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!

#whimsybykelly2015 day 159-164

Sunday Zen...

 Zendala dare #99

I really fell in love with Cubine yesterday when doing the tile for the Diva challenge. So I thought I'd make another submission for the Diva's with this zendala dare. But then my pen got ahead of me and had suddenly drawn some Betweed...

Ah, well that's what happens when you get in the Zen zone... It just starts drawing itself...

Cubine, Poke root, Betweed

(Please follow the Cubine link and see Margaret Bremner's tutorial and you'll fall in love too!)

Joey's weekly tangle challenge #51: Clove in String 138 

Again this one took on a life on it's own and turned out more of coloring in than a zentangle tile...

Still, I had fun and that is after all the most important thing about these challenges...

In Denmark we don't celebrate St. Patrick's day, pretty much all I know of that tradition is clovers and green...

We do however celebrate Easter which is not that far away now... And it is much anticipated here as it means a holiday of an entire week! Yay!

The easterbunny has not made it's way to Denmark (YET... halloween and valentines is almost a thing now, so the easterbunny will probably be next...).

We have our own easter tradition of making and mailing a 'gækkebrev'. It's a paper-cutting with a little rhyme and dots for your name, that you send to a friend in a letter with a snowdrop flower. If the receiver does not guess who sent it, they will have to give an easter (chocolate)egg. If they guess right, the sender will give the egg.

The kids have spent their afternoon cutting colored paper and thinking up ways (cheating!) to dot their name so noone will be able to guess...

I made this one for my niece... Just cheating a tiny bit, dotting my name with eggs as 'aunt Ann' in stead of just 'Ann'...

She'll guess it, if not I'll 'accidentally' ask if she received it...

#whimsybykelly2015 day 74

Crazy for cubine...

Weekly Challenge #208: "Duotangle - Cubine vs Pokeroot"

Cubine is one of those tangles that just looks kind of boring. Of course that's just because I never took the time to play with it...

I'm so very happy Laura picked it for this week challenge, forcing me to use it...

A whole new cubine world opened up to me when I followed the link to Margaret Bremners tutorial!

Truly amazing and so very inspiring tutorial... Margaret is my favorite tangler, she does such amazing work!

Here is my cubine/pokeroot tile...

I have really fallen for cubine. I love the depth it can create. I will be using it again for sure!

#whimsybykelly2015 day 73