Weekly Challenge #166

Happy Monday everyone. I was able to start my week off right with a new tangle, provided to us by i am the diva. Laura doesn’t have a name for it yet, but has one idea. I think that she should name it in honor of her birthday. Anyway here is my rendition of it….

A shout out to all of you who comment.

My thanks to you all!

Have a great week and keep tangling!

Weekly Challenge # 165

Hi everyone!  I didn’t have time to post last week, as I was getting ready for Tangle U. I had an awesome time seeing old friends and making new ones. All the CZT’s were so great and I had a blast. I am still unpacking goodies and trying to organize everything in my head and notes, as it was truly a whirlwind. I will be sharing more of what I learned here and there. For now here is my tile for this weeks, i am the diva challenge, using Camelia, a tangle by Anne Marks. I tried taking this one out of the grid to see what I could do with it.

This is a technique that Marie Browning taught us using Tombow Colored pencils on impressed black tiles. I also used some Caran d’Ache, and a white Prismacolor pencil that I had in my stash too, to blend out the color a bit more. 

Here is the tile using the same technique that I completed at Tangle U.

Your comments from the weeks challenges make my day! Thank you.

 Hope everyone is having a good week, and Happy Hump Day! 

More on the Weekly Challenge #163

I just couldn’t stay away from playing with Rixty this week. It has been unseasonably cold again here in Minnesota, and very gray skies, so I needed some color! I used prismacolor pencils for the color, but couldn’t get them to blend quite like I wanted them to due to the slickness of the paper, but I still had fun! Here is a second one for the challenge. I titled it.. 

Ramblin’ Rixty!

 Many thanks for the lovely comments!

Happy Hump Day! Have a great rest of the week and enjoy tangling!

Weekly Challenge #163

Happy Monday! Wow this weeks challenge worked well for me! This morning I just finished an ATC using the new tangle Rixty! I'll continue to play around with this one, but for now, with a busy week of state testing coming up at school, I'll show you this. 

You can also see some of my other examples of using Rixty here, and also with this post.
Thanks to i am the diva for another great challenge, check out the other wonderful art! 

Thank you for all your kind comments from last week!

Happy Tangling!

More on the challenge and CBS Sunday Morning

I am happily participating in a worldwide effort to encourage the CBS Sunday Morning Show to do a story about Zentangle!  Anyone that wanted to participate was asked to send a letter and a tile in a square envelope, and mail it on April 1st. Mine went out, but the photos were on another SD card, so just wanted to share with you, what I sent along. Here is the tile/card, the envelope, and then the letter. 

Also my second try at using my initials for a string, from the, i am the diva challenge this week. 

 My thanks to you all, for your lovely comments. They make my day! 

Have a great rest of the week and Tangle on!

Weekly challenge #162

Greetings! I am back from a week of sun, rest, and relaxation. My spring break was last week, so I gave myself the week off from posting or doing anything on electronic devices. I had a great time, on a beach with the sand between my toes, and after the weather here this year it was much needed. I even missed the last, (I hope) snowstorm of the year, that dropped 9 inches of the white stuff while we were gone.

The challenge this week from i am the diva is to use your initials as a string. Here is my string, and finished tile.

 Many thanks for the lovely comments!

Have a great week and tangle on!

More on Challenge #160

I just couldn’t stop playing with the spirals this week so here is another one using spiraling Rixty! See how everyone else is solving the challenge over at i am the diva.

I have also had a few requests for some close ups of the ATC deck so here they are for those of you who wanted to see some more detail.

Lastly, Here is the completed ensemble piece, with the tile from my first post this week in it.

 Thank you to all who stop by and for the lovely comments!

Happy Hump Day, and Tangle On!

Weekly Challenge #160

Happy Monday everyone! Here are my two spirals for the, i am the diva challenge this week. One an ATC for the deck swap some of us are playing in, and another tile, part of an ensemble that I am sending off this afternoon for a CZT Tangle U event. I’ll try to post a picture of the finished ensemble later.

Here is a photo of all the ATC deck swap cards. Whee! I am done!

Have a great week! Tangle On!

My thanks to you all, for the lovely comments! You make my day!

Weekly Challenge #159

Happy St. Patrick’s Day to All!

This week’s challenge from i am the diva was to take inspiration from St. Patrick’s day in any way that you wished. I decided to use a new tangle called Rixty, designed to celebrate Rick Roberts sixtieth birthday. If you would like to learn how to do this tangle please contact your nearest CZT for a lesson on Rixty. I used the Spoking Rixties and varied them in to what else, some shamrocks. A little tipple to finish off and here you go, a bit of luck for all of you!

Thanks to you all, for the lovely comments you leave, they make my day!

Have a great week and Tangle On!

Weekly Challenge #158

This challenge this week from i am the diva is to use Diva Dance and Crescent Moon in a Duo-tangle. Here is my first tile playing around with these two patterns. We are finally having some warmer weather! I’m on my way to get outside and enjoy it! Melt, snow melt! 

Have a great week, and Tangle On!

More on Challenge #157

I had a bit more time today to try out some more of Charlie, this weeks UMT challenge from i am the diva. I played around with scale a bit on this one, using Charlie, Striping and Knase. 

 I wanted to try out a new tangle by Annie Taylor called Lamota, which you can see here, and I paired it with another tangleation of Tropicana. They both have one part that is similar in shape. I wanted to try out some shading options on Lamota too.

 

Have a great rest of the week and Tangle On!

Thanks for all your kind comments.

Weekly Challenge #157

Happy Monday everyone! This weeks challenge from i am the diva is a UMT, use my tangle challenge. We are using Erin Olson’s tangle Charlie in this challenge. I know that I have a super busy week coming up, so I at least wanted to show you this one on an ATC tile, and if I have time later in the week I will give it another whirl.

Happy Tangling and Thank You so very much for your kind comments!

Weekly Challenge #156

The challenge from i am the diva this week is "Curvy Gridlock". Using grid patterns in curvy or uneven grids. I have been really busy getting ready for parent teacher conferences this week, so just had time for one ATC, using this idea. It is however something that I use quite often, and I really wish I would have had more time to play this week. Here is my “curvy gridlock” using Well, Beelight, Yincut, and Cubine.

 

Thank all of you so much for the lovely comments last week, on my new tangle Tropicana, which you can see here. I can’t wait to see what you do with it.

Enjoy and have a great weekend!

More on Weekly Challenge #155

I said in my first post this week that I thought we might end of shoveling snow again at the end of this week and boy was I right! This is what I woke up to this morning. 

 Here is a view down out street, after we were plowed out.

Here I am standing in front of the snow bank, next to the driveway. It’s actually taller than I am, even though it doesn’t show exactly that in this photo, (I am blaming the photographer, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it) and that is saying something since I am almost 6 foot.

I also would like to introduce you to a new pattern that I have deconstructed. (Drum roll…..) Here is Tropicana. I had fun last weekend figuring it out, from of all things, a lid. Hope you like it, and let me know if you post something that you used it on. I would love to see what your rendition looks like.  

  Here is a tile using it and leaving a little white space.

Have a great weekend, stay warm, and keep tangling!

Weekly Challenge #155

It’s been a busy week for me so far. It started with lots of snow to shovel, then a bunch of grading to get finished, and it sounds like before the week is out there will be more shoveling to do!

The challenge from i am the diva this week is “A Little White Space”. I ended up using a string from TanglePatterns.com. This is my tile using TanglePatterns String 075 created by our own Maria Thomas. Hope you like it and enjoy a little white space.

Thank you for all your kind comments. They make my day! Happy tangling!

Weekly Challenge #154

Happy Valentangle!

The diva challenge for this week is to work on a Valentangle, a term that CZT Nancy Lubin came up with. Thanks Nancy!

I have been working on a few different ones this week and still have a few in the works. Here is the first batch.

I also sent out some others to a swap that I am participating in. These were done with pens and copics, and I really had some fun with the color.

Everyone have a great week, and Happy Valentine’s Day to you and yours!

Weekly Challenge #153

Greetings to all! Still dealing with the cold here, and the good old ground hog says at least 6 more weeks of winter! Ha! I could have told you that, it’s Minnesota after all. 

I had fun with the UMT challenge from CZT, Sadelle Wiltshire. Her tangle, Jailed Johnny was picked for the i am the diva challenge for the week.

I am still working away on my deck for the swap, so it was another ATC for this one. I am getting pretty close to being done, so you may see a few more photos coming your way once I get them all the way done. When I have a bit more time, I will have to try this tangle out some other sizes as I really had fun with it. It’s been a busy end to January and start to February, with my Husband’s birthday last Friday, and mine today!

 Everyone have a great week and keep tangling! 

Thanks for all your comments, they really keep me going!

Weekly Challenge #152

It’s been a crazy week again so far. We are just finished up with another quarter, minus one day, due to no school for extreme cold, last week, and now two days home because of the cold this week. I have been using the time to finish up grades, and also do a bit work that I needed to do around the house. I did have a bit of time to work on the challenge, and also add to my deck to be traded. Here are a couple of ATC’s that use aquafleur.

I also used this tangle on an art hand that I traded with another artist. 

You can see my first attempt with this tangle here. Enjoy, and make sure to stop by i am the diva, to see all the other wonderful takes on this new tangle, that others have done.

Stay warm and thanks for stopping by!

Weekly Challenge #151

My greetings, fellow tanglers and friends. The i am the diva challenge from Laura  this week, is to tangle  the Moebius Syndrome Foundations logo in honor of her son, Artoo’s fight with this disease! I couldn’t bear to let Artoo, and his family down so here is my entry. To learn more about this disease or donate to the cause please visit the Moebuis Syndrome Foundation website. 

I also want to share some work that my Middle School students have been doing. Here is the case in the front foyer of the school, showing some of the great work. There are a few different views and there is also a description in the case about what Zentangle is. They really had fun learning about this art form during the quarter.

Thanks for stopping by and for the comments that you all have been leaving! 

They make my day!

Have a great week!

Weekly Challenge #150

For this weeks i am the diva challenge it was time to commit to a word! I had been thinking on this for a time before the challenge came up, and the word that I have settled on for this year is (insert drum roll here)…

Do, verb, to bring to pass or carry out, perform, decorate, render, finish, exert, exhaust, achieve, finish, serve, abolish, effect, act, manage, arrange, traverse, commit, engage, or bring about.

I figure that this will about cover everything in some form or fashion for the year!

I have wanted to try some Zenspirations dangle designs, by Joanne Fink, for a while and decided this would work for my challenge this week. My tile was done with micron pen and watercolor pencils.

 Enjoy, and have a great week.

Weekly Challenge #149

If some of you checked in on my site earlier this year, you have already seen the first part of this work, when I started the first two days in my new calendar! You can see a close up of that part here. Here is the rest of how I finished out the two-page spread. I am using the whole thing for my diva challenge piece, for this week. 

Enjoy and Keep Tangling!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to us all! I started off my New Year yesterday, by starting my new Tangle*a*day calendar, by Carole Ohl, CZT. If you don’t already have one you can order them here! A little zensplosion from a pattern by Daniele O’Brien for the new year, and a few Zenflakes, by Sandy Steen Bartholomew to represent the very chilly and cold start to the year here in Minnesota!

 Happy tangling to you all this year! 

May you have a creative year in 2014!