ZIA - is this a pattern?

This ZIA (Zentangle® Inspired Art) is done on a 7" x 7" piece of watercolor paper. Tangles include Xircus, Tipple, Tripoli, Printemps, Orlique, Paradox, Yincut, Onamato, Cubine, and Ambler. I love the black and white.

And in case you thought I was going to give the ZIA cards a rest, sorry, I'm still at it. The base layer includes stamping oval swirls by Stamp Francisco with Ranger Distress inks. The Ginko Stamp is by Stampin Up(Images © 1990-2014 Stampin' Up!). I tangled Orlique with blue and purple Sakura Pigma Microns and shaded with Faber-Castell Polychromos Colour Pencils. As this is a 4" square, I decided to go with a 4.25" square card base which can still use an A2 envelope. Since I'm finally all caught up on my card making for the month, maybe I'll give it a rest for a while. We'll see.

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Diva Challenge #188 in support of LGBT and National Coming Out Day

Tangles: Lupe, Gneiss, Beelight, Trimonds and an extra "B", Beadlines.

More ZIA cards

Two weeks in a row of Zentangle® inspired cards. Stamps for this card are by Kodomo Inc. I used Momento ink to stamp onto Watercolor paper. The tangle is a combination of Opus and Tipple done with a cool gray Copic Multiliner. I went back over the stamped image with Faber-Castell Polychromos Colour pencils to darken and add shading. I also used new toys, Derwent blender and burnisher pencils.

Ginko stamp by Stampin Up(Images © 1990-2014 Stampin' Up!) using Momento ink. The tangle is Finery done with a brown Sakura Pigma Micron. Coloring/shading done with Faber-Castell Polychromos Colour Pencils.

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ZIA, stamping, and cards. Oh my!

Inevitable that my stamping, cards and Zentangle® collide. It's been happening randomly for a while now. This week it seemed a requirement! I hope you enjoy these. They were fun for me.

These two stamped images were stamped on a scrap of hot press watercolor paper. Both stamps are from Paper Parachute.

I stamped the tree image with Momento ink and colored with Copic Markers. (The watercolor paper really soaked up the Copics, probably not the best choice of paper for the coloring, but it was very nice for both the stamping and tangling.) Then I tangled Mooka with a cool gray Copic Multiliner. I think it looks quilted. I went over the tree with a black Sakura Pigma Micron to make it stand out.

This second example is also stamped with Momento ink, tangled with Echoism using a black Sakura Pigma Micron and shaded with Derwent graphite pencil. Both pieces were trimmed and mounted on cardstock (final cards are A2 or 4.25" x 5.5").

And finally, this Hero Arts stamp, Silouette Grass was stamped on cardstock with Big & Juicy foliage ink. I tangled Man-O-Man in brown Sakura Pigma Micron and then added Faber-Castell Polychromos Colour Pencils to darken the stamped image and provide shading. I inked the edge with Ranger Distress inks, trimmed, rounded the corners and mounted on an A2 card.

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