Spring

Spring is the Diva Challenge of this week (#264), so I tried to put a lot of flowers in my tile: Henna Drum, Zinger, Fassett, Diva Dance.  And I used a sort of a spiral or a rope in the middle with Snail in it.  In dutch the word 'spring' means in fact 'to jump', that's were the rope comes up.

And so far... no realy spring weather in Belgium up till now; it's  cold and rainy almost every day.

Challenges Square One May

The month did pass realy quickly.  I can't believe whe are already in June.  Still some exams for the children and then there are already the summer hollidays.  I post my tiles I made in May for the facebook group Square one.

Week one: cubine
I did not like cubine in the beginning, it was to static for me.  But, then I played a bit with it and tried some variations, and yes I got some quit nice results.  I made two tiles with it.

Week two: zinger
Oh, this is also a lovely pattern. I used it together with Featherfall van Bunzo.

Week three: bunzo

One of my favorites - I used is already last week - so i made different tiles.  I wanted to create some bunzo worms coming out of the black holes.  And after some trying it succeeded quit well.

Week tree: purk

One of the patterns I learned in the beginning. So a chance here to use and practice again.

Week four: Rain
Finaly, my tile is finished today.  Due to the fact that I'm not using the standard format of 3,5 inch (9cm), but making a bigger one - more a ZIA of 20cm square - it took a little longer. But here is Rain together with Pokeleaf, Nzeppel, Printemps, Knightbridge and some new patterns I learned like Drupe, Antidots, Eddy Per

White on black

This weeks Diva Challenge #216 is to make a white on black tile or ZIA.  I love white on black tiles but I must say I make them rarely.  Looking through my collection I see I've even never made a zentangle in 'stadard format '(3,5") in white on black.  So, I'll do it  this week.  I found it far more difficult to make a pattern in white with my gel pen, then with my black pens.  Also, I find that 'colouring' in white with the gel gen doesn't give a very smooth result.  So, I alway's choose patterns where you don't have to colour a lot, just drawing lines gives for me the best result in white on black. And just adding a bit of white pencil. 

Here you can see what I made of it.

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 !

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 :)