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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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!

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Favorite things...

Two by two by Tuesday: Favorite things

It's great to see more people participating in this biweekly twinchie challenge!

Zendala dare #4

The zendala dare is one of my favorite challenges. Unfortunately there has been no new challenges for a long time now...

Which is why I started from the beginning and am now up to dare number 4.

Every Inchie Monday #22: Pillow

Inside my journal

A peek into my journal with some zen, inchies, books I've read and under the tile and zendala is layered more stuff I created and also notes about what we have been doing.

As you can see I'm also revisiting one of my absolute favorite tv-shows.

You should go check out Joey's "Inside my sketchbook" and participate. I love sneaking a peek into Joey's sketchbook and it would be fun to see more join in.

It doesn't have to be an actual sketchbook - anything goes!

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A week in color...

The Diva's Weekly Challenge #218: "White on Black"

 I really enjoy drawing white on black so this challenge was right up my alley...

joey's weekly tangle challenge #61: Tangle a flower shaped string
Zendala Dare #3

 

Inside my sketchbook

My son sat down next to me while I was tangling and asked if he could make a tiny drawing too!

He only wanted to color in though so I drew him a string and this is as far as he got before something else caught his attention...

Watching him I just got an urge to color in, it's so relaxing. So I made one for myself too...

Every inchie monday #21: "Envelope"

 This weeks inchie I made on a piece of an actual envelope...

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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

For the love of zendalas...

I've really been missing Erin's Zendala Dare...

It's a month now since the last one...

So I decided to just go ahead and start at the beginning! That leaves me with lots and lots of zendala templates as I only just got started doing them at #95...

Here's my take on the very first Zendala Dare...

Zendala Dare #1

Arukas, knight's bridge, inaura, tipple, fescu, zescen, ovolution

Inside my journal...

These are my journal pages from week 16..

Under the zentangle tiles is notes about a book I read that week, a movie and a new tv-show I started watching...

On this page I wrote a little about what we did this week...

Under the picture of my Sofie's Universe is a picture of a birthday card I made for my nephew and under that I wrote about his birthday party and his present...

Every Inchie Monday #17: "Shell"

My favorite challenge of the very many available has to be this little one!

If you, like me, cannot get enough of the inchies, you should check out the twinchie challenge too!
The Two by Two by Tuesday Challenge...

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The magic of zen...

Zendala Dare #100

Usually these zendalas just practically draw themselves... But not this one... I gave up on it twice...

But I still had a template among the papers laying around my end of the table... And today those ovals in the center were suddenly telling what they wanted and... voila!

It happened again. It's like magic!

Uncorked by Adele Bruno

Ovolution, Kozy, Nymph

Lawn Yawn by Molossus

That's new to me #13: "L"

Laced by Mary Elizabeth Martin

Lotuspods and Lilypads by Margaret Bremner

Lawn Yawn by Molossus

Lockar Curls by Ninna

Laced I have used a few times before, the rest were all firsttimers...

I really love lilypads and lawn yawn. Both aren't much to look at until surrounded by black, but then they look so great!

I wish I had skipped the lotuspods, I just can't get them to look as I want...

The lockar curls are right up my ally, I just love those swirls.

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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...

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Egyptian zen

Amazing how much it bugs me that I have not gotten all the challenges done last week and probably wont this week either...

The easter holidays can not come around fast enough if you ask me! I'll be home with the kids for an entire week AND a day! Yay!

I did manage to do the monday inchie yesterday and today I finished last weeks zendala dare which I have been working on during the weekend...

So thankfully I have been able to sneak in some zen moments in between playdates, visitors and visiting...

Hopefully next weekend will be a little more relaxed and at home too...

Every Inchie Monday: Egyptian

A quite popular subject for this weeks promt...

Zendala Dare #98

Kozy, nymph, iza,btweed, hollibaugh...

I was very much in doubt whether to fill in with black behind the Hollibaugh, but finally decided to call it finished...


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Getting kozy with inaura...

 It got way too late last night, so I skipped posting yesterdays work... I know myself well enough to

know I can't just do the post and then go to bed...

I always just have to take tiny peek at what everyone else have posted... And just one pin... Or just two... And then I blink and it's been an hour...

Am I the only one with this problem??

So here goes... Yesterday I did a tile for... 

It's a String Thing #80

String #80

Tangles: Kozy, Inaura

I am completely in love with both these tangles. Inaura is so great to draw and I love the layering.

Kozy is so beautiful! It can be a delicate flower or angel wings or a sea shell... Love it!

I spent a lot of time playing around with both the tangles.

And today...

Zendala Dare #97

Tangles: Inapod, Mooka and a whole lot of lines...

I had some difficulties with this template.

Finished one but had put way too much in it. So I trashed it, started over with some minor changes and left some white space.

Now I'm really happy with it.

Note, that Erin over at The Bright Owl who is offering this amazing challenge is having a giveaway, actually it's a double giveaway, this week! So if you're in the US, make sure you pop by...

#whimsybykelly2015 day 51 and 52

Happy Valentines Day...

 Valentines Day is not really a day we celebrate in Denmark...

All though the stores try their best to make it so. There's all kinds of hearty-things for sale... Don't they just wish they could make a moneymachine out of that day too...

Well, I guess it's kinda getting to me... Little hearts have sneaked their way into my work today, turning everything into Valentangles... <3

Now hang on, because I was so in the zen zone today... Here we go...

It's A String Thing #79

String: #76

Tangles: Buttercup - Puf - Pozer - Inapod

Great challenge. Inapod is now a new favorite of mine.

Zendala Dare #96

Tangles: Arukas, Inapod, Rixty, Wavy Border, Heartline, Tipple

This is only my 3rd zendala, but I'm really loving this way of tangleling...

Diva's #204: Valentangle

This is actually my second submission as I really was not happy with the first one, I decided to give it another go. I like this so much better!
I went all in on pink and hearty tangles...

String: I drew one

Tangles: Wist, Heartvine, Heartline, Warts and Wobbles, Poke(heart)leaf...

Black Zentangle...

String: I drew one

Tangles: Isochor - Rixty - Msst - Sooflowers (In love!) - Heartvine - Heartline

A little Valentines gift for myself today... White Gelly Rolls...

Fished out some black scraps from the trash and off I went...

I really, really love drawing with these... The little dots are so perfect... I need to get me some black tiles!

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Daring to Zen with the Dala...

Zendala dare #95 from The Bright Owl

I wasn't really sure about this... It was only my second zendala and the template looked pretty tough...

But as soon as I put down the first connecting line cresent moon wanted to land and I just held the pen while it went it's own way...

I printed on regular printer paper... Not doing that again... Microns do not like it - it was skipping and going downright invisible at times...

But it turned out allright after all...

Tangles used:

Cresent moon, Oolo, Up N Down and Agua

While I was tangling away on this, my son (6) was looking at it and decided he wanted to make one too... Luckily I couldn't figure out how to just print one of the templates on the page, so he got the tile-size one and I got him going with very simple linework...

For the bottom spaces I suggested dots and he turned them into smilyfaces and thought he was extremly clever! It's so cute...

He finished off with a little post-it Minecraft head for his chin... Yeah... I didn't get that either... But he was half asleep...

Maybe I have a little future tangler here...

Muster Mixer #3 from Freude mit Zentangle

String #3

Tangles: Cadent and Buttercup

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Thank you for all your lovely comments!