When I'm away in the caravan I am still doing my zentangle/doodles in my Arteza book. So far I have filled 38 of 88 pages in my book, so still a long way to go. I can't wait to see the book full of patterns.
This photo shows four of my recent completed pages.
It's been a while since I opened my Zentangle book, but this weekend I did and made this page. This is page 33 completed of 88 blank pages in the book, so It's going to take some time to get all the pages filled.
This was one of those projects that started off as one thing, sat at the back of my desk for about a year, but then today I decided it was "do or ditch "day. It turned out to be a "do" day, resulting in this finished tag.
My original idea was that it would go in my diet journal as a tracker tag, the whole diet thing is now a thing of the past, which was why the tag had been left unfinished. If I remember correctly I used a coupld of shades of Distress Oxide Inks for the pink/coral colour and the green, I'd already drawn the pattern outline, so it was really just filling in the areas with various pens. As I'm in Zentangle mode it seemed natural to use some of those designs to fill in the spaces.
About few weeks ago, I decided to try my hand at the art of "Zentangle", it's a type of doodle. I bought a little square book with blank pages from Amazon and had a go. These are some of my recent makes.
Today is Day 73 of the Tiffany Johnson Creative #100daysartplay challenge. This week is all about using crayons.
On a piece of white card, I drew three vertical lines using a Brusho Wax Resist Stick. Using the same stick, I drew some shapes to loosely replicate leaves on a stem.
I gave the card a wash of Prima Confections water colour paints, graduating the colour from light to darker colour.
Next I used a Signo Uniball blak gel grip pen to add some pattern to the leaves and to the edge of the card, finally adding some gold circles using a gel pen.
Today is Day 53 of the Tiffany Johnson Creative #100daysartplay challenge. This week is all about the gel plate.
I've used Pan Pastels through the Funky Fossil Designs "Batik Stencil" to create the pattern in the background.
Over the top of the pattern, I have used a black pen to draw Zentangle doodle designs, drifting from the top left to the bottom right hand corner of the card.
On my earlier post, I shared two zentangle doodles I made while at the caravan. We came back home today, so I decided to work with one of the dentangles and stamp on it.
I used a golden yellow shade of paint fromt the Prima "Tropicals" Water Colour Confections paint set, to paint the large zentangle circles.
while the paint was drying, I drew a circle the same size as the large circles on a post it note, I cut the inner area out to create a mask for stamping.
Using the post-it note to protect the area around the circles, I used Versafine Clair "Nocturne" black ink to stamp four different patterns from the Funky Fossil Designs A7 stamp sets. The sets that I used were: Vintage Script, Round in dots, Inky Grid and Ditsy Flowers.
I mounted the card on to a piece of black card and then used orange and white coloured Posca Pens to add a bit of colour within the large circles.
We've been away at the caravan for a few days. While there, I miss my crafting so always take a bag of bits and bobs with me to play with. This time I had a note pad and black pen, so doodled some Zentangle designs. It's very calming.
I fancied doing something totally different, so tried my hand at doing a "Zentangle".
I used a black Posca Pen to draw a squiggly line over the card, then set too filling in the areas. I really enjoyed the process as it was so calming. It did take a couple of hours though.
Once finished, I decided the design would work well as an eclipse card and as our male friend celebrates his 60th birthday this weekend, decided it would be for him.
In the middle of the card, I positioned two large die numbers, securing them with pieces of low tack tape. I then run it through the "Big Shot".
on the back of the card, in the area where the numbers were cut out, I used double sided sticky tape to secure a piece of red paper. (The red paper is a little nod to the recipient being a Manchester United fan). Then around the edges of the underside of the card used more tape then stuck it to a piece of black card, trimming to size. I then added it to a 7x7" card blank.
At the base of the card, using Versafine Clair "Nocturne" black Ink I stamped the Funky Fossil Designs greeting, using a stamp from their "Stripped Back Sentiments" stamp set.
Returning to the die cuts, I lay them in position on the card and then glued the two oval infills of the numbers on to the card.
I lifted the actual numbers from the card (leaving the infills in position) and added foam pads to the underside. I was then able to align the numbers in the correct position.
