my first travelling tile

As some of you know, I recently decided to start making myself

do things that scare me a little.

Shortly after I made this decision, Anita challenged me to swap tiles with her,

I knew that I had to accept!

She sent me these two beautiful tiles and they sat on my desk waiting for me to gather my courage and finish them.

Last night I picked up my pens and went for it!

The tile on the right was (I think) stamped with leaves dipped gold ink/paint so I wanted to continue with gold touches.  I used a Metallic Gelly Roll pen on the leaf veins and Puff centres, I hope you can see them shimmer. 

For my first swap I kept both tiles fairly simple.

I didn't want to hide the more subtly stamped gold leaves with tangles so I continued the Printemps tangle in the black and brown 005 Micron.  Printemps isn't my favourite tangle but being that this was a challenge, I persevered.  I love how Anita combined the two colours on the same tangle, I will definitely use this effect in the future.

I found the string on the black and white tile really challenging, not knowing where to start and stop the tangles but in the end with a bit of white coloured pencil I was happy with the results.

Thank you again Anita for challenging me with this swap!

I will try to link this up to the Facebook page,

(which may prove to be another challenge)

It's good to keep the mind challenged and I can't think of a more enjoyable way to do it than through Art!

~ joey ~