No challenge for me this week

For the first time since I started joining the Challenge years ago, I did not join last week. Last Sunday the Flu got me very ill for days. Even now, a week later, I still feel horrible.🤒

So ... if you missed me, that's the reason.

BTW: I did have the flu vaccination, but it did not work. Unfortunately 🤧 

Tracing objects

Challenge 347: traced objects.

Looking around me for some objects only brought me some objects that were too big for a tile. So, I went to the kitchen, opened a drawer and found:

So I traced them on 'elefantenhaut' paper, that is so very pleasant to work on

And started tangling. I like doing this challenge, so Thank you Laura!

I also did a few other tiles:

Thank you for visiting my blog and I hope you leave me a comment; I do appreciate that a lot. Work created by fellow tanglers can be seen at 'I am the diva'.

Blessed be! 

Annemarie

The first challenge is a hard one (for me)

After a well deserved break Laura is back again.

Good to have the first challenge of 2018!

I do hope you all have had some nice times; we had nice Christmas days with a dinner at my son's (he always cooks us a 'star' dinner) house as the highlight. The 27th Kees went to UK because his daughter was giving birth to her third child on the 29th. And indeed a beautiful little girl was born that day and Kees was really happy to be there. He wanted me to come along, but I am a real wimp because I don't dare to go on the boat from the Netherlands to UK (or fly), so I staid home alone. That also meant I was alone on New years eve, but to be honest, I didn't mind that very much. Kees came back the 2nd of January.

And now, everything is back to normal and that a good thing too.

This week's challenge is a duotangle: Phicops vs. Huggins. When I first read that, I thought it would be hard to combine these two and I was right, I had a hard time making this tile. And, after finishing I don't really like it (Phicops should have been larger I think), but it is what it is. I tangled on beautiful grey paper with little dark 'lines' in it.

Thank you for visiting my blog and I hope you leave me a comment; I do appreciate that a lot. Work created by fellow tanglers can be seen at 'I am the diva'.

Blessed be!

Annemarie

A late submission

I am late, very late with my submission for the last Challenge of 2017.

It took me a while to sit down and tangle it. OK, I was busy with it in my head since Monday, but only last night (Saturday) I finished what I had in mind.

So this is the card I made, I tangled it on white paper, copied it on red and green (120 gr) paper and printed it. The thing I still have to do is fill some spaces with a silver or gold pen, but that will not show on the scan, so I'll do that later.

At this point I like to thank Laura for all the work she did again this year to create challenges for us and also a big 'thank you' to all my fellow tanglers who showed their work and gave me opportunities to learn from them. And of course all that did comment on my creations!

THANK YOU ALL!!!!

For 2018 I hope we all will get what we need and most of all for our world: PEACE!!!!!

Thank you for visiting my blog and I hope you leave me a comment; I do appreciate that a lot. Work created by fellow tanglers can be seen at'I am the diva'.

Blessed be!

Annemarie

I love the (after)glow!!!

Wow, I love the challenge Laura has for us this week! Poor Laura, being ill and still providing a challenge. Hope she'll get better soon!

I LOVE Afterglow (by Carol Ohl), but do not use it very much. Last night I took a pre colored tile and started with some circles and Afterglow in them. I had a great and very relaxing hour (or so) creating this tile and I like the result.

Thank you for visiting my blog and I hope you leave me a comment; I do appreciate that a lot. Work created by fellow tanglers can be seen at'I am the diva'.

Blessed be!

Annemarie

Dewd

This week started so much quieter then the last one. Kees doesn't have much pain anymore and the wound is healing very well.

Thanks for you best wishes for him in your comments last week!

As most of us probably expected the challenge this week tells us to use the new tangle from HQ: Dewd.

The tangle is easy to draw, but (for me) hard to combine with other tangles. But, I liked working on this tile!!!!

Here it is:

Thank you for visiting my blog and I hope you leave me a comment; I do appreciate that a lot. Work created by fellow tanglers can be seen at 'I am the diva'.

Blessed be!

Annemarie

A waiting room tile

And .... a duotangle of Paradox and Bunzo it is this week.

I LOVE Paradox, but Bunzo is one I don't use very often. Why? No idea.

Yesterday I had absolutely no time for the challenge because of two reasons: My daughter who was here (in The Netherlands) for the birthday of her brother) came to us for only 24 hours, so I wanted to use every minute of that precious time. But .... Kees had an appointment with a hand surgeon in the afternoon. That was the only possibility before the end of December and he has so much pain from a triggerfinger that we 'took' it. So, my daughter just arrived and we went off to the hospital. We knew that an operation was the next step and were expecting that happening weeks from now. But the assistant said there was a place this morning and we just had to take that.

So, more time lost from being with my daughter.

The operation was done quite quick and at 10.30 am we were home again.

Kees has a lot of pain now and I hope it will be better by tomorrow. And, hopefully after healing he will be able to use the hand again.

So, you understand that I had no time for tangling except from the time sitting in the waiting room. I used a tile cut from beautiful paper I bought some time ago, but the scan doesn't show the beauty, it looks like there are some stains in it.

I just started with Paradox in the corners and once again the wonder of Zentangle occurred.

Just concentrating on the small part I was doing and only after finishing that part, deciding what to do next, my tile grew and grew and then I looked at the result and was very happy with it.

Tonight at home I did some shading and I still love it.

Thank you for visiting my blog and I hope you leave me a comment; I do appreciate that a lot. Work created by fellow tanglers can be seen at 'I am the diva'.

Blessed be!

Annemarie