Mother and daughter - Using new material

The Diva challenge #206 this week is to use some new tools and material to create a zentangle.  As I am not an artist, and don't have much other material to zentangle than my tiles and my fineliners not an easy challenge. Although... I do have some black paper, and some thick silver felt pens which I bought for Christmas but did not use.  What if I use these now ? Here is the result with two silver pens of 1mm and af 2mm and the pattern Fricle. Quite different though to create a tile with these pens !

On the other hand, my daughter is really an expert in using tools and material to create all kinds of stuff.  Since she knows the zentangle technique, she tries it out on differt things.  She has some beautiful results on schrinking paper with a thick black felt pen.  She makes all kinds of juwerly with is, here you see some examples of her zentangle-earings. She used Featherfall, Kaleido, and Holly

Zias - the next step

Yes, I put the step to creating Zia's (Zentangle Inspired Art) on larger pages.  I want to create something to hang in our house.  So, I'm looking a bit at the size that is comfortable to work with and gives a nice result.

Here are already three of my trials (20x20 cm) .  We'll see were it ends...

Valentangle challenge #204

Oh yes, the Diva challenge this week has to do with valentine of course.  It is called a valentangle, and you can use the patterns you wish.

I made mine with the Trio pattern, beause I always found it looking like a heart.  I added a string with heartline to it, and put some variation of Crescent Moon around it.  I think it's one of my better ones ! I put it in a nice envelope and gave it to my husband this morning.  Little valentine surprise... and he liked it very much.

Alle the other tiles posted for this challenge you can find here on the Diva website: valentangles

Spooky little man

The weekly Challenge #203 of I am the Diva is to use the UMT (Use My Tangle) "Athitzi" by Seven.  A very simple pattern, but you need a lot of patience to make it good-looking. Really a zen pattern !

I did not know immediately what to make with it, but then I saw the mandala my daughter made for me this week at school.  They had some 'time off' in the computerclass and could do what they wanted.  So she asked the teacher if she could look up and print a mandala for her mom.
I would take a part out of it and use that as a string for Athitzi.  And who knows what the result will be.

Here it is ! And the result is ... a little Spooky man.  My daugther loves is, and I should'nt touch is further because 'it looks just nice now with his tree eyes, nose and laughing mouth'.  Ok then, I publish it like this, together with the coloured madala I got.

Challenges January Square One

In Januray, I made some nice tiles for the challenges of the facebook group "Square One: Pure Zentangle".  I post them all together here on my blog.

First January: Ahh
Ahh... on new years day. Together with ING, Fescu and flux.

Second week: Nzeppel
Nzeppel in a windstrom - as the last days were here. With fricle, agua and printemps

Third week: BB
Out of my sketchbook: BB and Keeko.  I started a while ago to learn all the official tangles and I make a tile of them in my sketchbook.  So BB was already in it. Hope you like it.

Fourth week:Rixty
Rixty was a new pattern to me, but I had a lot of fun with it last week.  Together with copada, tipple, Fricle, BB and Fescu