ALLELUIA

Dans Friday

'HAPPY EASTER'

Coloring Page #6

   Easter is just 3 days away! I am ready to say 'Alleluia' and sing praise that 'Christ is Risen!!!' And with that, I wanted to create a coloring page that would show the spirit of Easter!

   Click HERE to get your free download!

       May everyone have a wonderful Easter and may Peace be yours! Please enjoy this coloring page and share it with family and friends!

Many Blessings!

Go put 

some 

CoLoR

into 

 this 

World!

:0)

JUST A TINY TASTE

I Am the Diva, CZT

Weekly Challenge #243

'Just a Tiny Taste'

Haha, and you thought it was going to be about eating,...........Nah!!

   This week's challenge, the Diva, Laura, has asked us to give just a sample of tangling on a tile (hence, just a taste of tangling').  I actually love having open space on tiles, so I enjoyed this challenge very much!!

    As a little girl, I would make my own stationary. (What little girl does not like pretty paper and pens?) So for stationary, I would always give some kind of border and then add a little something in a corner. Then on the envelop I would add a touch of, matching whatever it is was that went with the stationary. Before email, everything was snail mail (sorry Bijou, no offense). I think that is why stationary was such a hit. The prettier the better. Sometimes though, I would receive some as a gift and I wouldn't want to use it because it was too pretty. (Sound familiar, anyone?)

   So this week, I made stationary cards to hand out for Thanksgiving. I told each of my children that they had to think of someone that they wanted to 'Thank' in a special way, and we would send them a card. So for the challenge, I left off the words that will go in the center of each card. I had so much fun, that I know I will be making more! 

(feel free to click images to enlarge)

   I have been busy! But I wanted to give the kid's teachers something for Thanksgiving. They have such wonderful teachers and I am always so impressed with the way they inspire and feed my children wealths of knowledge!! A many thanks to all teachers!!!!

It was difficult to find the best lighting for these. My mother and I would make these kind of hanging trio eggs and give them at Easter. We would, mostly, do Pysanky Eggs.

Again, these are eggs that our chickens are laying. They are so pretty all in themselves, that I cannot crack them and throw them away. :0/

   

   Please, don't forget that it is Dans Friday, here at The Art Zenter! Click HERE to get your free download for November's coloring page, 'Give Thanks'.

   Have a wonderful weekend and may we all be reminded that there is always something to be thankful for!!! 

   Speaking of thanks,........THANK YOU,...for all the lovely rays of sunshine left on my blog last week. Hugs to all!! ((((hugs)))) :0)

Now,

go put

 some 

Zen

into this

TaNgLeD

world

!!

:0)

CHALLENGED BY CHARKAT'S CREATIVE INSANITY

I Am the Diva, CZT

Weekly Challenge #237

"Guest post- Charlotte Carpentier"

CharKat's Creative Insanity

   Hello one and all! Happy Tuesday to you!!! I'm quite happy today! As I was looking at some pics that I took yesterday, I just couldn't help smiling, and thinking how wonderful God's creations are in this world! It's the little things that help our days and remind us to be grateful and thankful!!! Thank You, God for butterflies!!!

Can you see the butterfly in there? 

Now can you see him in flight? He was huge! I don't know what kind of butterfly he was but what a glorious sight! He flew around this Kumquat tree for a good 5 minutes. Just fluttering!!
Click to enlarge

   Well, I just had to share that with you, because my little ones and I were in such amazement, over his size and how long he stayed to flutter!

   On with the challenge! Yesterday was just one of those days. I felt inspired! Oh did I mention that I taught my first 'Official' class yesterday? Oh my, we had soooooo much fun, and my ladies were just fabulous!!  (Thank you ladies for breaking the ice for me.) I still don't have a venue, (mainly because I'm lacking the time in my schedule to teach consistently right now). But what a joy it was for me, to see these beautiful women put the Zentangle method into practice. And most of them had never heard of Zentangle and when I showed them what they would be creating, the response was, "Oh there is no way I'll be able to do that!" And of course they did!! It was AWESOME! I so enjoyed teaching, and can't wait to do more of it!!

There were actual moments of solitude and Zen!!!! Brought memories of my CZT class.

They all took notes in the sketch pads I supplied.

Don't they look like they've done this before?

My set up! I taught this one at home since it was small and I knew one of the girls.

Here is their display of finished tiles!! YAY!!!! I was supposed to write on the black boards but didn't get a chance to.

Okay,........ I'm sorry I got carried away! The class was fun and I would say a success. A couple of the women asked if I would do another class or even teach a Girl Scout Troop!! So exciting!!! I guess I could've saved all of this for a post all by itself, but I just wanted to share with fellow Diva tanglers.

For reals now,..... on with the challenge!

I used colors for fall. I am sooooooooo ready for a change of weather! We have had nothing but really hot temperatures here! YUK!

Here are the supplies I used for this. I just felt inspired to play with different mediums.

   I used Sizzix die cuts for my leaf stencils. For color, I first sprayed with alcohol dies. And believe it or not, I did not use any black ink on this at all. It just didn't happen. If fact this whole thing was not thought out, I just played with colors and design, as it went. It was so much fun playing. I don't know if I'm 100% happy with it, but it was fun!

   Thank you Charlotte, for giving us a new and different challenge! I enjoyed it! Please do check out Charlotte's blog, CharKat's Creative Insanity, for many exciting art projects, and inspirations.

   Welp, enjoy your week and we'll see you next week!! Last week was so much fun to see how creative everybody got with the Diva's challenge, "The Unexpected"! Everything was just amazing!! 

Go 

put some

Zen

into this

TaNgLeD

world

!!

:0)

ZENDALA DARE #110

The Bright Owl

Zendala Dare #110

with Erin

   At first when I saw this week's template, I thought, "Am I going to have enough time to do this one?" But, as I've said before, I love white spaces. So that is what I did with this one! As I would love to fill it up with some great tangles, I wanted to leave a little empty space in there. 

I liked this without color, but for some reason, I felt like I needed to color it!

Not sure I like it much, but it was fun to color. I used my Prismacolor pencils.
Feel free to click on images to enlarge.

   While I was working on my Zendala, my 5 year old saw the other printed templates that I had downloaded, and asked if she could fill it up with tangles. So here you have it!

I thought she did a pretty awesome job.

   It's so cute how my three lil' kids get so excited about my Zentangle journey! 

Please go to The Bright Owl and download your own template to tangle! And if you love Zentangle, go to the Diva's Weekly Challenge, for more fun and excitement.

Now,

go put

some

Zen

into this

TaNgLeD

world

!!

:0)

'ZENITH' and "WELCOME BACK LAURA"

I Am the Diva, CZT

Weekly Challenge #233

Newest Official Tangle,

'Zenith'

   "Welcome back Laura, I missed you!!!!" Even though I follow Laura on Instagram, and she had some really AWESOME guest bloggers fill in for her, I did miss her crazy lil' pictures with crazy lil' captions to go with them. :0) Looks like she had one enjoyable summer! 

   So when I saw the challenge for this week, I got so excited and had a flashback to my CZT #20 seminar days, back in June. (It seems so long ago,........:0(  I wanna go back!!!!  ) Anyway, the wonderful Zentangle group taught us 'Zenith' while we were there. What a fun and beautiful tangle. I fell in love with it right away. (Plus I am partial to the name. My Grandfather worked for Zenith Televisions years ago. I don't know if any of you remember that name. Actually I don't even know if they still make tv's). 

   I really wanted to play with color this week. Mainly because I had time today to play and didn't feel rushed. (Yes, I am getting my time organization in progress.  Yay, me! ) so I drew my string with a thought in mind. Then it just unfolded from there. I was gifted an Amazon gift card and so I purchased Faber-Castell Gelatos. I am having so much fun with those!!!

   I was having so much fun with 'Zenith', that I did not want the party to end. So, I had seen a variation of it that Maria had done on the Zentangle website, where she shows the step outs. And I just wanted to give it a try. Hence the black and white section on my page. Then I had seen the new tangle, that Tina Hunziker, aka Akua had created, on Linda Farmer's, Tangle Patterns. I new I just had to give that one a try too. What a lovely tangle, Tina!!! She has shared soon many wonderful tangles with the tangle community. They are all so fun and amazing! Thank you Tina!!! So there you have it!

tangles: Hollibaugh, Orbs, Zenith

click on any image to enlarge

   I used my Prisma pencils for the bright colors and my Gelatos for the soft background.

   It feels so good to get the time to play a little. Once my daughter goes to full time kindergarten days, then play time will get to be even longer. (Oh, the things that I will do,................maybe some messy inks,..........hmmmmm!) 

   I hope that everyone can find some time to play or 'zen' out, in their week,.....!

   

   I just want to give a very special "THANK YOU" to some very special people that left such heartfelt and loving messages on my blog post last week! You know who you are!! YOU are wonderful, and I'm still trying to make my way to visit your blogs!! You are pure AWESOMENESS!!!!

((((hugs)))

to all

!

Now,

go put

some

Zen

into this

TaNgLeD

world

!!

:0)