Zensdays....a Duo Tangle

What is a duo tangle? This is a term coined by Laura Harms of "iamthedivaczt" fame for using only two tangles in your tangleation. And this week she has challenged her readers to use cubine and pokeroot. (These are both tangles by Sandy Bartholomew.) Click HERE to see what Laura has created and if you get inspired join in the fun by linking your creation to her blog. (BTW...I love that Rosemarie from Nova Scotia did her first sten-tangle on a dragon last week and posted it on the Dreamweaver Stencils Facebook enthusiast page.) If you need to know how to create these two tangles there is more information and links on Laura's site to get you going. I have always loved cubine, but for more inspiration Laura directed us to a tutorial on Margaret Bremner's blog and that gave me more insight on the different ways that cubine can be done. So I created this sampler:

PLUS...this week I am using a different type of pen....in honor of my loyal employee Jennifer Davey. As we  have ended our stint of transitioning to Stampendous I have gotten a bit sad about saying goodbye. Jennifer has been with Dreamweaver for more than twenty years and she has always given positive feedback on my creations, on one condition, as long as they involve the color blue. (OK...so that's a bit of an exaggeration, but anyone that knows her can testify that she loves the color blue.) Today, with this sentiment in mind,  I did my entire duo tangle sampler with a pen she uses every day in the office. It was a bit on the wet side, so I did some of the shading with the blue gelly roll pen from Sakura and a darker blue Prisma Color pencil as well. Over the years I have even convinced her she should create her Christmas cards once in awhile using stencils, and she agreed to try it as long as they included....you guessed it...the color blue. LOL!!! Thanks Jennifer for all the fun and stability you have added to the business over the years. I will miss your daily smile and upbeat attitude that has greeted us here everyday. You are the best! And because we live in the same town...it's definitely not goodbye.

For more inspiration on cubine and pokeroot go to Wayne's Flickr site by clicking HERE to see his duo tangle for this week's diva challenge.

With regard to inspirations...thank you Maggiebee for inspiring me to get busy and learn something new. This past week I joined a hand knitting group so I can eventually knit something for our grandbaby when he arrives in July. I learned that I knit in the continental style and that bad habits are hard to break, because I have been twisting my purl stitches. LOL! So once again practice makes progress and not perfection! I am determined! 

Don't forget to stop by tomorrow to see what the design team is doing with all the Springtime goodness flowing from their creative fingertips! And think about using a stencil and joining in the stencil challenge...you could win a stencil of your choosing!