Some gems in Flux

For the Diva challenge #290: duotangle of Flux and Nzeppel. I created some gems in the flux.

Challenges Square One October

I'm less focused on creating some zentangles and follow the challenges, due to the renovation of our living room these last weeks.  But, as we 'live' in a spar guestroom with the four of us, it's sometimes good for me that I can focus on my zentangles and leave other things as they are.

Week one: Jalousie
Jalousie and Fengle... looks like a carpet on my tile.

Week two: pokeroot
... is like mushrooms to me.  So here is my Autumn tile.

Week three: Nymph
Whow, what a nice pattern !  But... no time to make a tile at first.  Only after a few days I could try it and made this nice tile.

Week four: W2
I knew the pattern already, but never really used it.  So, now is the time to do so.  I made my W2 tile together with a variation of other patterns (Flux, Jetties, Nymph of last week)

Pimped book covers

September is already half way, and the children began at school again.  The daily routine is on again.  September is also the month of the new school stuff, books and covers.  My eldest daughter loves to pimp her books and covers.  She has always so much inspiration.

You can see some nice examples here, they are alle zentangle inspired. And I also zentangled one of her covers - the purple one.  I tried to make it different from hers, by using flowery - and round patterns.

She is especially fond of elephants, because this is her "totem" (special name) in the scouts group.

Flux in colours and Beads of courage

The Diva challenge #221 is to use some colour in your work.  I don't use colour very often in my work, but I bought some coloured fineliners a few weeks ago.  "Nature colours" is mentioned on the package, and I like the colours very mux.  So, I decided to use them voor my tile this week.  I made a monotangle with Flux in colours, as Flux is this weeks challenge of the Square One facebookgroup. 

Not an easy challenge previous week, these beads of courage.  It's challenge #221 of the I-am-the-Diva site, to make a tile with the beads of courage the children get in the hospital when they have any kind of investigation there.  In Belgium, the children don't get beads, but often a little toy.  But I like the idea of beads, so I really wanted to participate to this one.

But... trying and trying to get some nice beads or pearls on my tile.  Here is my final result that is more or less okay.  So I can stop trying now and move on the the next challenge !

Earth Day

We don't have an Earth Day in Belgium and I've never heard of it before, but nevertheless I participate to the Diva Challenge this week (challenge #214). So, the challenge is to make a tile in the theme of Earth Day.

I made an open earth where everything is possible, were unexpected things happen, where there is a lot of variaton in the different parts of it and a bit shadow for comfort when it's necessary. I hope you like it !

Renaissance Fanz

For the challenge #212 posted on the website I am the Diva CZT, I tried some renaissance tile.  I really like this style when I see some other examples on the internet.  So, this is my first one and I have to practice it a bit further.  I used some card stock we had ad home, and made some 3,5" cards of it.  May be the colour of the paper is a bit to dark, but the result is still quite nice.

The challenge of this week is to use Fanz, an UMT of Susan Goetter.  It's a nice pattern to fill in.  I learned it when I started with zentangle, but  never used it in a tile until now.  You can see also Flux, the challenge #211 of last week and Roxi.

I give also the link to the other posts for this challenge on the Diva website iamthedivaczt-weekly-challenge-212

Tea cups

Here are my zentangled tea cups.  I used the Posca pens I bought last week, and put the cups subsequently in a hot oven for about 45 minutes.  My housemates like the result very much - and me too !  I hope the drawings last a bit - also after putting the cups in the dishwasher.  That was not mentioned in the brochure... We'll see and I'll let you know ;)

And ... we enjoied of course the first spring sunshine here today.  Really really nice weather for a little bicycle tour. And we were not alone :)

Challenge #199 Hitch

The Diva Challenge #199 for this week is to use HITCH, an UMT (Use My Tangle) of HeidiSue.  I tried Hitch on a piece of paper, and oops... little mistake on drawing the bows.  Hmm, that looks also nice !  So here is my Hitch, with a little variation on the bows.

The diamands made me think of Knightsbridge, so I added that to my tile.  And I used also Flux, Tipple and Diva Dance in the tile.

Assunta bees

Two tiles with Assunta for the challenge of the past week of the facebook group Square One.  I especially like the first one.  Open space and the patterns Assunta and Flux nicely next to each other.  To me it are just little bees or some other flying insects.

In this one I used Assunta with C-scape and some form of Yincut

Happy thoughts

I can not always go out during my lunch pause now, because of the changing weather.  So, some days I  just stay in my office - especially the rainy days.  What does one do then ? Reading, searching on the internet, looking for nice patterns, trying patterns in my sketch book etc.  One day, I wanted to change my desktop background, because it was a bit boring.  I looked at the possible backgrounds on my PC and found just a nice one that made me smile immediately.  Yes, it wil be this ! I also saw a zentangle in it.  I had a lot of ideas and happy thoughts looking at it. Always when I looked at it, I saw something else.  Very amusing.

And during lunch pauze some days later, I made this Zentangle Inspired Art card.  The little worms in the card reflect my happy thoughts. It hangs in my office now, to remind me on having a happy thought each day.

My desktop background picture:

Chainging in Square One

I am a member now of the Square One Purely Zentangle group on Facebook.  I realy like the intention of that group.  Only 'basic' zentangles are to be posted. Meaning: 3,5"x3,5" white tile, only black pen and pencil for shadow (and strings of course).  So back to basics.  It's a good way to focus on the patterns  itself and to see what you really can do on a tile of the original format.  People are making the most beautiful zentangles !  And it's a real inspiration source to me.

Here are my tiles with the patterns Chainging and Punzel, the focus for this week.
My best tile is here: Punzel, Flux and Tipple.  In Spring, I made a sketch of a huge plant near the swimming pool of De Nekker, but I did not yet know any patterns to make of nice zentangle of it.  And now, after learning Punzel and Flux I could transform my sketch in a nice tile !

And here are my earlier tiles of this week, where I still had to learn the pattern.
Tile with Chainging and Betweed (and surely a better one than I posted last week for the Diva Challenge of Betweed)

Tile with Punzel and Ennies:

And ... thank you all for all comments I already received on my blog posts.  It's always nice to read and it keeps me going !