A double Joey!

joey's weekly tangle challenge #54: Tangle Dust Bunny 

A dust bunny??!

I was wondering if that was the name for that bushy thing on a stick used for dusting... Seeing playboy bunnies dusting my living room... (Yes, I know, my mind is kinda weird...) Thinking how on earth that would come into a zentangle tile...

Till I thought to click the words... Doh! Of course it's a tangle name...

And a great tangle too!

Inspired by Joey's lovely dust bunny bookmark, I decided to make one of my own...

 

Eca-Lin by LonettA

Dust Bunny by Margaret Bremner

Petunia by Denyse Jones

Beadlines by Margaret Bremner

All but beadlines were new to me... Loving all three new tangles!

This was drawn with microns, gelly roll and colored pencils...

joey's weekly tangle challenge #53: Tangle a border print

I really liked this challenge...
Loved the tablecloth Joey used as inspiration for it and was inspirered to do a tablecloth tile of my own...

I used to have a Christmas tablecloth with the most beautiful border print, a border in the middle and stripes in two shades of red for the rest... I adored it... But nothing lasts forever... (Especially not tablecloths with kids in the house...)

Then came the tough part... Lining them up together... I messed up with the middle part...

This would really benefit from some coloring, but I decided to go ahead with this weeks challenge in stead...

The tangle used is Ballace by Damy...

A great tangle that you can do a lot with...

And a tiny bit of beadlines by Margaret Bremner...

#whimsybykelly2015 day 90

Easter holidays have begun!

Hang in there... It's a long one... Covering 3 days...

So it's monday... And it's easter... Aka HOLIDAY! Aka YAY!

 

 Every Inchie Monday #13: Oak

Oh, no! Someone took an axe to my oak tree!

Or maybe just a butterknife... As it's only an inch...

Today I brought out the scratch tiles and made two "happy easter" cards for some easter eggs that I am giving away for the "gækkebrev" I sent out a couple of weeks ago. (It's a Danish tradition, you can read about it in this post...)

God påske = Happy easter...

 I think maybe I made a new border tangle on the colored tile. I quite like it! And I love how it came about all on it's own!

I added some new scratch tiles too with the easter eggs. Spreading a little creativeness along with the chocolate! :D

Sunday...

It's been a very long time since I last picked up a crochet hook... More than a year... Maybe even two... How time flies...

At least it was long enough that I had to look up the stitches! (It can be a bit confusing with the difference in UK vs US stitches with the same name...)

I was stopping by www.heatherpearson.com looking for the tangled thursday challenge but instead I found the most amazing thing on Heather's needlework tuesday post...

The reason I suddenly just HAD to dust of the crochet case was this crazy amazing CAL (crochet along) called Sofie's Universe ...

So many different stitches and colors it looks so fun to make!

Just look at this amazing piece... It's up to part 12 of 20 so the ones who got started in time is about halfway done...

What it should look like about halfway done... Amazing!

I DID NOT MAKE THIS! Follow the link to see the other 2 versions/sizes of this beauty...

I only just got started!

No, this tiny little doily is what I made most of on saturday and a little today...

I love these colors!

 This is actually just a trial run... I just wanted to make sure I was up for this pretty intense challenge before investing in new yarn (Nooo, I do not have yarn in my stash that will work for this! Well, I don't have enough of that yarn anyways! So really, I have to by new yarn... I do!)...

This is cheap cotton which I have a pretty big stash of and thus a nice range of colors... But a larger piece is going to be pretty heavy if made in cotton, so I prefer wool...

But I'm very sure there's a teddy in the house who would be a happy taker of this test run...

 

 Saturday...

"Triple B" Bible Book Biweekly Challenge 

Finally got around to finishing the second drawing for the "Triple B" Bible Book Biweekly Challenge.

The terms for the challenge have now changed. So you do not need to draw an entire page to participate, now any size goes!

I went for half a page as I have been pretty low on tangle-time this week...

 

This weeks book is "Exodus"...

E - Enyshou by Zentangle

X - X by Poppie_60

O - Ovolution by Sandra Chatelain and Ogel by Margaret Bremner (Oops... a second O tangle sneaked it's way in...)

D - Diva Dance Foxtrot by Zentangle

U - Undling by Susie Achter

S - Shing by Margaret Bremner

 Of these 7 tangles only 2 were known to me. I really love all these new tangles I learned, but especially Ovolution and Ogel.

#whimsybykelly2015 day 87-88-89

Lining up the felines...

Cats in a line...

 I saw something like this on pinterest a while back and today I was in a cat kinda mood...

So this came to mind (after falling into the dreaded pinterest cat-trap... Suddenly half an hour had gone by just looking at cat pictures going awwww...) and was put to paper...

This one I might just hang on the wall!

(I love cats!) (Like, really love them!)

 Tangles used are Printemps, Beeline, X, A-Fog and... The last one slipped my mind...

Yesterday's creative work:

That's new to me #12: "O" 

String #20

O-Tangles:

Orbs-La-Dee by Anneke Van Dam

Ohoho by Damy

Obad by Molly Bee

Octoleg by Damy

Okra by Kathy Redmond

My purple micron wanted to be picked up. And shading was done with pencil and purple pencil...

#whimsybykelly2015 day 85-86

Back in black...

TACKLE IT TUESDAY, TANGLES STARTING WITH Y AND Z

 

String: I drew a border with loops...

Y-ful power, a new tangle I have seen used so many times, never getting around to trying it, so thank you!

Yomaho, I think I've already learned another tangle that is very much like this one...

Zopfe, a new tangle I learned for the tangled thursday biweekly challenge...

Zinger, well known...

Zilly, much like Zinger...

Zescen, great tangle, very nice to draw...

And yesterdays creativeness...

New "challenge" from madebyjoey...
 

"Inside my sketch book..."

 Every friday Joey will share pages from her sketch book and she invites us all to join in...

I don't really have a sketch book (all though I am planning on making a cut-n-paste one as Joeys have done.) So for this (or last week, I fininshed the pages yesterday but the content was made last week.) I will share my tangle-journal/diary...

 Whatever I drew during the past week is put in between the pages of my journal. Then I finish 2 pages for each week during the weekend... (Or whenever I find the time/feel like it...) Using some of the tiles/drawings I made and some pretty paper. Then I write or draw/tangle or watercolor...

I usually have a lot more stuff than I have room for on two pages. So I layer it all and make sure almost everything can be lifted to see what's hiding underneath.

Sometimes I make a pocket on a page or glue two pages together to make a pocket for storage.

Under this first tile I wrote about a book I read last week and under the second I wrote a little story about how my son takes after me...

I tangled a little here and there with new tangles I learned last week...

#whimsybykelly2015 day 83-84

Catching an Inchie...

 Every Inchie Monday: Lasso

#whimsybykelly2015 day 82

Out with the green, in with the rose...

Joey's weekly tangle challenge #52: "Rose in a Sphere"

Rose in a sphere...

This was a though one!

I'm not ecstatic... If you read yesterdays post, you know that I messed up the Rose pattern and pretty much gave up on the whole thing...

But after sleeping on it... No, I'm not giving up on more than half an hour work!

Grabbed a sharp blade and cut out the square that I messed up! Then taped a little piece of paper on the back of my sphere, voilá (well, that's what we say in Denmark when we think we have been really smart!) Now you can hardly even see it...

It does look round, but the edges looks flat. Maybe it's the black... I studied Margaret Bremner's sphere (which by the way is amazing!) and thought I did what she did, but no...

This was no walk in the park... But I still had fun doing it...

Can't wait to see what Joey thinks up for next week...

Tangled Thursday: Use the tangle "Zopfe"

Zopfe is a really lovely tangle that I have never used before, so I am very happy to take part in this challenge and fall in love with yet another tangle...

I kept it simple to get well acquainted with Zopfe and only added Beadlines...

The string I did by making a loop on each side of the border...

Now, this tile, I am very happy with!

 #whimsybykelly2015 day 81

Breaking the Saturday Zen...

One of the most annoyingly zen-breaking things is when you mess up a pattern!

And I just did that... Big time... There's no saving it... It's either a doover, a finish and deal or a trash...

This was for Joey's weekly tangle challenge of using pattern Rose in a sphere...

 This was going pretty well... Then... :(

I did however managed to finish a couple of things today without messing up...

My son is going to a birthday party tomorrow and I made this little card for the present he's bringing.

Another card. This one for my boss' 40 year anniversary.

40 years, isn't that amazing?

Yesterday I finished a tile for...

That's New to Me! Week #11: "B"

 

String #19

New to me B-tangles:

Balo by Hsin-Ya Hsu, Beadlines by Margaret Bremner, Binial by Cindy Angel

Btwined by Pegi Schargel and Borbz by Rita N.

Also two non-B tangles; Footlites and Vano.

Beadlines is a new favorite of mine. I have a strong feeling it will be used a lot!

Balo is so very beautiful, but I can't seem to get it as pretty the creator. Practice, practice...

Btwined is so great with blacked holes. I just made it too small... More practice...

#whimsybykelly2015 day 79 and 80