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!

Merry Happy Challenge # 148

Merry Happy!

On the First day of Christmas my true love gave to me A Partridge in a Pear Tree,

Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree…..

Of course we need some ornaments for the tree,

  And some presents for underneath,

 

Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly,

And Warm Woolen Mittens….

(We have been getting lots of use out of those in Minnesota!) 

These are a few of my favorite things!

And the Stockings were hung by the Chimney with care,

While visions of Sugarplums danced in their heads.

My Wish for You and Yours this Season of Joy,

It seems that I was a week ahead on my Merry Happy, so excuse me posting it again.

The atc’s are my present tags this year.

To Annette Carlo, My blog was started through my school, which does not yet allow Google plus. I wanted to thank you so very much for the shout out, and I am honored to have inspired you! You made my day!

To Laura, You are the diva, and my thanks for all your hard work on the challenges through out the year!

 You are a Star!

Boo~Kee Challenge # 147

Greetings from a very snowy day in Minnesota! I played around with this very fun pattern from I am the diva, CZT Laura Harms, called Boo~Kee and finally finished up one variation making the “leaf” shape a bit more seasonal. I broke out the copics for the color. This was round two, after I had the red bleed all over in the first one that I had drawn. I had forgotten how much the reds will move, as it has been awhile since I have used them. At least in this neck of the woods, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Everyone have a great week and thanks for stopping by. 

Here is my wish for you this season!

Weekly Challenge #146: DouTangle

I wonder if Laura over at i am the diva, heard my groans when I read this weeks challenge! Pea-nuckle and Well! Well, I really like “Well”, but Pea-nuckle not so much. I surely didn’t know how I was going to get these two to play together well, for this duo-tangle challenge. I pondered for a day, and this is what I came up with. I am double dipping by doing this on an ATC size card of the new Renaissance tiles, for the deck swap. I am enjoying learning how to work with this beautiful colored tile. No, the Renaissance tiles do not come in the ATC size yet. I just took one of the regular tiles, traced the edge of one of the regular ATC cards and carefully cut the edge! Walla! an ATC Renaissance card.

I would like to wish everyone a wonderful Thanksgiving! I know that I have much to be thankful for this year! My thanks to all of you that have chosen to follow me on my journey here on my blog, and for the wonderful support you have shown!

My Blessings to You and Yours. 

More on the Weekly Challenge #145

I wanted to play around a bit more with quib this week. Here is my second piece, using the new Renaissance tiles. I used the black and brown micron pens, graphite, white and ocre brulle prismacolor pencil, white charcoal pencil and a little white gelly roll pen. It has been fun playing on the new tiles.

Here are a few of the ATC’s that have been in the works, around my house, for the deck swap.

My thanks to you all for stopping by and leaving comments! Have a great week!

Weekly Challenge #145

Ahh, Quib, this weeks challenge from i am the diva. I first used this after it was released to the CZT’s, on Weekly Challenge #129. You can see that example here.

I was continuing to work on my ATC’s this past Sunday and used it on this card that will be part of the deck swap that some of us are working on. I made it play with “Well” that day. So here is my first piece for the challenge this week. I have another in the works, so I’ll be back!

My thanks to those of you who stop by to see my work, 

and You Rock! when you leave a comment too!

Free to Fly!

There was an opportunity for me to participate in a fun work! Check out this joyful adventure that Avoxtar is up to!
Here is my feather that will fly on it's way today! There is still time, if you hurry, to play along!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!

Weekly Challenge #144 A Bug's Life

Here is my entry for the, i am the diva weekly challenge this week. I ran across all of these neat beetles in my research and decided that I just had to hold one in my hand! I am also busy with 53 ATC (artist trading cards) zentangles for a trade, so stay tuned for some of these to show up here too. For now, here is my ZIA hand. I don’t currently have any Gellyroll pens, so this was done with Copic markers and colored micron pens instead.

 

My thanks to all who stop by and see what I have been up to, and those of you that take the time to comment, You Rock!

Weekly Challenge #143 UMT Week!

Wow! I can’t believe that we are already into another month. With the end of the quarter, and all the grading to do at school, time is flying by for this teacher! It’s already use my tangle time over at i am the diva’s weekly challenge, and this week it’s Caren Mlot’s tangle, Cruze, that we are all trying out. You can find the step outs here. I decided since time is so very short for me right now, to try this out on an ATC tile, and still continue to experiment with the black and brown combination. I used a bit of white, sanguine and burnt sienna Derwent drawing pencil in there too. If I have time later in the week, I would like to try out some of the variations and see if I can get this one to be a bit more organic, but for now here is my version of using Cruze.

 As always your comments and visits to see what I have been up to, are very much appreciated! Have a great week!