Diva Challenge #298, Joey Challenge # 147

Diva Challenge#298

Use My Tangle: Orbs-la-dee by Anneke van Dam

The Diva is back and hopefully, so am I. The past 6 weeks has gotten me off my game. Capping off all of the holiday shenanigans was a week of house/dog sitting. Though I'd brought all of my drawing tools with me, there was not a comfortable place to draw and the lighting was bad. There was, however, cable TV, internet and good coffee. I fueled my Food Network addiction and cooked enough to inject my sadly neglected food blog with a little love.

I bought a new journal to kick off the new year. I like to do several sampler type Zia's in the beginning so I have some references when I'm feeling stuck.

I was so happy to revisit Orbs-la-dee. I had forgotten all about it, so it was perfectly fitting to include it here. I started this page after last week's Joey Challenge. I was looking at a lot of "A" patterns and made note of the ones I didn't get to use on last weeks entry.

Made by Joey Challenge #147

Finish my Tile: The Alphabet Series featuring B'twixt

additionally: Bambooz, Bala, Buttacup and Barquillos

We're on to B. I'm creating a Bijou series for my pattern library page headers, again tweaking Joey's original start to fit the 2" format and stay somewhat consistent with a font style.

I've challenged myself to use at least one new pattern in every piece I create for the duration of the month...maybe longer.

Here's a Back-to-Basics piece I created for the Facebook group Zentangle: Tangled and Journaled Too! They're following The Zentangle Primer lessons. I don't have the book but I'm trying to follow along anyway. The task was to create tangleations of the 4 basic patterns. I'm really enjoying this.

Primerless Primer Study

exercise 2: Tangleations

Thanks so much for visiting my blog. Your thoughtful and generous comments delight and inspire me.

By the way, the winners of my Gift of Zentangle Diva Challenge were:

Annemarie of Anne's Tangle Blog

Kate of Art Lady Kate

and Denise Vitola

Email me (michelewynne1(at)gmail(dot)com) your snail mail addresses and I'll send off a little surprise.

Diva Challenge #261 & Made by Joey #106

Diva  Challenge #261-Stacked Bijou

This week's challenge was presented by guest blogger Jane Reiter, CZT who asked us to create a bijou (2"x 2") tile as the central focus of a stack of tiles, grading in size and to use colored paper or cardboard to which we would add border patterns.

I pondered this for a good part of the day while going about my business, planning my paper scrounging and drawing time. I didn't really feel compelled to pull out boxes and drawers to see if I had paper to start measuring and cutting. When I got home from work (very late), I had every intention of starting in the morning and put on a DVD to chill for a bit before bedtime. I got the brilliant idea to grab a piece watercolor paper and paint a faux stack to frame my little bijou (a left-over from my Christmas refrigerator magnet project). I figured I'd just set up the watercolor before bed and then draw this morning...

HA! This took me forevvvvvvverrrrrrr.

faux stacks-a scan of the 6" x 6" base.

Made by Joey #106

Roman Numeral Series: VI

patterns: Emingle, Prestwood, Mooka, Rokpool, Dex

For this week's challenge Joey asked us to use patterns of our own choice with a specific interest in what we chose for the top and bottom bands. I thought I'd continue on with some borders and grid patterns discovered whilst creating swap tiles recently. Not a big fan of grid patterns previous, I landed on a few that I really like: "Emingle "& " Dex". I love "Prestwood" as a border as well as "Oybey" (used in the Diva tile).

Here's the series so far

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