Tackle it Tuesday: N-E-W

Tackle it Tuesday on the Artful Creations-blog is back and the first challenge in 2015 was to chose patterns with the letters starting with N-E-W. I chose these patterns:

• 'Nzeppel byRick Roberts and Maria Thomas
• Emingle by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas
• Wud by Joni Feddersen / Margaret Bremner (Steps)

I took a picture before shading, I'm always surprised how different the tangles look before and after shading:

As always it was a pleasure to tangle, thank you Cheryl!

Love, Joya

Diva-challenge # 199 and Square One: Xyp

Here's my tile for to challenges in one tile: It's for the group "Square One: Purely Zentangle" on Facebook and for the Diva-challenge #199. I used the patterns

- Xyp by Sandy Steen Bartholomew
- Hitch by Heidi Sue
- Arukas by Molly Hollibaugh

Have a great weekend!
Joya

String Thing # 74

Here's my tile for Adele Bruno's String Thing-challenge #74. We used String 074 and the following patterns:

Kiss by Katie Booth
Lealad by Lily Moon
Twizted by CZT Terri Brown

I never used one of these patterns before but I fell in love with alle of them. It was really recreative to tangle with them, and I will use them again for sure :-)

Lots of greetings,

Joya

Joey's challenge # 42

Here's my tile for Joey's challenge #42. To welcome 2015 we used String 015 and the pattern "Lucky"  by Adele Bruno. I didn't know this pattern and had a lot of fun to play with different ways to tangle around with it :-)

Have a nice evening,
Joya

String Thing # 73

New year, new start in tangling :-) Here's my tile for The String Thing #73. It's not like I wanted it to look like, but hey, I learned a new pattern (Schway) and I like it. And it was recreative to tangle around with it, so everything is alright :-)

I used the patterns

• Schway by Rick Roberts
• Rick's Paradox by Rick Roberts

I hope I can participate more often in challenges like this in the following months :-)

Have a great time,

Joya

Hello 2015!

Hey folks, a very warm welcome to 2015! I hope all of you are doing well. I have to say sorry for the long break, I rarely posted since the beginning ov november. I got much to do and had hardly time to tangle.

Since a few weeks I participate to a nice small forum named "Musterkritzler" (german for "pattern-doodlers") and I try to figure out what else I can do with pen, paper and some colors maybe. Here are a few things I tried in the last time:

There was a topic of the month called "faces", and this is what I first doodled for it:

Just a few funny little monsters with some pattern around them. And this little girl I doodled at New Year's Eve as a second contribution for the topic:

This one is just a doodle to test the pattern. I found it really recreative like doing a Zentangle:

Today I started 2015 with a new tangle, I will show it later this day.

Kind regards,
Joya

Christmas cards

Here are two cards I made for some friends as an addition to a gift.

The first one was for Michaela, a really nice person I know from the website "Musterkritzler" (german for "pattern doodlers"). She made an embroidered star for me and I sent her this:

I used the paterns Sand Swirl, Arukas and some balls I forgot to write down the name of the pattern, sorry.

The second one is for another really nice person, a colleague of mine named Sasy (that's her nichname). Every Advent we "do a secret Santa" (we call it "Wichteln" in germany" with some other friends and we send each other some secret presents in a box per snail Mail. At a declared day we come together in Skype and unwrap the presents while the others are waiting and reading what you are unpacking at the moment. It's always fun and I love it every year again!

I wrote a small card for Sasy and I used the patterns Arukas, Verdogogh and Beadle Joos. 

You all may have a merry, merry christmas and a great New Year's Eve! I will take a little break in tangling and see you next year!

Love and kisses,
Joya