Weekly Challenge #73: UMT v.V: Bridgen

I have had a fantastic weekend with my friends celebrating the Jubilee, tea parties, a street party and the town music festival it has just been party, party, party! The boys have loved it (and to top of a great weekend I heard that my lovely hubby is due home from sea in less than a fortnight, we haven't seen him for four months so I have had big smiles on my face for the last few days!)  I decided to combine the red, white and blue theme with the challenge to use Bridgen this week to keep the patriotic theme going for a bit longer. 

Here are a few pictures of me and the boys modelling the crowns I made for the street party. I decided to do fabric rather than card so that they would last and can be used for dressing up again and again. I used velcro to fasten them so the size is adjustable so as you can see, Ben and I are wearing the same one.

 

Here are a couple more tangles that I have done in the last week, kind of playing around again with last weeks challenge with the crescent moon.

 

Weekly Challenge #72: "Tanglation Nation - Crescent Moon" & Weekly Challenge #71: New Tangle - Pea-Nuckle

I didn't get chance to post last week so am posting both challenges on this thread instead.

The top tile is using crescent moon (this weeks challenge) and the second (last weeks challenge) uses pea-nuckle.

Weekly Challenge #70: "Colour me Sepia"

I haven't done the challenge for a couple of weeks so decided to have a go again this week. The challenge this week was to use brown in the tangle. I haven't really done a lot with colour other than using my graphitint pencils to add a slight colour tint to the shading. Here is my tangle for the week:

I delved back a few weeks to the aura challenge and used two shades of Staedtler brown fineliner to do auras around the tangles and used a brown graphitint pencil for the shading.

Weekly Challenge #67: "Amanda Day"

This tangle is the one that I did to fit in with the weekly challenge. The challenge was to do one for Earth Day. I decided to use a circle, round like the Earth and then used tangles that reminded me of plants and flowers. I used the swirling pattern at the back which is a pattern that has reccurred in my drawings and sketching for years, it tends to grow like bindweed during boring meetings! I shaded using grey green and steel blue graphitint pencils like the land and the oceans (returning to the earth theme).

These are two other tangles I have done in the past week (not challenge related but a few auras crept in from last weeks challenge) but I thought I'd post them anyway. I really liked the heart one and think I will use it to make a card to send to my lovely husband who is away at sea at the moment.

Weekly Challenge #66: Laura's Auras

Here is my Zentangle for the weekly challenge (http://iamthedivaczt.blogspot.co.uk/), using tangles with auras. I had good fun doing it (whilst juggling children so the fact it turned out in piece is a miricle!) I used my favourite rotring pens and the ocean blue graphitint pencil for shading. If I have time later in the week I might have another go at this challenge as I enjoyed the auras.

After I had uploaded my tangle (the bottom one) I had a look at the other posts that had been uploaded to the challenge and came across one posted by Erin Olston using a tangle called Pystyl (http://thebrightowl.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/little-time-for-me.html). I really liked it so decided to have a play with it and post it alongside my other one.

Photography

For as long as I can remember I have loved taking photos. My dream is to be in a position to give up my job and take up photography full time. Whether that will ever happen we will have to see but in the meantime I will use this blog to put my favourite shots as it is certainly not happening anytime soon!!

Here are some photos I've taken in the last week of Charlie, my two year and a half year old.

Weekly Challenge #65: "UMT v.III"

I am a bit late posting last weeks weekly challenge (http://iamthedivaczt.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/weekly-challenge-65.html) but I have been away from my laptop and haven't figured out how to upload photos from my iPad. The challenge was to use a tangle known as Huggy Bear. I did two Zentangles using it. The first is my first one I have done on black paper using a white pen. The nib was wider than I like to use but seems to have come out alright. The Huggy Bear wasn't as well defined as I would have liked so I had a go using my favourite Rotring pen and have put that one up here as well.