Watching for borders

Hiya folks!

This week's Diva Challenge is to look around and start noticing potential borders to tangle. I have an old mirror I got at a tag sale and wanted to use the frame as a tangle border. Here's the frame (sorry, I see that it's blurry):

Frame on mirror

It has an interesting pattern and I attempted to recreate it, zentangle style. Here's my attempt:

Mirrormirror border

I might have to work on it a little more, but I do like the idea. We'll see where it gets me.

Earlier in the week I created the following tile, using Kuke: 

Kuke border

I do like the boldness of it. It has a nice balance of black and white.

I wonder what next week will bring!

Tangle on......

Ah, the ol' 2-Pencil String

This will be a quick posting due to getting ready for a little drive...VACATION!
This week's Diva Zentangle Challenge #128 is to create a tile starting with a 2-pencil string. This is drawing a string with 2 pencils banded together so you have parallel lines. Mine isn't very fancy, but it's okay.

Vega, Snail, Kuke, Golven, Shattuck, and I can't remember the name of the background.

So, off we go. Hope this finds everyone healthy and happy.

Who knew that summer would be so crazy?

Boy, time sure does go quickly when you're having fun. It has been too long since my last post and I do apologize. I missed a couple of Diva Challenges, but this one makes up for one of them. This week's challenge is to create a piece of artwork using Zentangle and a stencil of some sort. I found a quilter's stencil at our local thrift store a couple of weeks ago so I decided to use that. I had to do a little tweaking to it, but it works. I used Kuke, Fern, Brayd, and Quig.

My picture isn't as good as I would like because my scanner is not working.

I have been busy making a couple of scarves to sell as well as tangling a hazmat suit for our 4th of July parade. Too bad it was too hot to wear. We painted the other suits and carried them in the parade (with balloon heads). I was marching with the Mountain Painters & Artisans Gallery (Please take a look and Like us). Later I may make the suit into a jacket or something. I never got to the legs.

Front

Back

I hope to be better at keeping up with my blog. Let's see how I do.

Enjoy the weekend.

Jane

Kute Kuke

I'm liking Kuke. It's a pattern brought to us by Katy Abbot, CZT via Laura Harm's Weekly Challenge #118: UMT v. XVI. UMT stands for Use My Tangle and Laura challenges us on the first Monday of every month (or thereabout)  with a tangle brought to us by one of her readers. Katy's Kuke came about from a cucumber slice. You never know when or where you might find inspiration!

I also was playing around with some color and art a la Stella (Loretta Grayson). Here's what I came up with:

 I'm liking it. Now my challenge, as always, is how to frame my work. I really have to plan ahead a bit more and choose some frames first THEN create the artwork so it will fit. I was looking at Facebook earlier today and there were some wonderful photos of northern lights taken early this morning. This kind of reminds me of those.