Zendala #13

Flowers  Galore

before Tangling

 ZenDala #13...  On a FRIDAY... but that only means good luck... LOL...  I really had fun with this Template...  I did a few things to get it right... first off... the challenge was to use a paper... to get into the paper... I am so into paper that I couldnt' be anymore into it... without being paper myself...  BUT I wanted to create my own paper... so I used a piece of  cardstock that I had painted... or I should say Inked!!!   and printed the  Zendala on to that paper...  but the Zendala didnt' show up...  the ink overpowered it...  so back to the drawing board... 

Bottle Green 

 So then I took my favorite white card stock... and printed it with a few Zendala's...  then I outlined them with a black pen...  I think I used a combination at this time, as I wasnt' sure how the different inks would stand up to my inking them like I love to do...  They all worked perfectly GREAT... so I was in luck...  then I started to play...  

 Since I am so very new to Tangling, I tried to use as many new tangles as possible...  learning as I go  type of thing...  so they are not all perfect... LOL...  I doubt they ever  will be...  


I really had fun with each and every one of these ....  

before tangling 

before tangling. 

Pink Lemonade 

 I used a Ranger Mini mister that I had put some Bottle Green into with some Gold Perfect pearls... and then splattered some Twinkling H20 gold onto the paper... love that...   But sometimes I get a little carried away with these sprays... but today I was working with small pieces of paper... as these mandalas are only 3.5 inches .... so I didn't have to use too much ink... that is for sure...  This one is Tim Holtz's new Summer Inks..  called Picked Raspberry and Ocean Blue... love them mixed...  
But then  I love making messes with my inks... and have a lot of practice with doing that...  
This one is called Pink Lemonade.. I can remember as a child my Mom always use to make Pink Lemonade... I thought lemons were pink!!!  What a shock to find out that they are yellow...  LOL... 

I used a lot of Perfect Pearls on this paper... and it is so yummie...  love to see it shimmer in my hands...  I have to make a book to hold all my Zen Tangles... and am going to mount them onto black cardstock... I love the way they stand out against the black...   

before tangling...  pink and yellow makes orange!!! 

Love of Life 

 I used Dylusion Sprays on this next one...  Yikes... I love those sprays... and this is so wonderful to tangle on too... 


Before I knew it I was done... and I really didn't want to be done with tangling on this... but it was finished... just the way I wanted it too..  ooops... My computer wouldnt' let me do this by myself... funny... anyway...  here is the Zen dala for the pink and yellow makes orange...  which I named Love of Life... as there is life of all kinds on there... 

I am a doodler .. so nothing is sacred when I have something to doodle with in my hand...  The other day I ran out of white paper where I was tangling... so I used a piece of printed paper that was on my work table... nothing is sacred... but I loved the results of it... and was going to do that today.. but really wanted to paint... my hands have not had any ink on them for over a week now... feels abnormal....  so I had to get inky...  

Well I do hope that you have a WONDERFUL  week-end... and enjoy a summer time feeling...  
Don't forget to check out this challenge ... and there is no better time to join in on this than NOW....  it is fun...  and everyone is so very warm and loving... Love these people...  and from all over the world... love it...  

Thanks for stopping in for a visit... Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

Nopal is GREAT

I became interested in Zentangles a few weeks ago and started to play with them....  then a friend sent me a couple of sites to do challenges with these fun tangles... so here is another one...  

The Bright Owl... what a great space to play in...  Anyway... this is the challenge...  

Zendala Dare #12

Since I am new to all this, I wasn't aware that

there was a template.. so I drew this myself!!!

 Anyway... I had a lot of fun with it 

and I decided to color it too.. 

I am on dial up... so not really sure what everyone 

did for their challenge projects... but this is 

mine... and I am pretty happy about it

Since we grow and love to eat Nopal.. 

A great cactus ... I put that in here... 

Thanks for stopping by for a visit... and hope 

you have a GREAT day...  

Ya'll are just getting up over there... 

Go Good Morning... 

Have a wonderful day... 

I am going to bed!!!!  

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

Love to Peter ETERNALLY

I just bought a book on Zen Tangles and have been trying to play around with all these wonderful designs... I am not a stranger to doodling... as I have written quite a few books on that... but this is a lot more structured... and entirely different...  

Anyway I have done a few pieces and then was told about this really neat site... where there are CHALLENGES... yikes.. I love challenges... and this was a challenge for in so many ways... first off it took me over 2 hours to down load the first site...  which is I am the DIVA  and then I had to go to the other site for the new design... but ohhhhhh so much fun... not a problem... but the one thing, is that I can't download real easy... you see I am on this 'wonderful???" thing called dial up... (whine!!! ) and it is all I can get... so that is a problem for me... as I didn't see what anyone else created...  but I did see the wonderful one and the I am a Diva site...  

A little bit about this...  
 Weekly Challenge #77: UMT v. VI "Fiore di Pietro"
This week's challenge to use one of your challenges is a special one.

The tangle is called "Fiore di Pietro", and it's created by Rho Densmore, CZT.  Fiore di Pietro is a beautiful loving tribute to Rho's brother in law.  Please read her words on her blog and see the instructions there as well.

Rho is also asking for permission to use your tile/piece in a memorial for her family - you can email her your permission or give her permission on your blog.   ( which you are more than welcome to use mine.. I would be honored... totally!!! ) 

So naturally since I am really new to Tangling... I did the design and then I wanted to add some of my own things for Peter... as this is called Love to Peter...  ETERNALLY....  

I used the design that Rho created... which was really fun... I might not have it all even and everything... but hey... this is only my 5th day playing with Tangles...  but I would like some critique on this... all kinds... that is the only way we grow...  and I do want to learn this... so please leave your feelings...  

After getting the original design, I then wanted to add some LOVE for Peter... so I added some hearts... and then some beads to tie it all in... but I wanted some movement to this whole tangle... so I added the ETERNAL wreath...  one of love and living green (green stands for LOVE)  along with some fruit of the earth...  ETERANAL love to Peter...  

Even though I am totally new to all of you... and I certainly don't know Peter... I send my love to his family, and MAINLY to HIM...  Help guide us to be better people Peter... Thanks... 

Thanks for stopping by for a visit... and hope that you have a FANTASTIC day...  

Love, Light and Peace....Bonnie  
 

Memory House

 

My Memory House is filled with knick knacks from the past years…..  also in the middle of the house is a tree… I lived on Oak Tree Lane as a child… and thus the tree… with the word FIND…. As I had to leave home in order to FIND myself…  to BE ME… my mantra at this time… to be 100% me in all ways… to create my art freely and to respect myself, (as well as all around me too)  but to live my life fully in all ways…    I am also trying to organize my things from the past into memory items… such as this house… 

I have put all these cute little things I have collected along my paths of finding myself…  or trying to do so… LOL.. I often wonder if I will fully find self.  When I was growing up, I use to baby sit for this family down the street and the husband and wife were very connected to all life… their kids were different in some ways.. some good, some not so good… but always free mentally to think freely… I always was drawn to that… as I was not brought up in a free thinking family… we had to do what others were doing… or do things that were ‘right’ so that others wouldn’t think we were different!!!  Go figure… now I live the opposite way in so many ways… FREE as a bird… doing as I choose to do in so many ways…  My husband is one of my biggest supporters in all ways… as we are both trying to do the same… Live freely and love it all.. 

Okay… got a little carried away… but you see memories do that to me…  give me direction… 

 

At the top of this house… there is a little wishbone… and  a dragonfly…  the wishbone is from one of our chickens…  a memory of the 200 birds we had…  we have a lot of fond memories in so many different ways..  The dragonfly represents my need to change and all the changes that I going thru…  

 

The little birds were something that I saved for as a child… they are little ivory birds that I love… that will date them… as ivory is not used for that anymore…  and also not at the price I paid for them…    As you can see there are flowers that I have made and also charms where I have use alcohol inks to leave a pretty flower…  Love these … making them and the end result…  so much fun… 

                                                            

 The words....  LIFE IS ABOUT CREATING YOURSELF... are so very prevalent in my life right now... so I found it fitting to add this to my memory house...  

 

In the center of the box, you can see the TREE… it is made from Tim’s Tissue paper… and the branches are long reaching…  with leaves that I stamped from stamps I made… this is my TREE…  my growth to FIND self…  The little blue bottle is a bottle that my hubby found one day digging in a fence row in New jersey… when we use to live there… many moon ago… 

 If you follow me at all.. you know I love flowers of all types... so here is one I made using a Tim Die cut... and also an embossed oval filgree Ideology piece... love using these... for all kinds of things... and the Pen nib for Journaling and writing of my life.. . 

 

Number 6… my lucky number that is always in my life…  along with a little dog that another neighbor gave me… she was a woman with a hubby but no children… very sad…  she always wanted children…  but had no luck…  thus the blue dog…  had to keep it as a reminder… to be thankful all the time for what we have, how we use it, and love it all…  not the material as much as the emotional… 

 

Okay… my little door….I had to have a secret room… and in this room (LOL) there are a few bottles… and in one bottle some little beads… I also love to bead and make jewelry.. and also a fly… as I love insects… I have always wanted to collect butterflies that have gone on to happier places… I have a few… but always wanted a lot of them… also it reminds me of all the birds nests I had when we lived in NJ… tons of them… and I had to leave them… just no room in moving… 

A good friend of mine painted this for me on a stone from Maine... she knew my love of snails and also knew of the love of art that we had as a mutual desire in life...  






A little hand carved dog... and I can't remember where I got this either... oh well.. 

 Another piece of ivory... but this came from my Mom's childhood charms...  it was on her bracelet and I always wanted it... and one day she gave it to me... I cherish it...  so this is the Jungle that it came out of...  I made the leaves from stamps I also made... 

 I have had a couple of Dachshunds in my life... and they were both females named Gwennie... so this is my Gwennie dog.. and it is in brass... they were the love of my life...  

 

At the bottom… I made little drawers and put some knobs on them…  Each drawer also has memories of certain good times…  some Sheeps wool that I got this year…  when I went over to see the lambing… a really wonderful day… and also Birthday candles from our daughter birthday this year…  a bracelet that I loved… but it is broken… and maybe I will find some one that will be able to fix it… 

Last... my sewing room...  
I put thread on these little tiny spools... you can see how tiny they are... as the thread looks thick!!!  The little bottle has buttons in it.. that are also very very tiny.... Just had to add that to this memory house... as there was a time when a quilt a week was my thing to do... now it is paper.. LOL... just different medias but still loving it all... creating has always been a love of mine... even in the kitchen.. I love to cook and create new dishes and ways to prepare the food we partake of...  

 I am sharing this house with you as part of the Challenge on Studio L3...     I have made quite a few of these configuration boxes... and if you check out the left side panel you will see more of them...  I also made some for our children for Christmas with Ornaments that they had when little... Also one of my husbands families mementos for him as a gift... Ones for my Mom to see fall... and also to light up her Christmas with a little light that really lights up...  How about the one I did and turned it into a clock... I really love using these boxes.. they are fun and easy to use...  be creative and allow your mind to run away with you...  

Thanks for stopping by today... and have a fun day... stay cool and enjoy the summer months...  Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

July Tag a La Tim

 Today has truly been a CHALLENGE day.... yikes... this is forth and fifth challenges..  yikes... am I addicted to this??? I think so... and I love it... I love sharing and doing all these fun things... also learning about all the different ways to use things...  


So this month Tim had us do a technique that is so fun.. one of my all time favorites... I love the look that the mixative gives to the inks... I don't have canned air... so I used a straw and blew the ink around the paper... and love the different looks I got... I did quite a few and have a few on here to share with you... if you haven't tried this one.. you really should... it is really wild...  love it...  

 I wanted to move onto the next step... so I used my heat gun.. and the mixitive 'bubbled' up a little bit... for a really nice bit of texture.... I love that kind of thing...  


I also grabbed the Olive Archival ink... vs the Black... oops... big time oops... but that is okay... I love it anyway... not as intense as the black would have been...  so this is great... 

 Using time... living time to the fullest...  living in the moment....  all of these things are my mantras now... as I am loving all the fun things in my life...  wow... what a fun time...  

 At the beginning of this I decided that I really wanted a pastel tag... so I used Sherbert and also pool... and then juniper... so I got a fun color scheme with that... 

 I also tried the sherbert and the pool with cranberry... thinking  and hoping that the mixative would calm down the cranberry... but not enough... so I tried one more... 

I used three greens... and then lemonade and peach Bellini...  think these are the correct names... but you get the idea anyway... 
So I used the first one for this tag... but these other ones will be saved and used for something else...  





So I used so of my Alcohol inks... and had a blast...  I really do enjoy them...  and will be teaching a class on the 26th of this month down at Scrapbook Creations...  for details please go here...  

This tag is for two challenges... one is for Tim Tag of the month

And the other one is for Stamper Sunday...  Hels asked us to use Silver...  

So if you want to learn detail by detail how to make this tag background etc... go to Tim's site for all the details... you will be glad you did...  

Hey... have a fun day... enjoy creating something fun... and thanks for stopping by for a visit...  Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

Collage PLUS tangling!!!

Today is CHALLENGE DAY.... that is for sure...  I love to do challenges, and really like to do one project per challenge... but this week I am combining a few... as I have a lot of other things to do too...  and I really like to do these...  

So here is a project that will go into one of my journals.   I am going to show you the whole process... as I really did have fun making this...  I had sprayed (Dylusion sprays)  some Pretties by Bonnie... and when I was done I had this really nice paper...  I put it aside...  so today I used it to start off my paper...  you can see the flowers  if you look closely... Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge is to use sprays, Stencils, spritz, etc etc... and I did... I also finished off with a nice spritz of Perfect Pearls... love that stuff...   

 I am sorry for the line in this.. but my dial up doesn't always allow me to completely upload pictures without having to redial at least a couple of times... not fun... but just part of my life... so excuse the line...  
I wanted to show you the stencil uses... I love the leaves... 

When using a Stencil and the dabber of PEARL... I get this lovely reaction... which I adore...   Have you ever used it...  if not better get some... it is fun... and the results are GREAT...  

On this area, I have used a number stencil with gold metallic...  love the look of that too...  so many fun things all on one sheet of paper...  

But it didn't stop there.... 
I kept on... as I had a few other challenges that I wanted to add to this paper...  

 So I started to get involved with some Zen Tangle doodling... and I love it... so I decided that this also had to be part of the second challenge for today... and that is My Monthly Mojo... and Sarah, you are so very right... we have to find ourselves...  and when that happens I will let ya'll know...  but for now... I love doing it all... and when I am doing some things it makes me happier than others... I love to put colors onto paper...  and I love to doddle... but that can change at any given minute... I just have to follow what my muse requests that I do at that very minute... LOL... Do I ever know..?? NO... I follow what my inner being tells me to do...  and I try and listen carefully... as sometimes it changes.. .  LOL... but it is always fun for me... and if not, I stop doing it...  I need change all the time... I know that... 

 I love drawing... and I love colors... and I love to mix the two... I also LOVE flowers... but I also love other kinds of things too... so when the mood strikes... I do it... 


A few weeks ago I really went crazy with leaves... and I just wanted to draw leaves... and also color them... so I had to add some to this drawing too... 

 Words... I love adding words to SOME pictures... not all.. but some...  I love just doing things at times... and today was a good day to doodle.... 


Weather wise we are gaining degrees by the minute... it started out fairly nice this morning... as we had a good rain last night... with high winds... and lucky for us... no damage... just a nice watering for all the plants...  So muchly needed... wow... really big time..  but now it is starting to get up to about 90 some odd degrees... not nice...  but I am going to ink some more later... hopefully... anyway... I felt like doodling and that was MY STYLE this morning... 

 Since I have been creating ART for more than 60 years now... I guess I have to say that my inner ART CHILD is still active and doing well...  she really loves to create and get messy...  


But these Zen Tangles are so fun... and I get so wrapped up in them... that I hardly realize that my back is starting to hurt... from the position that I am sitting in... lucky for me I have an inclining table... so I have been on that a few times... pulls me right back into shape... for more tangling...  LOVE IT.... 

 Live in the NOW... BE ME... a few of the mantras that I repeat all the time...  I am trying these zen tangles out, as I am new to this style... so I am 'copying' others forms... but always add in my own too... I love this form of ART!!!!   have you tangled today???   Good yoga for the brain... 

 So you see what I mean about leaves... I love them...  stenciled or drawn...  love them...  Even going up a vine.. or a plant stem... love leaves.   

 All these colors are so rich... bright and GREAT.... Bright has to be IN now... as I am loving it...  and seeing more and more of everywhere I go... even in clothes... have you noticed the changes all around YOU...  
Have you made the changes internally for you yet???  I am in the mood for this change and love it...  I guess it reminds me of the psychedelic colors of the 60's...  my hippie days...   

Sarah also wanted us to comment on why we share our work of art...  well... I love to share and stimulate others to create... and that is also why I teach.... sharing is very important in our world today... Peace has to be felt in order to obtain it on this EARTH MOTHER... and we need that so very much... we don't need more war... or any war... we need LOVE and sharing... and that is my purpose in this life time to do...  I feel that we all need to realize that and start to really put our minds into world PEACE...  we are all one... and need to start to act like it... there is no separation we are all one... and need to love each other... unconditionally too..  
 

 The third challenge is over at ART JOURNAL CAFE...  and it is to use some pieces from Magazines...  not really a favorite... because it is someone else's art... so I have to be really picky about what I add to my art...  it has to be about what I am at the time...  so these are some that I could add...  it took me longer to locate these than to do all the doodling... which was over 2 hours... 

 So there happened to be a Stampington magazine on the table near by me.. so I started to look through a pile of them... got totally absorbed in a few things... and then remembered what I was suppose to be doing.. .LOL.... so I did find a few pictures that were good for me...  One that says  LIFE IS A GAME.... PLAY IT OFTEN.... we need to do that as stated above... 

 I found a really great little section of collage all by its self... and so I used that to fill in a blank zen tangle free area... LOL... 

 And of course I had to add a flower... made with Pretties by Bonnie   digital images... 

So there you have it... a fun picture of all kinds of ME...  the colors... they are me now...  as they represent HOT... it is hot here... and I need to go take a nice COLD shower... then I can use blues and purples...  I am going with the flow... I am ME...  

Hope you are staying cool... and enjoying the day...  
Thanks for stopping by for a visit...  and hope you will come back soon... Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie