Weekly Challenge #81: "Guest Post - Relay for Life"

I was surprised to see that Erin from The Bright Owl was hosting this week's Diva Challenge-and excited too since I love the Zendala Templates she creates.  This was a lot of fun to create, and donations can be made too for Erin for The Relay for Life.  Good luck Erin on your walk, and thank you for taking on this worthy event.

Zendala Dare #16

This weeks Zendala Dare was really challenging for me because of the large spaces.  I felt like I wanted to divide the spaces in to smaller compartments.  I think this became an issue also because I made the Zenadala a 7x7 size and the sections were even bigger!

I am the Diva Challenge #80 - Mi2

This week's challenge is to use the tangle Mi2 (me too) created by CZT Mimi Lempart.  This is a beautiful and elegant tangle with endless possibilities, but it was a little challenging to get the rhythm of the pattern.  However, I think the results are a little exotic and certainly takes me into a new realm of tangling.  I used Mi2 twice in this ZIA and made a mistake both times in the direction of the curved lines, but I think I still made it work.

Zendala Dare #15

This week's Zendala Dare was really a challenge for me.  I struggled with the template because I don't generally work with geometric patterns or strings.  This is actually my second attempt, and I'm not sure I really care for it.  It has some potential-maybe I'll work on a third one too and see what I can come up with.

New Tangle-Shingle-by Maria Copetas

I was playing around with some grid patterns and came across a pattern in some wallpaper that seemed perfect for a grid. It is very similar to the official Zentangle pattern called Flukes, but I think this is sufficiently different in construction and outcome to qualify as a different tangle.  I draw the grid in pencil, although you could just as easily draw it in pen for a different look.

I am the diva Challenge #79: Citius, Altius, Fortius

This week's challenge is hosted by Rho Densmore and focuses on the meaning of the Olympics and the five colored Olympic rings. The message that Rho is trying to convey in this weeks challenge is that  the outcome is not as important as participating in the process.  Like the art of Zentangle where, one stroke at a time, we take a journey to the final outcome, whatever that outcome might be.  It is the process itself which is meditative and creative, the outcome may or may not be what we had envisioned.


I wasn't sure where this particular Zentangle was going to lead me, but it flowed onto the paper and this was the result.  

Just a little fun

I love the new tangle Aura Knot so I thought I'd combine it with my beloved Zendala and my other favorite tangle, Angelfish.

Alien Cat

This is my cat Carly-or is it quite possibly an alien?! I took this picture the other night and ended up with laser eye kitty. Then my daughter took the second picture of our other cat Rainbow. Eerie.

Zendala Dare #14

In keeping with a theme, my submission for this weeks Zendala Dare at Thebrightowl.blogspot.com also uses my new favorite tangle, Angelfish.  I finished this today, the day the Dare was posted-nothing like keeping on top of things.  I really liked this week's template and I think I'll have to do a couple more using it.

Angelfish

I found this fabulous tangle on Tanglepatterns.com and just had to try it.  I love the result I got.  I'm thinking that the flowers in the piece would look cool colored in, so I'm going to copy it onto card stock and then see what happens when I color them.

Here is the colorized version.  Although I like how it turned out, I think I prefer the plain one better.

Mamma Mia

I'm very excited about taking my daughter, Sophia, to see Mamma Mia this weekend.  She loves ABBA and sings along with their music all the time, so she should definitely enjoy this fun treat.  It's at Playhouse Square in Cleveland, OH, so she really thinks its a special night out.  The only thing is that she wanted to bring along a friend, and I asked two of her friends who couldn't make it....then she started coming up with random people to ask to go with us.  I said, isn't it enough that you're going? You're really excited about going even if one of your friends can't go with us, right? And then she says, Well....I guess so.  I suppose just going with Mom isn't as fun as going with friends.  I know it's the age (she's 14) but even so, it makes me a little sad....

Yeah I'm mobile blogging!!

I just figured out how to post to my blog from my iPhone! Of course I can't be as wordy because it's harder to type on my phone, but I can  create a post on the go.  Yea me!

I am the diva Challenge #78 Auraknot

Last week Rick and Maria introduced a new tangle in their newsletter with an added challenge to break down the steps and to name the tangle.  This week they unveiled the steps to doing this magnificent and fun tangle.  I had to practice a couple of times before I really got the hang of it, but now that I get it, I can't stop doing it!  This week's Diva Challenge is to use auraknot in a Zentangled piece of art.  Here is my submission.  I'm having trouble scanning my images lately, I have a new scanner, and I have to say that I like my old one better.  So much for new technology!

Zendala Dare #13

Here is my submission for the Bright Owl's Zendala Dare this week.  It's a lot simpler than the ones I usually do but it was fun and so relaxing to create this.