12 Days of 3Z's (Part Two)

This is the 2nd part of my post from 12/11/2016 where I posted my 3Z tiles from the 1st 6 days of the challenge.  Here is the link to Part One, and here are my 3Z tiles from the last 6 days of the challenge.

Day 7 Knightsbridge (#7thdayof3zs)

 

Day 8 Poke Leaf (#8thdayof3zs)

 

 

Day 9 Auraknot (#9thdayof3zs)

 

 

Day 10 Drawings (#10thdayof3zs)

 

Day 11 Icanthis (#11thdayof3zs)

 

Day 12 Crazy Huggins (#12thdayof3zs)

 

I managed to get all 12 tangles on this one small tile!


My mosaic of all 12 days!

 

 

Thanks to everyone at Zentangle Central for putting this challenge together.  It was a lot of fun and such a joy to see all the beautiful tiles from everyone on the Mosaic App!

 



 

 



 

 





3D Christmas Ornaments

When I attended ZenAgain, a CZT reunion retreat, we learned how to make 3D ornaments out of the black apprentice tiles. We used the Sakura Moonlight Gelly Roll pens to decorate the ornaments.   I showed them to my daughter who is a 6th grade middle school teacher, and she invited me to teach them to her students.  It was the last day of school before Christmas break and they were having a fun art/craft/movie day.

I taught 2 classes of approximately 30 students in each class. Unfortunately, the time was cut for our 1st class down to 45 minutes, so no one got to finish their ornaments.  In the second class we had the full 80 minutes and most all of the kids got to finish.  I taught them 6 tangles and then we worked on construction of the ornaments, tangling them, and putting them together.  They had a lot of fun and loved using the gel pens, and loved how they looked with the black light.  A lot of the kids did their own designs along with the tangles.  They all turned out beautiful!

Thank you Ms. Clark for inviting me to share this fun zentangle inspired craft with your students!

The students beautiful 3D ornaments

More of the students beautiful 3D ornaments



My demo 3D ornaments



Other side of my demo 3D ornaments

DIVA Challenge 297 Holiday Bash

This is the last DIVA challenge of the year and we got to revisit the last 5 years end of the year challenges.  Laura also reminded us that her very 1st challenge was in Dec 2010 (6 years ago).  I was a part of that 1st challenge, and I can hardly believe this, but every single challenge since.  I must say it was fun to go back and look at each of the last 6 years challenges and see all the old names and a lot of names that are still doing the challenge now.  Thanks so much, Laura for all the fun you have given to us for the last 6 years!

I choose to do the challenge from last year, Dec 2015, "Give the Gift of Zentangle".  Every year I like to give my two daughters a Christmas ornament.  Some have been homemade and some store bought.  I love putting ornaments on my tree each year, and especially love the ones I was given as gifts because they will always be special to me. 

This year at a CZT reunion, Maria Thomas showed us how to make her gilded hearts.  So I used that technique to add to gold gilded hearts to Bijou tiles.  I then tangled the new tangle, Drawings on each of them.  I have always loved angels and I am really enjoying this tangle!  I then framed them in small frames I found at Michael's, which are perfect for the Bijou tiles. 

12 Days of 3Z's (Part One)

Have you seen the zentangle.com blog on the 12 days of 3Z's challenge?  If not, you can read about the 1st day HERE, and then the subsequent days, to date.  I decided to go ahead and take the challenge so I could get some practice using the new 3Z tiles.  If you haven't seen them, they are in the shape of a triangle, which can be put together in so many different ways and mosaics.  I love these new tiles! As they are doing at Zentangle HQ, I am also using pre-strung 3Z tiles for the challenge. 

Some days, I just did one tile, some day two.  At Zentangle HQ they are doing the number of tiles to correspond with the day they are on, but as they mentioned, they have a lot more tanglers there! So, here are my first 6 days of the challenge.............

Check out the Zentangle Mosaic App to see everyone's gorgeous work for this challenge!

Day 1 Tripoli (#1stdayof 3zs)

Day 2 Diva Dance (#2nddayof 3zs)

Day 3 Shattuck (#3rddayof3zs)

 

Day 4 Marasu (#4thdayof3zs)

 

Day 5 Golden Tipple (5thdayof 3zs)

 

 

Day 6 Molygon (#day6of3zs)

 

 

My mosaic of the 1st 6 days

 

 

 

Part 2 coming after I complete the next 6 days of the challenge.  It's not to late for you to join in on the fun!

 







 



 

DIVA Challenge 296 Moowa

It's the first Monday of the month again (my they do fly by) at the DIVA challenge and we are using the tangle Moowa, by CZT Anya Ipsen.  I have never used this tangle before, so I started my tile the usual way with a border and string.  After I made the first set of Moowa, I abandoned the string quickly and just started making sets of Moowa all over the tile, in every direction they would fit.  I added some Tipple and filled in the tile with black around the edges.  I am happy with how this turned out and I quite like Moowa!  Thanks Anya & Laura!

DIVA Challenge 295 Reticula/Fragments Part 2

I am really late this week on the DIVA challenge!  This week we are doing part 2 to the reticula and fragment challenge of last week.  The more you play with reticula and fragments the easier and more fun it gets.  I used the R-B2, and the F-Y1 from the Zentangle Primer, and just added some Printemps to finish off the rough edges.  Enjoy your day!

DIVA challenge #294 Reticula & Fragments

This week's DIVA challenge is to use reticula and fragments on your tile.  If you are not familiar with reticula and fragments, I would suggest reading the challenge on Laura's blog (click on the link) because she has a great explanation and links to fully understand this method that was introduced by Rick and Maria (co-founders of the Zentangle art method). 

If you have the Zentangle Primer Vol 1 book you can look up the reticula (grid) I used R-B1 on page 123 and the fragment was X7 on page 115.  I rotated the fragment every other way in each column of the reticula.  So much fun!

I hope you all had a peaceful and blessed Thanksgiving day!

DIVA Challenge 293 Keeko

The challenge this week from the DIVA is to use the tangle Keeko.  Even though Keeko has been around for awhile, it's one I don't use very often.  I'll have to try to remember to use it more!  Have a good weekend everyone!

DIVA Challenge 292 Eaxy

The DIVA has us doing a UMT (use my tangle) challenge this week.  The tangle is Eaxy by CZT, Nadine Roller from Germany.  This is a tangle made with X's and Nadine said it was easy so she named it Eaxy.  Her example tiles are beautiful!  I had a bit of a learning curve with this one, and I practiced over and over until I got it.  It was very hard for me to keep my X's consistent and to figure out where I was when I turned my tile.  So, because of that, I decided to confine it to a small space and use some comfort tangles with it.  I did give it my best try! 

DIVA Challenge #291 Happy Halloween

This week the DIVA challenge is to create a Halloween themed tile.  I made kind of a crazy Arukas spider in a Fracus web and then added a border.  I did this on a tan tile with black and brown pens and a white charcoal pencil.  I used a gray marker for the shading. 

 

 

Halloween was extra special this year because my granddaughter is 20 months and I got to go with her and her parents to trick or treat.  Their family has a Bassett hound named Nate (my 1st grand dog), and my daughter being clever had Bailey dress up as a Fox so they could go as Fox and Hound.

Traveling Tangles Project

There is a group on Facebook called Travelling Tangles Project and it currently has over 1200 members.  Here is a copy of the description of the group....

Travelling Tangles is a collaborative project that aims to show how the Zentangle® method can bring people from around the world closer to one another. The idea is that you will draw on an original Zentangle tile but only finish the drawing half-way. Then you will send it off to another person for him/her to complete it. In exchange, they too will half finish a tile and send it to you for you to complete. Both you and the other person will then each keep the tile you have received. 

This group is open to everyone- the more the merrier.

How fun is this!  I am starting out slowly, so I don't have too many tiles waiting to be completed, but I definitely wanted to be a part of this tile exchange.  I love to send and get happy mail for all over the world!   I am posting what I have done and received so far, and I hope to have more posts in the near future.

Does this sound fun to you?  If so, join the group, and you too can send and receive happy mail!

It started out with 4 of us at a Coffee Shop.  We each did part of a tile and passed it on to be completed.  I did not get before pics and only got 3 completed ones.
This is also when I joined the FB group.

Pat Mathes/CZT started with the zen gem and tangles Quandu & Tipple
I completed the tile with tangles Betweed, Poke Leaf, Finery, Fife, and Tipple

I started this tile with tangles Ischor & Chainling
CJ Petersen/CZT completed it with Poke Leaf & Yincut

CJ Petersen/CZT started this tile with NZeppel & Fife

I completed it with Knightsbridge, Fescu, Diva Dance, & Zinger

 



 

 

I sent out these 4 tiles next, along with a Bijou tile, and Bijou tile holder.

 

 

Sue B. from Australia completed tile #1

 

 

Sue sent me these beautiful tiles and I completed them.

 

  

 

 

  

Sabrina K. from Finland completed #3 and a Bijou tile  

 

Sabrina send me these beautiful tiles and I completed them

 

 

Michele W. from CA completed tile #4 and a Bijou tile 

 

 

Michele sent me these beautiful tiles to complete.

 

 

Tile # 2 is still waiting to be completed.  I currently have 2 tiles waiting to be completed that I hope to get to soon!  I will do a post when they are done, along with the ones I send out to their creators. 

 

If you are still with me through this long post, I encourage you to join the group, it's a lot of fun!