And I will have an “Intro to Golden Tangles” pointed pen kit up in the store early next week. I am writing up some pointers to get people going. You are going to LOVE tangling with this method, and the FineTec is so classy looking.
OK…my to-do list for this afternoon is REALLY long. But, on the brighter side of that, the new website and store may be up in the next week or so. Whew!
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Nice pieces and I am in love with your feather!
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First: On the photo with the (gorgeous) pebble I noticed your ring ….. and, I do have the same one! So, even living so far away we were able to buy the same 🙂
I do like how you rescued that page!
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It’s good when you go back to something you’d almost given up on and find the way, isn’t it? I try not to throw unfinished ones away and, every so often, I visit them to see if I can make them work. Not always, but often enough to make it worthwhile. And this really did work didn’t it?
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Your work is all so lovely! I really love the rock💞
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Nice rescue on the Diva Challenge tile. I lost track of how many times things did not turn out the way they started in my head. But most of the time they still turned out fine. I like the thank you card. Simple and elegant. I have to say though that the gold on the black is stunning. did you use a dip pen or fountain pen for that one?
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That one was done with a dip pen and FineTec gold paint.
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