Busy bees in November

The last days we were very busy when it comes to decoration or making cookies. So I haven't found any time to make an atc (sad, but true). I already miss it. But the result of our christmas cookies will help with it. Lots of sweet nice cookies like cinnamon snakes, kind of Lebkuchen cookies, snow caps with chocolate, ... This year we've mostly tried new cookies (I found a nice receipe book in the grocery store for only 2,20 € for 150 receipes).

And of course I started to decorate our flat. As we have a new shelf, I needed some decorations to put in, so I went to Depot. They really have great stuff. Volker was there, too, and he wondered why I hadn't the basket full after 20 min. I could have bought everything, but I had to stop myself, so I only bought two nice candle glasses and some nice stuff for our candle holder. :) I cannot wait to put all our lights on after this next weekend. :)

Day 2

And of course I also made some crafting things, but those are not very special I bought myself a new book "One zentangle a day". Sure, I cannot make it everyday, but I want to make pictures of my "daily" zentangle and want to show it here. May one or two of you would like to start with this great hobby, too. :) Or maybe I already infected someone with zentangles?  For those zentangles I'll
only took a notebook to draw in. It should become my workbook.

Day 1

I also made two holders, one for my zentangles and one for atcs. Now I can take those everywhere. Well, the ATC holder should be a bit bigger, so that more ATCs can fit in, but I only had a 1 cm smaller piece of paper, so it'll be used a bit different.







And lately I ordered some nice stuff like ink pads from Tim Holtz, rubberstamps and stationary. Look what I got today. :D Bought at stampingfairies.de (right one) and stationaryheaven.nl (left one).

ATCs in November part 1

el dia de los muertos

well, a fairy..

The last few weekends I was creative again and made some more ATCs. This time I mostly draw them myself. I know I'm not very good at drawing, but I REALLY would like to know your opinion on my ATCs.

celtic

Fairy

Bird

Everything in red

London

Snowmen

Winter

Autumn zentangle

These are still available, if someone want to trade them:

houses

  

ATCs in September 2

Zentangle

Oriental

Fall

Rubberstamps

The last two days I made some ATCs ready for swaps. For those I only needed rubberstamps. The next few days I'll make some with printed pictures.

Witch

I hope you like the ones I made the last days and maybe you can tell me which one you liked most. :D

ATC part 2

Yesterday during the heat I managed to make some more ATCs, but guess the heat didn't make me very creative. What do you think? If you want to have any of the ATCs feel free to join my group and the swaps there. :) Hopefully I can try out some other techniques these days.
But we don't want to forget our geocaching challenge. I'm trying the 31 days of geocaching and already found 2/31. Today number 3 will follow but haven't decided for a cache yet.

ATCs part 1

Some weeks ago I got some new rubberstamps and other creative supplies.. So I made some more new ATCs which I wanted to share with you. Please tell me, which of the ones do you like most? It would be great to get a feedback of you.

Artistic saturday

Last week I got my ATC workshop book. And today I wanted to try a little bit. I took the first easy steps, but seems I failed. It looks too

cute and too childish in my eyes. Well, I guess it'll be getting better with the time. I painted with water colors. On the one pic (with the banana) I tried to see something in it, and that were.... bananas.. ;)

Last week I also drawed some zentangles again which I wanted to share with you again. :) I hope you like them. I wanted to use them for envelopes, but it is so hard to send them out. ;) I hope the one who'll receive those will know how much love I put in those.

Tomorrow I want to try to do some more atcs, but this time with vintage pics. I hope those will look better. If you still like and want some of ATCs that I made today, please tell me, I can send those to you. :D

Envelopes in another design and the start of a yahoo group

Lately I looked in the in the Internet for some nice ideas for art. On that way I also bought myself a new book for ATCs which hopefully will arrive in the next few days. And while I ordered this book I found out about another kind of art which made me really interested. It is Zentangle®. I already tried it for some envelopes that I made. :) Does anybody of you already knew about it and make those little pictures?

And I created my first own ATC group with Saskia, a pal of me. If you are interested in ATCs and would like to join us there, you are more than welcome. We are still at the beginning and could need new members. Here is the Link to it: Magical ATCs