LIFE ............IS A CIRCUS!!!

I Am the Diva, CZT

Weekly Challenge, #227

Guest Blogger

Lee Darter, CZT at " The Art Room"

   Today, while the Diva is enjoying summertime fun with her family, Lee Darter was asked to fill in and give us our weekly challenge. ( Cause, "What on earth would we all do if we didn't have the Diva's challenge,.....................Yeeks! That's a scary thought!!!!") Diva, we love you and your challenges! They definitely make me put things in perspective at home. Monday mornings,......first look at the challenge and see what it is,..........try and get my challenge piece done,...............then,.........feed kids, clean house and then so on and so on!  :0)    It really isn't that bad. But the Diva really does help me get into my Zen, and get the week rolling!!! Thank you!!!!

   Last week's challenge was peaceful and simple, and I loved it!!! This week is a circus, and I love it!!! The Zentangle method is so versatile that way. No matter how much we fill our tiles, or long it takes to finish,....it's the process that makes it so successful in getting our minds to relax!! I love it!!!

   The three tangles I decided to go with were 'Cack', 'Tropicana', and 'LinQ'. Two of which , I had never done before!

   So much fun!! Thank you Lee, for this week's challenge, 'What a Circus!'. Please do check out Lee's blog, 'The Art Room'. She is an amazing artist, and the reason for her choosing a challenge like this is all explained in her post. It's so wonderful that such experienced artists share their talents and passion with the rest of this tangling family! 

    Have a great week everyone. Oh, and next week there are going to be changes with my posting. I am finally going to be launching my new blog!!!!!! I will keep this one. But when I started blogging, I had not yet found Zentangle. And then when I did,.....it kind of took over the theme of quilling. And the rest is history. But now that I am a CZT, I want to represent the Zentangle method, in the way it deserves. So keep an eye out for next week!!! 

So much fun!!! Thanks, Lee!  (click on images to enlarge)

   I thought it so funny, that the theme was circus this week, and I just so happened to be playing with my nephew's Prisma Markers, and chose to draw and color this lil' fella!

My first use of Prisma Markers. It'll take some getting used to!

   Hope the rest of your summer has a cool 'Splash' to it!!! Signing off as 'Call it what you quill',

and will revisit in my new transformed Zen blogger.  :0)

Remember,

Go put

some

Zen,

into this

TanGled

world

!

(((hugs)))

;0) 

'TRY' TRICOLOR

I Am the Diva, CZT

Weekly Challenge #225

Guest Blogger, Jen Crutchfield, CZT

'Use Color'  2 or 3

   Thank you, Jen for a fun challenge! I have seen other people use these similar colors in their Zias and I always think they look so beautiful! So thank you to all of you! (I can't remember who exactly to give you credit. ) It was soooo hard NOT to use black!!!

   I am also going to show the stages (inspiration from Cris Leutourneau, CZT (All Tangled Up in Art) In her past few posts, she has posted pictures of the progression of her tiles or Zias. I feel that it is very inspiring and it shares the learning experience of Zentangle. Thank you Cris for always sharing such helpful info!! :0)

Please, click on any image to enlarge.

This Zendala is one that I just created on my own. Going with the flow of Zentangle. Picking tangles as I go along and create.

Not only was it fun deciding on which tangle to use, I found it fun choosing what color to use too! This was only my 4th Zendala I've done. As you can see it's not perfectly round :0/

Here we go! Finito!! With shading.

   Thank you again, Jen for this week's challenge and for filling in for the Diva!!! (What would we do if we didn't have the Diva Challenge,.................. what a scary thought!) haha We LOVE the Diva!!!!

   Have a great week and stay in tuned, I will be changing my blog soon. I will keep 'Call it What You Quill', but I am going to be creating a new blog just for all inspired Zentangle info. And soon,......class info!!! " I can't wait!!!"

   A many thanks and hugs for all the uplifting messages from last week!!! Love to all!

Go put

Some 

Zen

into this

TAnglEd 

world

!

:0)

THE TASTE OF 'TIPPLE'

I Am the Diva CZT

Weekly Challenge #224

"Monotangle: 'Tipple' "

   It was so nice to see that this week's challenge was to use the tangle, 'Tipple'. This tangle just fits anywhere and everywhere. 

   Sunday, I received a recipe from my sister for Chia pudding. It is very much like Tapioca pudding. It is quite yummy! Anyways, when I made it, I looked at it and thought, this looks just like 'Tipple'. Then today I was driving my kiddos to the library and it started sprinkling on my windshield. (Not to get excited about that sprinkle here in CA,....... that's all it was. Just a two minute sprinkle!) Well, as those few sprinkles hit my windshield, they kind of separated into little balls of water. I just had to share this excitement with my kids and say, "Look, there's 'Tipple', again!" So twice I had inspiration coming at me for this week's challenge.

  

   I added some fruit to give it that touch of color. Prismacolor pencils were used for the fruit.

   I can't wait to share with you, all of my endeavors while at my CZT seminar. IT WAS SUCH AN AMAZING ADVENTURE!!! 

   Have an amazing week ya' all!!! 

Thank you, to all of you, for the lovely comments that you share with me!

  Oh, I just wanted to share with you this delicious recipe for Chia Pudding. It also includes the nutritional benefits. Enjoy the taste of 'Tipple'. :0)

I hope you can read it. Click on image to enlarge.

Now, 

go put some

Zen

into this 

TaNGled

world

!

:0)

COLOR, COLOR, COLOR

I Am the Diva, CZT

Weekly Challenge #222

'Colors, White, Black, Red, and Renaissance'

   Just a little short and sweet this week, as I am trying to mentally prepare and physically get my

self ready for my trip to Providence, Rhode Island!!! CZT #20, here I come!!!

   I love the color white! It is always a battle. Is white a color? I like to say, Yes! Especially when you start out with a Renaissance colored tile, of course, white is a color. It shows up! I used Zentangle colors for this one!! Gotta love those colors!

I just had to use a real Zentangle tile for this challenge! My rainbow colors were last week, here

Have an awesome week and I'll see ya' next week! Hopefully with a few more letters added to my name! :0)

Go put

some 

Zen

into this

TAngleD

world

!!

 :0) 

BEADS OF COURAGE

Ok, bare with me, this is the first time I'm trying to load a post by using my phone. 😁yeeks!!!

   Anyway here are my beads of courage. Last year I dedicated them to my niece Katie who was diagnosed with an uncurable brain cancer. (Beads of Courage from last year here) Even though she is not a little kid, she is now 23, The amount of courage to have to live with a diagnosis like that takes courage in itself!!! I would still like to dedicate these beads to Katie, but I also would like to dedicate them to Artoo and ALL people going through life's challenges. STAY STRONG and HAVE COURAGE!!!

Have a beautiful day and enjoy your weekend! 

Remember, Go put 

                 Some 

                    Zen

                    Into this

                tangled

                     World

                       !

                      :0)

ALL BOXED UP

I Am the Diva, CZT

Weekly Challenge #220

"UMT: 'All boxed Up' by Alice Hendon, CZT

This picture is a reflection in the granite at the bar, just underneath the floating billows above. (Doesn't it look like jelly fish?)

   My husband and I had a quick little getaway to Vegas. Wow!!! Talk about tangle inspiration!! My eyes were going crazy, and I think I was driving my husband crazy too!! I wanted to take pics every turn we made. Whether it was on the floor, the walls, or the ceiling, inspiration was EVERYWHERE!!!! (The top pic, above, was from an amazing Italian restaurant we ate at, and the one below, was hanging above a bar that we sat at.) Just beautiful!!! Anyways, I do have some inspirations that I want to break down and try to create new tangles.

   So while my husband was at the Recycling Expo, I had time to have a little RandR! While doing so I enjoyed playing with the tangle 'All Boxed Up' by Alice Hendon, CZT, of Creators Leaf. What a fun tangle it is!!! Thank you Alice for sharing it with us, and thank you Laura for introducing it!!! 

   I wished I had taken a picture of my string, before tangling. I just went with it,....and enjoyed the process!!!! I felt the need to add some organic flow to it too though!! 

I also felt the need to add color.!

Here with a little more color and flipped!

   I may just want to play a little more with 'All Boxed Up'! What fun it is!!

   Again, thank you for the friendly comments! All are read with a smile on my face! :0)

(I almost didn't get to this post. I usually can post on Instagram much quicker than a post.) You can follow @5acarlo. I will see you there!

 

Go put 

some

Zen 

into this

TANglEd 

world

!

:0)

WHITE on BLACK

I Am the Diva, CZT

Weekly Challenge #218

'White on Black on Found'

   For the Diva's weekly challenge, she asked us to use white on black, this time. Since I have been playing with Rock decorating, I thought I might as well try using the calligraphy pen w/nib and ink to do my entry. Wow, I love how easy it flows. Mind you, the nib has to be dipped into the ink, here and there, but it shows up so strong and it's easy to make fine lines. You oughta give it a try! I am still learning though. It takes some mastering and getting used to. I then used the white charcoal pencil to do some shading. Fun, fun, Fun!!!! Thank you Laura for the great challenge. I don't use white o black as much as I'd like to.

Here are the products I used. (click on images to enlarge)

My 8 year old son came up with this quote, I thought it was so precious that I just had to use it!  (Since I leave Zentangle
Acts of Kindness with quotes on them, all around, he wanted to come up with some that I could use.)

Here are just a few more rocks that I have done to give away. Please check out this blog MagaMerlina , I found her on Pinterest. Her post got me inspired to try rock decorating!!! She is awesome!!!!

My daughter's preschool teacher.

   We have been having such wonderful weather here. Staying in the low to the mid 70's. Love, Love, it!!!!!!

The kiddos enjoying the weather and eating lunch outside.

   Just want to send a great BIG "THANK YOU" for all your loving messages last week. My Mother-in-Laws funeral is tomorrow and it has been a tough time for family. But we are making it through. 

(((((hugs)))) to you all! 

   I apologize if I don't leave a response to your message on my blog, but I can't seem to leave a reply. I checked everything in blogger, but I don't know why it doesn't allow me to do so. So if you do leave a message, I do try and reply on your blog. Thanks for the sunshine!!!

:0)

Go put 

some 

Zen 

 into this 

TanGLeD

world

!!

THIRTY FIVE, BRING ON 'DEX' and 'BUNZO'

I Am the Diva, CZT

Weekly Challenge #217

'Dex' vs 'Bunzo'

"HAPPY, HAPPY 35th BIRTHDAY TO YOU, LAURA!!"

   Following Laura's instagram and I am the Diva, CZT blog, you will learn a lot about her love and strength that goes out to taking care of her lil' son. Her son Artoo has Moebius Syndrome, which you can learn more about on her blog. She spent a good part of last week in the hospital with him, but thank God they are home and he is feeling much better. Yay!!!! Just in time to celebrate her 35th BIRTHDAY!!!! What a blessing to be able to be home and healthy and ready to celebrate!!!

"Laura you are such a top notch example of Strength, Love and Courage!!!! Many blessings for you and your lovely little family!"

Such a busy week..........

   My son had a biography book report due last week and he made his First Holy Communion on Saturday. So, mom was busy!

This is him dressed in character for Leonardo DaVinci.

Just some of the rocks I did for his Communion, but I ended up giving these ones to the noon aides at their school because it was appreciation week. Those noon aides are like Angels watching over our children when we can't be with them!! 

I wrote, "When you think of me, pray that I may hear (or answer)  God's call." I put that on each rock because we can all use a prayer and what best can I ask for my child , than for him to answer God's call, in life!

Sadness of the week,.....

 

The last family photo with Grandma.

   Last Wednesday, my mother-in-law passed away. What a woman of Strength!!! She would've been 90 this July. She suffered from Parkinson's which led to other health problems. Thank God, she really only suffered the last 2 weeks of her life. Such a beautiful and courageous woman!!! She had hospice and family, at her bedside. What a peaceful and memorable way to leave this world. 

"Grandma, you will be missed very, very much! Watch over us from above, until we will see you again!"

;0)

THE JOURNEY

I Am the Diva, CZT

Weekly Challenge #215

'Labyrinth'

   Good morning!!! I start today off, thinking about how I want to create this post. While I'm thinking about it, it brings me to this week's challenge and how it fits into the most simplest situations in our lives. Like, how I want to start this post!

   Are you a person that makes easy, and quick decisions? Or do you ponder before deciding? After making a decision, do you have regrets or do you just go with it? As I was drawing out my string for my labyrinth, I thought of those questions. Because as I started tangling my string I couldn't decide, do I want to go clockwise, or do I feel that I want to go against the grain, and go counter clockwise. Funny, huh? Well, I had to think of a labyrinth as life. Do we choose a path in our lives where we have regrets? Do we choose paths that bring more joy than others? I think we do all of those things within our lives. But it's what we do with our choices that make the outcome. Life isn't always easy,......and really, thank God!!!! If it were easy breezy all the time, that probably means that something isn't right. Life is meant to have ups and downs and right and left turns! Just like a labyrinth, it is it's nature and natural flow!!! 

   Wow, sorry to get so deep, but I am always in awe of life!!! What a miraculous thing!! 

   As I started out my labyrinth journey, which by the way, thank you Jean Chaney, for the quick access to labyrinth referrals. (You have to check out the You Tube videos that she referenced us to.) Amazing!!! I right away want to create a border of stone and than show a flow of movement, so I chose organic tangles. If you notice, the flow going clockwise or counter clockwise has a different tangle. When I was finished, I went to trace the labyrinth with my finger, and I went counter clockwise. Later, I went to trace it and I realized I took a different route. Each direction was just as enjoyable!! 

   Thank you Laura for this reflective challenge!!! I have always been intrigued by labyrinths, but I guess have never really studied them with such fullness. That is on my bucket list, now!! 

This was my starter that I followed from the video.

As you can see, a larger piece of paper would have worked so much better. I lost a bit of my travels.
Tangles used, Tipple, Flux and Btl Joos. I was excited about this challenge because it reminds me of the new tangle that my son created, (whether it's an original I don't know) But it's called 'aMAZEn', Check it out, and let me know what you think!

   I chose that starter, because it looked least, like a brain. Isn't that funny? Once I had chosen Tipple as my border, as I was repetitively making my circles and darkening in the space around them, I thought to myself, "Why did I pick something so time consuming?" But once I changed my view of that choice and got into my Zen, Tipple became more therapeutic and transforming than it did, tedious. It's all on how we look at things.

   So enjoy life! I saw a saying that said, "May you live all the days of your life." by Jonathan Swift.

Wow,...... reflect on that while you journey your labyrinth!!! :0)

Go put some

Zen,

 into this

TAnGled

world

!

These are stones that I have been working on for my son's 1st Communion! More info about my inspiration and other info, in future posts!

HAPPY AMANDA (EARTH) DAY

I Am the Diva, CZT

Weekly Challenge #214

"Amanda/Earth Day (Round 4)"

   Laura, (The Diva), has a son that has, kind of, renamed the Earth! He refers to it as Amanda!!! Which I think is pretty appropriate, because after all, it is Mother Earth. So a female name fits just perfectly!! :0) Any way, I think it is pretty adorable! ( It is kinda funny how children start a whole new language sometimes, without even trying. You gotta love it!)

   When I was taking my class for accupressure and learned about the balance of 'Chi' in our own beings, I realized that it is the same with our planet. Finding balance is the best way to peace and harmony! But to acquire that balance, isn't always easy. And there you have it, ...........that's called Life!!! Our 'Amanda' is a living thing, so we must help keep balance in it!!! We must do our part to keep our Earth at peace and in harmony!! 

   I incorporated the five elements in accupressure that bring balance to our bodies and what also help keep balance to our Earth; Fire, Earth, Metal, Water and Wood and their colors to represent them.

   Whatever your life may be, I hope that you find balance in it!! I thank Zentangle, being a valuable part of that balance!! How do you find balance in your lives?

Go put 

some

Zen

into this

TAnGled 

world

!

:0)

   Oh, I almost forgot, me and my hubby, will be celebrating our 11th Anniversary this Friday!! Wow!!! How time flies!!! 

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, BABE!!! <3

It's crazy how young we look there, and that was only 11 years ago!!!  Yeeeks!

Have a blessed week everybody!!

DUOTANGLE-"CUBINE vs POKEROOT" and "INCHIE, EGYPTIAN"

I Am the Diva, CZT

Weekly Challenge, #208

Cubine vs Pokeroot

I just felt like the Pokeroot, looked so much like cherries that I had to add color!

Every Inchie Monday

Weekly Challenge

Egyptian

   Now time to play catch up!

Weekly Challenge #207

UMT: Unbatz by Sandy Hunter, CZT

Zentangle Act of Kindness

Because we are in the season of Lent. If you look close enough you will see that this is  'Unbatz'.

Love

Every Inchie Monday

No greater love than this!

It's been a rough two weeks,......
In brief,.................

"When life gives you lemons,..........

                                                    Make lemonade!!! (right?)

Well, does anybody want any lemonade?

:0) 

Have a blessed week

(((hugs)))

THE YEAR of the GOAT, INCHIES 'NIGHT' and 'TEXT'

I Am the Diva, CZT

Weekly Challenge #205

'The Year of the Goat'

   I was inspired by a vintage design of 2015 year of the goat, on Pinterest. (The picture basically gave me the idea to use goats heads for the 2 and the 5, the rest I created on my own.) Once I had the vision, I just ran with it and had so much fun. 

I kinda liked it like this, but when I think of Chinese New Year, I think of bright colors!

Colored and shaded version.

   I just love astrology! I think it is so much fun! And to add the Chinese astrology, it just adds a whole other dimension.

   I'm a rooster and a Leo! Crazy combination!

Anyway, thanks for the fun Laura!!!

  Last week was,......well,...........let's just say,.......this week is so much better!! :0) If you want to take a peek at my Valentangles, please go HERE.

Many (((hugs)))) to all who visit my blog and a special THANKS, to everyone that leaves a bit of sunshine!! :0)

Remember,

Go 

put some

Zen

into this 

TanGleD

world

!

Every Inchie Monday

Weekly Challenge

'Text'

   Catching up. Last week's Inchie, Night.

This week's word, 'Text'.

Okay, I know I used color!.............But I just had to add the color for illuminated text! (I wish I could do the real thing!! I just love the look of Illuminated text!!!)

   I hope everyone is having a wonderful week!

Love to all and we'll see you next week!

:0)

(((hugs)))

VALENTANGLE

I Am the Diva,CZT

Weekly Challenge #204

'Valentangle'

for my honey ;0*

for my oldest son

I made all of these special Valentines, for all of the special Valentines in my life!!!

for my second son

for my daughter

What can be better than an expression of love with a card, and..........chocolate!!!











Love to all!!
:0)
XO