Inches and mail to Japan...

Every Inchie Monday #39: Hotel

Just barely making the deadline for this one!

I tried to think of something that no one had done for this week's prompt...

Every Inchie Monday #40: Lumberjack

Honestly I had no idea what the word meant!

Of course then I googled it. So a man in a plaid shirt with an axe is a sex symbol?!? Who would have thought?

Well, okay... Scrolling down to Hugh Jackman in plaid, with an axe... I get the point... Lol!

I thought this was going to be a tough one...

I started out drawing an axe, then had the thought of adding the plaid. So I fussy cut the axe and gluedotted it onto the plaid.

Not too bad, if I do say so myself...

Two by Two by Tuesday: Hot

Fall has arrived in Denmark.

The wind is whirling brown leaves and most of the time rain is trickling down my windows...

Though I really am not fond of all the wet weather I do enjoy the dark evenings with candlelight and fire in the wood stove.

This is our wood stove...

For once I decided to go with a pencil drawing...

Pocket Letter for Japan

I had previously sent washi samples for a swap-bot swap to Naoko in Japan and she asked if I would swap a pocket letter.

We settled on our shared loved for the colors blue/green...

The blue with flowers I cut from a Rosina Wachtmeister poster that was to be trashed. I do like recycling...

The quotes I printed from the web...

The punched butterfly was sent to me from India.

Naoko is also a tangler so I tangled her an ATC. She also loves dolphins...

Yesterday I sent out two pocket letters themed owls for India and Sweden... But that show and tell will be for another day...

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Rhythm and cake...

 Every Inchie Monday #37: Rhythm

What better way to show rhythm than by dancing?

Drawn with micron005 and then I let my watercolor pencils dance all over it...

If my skin was darker I'd totally have this color hair!

Two by Two by Tuesday: Cake

Mouthwatering layered cake...

In fact I got such cravings for cake that I asked my daughter to bake one. When sugar is involved she only ever has to be asked once!

So by the time I finished this little twinchie the whole house was smelling of delicious cake!

This is why I have kids! lol!

The next birthday in our household will be my daughters 10th, so since she's such a sweetheart, baking for her mom and all, I topped the cake with a 10...

Inside my journal...

 

Layering things to get enough room for notes about the pictures and some notes about what we did the past couple of weeks...

The pocket letter on the right was a blue/green themed one I sent off to Monique in Germany...

 Monique is also a tangler, so I tangled her an ATC for the middle pocket...

There's also some die-cuts, ribbon, a bag of bling and brads, buttons, tea, washi samples, sticky notes and a little crochet pattern as she likes to crochet.

More zentangle on the envelope in the form of Hollibaugh...

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Loving pocket letters!

Every Inchie Monday #36: Ear

No one said it had to be a human ear!

I find human ears kinda nasty, so here's a sweet, soft, lovely, big kitty ear <3

Two by Two by Tuesday: Treasure
A good old treasure chest!

I colored it with watercolor pencils and used some glittery gelly pens for the gold and pearls.

After water...

 

Before water...

 Sometimes I skip the water part of these watercolor pencils (not because I'm a chicken and scared I'll ruin it and have to start all over! Really!) but just look at the difference!

Swapping Pocket Letters...

This pocket letter is themed 'All about me'...

1. My country with a letter. 2. I love washi with washi samples. 3. A recipe for my favorite apple pie and a tea bag. 4. My favorite tv-show with pretty buttons. 5. My favorite color with sticky notes. 6 My favorite animal with cat washi, cat stickers and cat sticky notes. 7. I love to read. Book recommendations and book pages from an old Danish book to use in crafting. 8. Tangled ATC. 9. Tiny bag of my favorite candy!

All wrapped up and ready to go into...

...a pretty envelope and off to Gini in the UK.

Another pocket letter!

This one was to have only washi tape as goodies!

For the backside I printed out qoutes. This way it will still look pretty when all the washi samples have been taken out in case my swap partner likes to keep her pocket letters in a binder.

A pocket letter has to contain a letter! Decorated with lots of washi to go with the theme...

All wrapped up!

Into the envie and off to Sylvia in Illinois...

I really love making the envelopes even though they will probably get tossed in the trash. But hopefully she will have a moment of joy when finding it in the mailbox...

I love receiving pretty mail and always save it!

This envelope contains washi samples and a card that I forgot to take a picture of and don't remember at all what look like!

Hey, I just turned 40, I'm allowed to be forgetful!!

Whatever it was, Karen loved it so all is well... And she is saving the envie, yay!

Swapping a tea cup ATC. This was the second ATC I have ever made...

I have sent out another 4 swaps this week, so I am keeping busy! lol!

The last creative piece I want to show you is a card I made for a colleague whom I will have shared my employment with for exactly 10 years tomorrow!

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Still trying to stick with the whimsy challenge of being creative every day in 2015!

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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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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The zentennial and the return of the zendala...

Vacation time... So very soon... 

Last day at work tomorrow and a very busy day, then Saturday we go camping. Yay!

That usually means no internet, and maybe even no cell coverage (WAHH!)

So I wanted to get a final post in before we're off. I didn't want to miss the 100th String Thing! And not the return of the zendala dare either!

 

It's A String Thing #100: The Zentennial!

A very big congratulations to Adele and an even bigger thank you for all the work she puts in these great challenges!

 Adele Bruno made a lovely 100 inspired string and ditto tangle for this very special challenge.

This tile simply just drew it self.

Pure zen.

I love when that happens!

Zendala Dare #101 - Yay!

Erin is back with her zendala dares. Lucky us!

This template took some thinking.

As Erin thankfully pointed out, it has an uneven number of triangles. Had she not, I would no doubt have had the same problem she did as my first thought was paradox or betweed. That would make a cool effect. But not with uneven numbers.

The solution to me was five empty triangles. Of course they weren't empty long...

Problem solved... Next problem was all those ovals... To get them even... Not a chance...

So I 'cheated' again and just used some of them...

I love the look of Paradox, but it didn't have enough contrast...

 Out comes the colored pencils... Some more solid black... Heavier shading...

Now I am happy.

I really didn't think I would get anything out of that template. And that is exactly why I love this challenge...

That was not my only problem this week...

The inchie prompt had me staring at the paper. And the twinchie I just rushed and sadly do not have time to make it like I wanted...

Every Inchie Monday #27: Nose

This is the first time I have been completely blank on an inchie prompt... Probably because I think noses are kinda nasty...

And how do you draw a nose so it looks interesting or cute or just nice?

But it is a challenge, so I tried... My son likes to dig for gold... So I drew that... ;)

Two by Two by Tuesday: Squirrel

I realized this one has deadline while I'm away, so I had to do a quickie... 

In stead of tangling as I wanted I just colored it in...

 

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