Diva Challenge & my Christmas tree tiles

Hello together,

After reading the newsletter from Rick and Maria where they introduced their new 3Z Tiles, my first reaction was "I need these tiles!" and my order was placed. Then I thought "What could come next? A Hexagon tile or oval tiles?" And then I head that special idea of Christmas tree tiles. It's Christmas time at all!
I took an Apprentice tile and started to construct my "tree". I cut 4 Christmas tree tiles out of one Apprentice tile. The angle at the top of the tree is 30 degree and the length of a side is 10 cm (approx. 4").

The next step was to cut out the tiles, to round the corners and the Christmas tree tiles were finished.

The first four tiles were grabbed by my daughter. She made wonderful Christmas tree decoration of it.

I used one for the Diva Challenge #296. This week is a Use My Tangle Challenge and the tangle is Moowa by Anya Ipsen , CZT.

Here are some more of my Christmas tree tiles.

And there are so many possibilities what to do with these little tiles. It can be a Christmas tree ornament or a gift tag. You can use it to create Greeting cards or make some mosaics...

I hope you like this little idea and one more thing:

PLEASE TRY THIS AT HOME! ;-)

Thanks for stopping by. I look forward to your comments.

Greetings
TINA

IAST, a tangled water can and the Diva

Hello together,

The challenge this week at Adele's It's a String Thing #172 includes a wonderful string and the tangles Cubine, Ennies and Fescu that are all familiar to me. I like all three patterns very much and had a lot of ideas how to arrange the patterns on my tile. I decided to draw two of it.

I also tangled the Christmas present for my grandma. She wanted to have a new water can and I bought a blank white one and tangled on it.

For the Diva Challenge #295 Laura asked us again to use reticula and fragments for our tiles. This is mine.

Thanks for stopping by. I look forward to your comments.

Greetings
TINA

Diva Challenge #294

Hello together,

this week we should use reticula and fragments in the new Diva Challenge. This way to tangle was introduced by Rick and Maria in their book "Zentangle PRIMER Vol. 1" and has endless possibilities and very interesting results.
I drew my fragment on the back of my tile.

For my tile I tried different arrangements of the fragments and this is the result.

Thanks for stopping by. I look forward to your comments.

Greetings
TINA

the last months

Hello together,

the last months I only had few time to tangle because of work and other creative projects. So for example I started learning to sew.
Here my first projects:

I also draw some other things like colouring pages for my children but also a few Zentangle tiles:

In memory of our grandma Janni:

Just for fun:

For It's a String Thing #165:

For Elas Daily New Challenge:

#576

#580

#583

#585

#586

#589

For Lonettas 5. Tangle-Mosaic-Project:

And this is the mosaic that Lonetta create with my tiles: 

And today my entry for Adele's It's a String Thing #170 "Simplicity":

Where is the simplicity?

The second try!

That's it for today.

Thanks for stopping by. I look forward to your comments. 

Greetings 

TINA 

Zentangle for peace

Hello together,

because of the recent events in America when black men were killed by the police and in response a gunman killed five officers, PEACE was a main theme in the challenges this week.

In Joey's weekly tangle challenge #121 and her 6th circular string challenge she asked us to use the peace string in combination with the tangle Organic. I had to practice this new-to-me-tangle a bit and also added Tipple and Printemps.

For the Diva Challenge #275 this week there was a guest post by Suzanne Fluhr, CZT. Her theme for the challenge is "Give Peace a chance" so the tile for Joey's challenge could also fit for the diva. But I found another great string that I absolutely wanted to try.

The motif of this "heart of shaking hands" is the response from Freebird to the Two by Two by Tuesday-challenge "Hearts".  I thought it was very suitable for the challenge.

Last but not least my entry for Adele's It's a String Thing #153. This week we should make a monotangle with Crescent Moon. It's one of my favorite patterns and I wanted to do something special. I hope I succeeded! I drew a normal and a negative version of Cresent Moon and then added a version with full circles that look a bit like moon phases. Hope you like it.

Thanks for stopping by. I look forward to your comments.

Greetings

TINA

tiles on holiday

Hello together,

we are on holiday. So only a short post with the new tiles.

For It's a String Thing #152.

patterns Lenche and Kitl 

For Joey's weekly tangle challenge #120.

circular string #5 and pattern Girdy

Just for Fun - playing with the new tangle Wall Break.

Thanks for stopping by. I look forward to your comments.

Greetings

TINA

Diva Challenge #174

Hello together,

Yesterday I posted about the first tile of my daughter and the new pattern Wall Break that arises from it.

When I read this week's theme "My country - 'Tis of Thee" for the Diva Challenge I thought that this could be the perfect opportunity to use this tangle in a tile. Because it is perfect for borders or stripes I decided to make a monotangle of Wall Break. I drew three variations of it in the three colours of the german flag (black, red, gold).

Thanks for stopping by. I look forward to your comments.

Greetings

TINA

A first tile and a new pattern

Hello together,
Hallo zusammen,

today I want to show you a very special tile: the first tile of my 5 year old daughter Kiara. With the help of mine and the book "Zentangle für Kids - Waldtiere" by german CZT Beate Winkler she prepared the tile, drew the string and choose some patterns. But then she didn't want the book anymore and tangled patterns by her own.

Heute möchte ich euch eine ganz besondere Kachel zeigen: die erste Kachel meiner 5-jährigen Tochter Kiara. Mit meiner Hilfe und dem wundervollen Buch "Zentangle für Kids - Waldtiere" von der deutschen CZT Beate Winkler hat sie die Kachel vorbereitet, einen String gezeichnet und sich einige Muster ausgewählt, die ihr gefielen. Doch schon nach kurzer Zeit wollte sie ohne dem Buch weiterzeichnen und begann ganz frei zu tanglen mit eigenen Mustern und Variationen.

When I saw this tile especially the border I found a new pattern. I drew what she had drawn, added some details and the result was a new pattern that was looking like a wall interrupted by triangles. So the name came immediately to my mind:

Als ich mir nun ihre erste Kachel ganz genau anschaute, entdeckte ich im Rahmen ein neues interessantes Muster, welches ich sofort selbst ausprobieren wollte. Ich zeichnete also was sie gezeichnet hatte, fügte für die Dreidimensionalität ein paar Details ein und das Ergebnis war ein brandneues Muster, das mich an eine Mauer erinnerte. Die Dreiecke bildeten dabei regelmäßige Aussparungen und somit war der Name für mich sofort klar:

"Wall Break"

Hope you have fun with this new pattern. 

Ich hoffe, ihr habt viel Spaß mit diesem neuen Muster.

Thanks for stopping by. I look forward to your comments. 

Greetings 

TINA 

my weekly tiles

Hello together,

It's the 4th week of the circular strings at Joey's weekly tangle challenge #119.  The tangle for this week was Gnarly that was totally new to me. I also added Vortex and some details.

At It's a String Thing #151 Adele gave us a simple string that immediately reminds me of a rainbow. So I decided to draw a rainbow and than tangled the patterns Floatfest and Ahh that Adele choose for this week's challenge. I also added Msst (for rain).

Thanks for stopping by. I look forward to your comments.

Greetings

TINA