All Sorts of Fun

     I have been on a creative busy streak!  I started out vacation by pulling out my Gypsy and designing a whole group of cards to use for birthdays next year.  I haven't put them together, but I plan on a day to do that this week.  Then of course, there is time to tangle! 
     I started out with an ATC for a new online swap that Judy over at Creative Doodling has posted.  If you are interested in ATCs check out her site.  I painted the background with watercolors first and then when that dried, I tangled over top of it.  The theme was wavy lines.  The title is "Good Day Sunshine", the title of a Beatle's song and also the theme for our field day at school this past year.

Good Day Sunshine

     The next thing on my "busy" agenda was to get my inchie done.  I love, love, love inchie Mondays.  The challenge for me is to take the word of the week and try to come up with a (off the wall) totally different take on it.  Sometimes I can, sometimes it doesn't happen.  I usually throw out the word to my brother and we sit and brainstorm.  This week the word was "bed".  The first thought was of course, a bed.  Then we started calling out other ideas - truck bed, flower bed, bed of roses, a bed of nails - you get the idea.  At last my favorite - bedrock - Fred Flintstone's home! 

Yabba Dabba Do

      Check out the other awesome inchie artists by hitting on the sidebar button.  They are always so interesting and beautiful!
      Time for Diva's Monday challenge.   We were supposed to play with tangles in a grid.  I first went over to the official Zentangle site to look at the ideas for using the grid.  This was going to be fun.  Once I got started, the ideas came rolling.  For the first one I played with several grid patterns from the chart and altered some of them slightly.  I also "forgot" a few pieces. 

Missing Pieces

      Unable to stop, I also tangled in my calendar and then did another tile.  For the second one, I used my new inchie punch and traced around the inchie overlapping the images.  Then again I just played with the grid patterns.

Spilled Grid

      I am really enjoying the time to get into the book I got for Christmas this past year, One Zentangle A Day.  I hate I missed the book study using this book a while back, but I did get lots of ideas from the posts.  The book is fantastic and I am learning a lot.  So each day, I read the lesson and then work through the exercises.  One exercise was to use amaze, flux, and mooka.  I played around with several ideas, but this one is my favorite.

      This has been a creative few days - but so much fun!  I hope you are having some creative fun this week.  Thank you for dropping by and of course, thanks for leaving me some comment-sunshine.  I love hearing from you.  Now let's link up all this fun and get to commenting myself!