First Impressions

   I am so bad about making a judgement based on first impressions.  I know I shouldn't.  But I quite often always do.  Fortunately, I find myself willing to change my opinion when I have to.  Take for example the monotangle challenge from Mindful-Creations.  We had to use the tangle "cracked".  Uh.  My first reaction was . . .  well, I didn't want to.  It didn't appeal to me.  But I forced myself and voila!  I like the tile.  It still may not be a tangle I often use, but I really like the tile.  I used a stencil to draw the butterfly and then a gray pen for the outside of the stencil.

     Then came the dare from Bright Owl.  Another "first impression".  The moment I opened the site and saw the tangle I said I really loved it and I couldn't wait to tangle it.  Then I tried to get started.  I struggled on all three zendalas I did.  I seriously ended up not liking the template.  How strange, the first impressions were so different in the end.

    The zendalas turned out okay in the end.  I really love the pink one.  But I just couldn't get into the template. 
    The Every Inchie Monday word this week was gray.  With the rain we have had as of late, perhaps I should have gone outside and taken a picture of the sky.  Instead I pulled out some shading markers I purchased a while back and went to work.  I tangled an area on a piece of white paper with one of my favorite tangles, verve.  Then I colored the tangle using the marker.  Last I grabbed my trusty one inch paper punch and found an area I liked.  There you go!  Gray in an inch!

     Hope your week is off to a grand start.  Thank you for dropping by and leaving me a comment!  One more week before school starts for me.  Then it will be back to "stealing" a few artful moments.  See you!