T Stands For ?

 

Today I'm at my dining room table asking what each of these items have in common.  Can you guess?

 

Does this give you an idea?  This is a clever gadget Cloudia (and Pixie) shared with us at Christmastime last year.  It was a novel idea and I knew I wanted to follow up on it, but I got caught up in other things until today.

Now can you guess?

 

This is my answer to Cloudia's adorable jar opener.  It was a birthday gift from my friend Sally many years ago and it is so useful, there's hardly a day goes by I don't use it.

I remember Lisca saying how practically every can she buys in Spain now has a pop top. That's not exactly the case here in the states, although I am seeing more and more uses for this function.

This is the real reason I was so happy with this amazing tool when I got it nearly 10 years ago.  This is the can opener portion of the tool.  It opens cans safely, with no sharp edges.  These can lids can be (and have been) used in my art. 

To be honest, I have never used this function.  In fact, I didn't even realize what it was for until I started doing a bit of research.  Apparently, it releases the suction under the lid and makes it easy for anyone to open these lids.   This is much like what Cloudia's tool accomplished, but in a different way.

 

The metal part acts as a bottle opener.  Some people call a bottle opener a "church key."  I've never used it because I seldom buy bottled drinks that require this.

The back side of the metal bottle opener has a gripper that fits over plastic bottle caps and easily opens these.

Apparently, if you turn the tab opener backward (which I showed above), it opens drink cans.  I don't purchase that many soft drinks, so that isn't something I would use all that often.

There are more functions, like the metal part that sit to the side of the can opener which apparently can be used to open chip packages.  However, I didn't have any chips, so I can't show how it works.

Now that you know the functions, allow me to create a bit of art for T this week.

I'd like you to meet high flying Llyle.  And isn't he the cutest little creature you've ever seen?  Come on, you know he put a smile on your face.

He is part Llama 

and part metal.  Heavy metal, that is. 

Llyle is so cute, he qualifies for Try it on Tuesday's latest theme which is Oh so cute.  Since much of him is metal, Llyle also qualifies for Valerie's theme at Art Journal Journey which is Heavy Metal.  I hope you will visit both these challenge blogs and share your own art inspired by their themes.

 

For this page, I began by spritzing several colors of my handmade shimmering mists on the watercolor paper.  I was gifted with a 2020 calendar of Llamas, so chose one for this spread.  I fussy cut Llyle's head and placed it under one of the can lids I colored using a blue Sharpie.  I added a star from my stash and legs made of gold and metal pen nibs.  I used E-6000 to attach the lid and pen nibs.  I colored the sentiment using dark blue watercolor.

Now that I've shown you mine, please share your drink related post this week.   It can be gifts you received, photos, a place you visited, movies, postcards, mail art, junk mail, catalogs, books, sketches, mixed media, drawings, paintings, tags, scrapbooking, or other art that is digital, hybrid, or traditional, as long as it in some way relates back to a drink, any drink.  Regardless, please share below and Bleubeard and I, along with the rest of the T gang will be by to visit.   Please link only your T post and not your blog in general.  Bleubeard would like to remind you that old photos are acceptable because they may be taken any time, not just on Tuesday and certainly not just this year.