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srupted all fall because of renovations we were making to our house which lasted until the beginning of december but since that s done and the holidays are over i think i m ready to settle into winter unfortunately my muse has not been seen around here since late september and so i haven t had much inspiration from her so i had decided last week to start slowly getting back into zentangle since it is a relaxing form of art and i enjoy doing it i thought i would start back at the beginning with a tile pen and pencil and not try to do anything that wasn t basic then on monday laura the diva announced her weekly challenge 250 which was going back to old school zentangle she wanted everyone to use a tile pen and pencil sounds like synchronicity to me so yesterday i sat down and got back to basics here is the tile my first attempt for this year didn t turn out too badly i used some favorite tangles and now i think i m ready to try to wake up the muse a little more we ll see i m going to link this to the diva challenge and be happy to have done some art that s about all i have to share for today thank you for visiting i really appreciate having you stop by the blog posted by maryanne at 10 32 am 12 comments labels diva weekly challenge zentangle tuesday december 29 2015 merry christmas and happy new year greetings of the season to all of you i hope you had a wonderful christmas spent with family and friends our family was together and we shared the day with friends who are like an extended family it was our tradition and we love it above is a photo of our tree it s full of ornaments hand made or gifted from friends some have been purchased but always because we love them certainly not a designer tree but full of love and memories spanning 40 years it s the star of the holiday decorations for us my absence from the blog this year is because there was so much going on in our home but i m hoping the new year will have me back in the studio creating i did have one new decoration to add to the mix this year it was a zentagle inspired art piece that i had started in a class last year and finished after the holidays i just love the simplicity of it i framed it in a simple black frame and displayed it on a black easel it was the biggest zentangle piece i ve done and it was a challenge to work that big here are some other photos while i love sparkle and shine and lots of glitter for the holidays the simplicity of zentangle is so appealing well my friends as we are at the end of another year i wish all the best that life has to offer for you i thank you all for following along on my rather erratic journey in creativity and i m so appreciative of all the comments you leave many blessings in the new year posted by maryanne at 10 27 am 3 comments labels christmas new year zia saturday november 21 2015 atts 8 what s your bag hello everyone it s hard to believe that it s almost thanksgiving here in the us i often find that fall seems to more quickly than any other season when my kids were young and still in grade school and high school i thought that was the reason but now they re adults and out of the house and i still find that this beautiful season just whizzes by i try to enjoy it as much as i can this year it s been difficult to really find time for much of anything a variety of family things have kept us hopping but now it s time for therese and christine s blog challenge a time to stitch this is the 8th challenge which is also hard to believe the theme this time was what s your bag we were supposed to bead embroider on a purse amulet evening bag or some other bag of our choice i cheated a little i had made an evening bag with a bead embroidered flap at the request of my friend christen brown she was writing a book on different types of embroidery and asked if i would do a bead embroidered bag of some sort so i made a little clutch bag out of pintucked silk fabric and i embroidered the flap here is what it looks like i made the pattern for the shape of the flap and then traced it on lacy s stiff stuff i traced a rough outline of spaces i wanted to fill and started stitching i never have a firm idea of what a design is going to look like i wanted this to hint at an abstract garden surrounded by rocks and stones the colors were chosen to coordinate with the fabric here are some details so there it is i had fun making it i love doing bead embroidery i love making it textured and using different shaped beads i want to thank therese and christine for hosting this challenge it s really fun to participate and i can t wait to find out what they decide to do next time thank you all for visiting with me i really appreciate you stopping by posted by maryanne at 12 16 am 25 comments labels atts8 bead embroidery evening bag friday october 30 2015 something wicked hi everyone thanks for dropping by today the day before halloween i can t believe we re this far into the fall season already of course things have been hopping around here so the time has gone by quicker than usual i was really sad that i had not found the time to make any thing for halloween or fall thanksgiving then the frilly and funkie blog had the theme of something wicked i really wanted to participate in this challenge it would force me to make at least one halloween project i even had the base for what i wanted to do well i finally made the time and made this i had gotten the paper mache witch s hat at michael s last year on sale i had plans to do something with it this summer well that didn t happen i always plan to do fall and halloween things in the summer but it rarely happens anyway i thought this was my chance to use the hat i painted it with black gesso and used peeled paint distress glitter on the edge of the brim i glued black feathers and glittered leaves as a hat band and then used a black and an orange die cut cat that i had from another sale package from michael s the little purple glittered spider is also from the same package of die cuts i found some little skulls in my stash and glued that in front of the cat using an awl i poked a hole in the point of the hat and inserted a black wire with a glittered star on it here you can see some details this is about as spooky as i get i love halloween but not the way halloween is now i don t like the gore and horror that has become so prevalent now i like the vintage halloween of cute jack o lanterns cute little witches black cats to go with them and cute little ghosts out on the prowl so i do a lot of my own things for halloween since i love to include it in my fall decorating i m so happy that i decided to use this hat for the challenge i m heading over to the frilly and funkie blog now to post it check the other entries they are always great thanks again for stopping by today i hope you enjoy your halloween posted by maryanne at 2 01 pm 11 comments labels frilly and funkie halloween witches hats tuesday october 20 2015 an exploding box hello everyone it s a gorgeous warm fall day here and i wanted to share a new project with you known as an exploding box it s a project i ve wanted to try for a long time i love boxes and these are so easy to make and so much fun to open my friend patti is a certified zentangle teacher and she gives classes at her shop the queen s ink she does intro classes and follow up classes in basic zentangle but she also offers seasonal classes i ll share last year s christmas project as we get closer to the holidays this year for the fall season she taught an exploding box with zentangle components technically it s called zentangle inspired art or zia for short whatever you want to call it i called it fun here s a picture of the box we started with two pieces of 12x12 cardstock for the top and bottom the top is made with origami folds and the bottom was folded and cut so that it would form a box we cut out stamped images of the leaves and acorn and then did the tangles i used distress inks and a water pen to watercolor the leaves the acorn was stamped on kraft cardstock so i just lightly colored some shading on it patti had used white gel pen highlights on her leaves and i was really impressed with the way it made the designs pop i did the same and it s amazing the difference i chose an orange cs square to create a background for the grouping of leaves and acorn and did some pen work around the edges i glued the leaves down and use dimensional glue dots for the acorn but the magic happens when you open the lid here is what it looks like you may be able to see that there are two levels of panels inside the box you can add more levels if you want once the lid is taken off the box falls open or explodes and you can attach anything you want inside i love when there are dimensional things in the middle i used acorns and some descriptive word stickers for fall around them then i used the tim holtz tattered leaves die and his small pumpkin and acorn die to cut watercolor paper for the leaves and pumpkin and acorns i used on the panels i did zentangles on each one and used distress inks to watercolor them i also added some shimmer to these with lindy s stamp gang magicals they are dry shimmery pigments that i use with a water brush and then highlighted with the white gel pen here are some of the panels close up unfortunately the shimmer doesn t show up in the pictures each panel has a leaf or the acorns or pumpkin i just love handing it to people and seeing their reaction when they take the lid off i was so pleased to finally have a reason to make an exploding box it seems that right now if i don t have a reason to sit down and work on a project i don t find or make the time that has to change for sure thank you for visiting with me i hope you re enjoying this glorious time of year the leaves are starting to change into their lovely colors right now and it s delightful to see have a wonderful day posted by maryanne at 3 58 pm 8 comments labels exploding boxes lindy s magicals watercolor zentangle sunday october 4 2015 i m back maybe hello on this dreary sunday morning on the east coast of the us i may finally be back to creating and blogging i say maybe because there is a lot going on in my world we are doing some upgrades in our kitchen and family room you know how they always say that once you start something like this you find that the job grows bigger well this has lived up to that saying and it s gotten a little more involved than we thought it would and being the kitchen and family room it s been rather disruptive but i m excited about the changes we re making and it all should be done by the beginning of december just in time for me to turn into the christmas elf and decorate to my heart s content since i can t really do much in the rest of the house i m hoping that now that the major decisions have been made i can get down to my studio and finish projects that have been around in various states of completion all summer we expanded our garden this year and the weather wasn t too hot so i was able to spend more time out there which is why not many projects were finished or even started hopefully that will start to change now i really miss the creative process even though i consider gardening creative having said all that i did manage to finish one beading project it wasn t terribly involved and didn t take long to do but i love it and i wanted to share it with you it s another geometric beadwork project inspired by kate mckinnon i kind of teased it in my last post on who inspires me you can read that here here is the completed pendant it starts with a warped square which i love stitching i made an entire bracelet in warped squares last fall you can see that one here the directions for stitching a warped square are in kate s first book on geometric beadwork contemporary geometric beadwork early in august kate sent out an email with the idea for a new project create a warped square and then work and exploding round and keep going until you had the number of rounds you desired the exploding round is one of the innovative concepts that kate came up with while working on the book it s difficult for me to explain it so that it makes sense but kate has a wonderful youtube video that makes it all clear and you can also find the instructions in her book i admit that i wasn t sure how it worked when i read the printed instructions but once i watched the video it was easy to do i started with the warped square that i turned into the bail for this pendant and from there stitched the largest square on the final round i added drops for the corner beads i did 2 more squares the medium and small and then stitched the smaller squares then i played with how i wanted them to be arranged and the pendant you see is what i came up with i love it and it s light weight and fun to wear here are a few details as i said it was fun to do and didn t take very long at all which is probably why i finished it i chose the colors for a vineyard feel i m in love with geometric beadwork and i m working on a cuff bracelet that is coming along slowly i want to thank all of you for visiting me especially after such a long break from blogging i really appreciate your visits and all your wonderfully kind comments have a wonderful day posted by maryanne at 12 13 pm 10 comments labels contemporary geometric beadwork exploding beaded rounds geometric beadwork kate mckinnon warped squares older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me maryanne maryland united states i ve loved fibers and beads for as long as i can remember i started with working with fibers doing needlepoint and moved on to knitting and quilting i ve designed and taught wearable art and i ve designed knitted jewelry it didn t take long to incorporate beads into all i was designing now i make jewelry with beads and also with wire i have also developed a love for paper arts and i spend time learning new things to do with paper and mixed media i love to create 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