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...