Day 11

On the eleventh day of Christmas

My true love got from me

Eleven tiles festooning

Ten tangled heart-strings

Nine hand-y tangles

An eight penny wallet

A seven-finned Fan-tangle

Six letters dancing

Five Golden Things !
Four puzzle pieces

Three bottle gift tags

Two Yuletide ornaments

From my Treasure Box of ATCs!

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Rick's Notes:

That festooned frame hangs on our porch . . .

. . . and the late summer pink of those now dried hydrangea will linger throughout the winter.

Maria created each "bead" from a Zentangle ATC tile by free hand slit-scoring each tile into quarters with an X-Acto® knife, either lengthwise or width-wise. She then tangled three facets and used some double sided ATG® tape on the fourth facet.

She also uses this particular X-Acto blade to slice open the tubes of gold gouache to use every last little bit . . . hence the golden blade. That candle holder with the wine cork is how she keeps her X-Acto blades safely close at hand.

A "festoon" is described as "a string or chain of flowers, foliage, ribbon, etc., suspended in a curve between two points" (dictionary.com). We had carefully chosen this word to describe this day's contribution before Maria put this festoon together. But, I didn't expect her to festoon the festoon!

First she threaded each ATC "bead" with silk ribbon and a knot between each "bead." The she threaded a fine green mesh ribbon through those knots, adding a red glass crow bead between each knot.

You may notice some tangling on the glass over that tree. We put a piece frosted glass over the painting, frosted side out, and we're tangling the image. Notice in the first image how we "repaired" this damaged frame!

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