4th - 18th of August and one more for My Tile Project

Yes. I have done my calendarpages though I haven´t posted. My calendar has been my company while I have been doing a lot of things: Visiting my new grandchild Frances for the first time, Seeing people I haven´t seen for a long time and at last made the trip to my Dad way up in the north. I have spent a lot of time driving my car.  The calendar was perfect to end my days with. Or start!

4th-6th: I used Cubine as my string for tangling in the Box. I got the idea from Laura Byerly´s plan for August. Icantoo (Hanny Nura), Beadlines (Margaret Bremner)EAXY (Nadine Roller), Florz , Mooka, Åaradpx. B´Tweed, Crescent Moon, Poke Root, Cubine (all Zt), Cruffles (Sandy Hunter) and Waves (Suzanne McNeill). On the 6th, the Summertangles-18 -prompt was Dingbatz so I Dingbatted Cubine and Tranzended it too! 

7th-9th: Dex is my string! Patterns: Purdy, Margaret Bremner, Prestwood (Margaret Bremner), C-view (Ria Matheussen, Natti (mine), Zenplosion Folds (Danni O´Brian), Fescu (Zt), Vache (Genvieve Crabe) and Cruffles (Sandy Hunter).

10th-12th: I turned Cubine upside-down, which made it more like a box in my eyes. Patterns: Paradox (Zt), Ipso (Jennifer Hohensteiner), Organic (Sayantika Ray), Clob (Jem Miller), Fescu (Zt), Snugs (Jem Miller), Hollibaught and Tipple, both Zt.

13th-15th: On the 13th the summertangles was about Bijou, so I used Bijou as my string for this page. Patterns: Diva Dance, Nipa, Tipple (all Zt), Whisket (Sandra Strait) and Rashell (Lin Chiu).

16th - 18th: I choose 3D-room (Mei Hua Teng) as the string. The patterns: Meer, Florz, CO2 Antonine Megger, Floatfest Carole Ohl, Biscus (Vicki Bassett),Knightsbridge, Printemps, Scute (Lily Moon), Icantoo (Hanny Nura), Undu (Daniel Lamothe), and Fan Club. I don´t know who made Fan Club up. But it is a fun pattern. On the 18th the Summertangles suggested to make a Frame and my new favourite Icantoo made this so nicely!

As I returned home safely, I was thinking a lot of my Dad. If he will be with us next year he will celebrate his 90th birthday. Taking care of him is not possible for me living so far away, I have to trust others doing this and I am so grateful to my younger brothers living closer because I know they do their best! To sort things out as  there is a lot going on in my head, I tangled a tile  with my Dad in focus. A tile for My Tile Project (Nancy Domnauer).

Oven: Olipze (Jody Genovese)
Westin: Waax (Esther Piszcek)
April: Knightsbridge (April)
Favourite: Papz (mine)
I had to use Papz ofcourse, since I made this pattern to honor my Dad. I hope he will like it!

Zenbuttons and My Tile 2

Zenbutton is a quite new word in Zentangle World. Marguerite Sammama brought it up. Here is the background and how to do it!

I practiced on Bijou some time ago, during the Valentangle-period, but didn´t get hooked. I have seen a lots of beautiful buttons around which made me want to give it a go one more time. This time I didn´t think button at all, but reticula and fragments. Which happened to be the clue. Yes I have read Marguerites guide before and I knew where she got the idea from. But it just didn´t speak to me. This time I made it on a tan tile 8,9x8,9 cm, which I had got from my friend Marie Penzing. I have run out of rennaisance tiles...
 Don´t exactly know what was the difference this time, but I didn´t think much of the result but focused on one stroke at a time. Oh there was an Oops! I appreciated this Oops, it led me into another direction, making my Chop as a fragment on the button! I think I will use it some other time, it was fun! The fragments I used on this Button are: G23, D16, C4, V5 and Lisbon Fragment (Henrike Bratz). So happy with this button I had to do one more the next day:

Well I have ran out of rennaisance tiles and I am looking for substitutes, since the originals are not easy to get in Sweden. I took a cardstock from the back of a watercolorpad which is accid-free. It is heavyweight though and with a hard surface. My cutting-machine didn´t like it at all. I forced it to cut though and now it has got a terribly squeezing sound when I touch it! It maybe kills my cutter but I loved this surface a lot and the pens didn´t have any problem with it.
This time I used the fragments: T5, K3, H16 and Chrissie Frampton´s fragment from her pattern Jackstripes. Instead of using a fragment in the center I made a little gem, which I don´t draw often. 

Today´s meditation. I wanted to do one more for My-tile-project. I wanted to try it on a black tile, which was really fun! My firs tile you find here.

Tangles of my choice except for the month:
And (Sandra Harsveld) : Anita 
Wacho (Livia Chua): Westin
Cubine (Zt) : August
Tipple (Zt) : Favouritetangle

I am thinking of using this concept further on but not referring to myself. It is such a good concept, I love it. Thank´s to Nancy Domnauer who came up with the idea!

25th-27th of July and My Tile

Summer Tangles still going on!
25th: Groovy (Helen Hunt) with friends: Asian Fans (Suzanne McNeill), Jetties and Jonqual, both Zt.
26th: Kuzek (Laura Harms) and some related wild Cadent in the numbers.
27th: Microtangleday! Haven´t gon in this direction before. I usually go into Macrotangling when I have a chance! I went to my box with left over pieces from my cutting my own tiles from Fabriano Tiepolo. And there it was, a tiny little tile just waiting to get the chance! I glued it into my calendar and started with Lisbon-fragment (Henrike Bratz) and filled it with Onomato and something Static-like. Then I Mashed (Lori Byerly) it all in, since there was a lot of emptyness around.

For #mytileproject Nancy Domnauer (Line Dot Calm) I did this one:

Z-string. 1. Arukas (Anita), 2. Well (Westin), 3. Cubine (August) and 4. Ginilli (Randy Wynne Parry), a favouritepattern of mine. The last one was tricky. To choose my favouritepattern when I have got so many favourites! At last I choose Ginilli, which I haven´t used for some time now, but this pattern is absolutely wonderful to draw!