Weekly Zentangle challenge #67

This week the Divas challenge is a celebration of the earth day - which is not a concept I have heard about before, so maybe it's mainly American??

Anyway by the prompt 'earth' my mind went completely blank and I had absolutely no idea what to make. But a little time went and ideas started popping in my mind - also helped along by fellow-challengers. Finally I decided on having the inside of the globe as sort of string - concentric circles represent the different layers of earth with the hot burning center. Around the rings a couple of earthy-things like mountains, flowers and trees. And I couldn't help but put in the snake from paradise :-)

I love this piece. It may not be the most beautiful/zentangle-ish thing, but the process of making it - and I spend severel days - first all the patterns and then the coloring - was really meaningful to me. And I like that.

The final result:

Zendala Dare #2

This week Erin Olssons Zendala dare fit my mind perfectly. Looking at the template once and I already had a zilion ideas for patterns to fill it with. But as it often happens when you tangle, the final result is quite different from what I imagined - but in a good way. I did stuck though to my first thought - that was to use Pystyl (heads) for the border - seems appropriate to honor Erins beautiful pattern to thank her for making all these great templates for us to have fun with.

Being a very result oriented person I don't alway manage to relax when I'm tangling, but with the zendalas I find it easier due to the many repeats of the same patterns. When doing the border I almost dozed off (with little mistakes as result...).

But here you go - Zendala Dare #2 - Pystyl dreams:

Zendala Dare #1

Being new to the world of zentangle I love these challenges  - they make sure that I keep developing and try out new things. And the amount of inspirations is unmeassurable.

This time I found Erins Zendala Dare which is whole new and I am in on it from the start - yeah!

I found it quite hard to deside on which tangles to use and ended up keeping it simply. First I thought it would turn out very boring - but after working with it for a while and especially after the shading, my husbond exclaims that it looked very deep and alive - and I think he's right! But judge for your selves:

Photographed in sunlight (Iphone):

Photographed in lamplight at night (Iphone)

Thank you, Erin, for this Dare - I'm already looking forward to next weeks dare.

Weekly zentangle challenge #66

The Diva's challenge this week is called Laura's aura. So auras' here we come :-)

First a bigger crazy piece worked in my notebook (A5 size). I was inspired by my newly purchased 'Totally Tangled'.

Second my first real Zentangle-tile - just received my starter kit :-). This one turned out quite cute, but I needed some black auras for balance.

I didn't know how big a diffence it would make, but I really like working within the smaller space of the tile and the color of the paper makes the black stand out really nice - not so visible in pictures but in real life it looks really sharp.

En vindomsust en

Har hygget med at tegne mønstre i dag.

Zentangle Weekly Challenge #65

This week the Diva's challenge was to use the pattern called Huggy Bear by JJ LaBarbera.

I'm not really sure what happened. Think I'm in some sort of crisis where my works turn out weird. But I'm still having fun, and I guess that's what counts.

First attemt: I couldn't stay within the frame and it looked really strange untill I turned the page and made a hard frame on 3 of the sides. Now I think it looks like an explosion.

Second: This time I kept it really simple and I really like the Huggy Bear turned out.

Third: I have no excuse for this one. I was thinking teddy bear when making the string but something else happened. Believe me: this may not be beatiful but I was really having loads of fun doing. This piece is called: "This is not an owl".

Hope you enjoyed the show. And a million thanks for the sweet comments last week!

Zentangle Weekly Challenge #64

I just recently discovered the world of Zentangles. And I am completely hooked. I never considered myself very good at drawing but now I found a way to do it.

This is my first time participating in Diva's Weekly challenge and let's see if I can keep it up.

This challenge was a perfekt opportunity to try out a good number of grid based patterns - all found initially at Tanglepatterns.com. So all the patterns are made in the same net of boxes.

This is my results. Enjoy!

Påskepynt 2012

Jeg påskepynter ikke! Det er så besværligt og få op og ned for den korte tid - men - jeg elsker påskepynt, så jeg får næsten altid produceret noget :-) og ja det kommer nok også op at hænge.

I år er jeg blevet inspireret flere steder: først og fremmest så jeg påskeæg med hæklet kant hos yarnfreak! Dette blev så rammen. Blomsterne og fuglene er udklip fra servietter, som er klistret på med laklim (decoupage er ikke min hobby, her her var det lige i øjet, og nu har jeg købt limen, så kan det være der kommer mere).

To af æggene er dekoreret med bånd og 'tangles'. Jeg ville ønske at jeg kunne sige, at jeg selv havde fundet på tegningerne, men de kommer alle fra TanglePatterns.com, hvor jeg de seneste dage har været helt opslugt. Der er et væld af 'Zentangle'-mønstre, og henvisninger til step-by-step tutorials, så jeg har bare tegnet og tegnet.

Bagsiden tilfredsstiller i høj grad mit 'intet må gå til spilde-gen' eller 'det må ikke smides ud, fordi måske kan det bruges til noget kreativt-gen'. Jeg aner faktisk ikke, hvor man køber kraftigt pap, men hvorfor skulle man også det, når man har skuret fyldt med tømt emballage. Her har jeg brugt en aflagt opbevaringskasse fra IKEA, som havde en møsker med nogle gode farver. Og så var den i vinkel.

Så nu mangler jeg bare en god stor gren at hænge dem op på - eller en påskeinvitation, for de kan vel også bruges som værtindegaver...