Looped Border String Challenge #99

Welcome to my 100th blog post! Yikes!

This week's Diva Challenge #99! is from guest blogger/CZT Margaret Bremner. She has challenged us to creating a zentangle tile using a "looped border string". Well, I've been feeling a bit loopy these days, so why not create a tile?

Here it is, using Nightsbridge, Purk, Scallops, Bales, Sand Swirl, Jealousie, Wisket Gloven, Tripoli, and Zedbra. Click on photo to enlarge.

I taught a Zentangle class this week to 3 nice ladies. Here's their wonderful work:

My heart is heavy thinking about the families and community of Sandy Hook, CT. May you find the strength to carry on. My thoughts and prayers are with you all.

Very Inspirational Blog Award

What a nice email I got earlier this week. It was from Alma, a woman from Sweden who has a nice blog at http://almafication.wordpress.com. She was nice enough to nominate me for the Very Inspirational Blog Award. Thank you Alma! It warms my heart knowing that I was inspirational to you. You do lovely work.

To accept this nomination, I must:

1. Display the award on your blog.
2. Link back to the person who nominated you.
3. State 7 things about yourself.
4. Nominate up to 15 bloggers for the award and link to their blogs.
5. Notify them that they have been nominated and link to the post.

Okay, 7 things about myself:

1. I love teaching Zentangle.

2. I enjoy laughing with my friends.

3. I love spending time outdoors in nature.

4. I need to create.

5. My family and friends are very important to me.

6. I'm finding that meditation is something I need to experience more.

7. I love life!

Hmmmm, 15 bloggers, in random order, from all over the globe:

http://iamthedivaczt.blogspot.ca/

http://poppygall.com/blog/

http://www.woolnimals.blogspot.com/

http://dobriendesign.blogspot.com/

http://alittlelime.blogspot.com/

http://www.bystephanielynn.com/

http://ana-white.com/blogs/ana-white

http://preciousworker.blogspot.com/

http://thebrightowl.blogspot.com/

http://enthusiasticartist.blogspot.com/

http://www.minieco.co.uk/

http://timetotangle.blogspot.com/

http://beezinthebelfry.blogspot.com/

http://kalligrafix.blogspot.com/

http://xploreandxpress.blogspot.com/

Challenge #98 and #97

Playing catch-up. Last week Laura asked people to create a tangle without a string, this week we were challenged to use a tangle called Keenees (it's an itsy bitsy,teeny weeny, yellow polka dotted bikini...). Here's my tile:

I used Fungees, Jacki, Keenees, Bubble-Bobble-Bloop, and Etcher

Funny how my tiles transform. I didn't use a string because of Challenge #97 that I never got around to last week. I knew I was to use Keenees, so I drew those first. Then I put an aura around them and added a little Bubble-Bobble-Bloop ( I still need to put the directions for this one on this blog; it's the pattern my son made up for me on my birthday in Oct) then Jacki (Sandy Bartholomew's). I got a nice email from a past Zentangle student who has just discovered Escher and I told her that Sandy Bartholomew has a tangle called Etcher, so here it is. I was looking at a video showing Fungees, a tangle I have enjoyed drawing, so I decided to add that one too.  Phew! Now it's done.

Last week I drew this snow globe for the Yahoo ZIA (Zentangle Inspired Art) group:

It's beginning to feel like Christmas! I also made a bunch of these wooly xmas trees:

They are made from upcycled, fulled, wool sweaters (washed in hot water in washer). I love them!

Hope you are getting in the holiday spirit as well.

A Zinger

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving, for those of you living in the US of A. I was very happy to cook Thanksgiving dinner for my family (husband, both sons, sister and brother-in-law) and I'm very thankful for the gathering and the help in the kitchen. I'm also thankful for my extended family, friends, my job, our art gallery (even though we have so many floods, including two this week), and Zentangle!!!

This week's challenge was to use Maria's Zinger. I've always enjoyed throwing in a zinger now and again. This time I also used Waft by Bessamy Snoderly, Purk by Rick & Maria, a version of Lotus Pods by Margaret Bremner, and a design I found on an African dress in a giving catalog. I do like it a lot and shall call the pattern Giveagoat. Watch the blog for step outs later on.

Last week I taught a class at Black River High School to some teachers. It was a great group and they did an awesome job! Here's their work: Nice job, ladies!

Have a great week. Hope you come back next week.

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Well, you never know...

I started this week Diva challenge: Mickey Challenge #95, celebrating Disney's 1928 release of "Steamboat Willy" by guest blogger, Courtney Frantz. I watched the clip and decided that I would begin with a string of Mousekateer ears. Then a funny thing happened. I wanted to watch something light while tangling and decided to watch "The Secret of Kells" on netflix. I knew that it was going to have a lot of celtic artwork in it so how perfect would that be? So my tile ended up being Disney with a bit of Kells. Both were animated, but wow, the patterns in the Secret of Kells were wonderful! My tile? Well, you can judge for yourself. It's pretty mixed up. Perhaps I'll have time to create something again later in the week.

Some of the patterns I used: IndyRella, Joy, Mickey, HypKnotix, and some Kells inspired art.

Enjoy!

Zen Leaves

I realized that I never got around to tangling a tile this week, but I did tangle on 3 leaves. The Diva Challenge this past week was to use Socc, created by Erin Olson, CZT. The top leaf in the scan below has Socc in the middle and Hurry and uh oh, I can't remember what's on the right side, and Avreal on the stem. The next leaf has Finery. The bottom leaf has Florz, Eke, Orlique, Pepper, Crescent Moon, Nekton, Braze, Rain, and BB. At least I have 3 more leaves to add to my birthday zen tree.

Yet another Bunzo tile

Hah, and to think I didn't like Bunzo in the beginning. I guess I just wasn't free enough in my mind. I learned. I played. I watched. What really got me thinking was KN Malathi's blog post showing her entry to Diva's Challenge. She showed a couple of pictures that had inspired her. One really inspired me. It's from the book "The Beauty of Fractals: Images of Complex Dynamical Systems " By Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Peter H. Richter. Fractals really fascinate me, but this really moved me. Take a look at the Xplore & Xpress blog and see for yourself.

Here's my take on it.

Tangles used: Bunzo and Galaxions (I just created this one today).

Enjoy. Thanks for stopping by.