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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To the wall...

Oh my! It is really rough getting back into the daily routine!

After almost 4 weeks vacation I seem to have forgotten just how little time is left when the kids are in bed and the daily chores are dealt with...

8 weeks till fall vacation!!!! I'm starting a countdown...

Every Inchie Monday #32: Wall

Pocket Letters

Have you ever heard of pocket letters? I hadn't until just recently when I joined swap-bot! They were invented by Jeanette Lane. Check out her site here.

I made my very first pocket letter and sent it off to my swap partner in the US. There was no theme picked out for this one so I just found some pretty paper and decided on owls as I love to draw owls!

The back of the pockets holds crafty goodies like washi tape and ribbon samples, paper clips, buttons, stickers and sticky notes etc. I put a teabag in one pocket and a little bag of candy in another.

And of course one pocket holds a letter...

Finish of with wrapping...

And a decorated envelope...

I really enjoyed making this and have since made another that I am about to send off. I can't wait for one to arrive here!

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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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Stacking tangles... And tiles...

 It's A String Thing #103

Meer - Mi2 - Mr. E

Meer was new to me. What a great tangle! I really love how the little sparkles makes such a huge difference in it's appearance... It was a bit of a challenge to draw it spiraling though!

I had to look up Mi2, it's one of the tough ones to remember if you don't use it regularly, but it's such a pretty tangle!

Muster Mixer #8: Vano vs. Florez

This is always a fun challenge and usually it really is a challenge to get the two patterns mixed!

Stacked!

I've seen these tangled stacks around and it looked like so much fun I just had to try for myself!

And it really is fun. Also very relaxing and zenful.

It's just tangle after tangle after tangle... Just hold the pen and it flows out on it's own...

From above...

Printemps, Riki Tiki, Chechain, All boxed up, Meer, Akoya

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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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Vacation time is busy time...

Tackle it Tuesday: E

Oh, I missed the deadline for this one. I tangled it last Wednesday...

Boy, how time flies by when it's vacation time...

I used Efilys as the string and surrounded it with a border of Equerre.

Every Inchie Monday 30:Yellow

I brought out my watercolors for this one.

  

Two By Two By Tuesday: Rain

There's been way too little tangling going on here the past week!

So I let them rain down on this twinchie...

 Rain, Ripple, Tipple, Msst

Joey's Weekly Tangle Challenge #71: H Monotangle: Hollibaugh

Hollibaugh is one of my favorites.

(Hush! Don't tell anyone.. I kinda "cheated" a bit with this one and drew it in pencil first. Otherwise it wouldn't have been possible to go over and under like that...)

ATC #1 - For Swap-bot..

This is my first ATC which I made for a swap on swap-bot.

The theme was "Just a doodle".

I used some cardboard from an envelope that came from amazon with a book ("Wreck this book" - wonder when I'll find the time to get that one started! Pfft...). I really liked the color of it and thought it would look great with brown micron and white highlights. I used colored pencils for shading.

Tangles: Hurry, Printemps, Dandi, Fescu, Kozy, Tipple

It's a little weird sending this off into the world... But thankfully the Karen in Oregon was very pleased to receive it!

This is what I got in return, from another tangler. 

I love the laced tangle and the middle that looks like a mandala.

A very lovely tile!

I have made my very first pocket letter this week too. Also for a swap. That was really fun and I will be making more definitely! I see how that can be addicting!

Last week I bought a chromecast and it came in this little box.

Nice and sturdy and such a lovely color... 

Now it looks like this...

I decided to keep one of the inside dividers.

Now it holds inchie, twinchie and ATC sized tiles all cut up and ready for use...

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Swapping the Zen...

 Every Inchie Monday #29: Energy

The first thing on my mind was windmills... In Denmark we have Vestas, they make windmills which are sold all over the world. Windmills are a part of the landscape here. Also I know people who work with Vestas, so it's no wonder that immediately popped into my head...

 Joey's Weekly Tangle Challenge #70: Monotangle "Girdy"

What a great tangle pattern this was. I love the depth it creates.

That last bar went it's own way...

 I have found what will probably turn into a new obsession... Somehow I ended up on this blog and she posted pictures of some wonderful tangled ATCs she made for a swap on this site called Swap-bot...

Just imagine actually getting something other than adds in the mailbox. Like beautiful handmade ART in the mailbox. Like zen in the mailbox!

Yesterday I mailed my very first ATC ever. It's on it's way to the states. I'm crossing my fingers the recipient will be happy with it...

Today I have made a card for another recipient in Canada. That will be going in the mail tomorrow.

So why am I not showing off my very first ATC ever?

Because it's a surprise!! It's no fun, if you already know what's in the letter when you open it.

 ...Waiting by the mailbox...

 #whimsybykelly2015 days 198-202