Diva's Weekly Challenge #382: Stripes for a string

Our wonderful Diva CZT challenged us to a striped tile this week. I believe that when we use stripes for our string, we can call it "stacking". This technique is always relaxing, since there's not a lot to figure out. We just layer tangles, one on top of the other, like a luscious cake! My stripes were more like ribbons, but I'm happy with the results!

Thanks for looking in on me! Have a lovely week! (I'm headed back to a long-term substitute teaching position this week, but hope to find time to meet you here again next Sunday!)

Diva's Weekly Challenge #381: New year, new medium and bookmark GIVE-AWAY!!!!

This week's challenge to use a new, or rarely used, medium came the day after I thought it would be fun to use some gesso. I was missing the experimentation that I enjoyed in my art journal last year, and needed some "standing up" art that would keep me moving on my feet a little bit, sort of like cooking does! (You may wonder how gesso does this. In my house,  I use wet media in the kitchen and bathroom, but draw in my office/studio space. Unconventional, but it works for me and keeps the paint and gesso away from the carpet!!)
I started with some recycled cracker boxes, just playing withe the gesso and some blue acrylic paint.
That was Monday morning. As the week progressed, I was getting more and more frustrated and uncertain about where this was going! Lots of "Maybe if I just add (color/pen/graphite/more gesso/etc.)" Perhaps you've been there. Then the thoughts of "I just won't post this week". By last night, I had a half-decent bookmark to show for the process.
This morning, I finished my bookmark. (It's the one on top.) I looked at the larger piece and decided, "Bookmarks for everyone!!"

Let me know if you want a bookmark by January 27. I'll happily send you one! (If there are no takers, these guys will go to the library where we have Zentangle classes.)

Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful week.

Diva Weekly Challenge #380

Congratulations to the Diva for eight years of faithfully posting wonderful challenges for our community! This week's challenge: use a circle for your string, be it a "spundala", a "Zendala" a "Zenbutton" or maybe 2 Christmas balls?

This template came from a madebyjoey challenge from January 2016

Before the holidays, I had lunch with some of my fabulous students. We were lamenting the fact that it was almost Christmas and there was no time left for tangling holiday cards. Jokingly, we said we should start our January classes at the library with greeting cards, and then we would be ready for Christmas 2019.  When I saw this week's Diva challenge, and remembered that beautiful string that Joey had given us a few years ago, I thought, "Why not?" So today, I'm doing a class about negative space in which we'll create greeting cards. Here's the other demo for the second card:

Another template from Joey's challenges of January 2016

Thanks for stopping by! Wishing you a wonderful week!

Diva's Weekly Challenge #379: Holidaze

Happy New Year! I wish you all health, peace and growth in the new year.
It's been almost 2 months since my last post. I'm slowly recovering from back, hip and shoulder issues. The computer remains a no-no, but I wanted to wish you a happy new year before 2019 is over! (They do go by fast, don't they?). And share my holiday tangles for challenge #379! Some of these were gifts, some were related to the new year. I hope you find something to put a smile on your face!
Here are a few things that I've done since November 11.

Set of napkins for my daughter and son-in-law

12 Days of Zentangle spinner 

Petal Envelopes for Christmas gift cards

Cover for my new planner

My New Year's Eve (anti-sleep) Zendala

Thanks for stopping by, and not forgetting me!