Rhythm and cake...

 Every Inchie Monday #37: Rhythm

What better way to show rhythm than by dancing?

Drawn with micron005 and then I let my watercolor pencils dance all over it...

If my skin was darker I'd totally have this color hair!

Two by Two by Tuesday: Cake

Mouthwatering layered cake...

In fact I got such cravings for cake that I asked my daughter to bake one. When sugar is involved she only ever has to be asked once!

So by the time I finished this little twinchie the whole house was smelling of delicious cake!

This is why I have kids! lol!

The next birthday in our household will be my daughters 10th, so since she's such a sweetheart, baking for her mom and all, I topped the cake with a 10...

Inside my journal...

 

Layering things to get enough room for notes about the pictures and some notes about what we did the past couple of weeks...

The pocket letter on the right was a blue/green themed one I sent off to Monique in Germany...

 Monique is also a tangler, so I tangled her an ATC for the middle pocket...

There's also some die-cuts, ribbon, a bag of bling and brads, buttons, tea, washi samples, sticky notes and a little crochet pattern as she likes to crochet.

More zentangle on the envelope in the form of Hollibaugh...

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Inchies and twinchies...

Every Inchie Monday

Catching up on my inchies!

Also catching up with....

Two By Two By Tuesday

I had fallen behind and missed the deadline on this challenge, but here we go...

Last week's prompt was grass and I decided to go the doodle way.

For China I decided on a little teacup.

Inside my journal

Wrapping paper from one of my birthday gifts turned into backing paper...

Layered tiles with room for writing notes about the week.

Pocket Letters are taking up my crafting time lately so the tangling is at a minimum... This is 3 weeks combined!

The zentangle tile is made on a tile that was sent to me in a zentangle swap. She drew a sting on it.

Great idea, I love it!

Tea cup and cat ATC made for swaps, but I made an extra for keeps!

It's not all that bad to combine some weeks. My journal is really getting fat! So every combined page means I can tear out a page and slim it down a little.

Next year I will probably make 2 journals so I can tear out half the pages and maybe it will get less bulky...

Swap book

What to do with the stuff I receive in swaps?

I saw on a swab-bot profile, can't remember who's, a book made out of incoming swaps. She only showed the cover, so I don't know how she did it.

But this is how I am doing it...

My very first swap! The tanned ATC is my outgoing. Below is my incoming.

The card can be opened and lifted to show the envelope below.

I really do not have the heart to just trow out pretty envelopes!

They make for a perfect background. Here I also added a picture of the envelope I sent out and a picture of the items I received as they were too many and too large to fit.

Washi sample swap so I added a little piece of the lovely washis I was sent.

Beautiful card and envie!

See how pretty my swap partner doodled the envie! and she made me an owl card in my favorite color! I love owls!
And funny, I also made an owl card for my outgoing swap, this time in Canada. I made a purple card as that was my receivers favorite color.

This book will be so fun to look through when it is finished!

Zentangle swap

 

Swapping a zentangle tile!

I drew a string on a tile and added it for extra.

My swap partner loved celestial images so I drew a sun for the card.

And the envie...

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Diving into mixed media...

 Every Inchie Monday #30: Window

 A window you say? Well why don't we open it up then?

Cats, pretty flowers and lit candles. There are no better things found in a windowsill...

Inside my journal

I feel a bit like I'm neglecting my journal these days. There's so much I want to do and even though it's vacation time there seems so be so little of it... Time...

So again it is a bit rushed... But if I get more than a few weeks behind I'll probably never get them done, so better rushed than not at all...

The teary drawing I did on an old book page so I thought it fitting to use another old book page on the opposite side. I layered more tiles underneath the Girdy monotangle.

ATC #2: Tea for two...

What is much more exciting is my journey into mixed media...

Yesterday I made my second ATC, but the first mixed media ATC. (The first was 'just' zentangle.)

 I made this intending to use it in a swap on swap-bot. But yet again I'm having attachment issues...

It's just so weird sending my stuff into the word when for the past half year I have crammed most of it into my journal.

As this is a first I will keep it to myself. So I made another! lol.

The backing is a piece from a cereal box. On that I glued a page from an old book I found in a secondhand store and painted it with white and some pearly white. Then I drew the teacup and flowers, added watercolor, cut out and glued them on along with a tiny teabag on a string and the word tea.

And then dabbed just a pinch of gold. I have to say I'm quite fond of it!

I just might have to make one with a teapot too...

This was fun! I have so many ideas for future ATCs I can't wait to get started!

Incoming from Swap-bot...

I absolutely love getting snail-mail!

Especially when it's so pretty as this one... Look at that pretty doodled envelope.

And such a beautiful Owl card she made me!

My swap-partner also sent me some tiles (in my favorite color no less) that she drew a string on. That is an awesome idea and I am stealing it for future swaps with zentangle partners!

I tangled one of the tiles today.

I am also working on another ATC...

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New tangles in old books...

 Diane & Carolien's Weekly Zentangle Challenge #17: S-P-V

Static, Printemps, Poke root, Vega

I find Vega really hard to draw. And I couldn't remember it so I googled it and I found this amazing tile by Margaret Bremner (everything she touches is just amazing!)

Look at the way she drew Vega, it looks so cool, I just had to try it!

And while I was drawing the roundings I suddenly had the urge to try that with Hollibaugh which I was drawing yesterday for Joey's Challenge #71...

 Inside My Journal

I've been neglecting my journal lately. I just toss stuff in between pages. I really have to get something done because knowing me, if I get too far behind it'll seem endless and I'll never get it done...

My usual layering... Notes about books I've read and what happened during that week.

...

Yesterday I went shopping with my daughter. I love that! We both love looking at everything we pass... Something that drives the boys crazy... lol.

We went to a secondhand store and I found this beautiful old book...

It's an old woodmans book. It has to be pretty old as it's printed in Gothic which I just googled and learned they stopped doing around 1860 and by 1900 everything was printed in antikva.

So it must be over a hundred years old. And well read too. Stained and bend pages.

And would you look at that! It has tangles! Soooold!

Those pages are just begging to be tangled!

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Zen in the sun...

It's here! 

The sun, the heat... Summer... Finally...

Just as we were about to give up hope it arrived.

So I had a little zen in the sun, and some of it with my trusty microns...

 

 

Tackle it Tuesday

B-string with B-tangles...

A B to see... Get it? I'm so witty when it's this late... ;)

B-string with a whole lot of B-tangles is how I tackled Tuesday this week...

Be Vee, Bales on a string, Borbz, Btweed, Buttercup, Beadlines and two more that were new to me along with Be Vee, but I cannot remember the names right now...

Added some dangles as all the white space inside the B were poking at my eyes... I also tried for a drop shadow, something I think looks so amazing when I see it done, but man, it is hard to get just right.

I'm already contemplating how to attack next weeks C-string...

It's a String Thing #99

String #99

Tripoli - Tearce - Tracery

These were all new to me. I have seen Tearce used several times and really liked the look. I like it even more now that I have tried it.

Tripoli is so versatile I will also be using that again for sure.

Inside my journal

 

Last weeks entry in my journal.

The backing paper is a paperbag that came with some washi tapes I bought on ebay. I thought it was cute so I put it to use.

 

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A week in the zen...

Zendala Dare #6

Diane & Carolien’s Weekly Zentangle Challenge: Y-Z-A

I am going through the old zendala dares while waiting for new ones. I used the #6 template as a string for Diane & Carolien’s alphabet challenge.

This was a great template and the first time I have tangled a star!

Yomaha -Zopfe-Aquafleur

Inside my journal

Lately there has come very few tiles from my pens.

But last week I not only tangled a lot of tiles, I also worked in my sketchbook, took part in some challenges and learned some new tangles. What a great feeling!

I layered tiles and below them put notes about what we did last week, a book I read last week, an inchie and a twinchie.

Two by two by Tuesday challenge: Amoeba

 I went for the tangle 'amoeba' which was new to me. I really liked drawing it.

Joey's weekly tangle challenge #64: Alphabet monotangle: Arukas

Arukas is one of my absolute favorite tangles. It has endless possibilities. I made some arukas tiles, but this was the one I liked the best...

I can't wait to see what B-tangle Joey picks for next weeks challenge!

Zendala dare #5

This wasn't my favorite template... But a challenge is a challenge, no cheating!

So I gave it a go... It turned out a bit too busy for my own taste... I tried adding some color to calm it down...

Rick's paradox, all boxed up, cubine, zonked, beadlines, tipple

Every Inchie Monday #24: Etna

I will be forever amazed at how much drawing you can fit in a square inch!

I love this challenge!

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Favorite things...

Two by two by Tuesday: Favorite things

It's great to see more people participating in this biweekly twinchie challenge!

Zendala dare #4

The zendala dare is one of my favorite challenges. Unfortunately there has been no new challenges for a long time now...

Which is why I started from the beginning and am now up to dare number 4.

Every Inchie Monday #22: Pillow

Inside my journal

A peek into my journal with some zen, inchies, books I've read and under the tile and zendala is layered more stuff I created and also notes about what we have been doing.

As you can see I'm also revisiting one of my absolute favorite tv-shows.

You should go check out Joey's "Inside my sketchbook" and participate. I love sneaking a peek into Joey's sketchbook and it would be fun to see more join in.

It doesn't have to be an actual sketchbook - anything goes!

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An Inch and a twinch...

Two by Two by Tuesday #5: Wildfire

My fifth submission for the twinchie challenge...

Inside my journal

These are the pages from week 19...

I love the pattern on this green paper... It's quite tangly...

Under the tiles I wrote little quotes from the (mouths of my kids) and what we did this week...

Every Inchie Monday #20: Movie

Usually I have drawn my inchie before seeing the others posted. This time though I was a little behind so I sneaked a peek... 

That's why I went of my first thought, the movie reel and/or popcorn/coke. That idea had already been covered in great ways...

So mine turned into this in stead...

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