There were a couple questions/comments above that I didn't address in my previous follow up, so here goes.
I'm not ready to share exactly how I made this. However, I encourage you to ponder how this is done and emulate it. You will get a lot more out of taking the journey of discovery than me simply telling you.
As for saving this for the Bash contest, no I don't have anything else waiting in the wings, but I figure I have at least 3 weeks to come up with something different, hopefully 4. If there were going to be an "Eagle" contest, I would have saved it for that, but as there isn't, I prefer to come up with something that isn't so close to another person's work for the contest. This was a learning pen (Well, arn't they all?)
So, I decided to go ahead and post it, and now the pressure in on to get another pen made before the contest deadline. I'll have to swim through the idea's and see what I come up with.