Adventures in Monotangles: Challenge 6

I really need to invest in a scanner. I used a
real camera instead of my phone's camera
this time and now I have a flash glare.

This week Roy had us use auraknot for our monotangle. I have to admit, I'm not very good at auraknot. I still don't think I really did it correctly.

For some unknown reason, I really hate stars. Not real stars. Real stars are wonderful. But stars as drawings make me cringe. I continually want to look away so I decided to make my auraknot more flower like which of course meant I had to cheat and add some other shapes.

Click here to see the other entries this week.

Onto a different topic, if you guys don't follow Erin at The Bright Owl you have to check her out. She does Zendala challenges and the one she created this week is absolutely gorgeous. I can't wait to jump into it. Mandalas are a nice twist to a normal zentangles. I really love them but they're also a little more time consuming for me so I don't get to do them as much as I would like.

As always, don't forget to leave a comment below (feedback always feels wonderful and I normally make it a point to check out your blog and leave a comment back), follow me on pinterest (I have a whole board dedicated to zentangles as well as an awesome art inspiration board), and/or check out my etsy shop (which is a little empty right now but I'm working on getting some more stuff up later this week).

Diva Challenge 113: Hip To Be Square

Hello all! I hope everyone is having a lovely week. Great news! I passed the pre-interview questionnaire and I have a phone interview scheduled for Monday morning. I've been reading up on the company via www.glassdoor.com (which I highly recommend to those job hunting) and it seems it will be a very straight forward "Tell me about a time when [fill in the blank]" Q&A. I think with my previous job experience I can highly tailor all my answers for the position. One of the girls I use to manage just got a job there so I'm sure the recruiter recognizes the company name and I made sure to list her as an employee referral so I feel like I have a really good chance of landing this job. I don't like to get my hopes up too much though so I will continue on to more interesting matters (at least for you) like the Diva's Challenge 113!

This week we were to draw squares within squares and tangle away inside those squares. Normally I don't like strings but this week I think I did really well with it. I'll probably use this type of string again in the very near future. I also decided to try a few new things like taking pictures as my work progressed and using color!

Sometimes when I see other people's entries I'm baffled as to how they even started their creation. Well if you feel that way as well, here's my starting string(s?):

Yes those are triangles. But they are within my first square border so I think it counts!

Here is my finished project in black and white:

Excuse the blurriness. I was in Starbucks and attempting to discreetly use my phone's camera. 

My next picture requires a little back story. I was perusing Pinterest today (you should follow me by the way, I pin awesome, beautiful, inspirational, and worthwhile things) when I saw a link for  this video. I thought her work looked really cool so of course I went out to find some Souffle pens. I bought mine from Michael's and luckily I had a 50% off coupon because they were originally $24.99. I would suggest following the above link to amazon because it's only $13.92 there. I also really want some neat stencils like she had in the video so if anyone knows where to get them, let me know! I tried looking at Michael's and I couldn't find any.

The pens didn't turn out quite the way I expected. From the video it looked like the black would show through completely but it actually turned a little milky looking. It's easily fixable though if you don't like that look (which I don't). You can just retrace where the black is OR color first, let it dry, and then trace in black. The below picture is when most of the ink is dry except for the purple. I'm going to retrace all the black later and post that picture at another date. I also want to add green on the vines using a color pencil.

So what do you guys think? Color or no color? I personally prefer the black and white and I can't wait to see all of the other entries! 

If you guys like my work please follow my blog and check out my etsy shop! I'm about to start posting with more frequency and I have some great ideas on future posts which include a DIY planner I'm finishing up, some type of art challenge (not zentangling though, I'll leave those to the awesome CZTs :) ), and other secret goodies you'll have to wait for!

Diva Challenge 112: Tuxedo

I thought my version of Tuxedo came out a little dense
so I tried to keep all the other tangles light and airy.
I probably could have sneaked another dense one in.
Oh well. 

This week, I Am The Diva, challenged us to create a zentangle with Tuxedo (Created by LeeAnn). When I saw this tangle I knew I had to practice it a lil before jumping right in like I normally do. After a few practice runs, I finally got the hang of it. Although a little time consuming, I really like this tangle because you have tons of little areas in which to fill in with other tangles! To the left is my entry for this week, and click here to see the other fabulous entries.


Now I'm off to do fun (?) job hunting stuff. I have to take this hour and half long pre-interview test tonight. Hopefully the work will finally pay off and I'll find myself with an interview and then a job offer! Wishful thinking perhaps but if the location is the one I think it is for this particular company then one of my old employees may have passed along my name. Times like these are when I'm really glad that I was a well liked manager.