Tipple all the way.

Hello, hello, my zen firends,

This week, DivaCZT has a wonderful challenge. It is a monotangle tile, with Tipple. Lot and lots of circles :) I used string 162 and...a lot of Tipple :) Hope you like it!

Challenge #2 Let it B!

Hello, hello, my zen friends,
I hope you had a wonderful week and that you will have an even greater one just about to start :)
Today is a special day for me, so I am in a rush to a party, an anniversary one, for me and hubby so... I just wanted to launch this week Challenge. I called it "Let it B!", because...well you guessed...it is about tangling using 3-5 tangels that start with a "b".
I used: Bandola, Beadlines, Beelight, Blox and Btl Joos.

So happy tangling everyone! I am looking forward to see your tiles, so do not forget to put them below:

Diva Challenge, an invitation and updates to my swaps.

Hello, my zen friends,
This week, the pretty Diva CZT  has a wonderful challenge, but before I show you my tile, please let me show you my first zentangle mail art. It is for a swap on swap-bot. I sent it today, in Germany and I really hope it will arrive on time. The post office here is stuck in the stone age! I went to the Central Post Office and asked them to mail the letter and when the clerk at the counter saw my envelope she looked at me like I was an alien or something and she said she has never seen an envelope like that and she can not receive it. I asked why, and she said that she has no space to put a date stamp on the envelope. She put a postal stamp and and an "airmail" sticker and asked me to put the envelope in the mailbox. It will be picked up today at 17.00. I really hope it will arrive safe.

Now, let's go back to challenges. When I was first discovered Zentangle and ZIAs, I also discovered Diva's Weekly Challenge. That challenge helped me to practice, It motivated me to make a tile at least once a week. So, I think that challenges are a great idea and I would like to host one. I got this idea while looking for tangles. There are a lot of tangles outhere. I know that there is a catalogue on Tangle Patterns.com, but I am also working on a catalogue with patterns. My intention was to start with the tangles that begin with an "a", next week to go to the tangels with a "b", and so one. But...well, there are so many tangles out there that, one week is not enought. I will try to make my catalogue once a month. For the moment the catalogue is for my own use only, to learn new tangles and to discover new possibilities,  but the challenge is opened to everybody.
So the here are the rulles: make one tile, using from 3 to 5 tangles whose names start with  letter "A". Shade, color, do whatever you feel, you want or you think it is best for you. And then please put your link so all of us could enjoy it.
This is my tile:

I used arrowheads, agua, amoeba, arcotres and arukas.
Now, for the DIVA Challenge,  this is the tile that I made this morning, while drinking my coffee:

Hope you like it! And hope you will sign in for the weekly challenge that I am trying to host. I how that Zentangle comunity is a very nice one, with beautiful people, with a lot of talent and a lot of friendship to share.

Rainbow and infinity.

This are some busy days for me. I did send the bookmarks in the world and an ATC just arrived at my swap partener's home, over the ocean, in USA. So glad! So, I laminated the bookmarks and I attached them a handmade charm. Well except for the one sent in Australia because of the strict mail legislation they have over there.

The charms are handmade, with beads, threads and knots.

I am really into zentangle and I started to see patterns all over the place. So, inspired by the Constantin Brancusi's Infinity Column sculpture, I came up with a pattern. 

I do not know if it does not already exist. If it does and you know the name and the author please let me know. If it does not and you would like to use it, please feel free to do it. If you will mention the name of pattern and my name, it will be very nice of you.

And let's not forget about this week challenge from Diva CZT. It is all about te rainbow. I used Jay and Nipa as patterns, and Koh-I-Noor water color pencils. It was a lot of fun to color the orbs and the Jay pattern. Hope you like it!

Beads of courage.

Well, hello, my dear zen friends. It has been a busy period of time, but I try my best to zen and to tangle. I have some international swaps that i'm into in this summer. Some of the ZIA works that I have been made are already in their way to my swap parteners. Others are still in progress. Like this two bookmars that I am making for an international swap. They are not ready. I have to attach them a charm that I will make out of thread and knots. One will go to Australia, and one will go to UK. I have to make a third one, for a partner in the USA, but I am still looking for the inspiration. I think they will be ready by tomorrow.

For this week's challenge, the DIVA CZT proposed a tile inspired by the Beads of Courage. I think those kids are amazing, real fighters, real sourvivers.
So, this is my entry for this week:

Hope you like it and please go to DIVA's blog to see other wonderful entries for this challenge.

All boxed up.

Hello, Hello, my zenfriends,
What a wonderfull challenge from DivaCZT. Please check her blog and watch the beautiful tiles created by everybody that singed up for this week challenge.
So, we have to use All Boxed up, a very intersting pattern created by Alice Hendon.
Oh, well, this is my entry for thsi week. I used All boxed up, Hollibaugh, Bales, Balo, Plait and some   circles on black background.