Welsh beach stones

I collected some nice stones on the beaches in North Wales when we spended our hollidays there because I wanted to zentangle them.  It is not that easy than working on paper, but it gives a nice result. I use my special Posca pens for it.

Here my first zentangled stone.  I tried different patterns, and also used some white to give it some 'shadow'.

The next one was a gift to my sister, who passed their hollidays in the cottage next door.  It was really nice to spend our hollidays with their family ! Our children enjoied it a lot.  Here I wanted to create some circular patterns on one side , and on the back side I searched for a pattern that reflected the Snowdon they mounted on.

The last one I zentangled was a gift to the owners of the cottage.  It was a pitty we didn't see the lady anymore, because whe left so early.  But I left my stone on the window sill of the living room in the cottage.

At home, I'm going to do some other stones I collected.  I'll post them later on as soon as they are finished.

Zentangled earrings

My daughter has always such creative ideas. The loombands mania is a bit less now, so she wanted to do somerhing else. She likes to make objects and juwerly with schrinking paper for instance. And she tried to use zentangle patterns to create them. She made some zentangled earrings and I think they are fabulous ! She used the patterns bales, featherfall, kaleido, cadans, nzeppel and some patterns of herselves: sixties, auraleaves ... May be one day she starts a webshop with her creations. 

And here an example of the earrings before schrinking

Yuma challenge #189

The Diva challenge of this week is to use YUMA in your tile.  So for me a challenge to learn a new pattern.  A quick look at tanglepatterns.com and I can start.  And oh yes,  on wednesday there are already many beautiful examples on the Diva site weekly-challenge-189.html so inspiration enough to make my own tile :).

On the patterns site I came also across the pattern Crescent Moon, and I used that in my tile in combination with Yuma and a little Diva Dance flower.  It did not take that long to make a nice zentangle with these patterns, and I made another one with a variation of Yuma.  I filled the space between all the lines, and I also filled the leaves.  Looks nice to me !

The third tile I publish here is a tile I made for a challenge of some weeks ago "draw a string with your eyes closed, and fill it with patterns". I didn't have time to finish is then and I added Yuma and Crescent Moon to it today.  Little shading and finished now.

zentangled friendship bracelets

My two girls are fond of friendship bracelets.  Last year, it was mostly the eldest who made a lot of bracelets in cotton tread - loom bands were not yet known in Belgium then :(.  She already used all the books of the library with examples (even more than once !), and made also many bracelets using internet video's and schema's.  They are endless, just like zentangles.  So for her birthday, I decided to make a Zentangle card with most of the patterns she used in her bracelets.  Nice surprise for her !

This summer the loom bands mania started also here so now the girls make mostly loom band bracelets using internet video's. Bit I did not yet zentangle them.  May be next summer :)

Birthday card with zentangled bracelet patterns.

One of the patterns I like very much so I give it here seperately.  Later on I will make a pattern of it and publish it also.  I'll let you know !

Wall paper, curtains and Ahh...

In June we were invited by our neighbor girl on her school to visit the exposition of thesis they made to finalize their high school.  She followed an art education, and we were interested in seeing all the things the students made.  In one of the exposition rooms they used a piece of wallpaper as decoration, and I found it so beautiful for a new zentangle.  I took a picture of it and put in my 'zentangle inspiration' album.  (I also took some other pictures, but not worked out in a zentangle yet).

And last week I passed a neigbors house (other neighbors) while fetching some bread at the bakery, and had a good look to their curtains.  Yes, today was the day I  would take a picture of it to make a nice zentangle card of it.  I already saw it many times, but never took the time to stand still and had a good look. So now I did ! Mindfulness you know :)

In the mean time, I got to know the pattern Ahh - as I am learning the official list of zentangle patterns - and Ahh... in a sudden I saw these two things were just a variation on Ahh.  Back at home I made my cards, and I publish them now together.

Here you can see wat I made of it, and I post the original pictures also. I hope it can be an inspiration to you too!

(creation date 2/10/2014)

(creation date 29/6/2014)

And here the pictures (yes that's me in the background)