Journalling on an ATB

Today I was suppose to do other things... but I took the day off... and I did what I WANTED to do..... and that was to make another Artist Trading Block... better know as an ATB...  Love these things... and Anne (Redanne)  you are so very right.. they are habit forming and ADDICTIVE..... very addictive...  so before you make one... know that they are addictive... I love the ones I have made though... and really enjoy them... 

My other one is here... Dream a Little Dream    and it really was a very fun project also... so many people have written and asked how long it took me to create this Dream A Little Dream... and it took me about three days... but not full days...  about 10 hours of hard labor... LOL.. a LABOR of LOVE... love of art and paper .... 

Okay... so today I wanted to create another type of ATB... one that I could do quick journaling into... so my block is going to hold 3.75 x 3.75 cardstock to journal on it... a quick little thought for the day... when I have a need, I will grab a regular journal for technique, etc... but these will be little journaling papers... how neat is that going to be??? 

So if it is going to be for JOURNALING... it had better have journal pages on the outside too... right???? 

Side one... 

Don't Let ANYONE ever Dull your SPARKLE!!!

with a little bird on a branch and stars added with texture paste...  I used water color pencils on this box... 100%...  and the edges were done in Distress inks... 

 

a little bit closer 

Side Two

 

Living in my own little World... 

 

A little butterfly really does live in their own world.. and at times I do too.. .like today... I played and did my own thing... all day long...  loved it... 

 

 

 

A little closer 

 

Side three

This time of year... I love pods of all kinds... and these just had to get onto this box... 

 

LIFE is a school

where you learn to REMEMBER

what your soul already KNOWS... 

 

WOW... so very true... 

on each one of these 4x4 journaling pages...

I drew,

put a saying...

stamped,

and also used texture paste... 

 and I colored the texture paste too...

what fun is all that... OMG... love it all... 

 

a little closer 

 

Side four... 

Faces...

The faces we wear when

we create,

journal,

dream,

grow,

and imagine... 

 

LIVE IN LOVE

 

A little closer 

 

Side five the top... 

Just Love...

Why try so hard to fit in

when you are born to

STAND OUT....

AWESOME!!!

 

WOW... we all need to do that a lot more... 

LOVE it all.. 

 

 

 

A little closer

 

I just wanted to say, prior to showing you the next box... that I can see myself really getting absorbed into making these boxes for all kinds of reasons and needs... they are fun and I love making them...  I love this journal one... and have it filled with papers for journaling near the phone, and also will have some extra papers at places I find myself sitting and drawing... 

I love to doodle and also do Zentangling... but love to put my thoughts down with it all too... so very important ... shows where I am on this EARTH WALK... 

 

 

 

This next box... I love GRAPHIC 45 papers... so very pretty, bright colors... great themes. etc etc... you know all the reasons if you like them... 

 

So I had the pad French Country... and it was yelling to be used... so I did... but I wanted this box to be interactive...

So I made each side panel lift up... 

 

 

 

 

The top of the box... French Country... 

 

Side one... Rooster... had to use this... we have over 100 chickens... and some of them need to go into the freezer NOW...as they start to crow at 3:AM... not a fun thing...

 

 

Lifting up the panel... you see this.. 

 

Pears on the TREE...

We have all kinds of fruit trees... plum, pear, apple, peach, blueberries, persimmon, and a few others... that I can't remember right now...

 

 

Lift up the panel... 

 

FLOWERS....  WE dont' have as many flowers as we would like... but we do grow a lot of sunflowers and assorted others...  Jerusalem artichokes and others... we do have a BUTTERFLY GARDEN... and that has a lot of wild flowers and also some that we have introduced here as well..

 

next year we are going to be adding an herb garden.. .so we will have a lot more flowers...   

 

Under the panel.. 

 

Sunflowers... 

 

under the panel 

 

 

So this is my third ATB.... and it is not going to stop here... I can feel a lot of these coming on...  just need to plan them out... and also find a place to create a new wall.. LOL.. 

 

Thanks so very much for stopping by today... and hope that you have a lovely happy creative day yourself... 

Thanks also for all the lovely comments you have been leaving here... I love them all and read them all.....

 

I also had some really nice feelings today, as I won a challenge for my altered bottles... the challenge was with Craft Hoarders Anonymous...  and here is my blog page..

 

 

 

this is one of the bottles...

 

and there are three others...  so please take a look and see them... I really love to alter things... Rice vinegar came in these bottles... and the little jars, were other foods... 

 

Thank You again Craft Hoarders Anonymous Design Team...  I have fun on your challenges and my studio is starting to really look so much better...  thanks a million for helping.. 

 

 

Now I am putting these two boxes also into the CHALLENGE THAT GOT ME ADDICTED .... 

Frilly and Funkie...

Why not join in on the fun... these boxes are so very much fun to make...  love them...  try to make a few... you will find that you are addicted to them too.. .LOL.. 

 

Thanks for reading this long entry... but I am a wordy person...

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

 

WATER. WATER and more water... not enough water...

I never would have thought that I could combine these two challenges... they are totally opposite... BUT... low and behold... today I am doing just that... 

On Mondays I do my Zentangle Challenge... with, I am the DIVA and the challenge this week is to create something with B.Y.O.B.  (bring your own Beverage)   and so that is pretty easy for me... WATER...  WATER and More WATER... 

and also SIMON MONDAY CHALLENGE... All about a FACE...

Okay... they really didn't click with me either... but I wanted to make a special card for my Son and DIL... and so I created this picture... I started it on Sunday night... way prior to the challenges being announced...  So after looking on Monday to the challenges... I was surprised to see that this would really fit into both of these challenges... so I finished the picture off with tangling and then colored it my INKTENSE colored pencils... and then scanned it, printed and made this card... 

Okay... I am trying to work thru which part to show you first... so I guess I will show you the front of the card first...  such decisions to make!!!! 

 

This is the front of the card... do you see the face peeking out at you????? it is there...  you will see it better in a minute. 

I made the paper with distress inks and my worksheet.... and then stamped and die cut all the other pieces... coloring them with distress pens and inks.   

 

when you open the card... this is on the top part of the card... the large seahorse and the turtle are stamps and die cuts and they were colored and then glued onto the paper, that again I made from white cardstock, distress inks and stamps... 

 

Here is the SPECIAL INSIDE of the card..  my Zen tangle also for the week...  water, water and more water...  a mermaid with her new little one...  with all the sea critters with her loving the new little baby... 

 

The border is a Martha Stewart sea punch set... and the background paper again, white cardstock, distress inks and stamps... love making special papers that way... so much fun and they really make the card look GREAT.. 

 

The back side of the card... another piece of Bonnie paper... 

 

Here is a close-up of the TIA for the week... 

in all her glory... 

 

I tried to keep with the theme of ocean dwelling 'tangles' like purk, mooka, and all the other ones...  click on any of the pictures to see them larger... 

They just had a baby boy on July 3rd... and I wanted to make a send them a special card...

 

My favorite drink is WATER...  cant' get enough of it... we all need to drink nice CLEAN water...  no fluoride, no chemicals... just nice CLEAN WATER... my drink of all times... 

 

Our son loves Mermaids... so I had to do this mermaid for him... as this is his mermaid and their little one...  Love it..

 

Hope that both groups of people from the two different challenges enjoy this piece... I know that it is entirely different than you are use to... 

 

I had to do it... and I hope you like it...

 

Have a super wonderful day...  create with all your heart... and enjoy it... and thanks again for stopping by for a visit...

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

 

 

CRUX is that lilke the crux of the matter???

Today being Monday... it is a ZEN day... time to do my zentangling...  I am the Diva asked us today to do the tangle CRUX...  so here is what I did... 

 

I use to really be a traditional zentangler... but I have to say that even though it takes a lot longer to compete a tangle... I had to do this today...  Today was not an easy day... we have not had phone in over a week...  we have no cell phone... and our son and daughter in law had their baby... so we didn't even know until 12 hours later...  I tried to get Skype in prior to this whole thing... and couldn't ... but worked on it that night until I finally at 4 am got it into the computer...  ugh... so this has been the week of trials and errors... but we did get to see our newest little grandson ... and he is adorable...  no name as of yet... but he will soon... precious little bundle... 8.5 pounds... 

 

Okay.. so back to tangling...  I love this... it was a fun tangle... but not going to be on the top of my list... I have to say that... maybe if I fool around with it a bit longer... it might come up a little over mid way...  I dont' like the rigidity of blocks... like to free wing it... like I did with this PURK... the traveling PURK... love doing this.. 

 

There are 6 different colors of browns in each bead and also yellow... compulsive??? Not at all... LOL..  but I had to do this... I also used four different sets of colored pencils to get the effect I really wanted... and it took me over ... well lets just say a long time...  long, long, long time... but I do love it.. I had to add the flower to soften this ... as the colors were a little too dark for me...  hope you enjoy it... I really had fun doing it.. 

Because of all the tension and stuff with all kinds of phone things etc... I had to let loose and finally sat down to tangle to get free of all that stuff... tangling to me is a great release...  love it.. and this was in need of being finished... 

 

This is not finished... as I am going to try and add some color to this one... but thought I would share prior to the color being added... fun and games... 

 

Well I hope the rest of the week will be better and that all will calm down...  thanks so very much for all your lovely comments over the past few weeks... and I hope I have written back to you... if not, please check my last few blogs... thanks so very much... 

 

Thanks for stopping in for a visit too... and hope that you have a TANGLE day... one that is full of TANGLING and FUN...

 

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

I am the DIVA... layers of tangles this week...

This week Laura's son is sick... and I do hope he is feeling better soon Laura...  not fun working thru these things... for either you or the little one...  I am sending healing LOVE to you both.. 

So with that in mind... Laura asked Aimee to do the challenge this week... and she has called it SUPERIMPOSING STRINGs... 

Well I started by drawing two strings on my 5.5 X 8.5 inch paper... and then started to tangle... ooops... I forgot to take a picture of the two strings...  SO with that in mind... I thought... WELL I WILL JSUT COLOR THE TWO LAYERS DIFFERENTLY.... 

So one layer is in Violets and Pink... and the other (bottom layer ) is in Blues, turquoises, and multi greens...  I don't think you will be able to not see the layers...  and YES... I had fun again this week... YIPPPPPPP EEEEE ....  I love this... 

Color has really changed my all around again and the mojo is flowing heavy today... 

so with out any more ado... here it is...

 

I allowed the color to take me to places and tangle also... love doing that...  and also didn't create many different tangles.... but I did have fun..

 

DO you have Marie and Rick's Book... ???

Well I love it... and I used that to find some really different tangles that I wanted to use... otherwise I tend to use the same old ones... okay... so I love purk... and I know that I use that one a lot... but I LOVE IT.... what is a girl to do???  and I love mooka too...  but they had to go on here... LOL.. 

 

Anyway... hope you have fun with this challenge and enjoy it was much as I did... thanks Amiee for the challenge...  I really did enjoy it... 

 

Thank You for stopping by for a visit... and also thanks ahead for leaving a comment... I really do appreciate them all... each and every one of them... 

 

Have a wonderful night, day and week...

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

Letting GO!!!

Okay... so where is everyone??? 

I have the 2nd one already done... 

 

 geeeeze, you guys are not having all this fun???? I love this challenge... 

I hope that some of your are just goofing off like at work or something ... and have to wait to get home...  LOL... I love this one... 

 

 

 

 

I took another piece of paper that I had stenciled on... and sort of did the same type of thing... but I added some tangles done in colored pencil...  wow... what fun is that... 

 

you will be able to see all the sections below... 

 

 

 

 

I used Inktense pencils... and when I added the water brush... wow they really popped...  love this .....I outlined areas and tangled others... just having fun... 

 

added a little chain... a few more mookas...love this ... 

 

It sort of reminds me of a sea scape.. but not really important... I just had a blast doing this... and even though I still have a head ache... I had better get going and fix dinner... I hear a hungry man coming in for dinner and it is not ready... oooops... oh well.. having fun and enjoying yourself is just as important.... right??? 

 

Have a fun night... and hope you will have as much fun as I have...

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

CELEBRATE

Celebrate.. I am ready to celebrate my 68th birthday...  YIKES... I was just 21 a few years ago... where has the time ever gone...  so very much fun and creation each and every day of my life... in so many ways... I have had a very interesting life and have met so very many wonderful people...  for more details on things I have done... you can read my profile... it is more like a book!!!! LOL... a real problem for me... nothing fits into a nut shell... LOL... at all..  Profile or book... 

Anyway... that is me...  

So I had to create a few things last night for a few challenges... one of the Challenges is for Creative Every Day... where the theme is CELEBRATE...so I had to think of my birthday and that word...  right???  

And the other challenge is for the I am the DIVA challenge of the week... which I had already done a piece for... but hey... I am just prolific in all ways... so I had to use the tangle a few more times...  

So lets get started...  as I have a few things to share with you...  

 When I think of Celebrations, I think of JOY...  Joy in all ways around the celebration...  and of course at this time of year we are looking at all the wonderful holidays that are coming up in this month of December...  JOYOUS ness plus...  all people love to celebrate the seasonal feelings... even if they are alone during this time...  they are still happy or joyous to be alive...  so I did this painting in my art journal for JOY...  

I attached a zen tangle ball as an ornament...  and some seam binding to hold it in place...  LOL... the yin yang of life...  the balance we all need to keep each and every day of our lives...  oh so many things we do each and every day without even thinking about it... but it gets done...  

 A HUGE Paisley with a flower... of course, on the top of it...  and it sort of reminded me a balloon taking off from the field...  I love those huge balloons when they take off...  have you ever seen that... I love watching them at night too... with all their lights on...  oh so very magical in all ways...  I put a few Keenees at the bottom to balance this one...  and then surrounded the celebration with the girlande tangle...  I love this one...  

Of course the feeling of each holiday that is celebrated during this time... is LOVE.. love for everything, everyone and a joyous love of life... what could be more perfect... LOVE...   

So I had to make a couple of Yin Yang hearts... and then add a few keenees..  to dangle from the E...  

I didn't want to color the hearts as they needed to balance by themselves...  on their own right...  

Okay... now this one is all about the celebration that I am going to have...  

One of  LOVE, Joyous, Happy, Fun and lots MORE...  68 years young!!!!  

CELEBRATION plus...  

A little snail.. and little frog... and lots of shells...  LOL...  oh well I have never ever said I was 'normal'  just fun loving and love do create...  

These balloons are so very joyous in real life... I love the contrasting colors in each one...  anyway... it is all about CELEBRATION... and I do hope that you will celebrate too... no matter what it is...  just celebrate each and every day...  it is always a good thing to do...  

Thanks for stopping by...  and don't forget to see the rest of the alphabet that is going on...  On Thursday  I will publish the whole set on a separate page... and also show you the third set!!!  Oh yes... prolific me... was at it again... three sets of alphabet tangled letters...  LOL...  

Love, Light and Peace.... Bonnie   ps... please think World Peace... deep inside of you...  thanks... 

Beads of COURAGE and LOVE for Artoo

Happy Monday... 

Today is going to be a wonderful day... in all ways... I am full of energy and happy to be able to do all I can do...  one of those things is to tell you that I have another place to go see some of my newest Zentangles...   it is called Strings Galore!!!   and all you have to do is click on the Strings Galore and it will take you there...  I have finished all the Strings...  so now I am ready for some more...  ????  

Linda, of Tangle Patterns,  really has kept on this... and now we have a grand total of 22 strings... all of which are really GREAT...  So take a look see... and let me know what you think... I really love some of them...  more than others... I tried to use a lot of new tangles too... as I get in ruts... do you????  I guess we all do... 

Well... now here is a another challenge...  It's from the DIVA herself...  and here it is... take a look on the site for all the details and also to see what everyone else has created...  (I sure do wish I could see all the tiles...  dial up has to be from the 19th century... and I am hoping that we get something a little bit faster some day.)  

Today's challenge has a really remarkable story all around it and within it... and after I read it, I tried to write a comment on I AM THE DIVA... but these computers are giving me a very severe headache...  (the count on your blog, Laura, will most likely come back... mine all went last night too...  but today they are back... turn your machine off and reboot it...  )   

Anyway... back to the story on hand..  I love beads... I love paper.. so I have combined both many years ago and make a lot of my own beads to use on cards, books, projects of all kinds...  so I would like to send some to you Laura, so that you can use them for all the wonderful things that your little man will do over the next few years... so please send me your snail mail address so that I can send some to you...  I love to share and love to help with any healing process ....  

But I have to tell you the part of this that really is beautiful...  I finished reading the I AM THE  DIVA  site... and all the things that Laura wrote... and I opened up the Word document on my computer and wrote this...  


 

When we are in need, the best place to go is inward.. not outward… the inner journey is the most important one and always a little bit harder to face at times… but always more rewarding than any. 

The Hopes and Dreams of your life can be yours as the Windows of the Soul open up… and all the beauty within will be yours and will be like a crest of a wave…  and take you to a distant land thru a guiding light..  and give you the deepest sense of peace you have ever experienced… it will be just like after a fresh rain… the peace and beauty of life.  

So rest assured that you can make this journey for YOU and enjoy it all thru the Windows of your soul…  

I do hope that you all have a wonderful peaceful loving day and week... and will remember these thoughts each and every time things get a little hectic in your life...  and then go TANGLE...  

Speaking of which... please take a look at a new page...  it is my FINISHED 22 Strings .... I finally finished  them... and it was an inward journey of love and peace for me... in so many wonderfully rewarding ways...  I love tangling... and love the  journey I am on in this Earth Walk... and thank each and every one of you for sharing your comments and love with me.. I wish I could comment to each of you on your blog... but please except my love from the center of my heart ... I love you all...  

Okay...  now for the Challenge...  I have to tell you something else prior to you looking at these.... I drew these last night at about 11PM EST...  And Laura didn't post the challenge until much later on, the next day....??? So I guess these were meant to be for you LAURA!!!  

BEADS OF COURAGE.... 

 This is a bead as it is being made with paper... but I added many more.. as I love to make these beads in multiple... I use a piece of paper that I make from painting, or from a computer digital image that I have colored etc... but there are many beads... and each one made with LOTS and LOTS of love...  and only used in very special ways....  

So Beads of COURAGE and LOVE...  

Last Night I must have known that you were going to do this 

Challenge with the beads... as this is another one that I did...  and I think it is perfect for YOU, Laura...A bracelet of Love and Courage due to all that you display to yourself and your family each and every day of your life...  

Thanks for stopping by for a visit... and please take a look at these other sites and enjoy your visits there too...  

Hope you have a WONDERFULLY GREAT Day...  

Love, Light and Peace....Bonnie  

The Pumpkin Patch

Today being Saturday, it is ZENDALA DAY!!!   And Erin  (of Bright Owl)   has chosen a GREAT theme... FALL and then she added a great mandala to create with... LOVE IT all...  I also love your costume Erin... I have to add Congrats on the 200 followers... and I wish I could say I am one... but with this 'wonderful' dial up, I try to keep things as neat and clean as possible so that I can avail getting onto my own blog easily... LOL... I am a faithful follower... just not counted in your total at this time...  but I am there...  so CONGRATS... 

Also check out all the other entries for this challenge... but you have to go and see Erin's cute costume that she designed and made for Halloween...  so wild... love it Erin...  great creative thinking...  
 

So enough... I have had a very trying week... and I will not bore you with all the horrible details... but I am glad that I have my tangling to help my mind and spirit and soul all where they should be...  LOL...  I love my tangling and my journals.. and everyday I create in them when ever I have 5 minutes or so...it might look like I spend hours doing things... but believe me I don't... 

This week I was again cleaning stuff out of my studio, so I had a lot of papers that I really didn't want to toss.. so I made tags for journal pages...  and here is the proof...  

These two pages are where my Fall Zendala will be living...  for eternity!!!  

I had done the right hand page in July...  I love Fall as the colors are so very vibrant and actually so alive to me... the maple trees around here are florescent in color... the oranges are vivid...  if you used that color people would say that the color is not correct... until they saw the trees with those painted florescent orange leaves... so magnificent and regal.   

So I had to do some pears...  our pear trees didn't bear fruit this year... we have a very large problem with all fruits this year on the farm...  but I still love them.. so I had tangled them... on the left hand side of the journal... I had to make something to go along with this page... so I made a pocket... (since this journal is the journal of Pockets...  )  and but a little camelion on there... as they are running all over our decks and windows now catching the last of the warm sun spots...  they are so cute... 

 

 Here is a closer look at the pear page...  

I even used one of the 12 days of Christmas stamps for the pear page...  
and added a medallion made from tea bags...  

Of course one of my favorite things to draw and to have around me are the flowers of the season.. . 

My firethorn is really going crazy this year... but I am not bringing any of that into our home... too many little buggies on them.. . but they are so very pretty...  I love it..  

So this is the page that I have been playing with today...  

I wanted some nice fall thoughts to go into my fall pocket... so this is what I have so far...  

On the front of the pocket

THOUGHTS of the mind...  

 

Each one of these is for tangling on...  
This tag has not yet gotten anything.. but it will prior to the page being called DONE....  

It is a pretty fall paper that has so many nice gourds and I had to use it...  

 

A smaller tag with some of my favorite golden colored papers...  that I couldn't throw away... so I glued them onto each other to create a tag...  and of course had to tangle and then LIVE IN BALANCE... to remind me to do that...  which I have to be reminded of that each and every day... 

WE seem to be on the go all the time anymore... doing all kinds of things...  again... more scrap paper that I love... love dotted papers... have a huge stack... but this was just a little piece... still... I couldn't get rid of it..  

 I love to do the tangle paradox... because life is truly a paradox... when I first saw this tangle... I really didn't think I would use it that often... but it has become a favorite...  I love to see how many ways I can do them...  so that they create different patterns...  

Each one reflecting the difference just like the differences in each one of us... LOVE IT....  Again on some paper that I just couldn't throw out...  so pretty...   

 Did you ever buy a package of tags... because you loved them..and then never used them???  Oh well we will not talk about that... or how many times I have done that... but I did use one... right here...  and I love the way it turned out... maybe I will even find some more in my general cleaning up of the studio...  so many treasures...  left over from other things...  

 This in on the back of a piece that I used my Tapestry Stamps on... it is a fall wreath on the other side... but then I added this tangle to the other side...  

and a piece of Fall Tinsel from Tim Holtz's fall things...  

I even added pumpkins into this tangle...  Fall is upon us... and people will start arriving in our area to see all the colors on the mountain tops... it is really a very pretty time in the mountains...  

 Then today... Erin had us do a fall Zendala...  I love it...  I love the colors of fall...  the browns... I think that I used over 9 different brown colored pencils on this one...  I love the browns... and the purples, and cranberries... and the yellows, oranges, reds... and of course the greens...  so I put them all on here...  My little Pumpkin Patch zendala...  

Corn, Pumpkins, leaves, purple night skies, with purple clouds... and then the browns... love all the browns...  

 
 Here is this zendala a little bit closer... so you can see more of the detailing of it... it is really a pretty and favorite zendala of mine... but don't we say that about each one we do...  THIS   IS    MY    VERY     FAVORITE ONE      I    HAVE    EVER DONE!!!      And then we create another one... and that one is the favorite until the next one is created... love it all... so much fun... 

Well have a great evening... and talk to you all soon...  
Please check out my blog on Sunday... as my Altered Alice project is also a PUMPKIN... that opens all up...  Alice goes a rocking into Halloween big time... you will love the digitals... hope you will come back to see it...  Thanks for stopping by today... 

Love, Light and Peace... Bonnie