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...

#whimsybykelly2015

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.

 

#whimsybykelly2015 days 181-185

Tackling Tuesdays again!

Tackle it Tuesday... It's back!

And with a new theme... Alphabet strings. 

This week: A... With A-tangles...

I decided to tangle around an A silhouette.

Arukas, aa's, all boxed up, beadlines, squid, dandi... And some random doodling...

It's a String Thing #98

Just two new to me tangles this time, so I went for it...

It took me a while to get Mel Mel flowing... And I found that I like it better in a row than in a circle...

Somehow everything just wanted to be flowers in this tile...

I could not resist the cruffle butterfly...

Two by Two by Tuesday: "Flower of Life"

I had fun with this as a string! I will have to try this in a bigger scale too... And with color...

Joey's #66: Monotangles C: Cornerz

Another new to me tangle. But this one was easy to learn and fun to draw. Great tangle. Great challenge!

If you like monotangles go check out Suzy Mosh's new Sunday challenge "Tangle Me 3". This week starring Cadent.

Every Inchie Monday: "Enjoy"

Go ahead and take a bite... (Z)enjoy....

Inside my journal

Last week in my journal... As always I layered tiles with notes and other stuff underneath...

#whimsybykelly2015 days 174-178

Kelly's challenge is almost into it's second half of 2015 and I'm still going strong! Who would have thought that? Not me for sure.

I'm very happy that I still manage to do just a little creative every day. By now it's sure to be a habit hard to get out of.

Monday again?? That can't be right!

Tackle it Tuesday

I came by a tutorial by Lynn Mead on dewdrops on pinterest and just went for it...

I think it takes a little practice... But I guess it's ok for a first try... 

String #6

Pea-fea, Zonked, Beadlines

Zendala Dare #2

Having fun with the old zendala dares while waiting for a new one...

This was a really great template!

Maryhill, Rick's Paradox, Fasset, Beadlines

I love Maryhill, it's so beautiful, though I find it hard to fit it into a tile...

But this circular center was calling for Maryhill...

I love it when it just draws itself!

Inside my journal...

Last weeks pages in my journal...

 Last week's Tackle it Tuesday's tile is hiding out underneath Zendala dare #1...

Under two tiles is a note about a book I read this week and notes about our week...

 Every Inchie Monday #18: Leopard

That's not much to show for an entire week!

It seems I will be working overtime for at least the next week too...

If only there were more hours in a day...

...And more days in the weekend...

Who ever decided that we work 5 days and have only 2 days off,

when the opposite would be so much more fun?!

#whimsybykelly2015 day 118-124

Down to earth...

Tackle It Tuesday

&

The Diva Challenge #214: Earth Day

While drawing this for Tackle it Tuesday, it occurred to me that it would fit pretty neatly for the Diva challenge too...

So I brought out the watercolors to emphasize the earthly theme... 

String #5

One new to me tangle: Riverstones

Also Kozy and Betweed

joey's weekly tangle challenge #57

"Find a string in the photo."

Another great challenge from Joey...

Msst, wavy border, sez, roxi, pokeleaf, ripple, fescu, waves, rain dotty

This tile contains only water/beach related tangles.

Once again I added some color to bring forth the earth/beach theme...

Two Times Two by Two by Tuesday: "Royal"

Please check out this new challenge!

If you enjoy the Every Inchie Monday, you will love the Tuesday Twinchies too!

The more entries, the more fun for every one!

Two ideas popped in my head with this 4th 2x2 challenge, so I kept with the theme and made two twinchies...

 

Royal is Royal Copenhagen's mega mussel pattern...

Royal is the tangles King's Crown, Queen's Crown and Knights Bridge with royal blue, gold and glitter...

#whimsybykelly2015 day 113-114

Loving the spring time...

 I have a feeling this very creative trip that I am on in 2015 will slow down over the summer... At least it seems that this amazing spring weather we have had lately is sneaking in and stealing my creative time...

On the other hand it is breathing pure joy into my soul... There is no thing as good as feeling the sun on your face...

And spending all day (or at least as much as is left of it after work... and before dinner, lunch packs, homeworks etc...) outside makes me, and thankfully my kids too, feel so wonderfully refreshed and relaxed... I'm sleeping like a baby... In fact some nights I'm fast a sleep even before my kids!

Don't you just love the spring time?

I do!

I would hug spring if I could!

I would hold on and never let go if I could!

Actually I wouldn't.... Summer means watermelons and ice cream...

I wanna hold on to summer!

I did manage to get a little creative though...

Tuesday I received an amazingly decorated letter filled with beautiful washi tape from Sarahiousplanz on Etsy...

So I just had to get to my journal and start using some of it...

These are the pages covering last week...

I am so in love with the flowery washi... And the date mark is also a washi tape...

The pages looked a bit empty... (Did I mention the weather?) So I printed some pictues from Sunday where we were playing with my son's building set...

My daughter build a dog, made it a name tag, a bed and a vet-clinic...

My son made a transformer that turned from a man into a machinegun... I made a few guns out of the leftover pieces which my son quickly deemed to also be transformers as they could be planes too...

Good times...

As usual I wrote a little about the past week under the pictures...

Under the picture of a book I read this week I wrote a little tiny review and I tucked some challenge tiles under some other challenge tiles...

I am really loving these little black tags I bought on ebay!

I worked on my Sofie's Universe... Just a few rounds...

When I took this picture I was working on round 26...

 I am running low on the white... So I have finally made a decision on yarn and will hopefully find time to order some this weekend and have it delivered early next week and get started for real!

I can't wait!

Yesterday I trashed a couple of tiles... I just wasn't finding any Zen...

Thankfully today it went a lot better and I managed to make this little quickie for...

Tackle It Tuesday

String #4

New tangle: Dandi

Not so new tangle: Queen's crown

Somehow I just feel this string calls for simplicity...

I hope you're all sharing the sun with me...

#whimsybykelly2015 day 104-107

One hundred days of creativity!

 Hang on, I've got an entire week's work in pictures for you here!

Are you hanging? Good, let's go then...

Page 3 in my tangle sampler book is now done... Looking back I see that I posted about finishing page 2 on February 11th and this page contains about 65 tangles... It's roughly a new tangle a day...

That's pretty awesome! Go me! ;)

 

joey's weekly tangle challenge #55: Use Cat-kin

Cat-kin is a great tangle! It's simple and repetitive to draw and looks cool, I love it!

B'twined is one of many tangles I learned and only actually used once. But it's also a great tangle to draw, I will have to use it more.

(I wish I had made it bigger upwards, but that's for next time!)

Tackle it Tuesday: use string #3 and a new to me tangle

I decided cat-kin was new enough to pass for a new to me tangle...

String #3

New tangle: Cat-kin

Inapod, eca-lin, lockar curls, ovolution, courant, enyshou, lilypads

It seems most of the participants in this challenge didn't care for the new theme... Only two submissions this week and not many last week either...

Go check it out, it's so much more fun when more people take part... :)

Joey's inside my sketchbook friday link up

Owls, owls, owls...

I adopted Joey's cut-and-paste idea for my sketchbook...

My favorite things to draw is cats, owls doodle flowers... And I love to color in after, that is if I get the chance before the kids steals my drawings!

This time I got there in time... Perfect for a rainy Saturday afternoon...

That's New To Me Challenge #14: Q

String: I drew one..

Quib and Quabog

I've seen some really cool tiles using Quib. It looks so fun to draw, so I had to try.

And it was a great tangle to draw. But I didn't really know what to do with it once I had the quib down...

There was no step-out to be found on Quabog, maybe it's one of the top-secret tangles!

Good thing it's so simple even I can figure it out...

When I had drawn Quabog it looked so messy... Then I filled it with black and it took the focus away from the Quib...

Colored pencils to the rescue!!

Now it looks sort of outer-spacey... And I like it!

We have now passed one hundred days of creativity over at Whimsy by Kelly's where we're going for 300 creative days in 2015...

Yay for us!

#whimsybykelly2015 day 97-102

Zen in the sun...

I don't have much to show for today. I trashed two tiles trying new L-tangles for the that's new to me challenge... just wasn't feeling the zen tonight.

The sun graced us with it presence today, letting us get a taste of spring. So we have spent the entire day outside. It's truly amazing to sit and feel the sun on my face while listening to happy cries and laughter from the kids playing on the street.

Now there's some zen to find right there!

But I did do a drawing today, the biggest drawing this year in fact!

My daughter and I drew a racetrack on the street with chalk. It goes all the way to the end of the street. Phew.. I was pretty beat after that...

I found my self a chair in the sun and crocheted a few rounds on my Sofie's universe while the kids took a spin in the track on their bikes, skates and what's the name for the two-wheeler she's running on in the picture?

then I put on a cap, found a pad and a pen and gave tickets to the traffic violators, even had to draw a jail cell (with parking!) for the serial offenders...

Loads of fun.

Yesterday...

Tackle it Tuesday: String #2 and a new tangle

Ohoho, Obad, Widgets, Zescen
Micron, Colored pencils, gelly rolls

#whimsybykelly2015 day 92-93

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

Going green...

The Diva's Weekly Challenge #209: "Saint Patty's"

The diva said..."Green up your tile..."

I said... "Okay!"

String #18

Wud, Fat Paper, Bead Lines

Green and brown fine liners/microns, green gelly roll and green colored pencils...

I love green! Already started another tile with green and purple, perfect combo!

Yesterday...

 Tackle it Tuesday: Tangles starting with V-W-X

String #17

Verdigogh, Web, X, Xplo-zen

#whimsybykelly2015 day 76-77

Tackling tuesday...

Tackle it Tuesday: P-Q-R

Pufff, Queen's Crown, rixty

#whimsybykelly2015 day 62