Saturday, February 28, 2015

SaturdayZen...

 Yet again a really great challenge from Joey, this time blocks with blocks...

Just me creating...
I have trouble dealing with too much white space... Hence the clothesline...
String: The blocks...
Tangles: Fjord, Wirly bird, Nipa, Buttercup, Florz, Sooflowers, Nymph, a dice and some doodling...

Since I just bought a new set of colored pencils this subject fits me perfect... Also I really like using color and do it way to seldom...

String #13...
Tangles: Eke, Copada, Ripple, Mooka, Aquafleur...
Color: Microns and colored pencils


Kelly is having a giveaway on her blog today, so head on over and drop a line...

Friday, February 27, 2015

For the love of triangles...


Two tangles that were both new to me. I love both!
Triangles with triangles and lines... What's not to love?!
And the string is a perfect match...

 

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Scratch that...

 "This week's challenge is to try using tools or materials you've never used before for tangling."

 How perfect that I today received a package from Amazon containing black tiles and some scratch tiles too...

The scratch tiles I saw someone use on a blog, do not remember who or where, but I really wanted to try this. Also it was something I knew would drag the kids away from their ipads and do something creative for a while...

Black tiles I haven't tried tangling before. Only some scraps of black paper last week when I bought some white gelly rolls.

So my submission for this weeks diva challenge is these two...

Wavy border, Locar, Maryhill, Poke-leaf, Tipple

Inaura, Inapod, Poke-leaf, Eke
Drawing white on black was very enjoyable. Luckily the pack I bought contains 75 tiles, so I'll be playing more with that.

The scratch tile was really fun to do. I remember loving thise as a child.
For the next one I'll dig out a knitting needle and see if the lines can be cleaner with that. The nib on the little stick that came with the pack is rather thick and makes very uneven lines when drawing round...

My daugther did some flowers and hearts on hers. My son scratched his name and then proceeded to scratch off all of the black... That's my boy, so thorough...


#whimsybykelly2015 day 57

Monday, February 23, 2015

Snails, rain and Spain...

 There's rhyme in Danish (it rhymes in Danish!)... A snail on your way, is a sign of rain, in Spain... Or is it from a child song... I'm not really sure... But it was the first thing that popped in my head when picking up this mondays inchie...

It makes absolutely no sense...  Way and rain rhymes in Danish, and snails do come out when it rains - but how did Spain get involved??
The things we teach our kids.....

But it is a great prompt for an inchie. All though I could not fit both a snail, rain and Spain on to my inchie, so I stuck to the snail...
I love drawing animals and somehow I always end up drawing child versions. Maybe because I love hearing my daughter gush about them in a voice that could shatter glass...



 I spent most of the afternoon doing laundry and cleaning the hou-- No, I didn't, but I thought about it! (No, I didn't...)
I finished last weeks pages in my journal...

In truth I mostly started this journal to have somewhere to put all the tiles from the numerous challenges I love participating in.
But I do also write a little about what we did during the week or just put down something funny the kids did or said. And I draw or tangle.
Somehow I just can't resist white spaces... My fingers itch... My microns sneaks closer and closer...


 I have glued some pages together in the edges to make pockets for storing tiles, drawings and pictures.
Here I taped a piece of pretty paper to the page but left the top open. The tiles I did this week is stored in the pocket.
Everything can be lifted up and underneath I write or put more tiles/pictures...
Under this tile I put a picture of the books I read last week. Under the zendala I wrote about our week.
(Man, all that white space around the zendala was in grave danger - only saved by the lack of time!)

This way I'll be able to do just to pages per week and end up with just one (very, very thick!) journal for the entire year.

Saturday, February 21, 2015

Getting kozy with inaura...

 It got way too late last night, so I skipped posting yesterdays work... I know myself well enough to
know I can't just do the post and then go to bed...
I always just have to take tiny peek at what everyone else have posted... And just one pin... Or just two... And then I blink and it's been an hour...
Am I the only one with this problem??

So here goes... Yesterday I did a tile for... 


Tangles: Kozy, Inaura

I am completely in love with both these tangles. Inaura is so great to draw and I love the layering.
Kozy is so beautiful! It can be a delicate flower or angel wings or a sea shell... Love it!
I spent a lot of time playing around with both the tangles.


And today...


Tangles: Inapod, Mooka and a whole lot of lines...

I had some difficulties with this template.
Finished one but had put way too much in it. So I trashed it, started over with some minor changes and left some white space.
Now I'm really happy with it.

Note, that Erin over at The Bright Owl who is offering this amazing challenge is having a giveaway, actually it's a double giveaway, this week! So if you're in the US, make sure you pop by...

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Kiss the goat...


String: The kissing goat...
Tangles: Sooflowers, Ahh

In China they celebrate new years by jumping of a bamboo chair and kissing a goat. If they don't own a goat them selves they borrow from a neighbor or relative...
(Nooo, of course I did not come up with this story just because I accidentally drew a kissing mouth. Seriously!!)

#whimsybykelly2015 day 49

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

S for Star Map...

 "S"
String #9
Star Map - Sooflowers - Inapod - Wud - Isochor - Wavy Border

Usually I use only tangles starting with the letter of the week, like an extra little challenge. However nothing really turned out right when practicing some new S tangles.
So after a while I just decided to forget about it and get tangling.
And then I needed something linear against all those soft swirly lines and Star Map was right there looking perfect and so easy I did not even need to look up the step-out!

I guess it all works out once you stop thinking too much and just draw...


Monday, February 16, 2015

The Polka Dot Tangle!

"Text"

 This was one of the tougher ones for me... Thought about drawing a cell phone, but couldn't figure out what to put in the text so I gave up on that idea...
Finally I decided to just write text, synonyms for the word text...
(((((((((((((((After reading this line you will only remember the word content appearing once! Oh, and that it is the most amazing inchie! Snap!)))))))))))))

"The POLKA DOT TANGLE"
This was a fun challenge!
No string, only circles and no overlapping...
Voxter, Hurakan, Vitrivius, Jetties, Inapod, Black Pearls

I wasn't really sure whether to grab a micron or to jump on the floor and get in to a suitable position for the POLKA DOT TANGLE! (It just feels like you have to shout that cool name while trowing your arms wide open...)

I decided to go all in on the polka dots because, well, I just love polka dots!
So I'm pulling my creative license card to overlook the part about each dot being filled with different tangles and spilling a handful of black pearls all over my tile...

Feeling the love for this one! I can't wait to see what everyone else comes up with for the POLKA DOT TANGLE... (Just had to say that again...)

Thank you to everyone who has left me comments, you are all so sweet!


Sunday, February 15, 2015

Birthday preparations...

We have a tradition of a birthday sign with name and (very important!) the new age on the kids doors... I put them up along with flags and balloos so it's the first thing they see when waking up...
They both leave them hanging on the door till their next birthday...

Today I have been working on my sons next sign...

I found the lettering on pinterest and I just know he will love this!
I will be coloring it and framing it with a piece of colored paper on the back...

So no tangling today - but this was pretty zen too!
(Acutally I sneaked in a mah-rah-mee knot...)

Now remember, hush! This is highly classified information!!

This is the one hanging on my daugthers door...



Happy Valentines Day...

 Valentines Day is not really a day we celebrate in Denmark...
All though the stores try their best to make it so. There's all kinds of hearty-things for sale... Don't they just wish they could make a moneymachine out of that day too...

Well, I guess it's kinda getting to me... Little hearts have sneaked their way into my work today, turning everything into Valentangles... <3

Now hang on, because I was so in the zen zone today... Here we go...


Tangles: Buttercup - Puf - Pozer - Inapod
Great challenge. Inapod is now a new favorite of mine.

Tangles: Arukas, Inapod, Rixty, Wavy Border, Heartline, Tipple

This is only my 3rd zendala, but I'm really loving this way of tangleling...

This is actually my second submission as I really was not happy with the first one, I decided to give it another go. I like this so much better!
I went all in on pink and hearty tangles...
String: I drew one
Tangles: Wist, Heartvine, Heartline, Warts and Wobbles, Poke(heart)leaf...

Black Zentangle...
String: I drew one
Tangles: Isochor - Rixty - Msst - Sooflowers (In love!) - Heartvine - Heartline

A little Valentines gift for myself today... White Gelly Rolls...
Fished out some black scraps from the trash and off I went...
I really, really love drawing with these... The little dots are so perfect... I need to get me some black tiles!



Thursday, February 12, 2015

Tangled thursday...

Tangled Thursday challenge: W - however you want...
Join the challenge here...

With lots of new W tangles fresh in mind from this weeks That's New To Me Challenge I tangled for tuesday, this was a perfect subject!
I get to use ones I left out tuesday and I get to reuse my new favorite; Wirly bird...


String: Can you spot the W?


Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Tangling my favorites...


Tangles: Gneiss, Hollibaugh, Isochor, Ixorus
 4 of my favorite patterns!

Today I finished page two in my tangle sampler book...
I tried to count them, kinda hard as they are all over the place, but there's over 60 on this page... That was rather surprising...


Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Finding my zen...

Today I found my zen...
Yesterday it was no where to be found, but now it's back... My sweet, sweet zen...
Maybe it's more how you feel or maybe how your surroundings are at the time of drawing... Or both...
It seems my two kids always either love each other and are BFF or they want to kill each other - there's no middleground... Yesterday was the latter... Phew...

However, today the kids were playing and laughing. They were loud and running around... But that is just how it is... Background noise. But happy noise...
The noise that lets you relax and find that zen...

I have been learning W tangles today... There were not a single one in my tangle sampler book (not on either one of my two whole pages! ;)
So my afternoon was gone in the blink of an eye while playing around with ten new tangle patterns...

The outcome was this tile for SuzyMosh's That's new to me challenge #6: W:


Tangles used: Wirly Bird, Wist, Wavy Border, Wired


Four of the new patterns I learned came in to use. All though I really like all the new.

My favorite is Wirly Bird - really fun to draw, I want to play around with that one more, there's so may ways to go with it - but all these tangles will for sure flow from my pen again...



Monday, February 9, 2015

Love is in the air...

 In Denmark we call December the feast of the hearts... It seems in the states that would be febuary...

Valentangle for the Diva #204...


I was trying to make a heart with my new favorite tangle; Ixorus... Checked with my daugther and though she did see a heart I just wasn't feeling it - so I decided to go all in on the watercolor pencils...

Not really all that happy about it... Maybe all this hearty stuff is getting a bit too much for my taste...

 Joey's weekly tangle challenge #47 is also a valentangle...
Again, I'm not that happy... I might just redo that one... Love the string...


String #39
Luv-A, Hugs N Kisses

Every Inchie Monday #6: Night
(No hearts!!!)



#whimsybykelly2015 day 40

Sunday, February 8, 2015

Going Diva style...

I just love this weekend... So much time and nothing at all that I have to do...
The cleaning is out of the way - the laundry is done...
We're having leftovers for dinner today... Easy peasy...

I am so feeling the zen...

So much I decided to do the Diva challenges all the way from #1...
Well maybe not all today...
But the first 6 then... Great challenges!
I also decided to use only tangles that I already know - a little practice is good...
All though Ixorus is new - I really love that one... It's a keeper!

Diva #1: Simplicity - Tangle used: Mooka
Diva #2: Two pencil string - Tangles used: Up N Down, Copada, Cresent moon, Unyun, Agua
Diva #3: Eyes Wide Shut - Tangles used: Isochor, Locar and some swirlyness
Diva #4: Starry Eyed Surprise - Tangles used: Arukas, Joy, Indy-rella, Ahh
 Diva #5: Orbs - Tangles used: Tipple, Chainlette, Jetties, Cruffle, Sedgling, Nipa, Vitrivius, Bulb lantern
Diva #6: Ixorus - Tangles used: Ixorus, Isochor, Ahh


I'm feeling the love for #4...  And for the music the Diva supplied for it...

Saturday, February 7, 2015

Daring to Zen with the Dala...

I wasn't really sure about this... It was only my second zendala and the template looked pretty tough...
But as soon as I put down the first connecting line cresent moon wanted to land and I just held the pen while it went it's own way...

I printed on regular printer paper... Not doing that again... Microns do not like it - it was skipping and going downright invisible at times...

But it turned out allright after all...

Tangles used:


While I was tangling away on this, my son (6) was looking at it and decided he wanted to make one too... Luckily I couldn't figure out how to just print one of the templates on the page, so he got the tile-size one and I got him going with very simple linework...


For the bottom spaces I suggested dots and he turned them into smilyfaces and thought he was extremly clever! It's so cute...
He finished off with a little post-it Minecraft head for his chin... Yeah... I didn't get that either... But he was half asleep...

Maybe I have a little future tangler here...



Tangles: Cadent and Buttercup



Thank you for all your lovely comments!

Friday, February 6, 2015

For the love of fridays...

 I love friday...

Friday means tomorrow I get to sleep in...
Friday means the kids can stay up till they fall asleep cuttling up with their mom...
Friday means take-out - no cooking!!!

But most of all, friday means 2 hours home alone... 2 hours of uninterrupted creative time...

I love friday...

And I have been quite productive today...

Tangles:


Tangles:




String: I drew one...
Tangles:



Thursday, February 5, 2015

Tackling tuesday on a thursday...

Letters of the week: D - E - F

I decided to go with only tangles I knew... Learning so many new lately that the 'old' ones aren't really getting any practice...

Dyon (Not on tanglepatters.com - it's from the book "One Zentangle A Day")
Florz

String:
I just drew a border and 3 circles...

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Tangeling Mmm...

That's new to me challenge #5...
This week's letter is M.

There is quite a few M tangles to choose from.
I played around with 6 new tangles yesterday and picked 3 for today's tile:

I really like all 3 of them, but mostly Mi2... That's a great one to draw...


Monday, February 2, 2015

A heartfelt tile...

This weeks Every Inchie Monday gave me troubles... The word was kitchen...
I decided dinner was going to be the subject... Now I did not have intestines for dinner as you might think looking at my inchie...  Just spaghetti with ketchup...
Here goes...



Valentines sneaked it way into Joey's Weekly Tangle Challenge #46 this week as we use only tangles with "hearty" names...
This means I get to use some of the "hearty" tangles I learned friday when making a tile for It's a String Thing #77 and learn another new one... Great!


I used Heartstrings, Heartvine and a new one for me; Heartline... The latter is very comfertable to draw...
Also I went with a proper heartfelt color...

Sunday, February 1, 2015

Arukas galore...

#whimsybykelly2015 day 32
muster mixer #2
tangled thursday

So we break in to the second month of Kelly's 300 creative days challenge. I for one is very proud that I did not skip a single day!
A little creative time every day is no longer something I have to remember to do. It's more like I have to remember to stop... You know, I do have to sleep too....
It is now a habit... And one I hope to keep longer than those 300 days...

I'm so happy I stumbled over Kelly's challenge!

I absolutely love sunday... Especially sundays where I have 3 whole hours alone (I love my family but oh how good it is to have silence for a little while... And no interuptions...)

It went by so fast it felt like less than half an hour... I actually did not move out of the chair... (Well, I did... A girl needs her coke...) 3 hours of pure Arukas-tangle-pleasure...

Yesterday I had my troubles with Arukas... I was trying to combine it with Balloya for the Muster Mixer #2 challenge over at Freude mit Zentangle and coming out short due to my eyes... They kept closing... Makes it kinda difficult...

No such trouble today...

I really love Arukas!

Diane Clancy commented (Thank you!) one of my posts and I found another challenge by following her link...
Tangled Thursday... You can find it here...
This week's topic is winter and Arukas is just perfect for snowflakes!

Now you might think I had had enough of Arukas by now...
But no, I really needed to play more with it. So I flipped a few pages in my tangle sampler pad and dedicated an entire page to this wonderfully diverse tangle pattern...


Some were quite successful, some not so much...

My favorite is the spiderweb version...
These three are nice too...

And so the weekend comes to an end... Incredible how fast it flies by...

Thanks to everyone for commenting - you are all so sweet!