Progress on my Zentangle

Top half of the image (didn't work on this part this week)

Bottom half of the image (the part I worked on this week)

Progress on my Zentangle for my husband. I wasn't able to work much on my tangle this week but I did get some work accomplished on the bottom portion.  I added the Ixrous after I am the Diva posted her 6th challenge on her blog. I haven't added any of my images to her Challenges yet but I have been working on them. I even created a book to put them in so that I didn't have to keep looking for it I used my Cricut and cut out a title for the book. I haven't finished the cover but since I carry it with me I will work on it as I can.  The book is 8.5 x 6 with a heavy weight paper (it didn't say on the package what paper it is) but it's nice to draw on. The pen glides more than skips on the page.

Paula's Zentangle(r) Birthday Card

Today's birthday card is for my sister-in-law Paula.  Do you see a theme here????

I decided late last year that I was going to send birthday cards this year. So far I haven't missed one - OK it's only January 19, but I have sent out three cards so far. The only problem I'm having is that I keep finishing them the day after they should have been in the mail!


I haven't had much time to just sit and work on my cards - I will make time this weekend. I think I have 16 cards to send by the end of February -- I"m going to have to come up with another theme soon.


My friend, Linda, and I have been on a Cricut Cartridge Quest. A couple of weeks ago we found out that Michael's was selling the older cartridges for $9.99! What a steal, I mean deal... We went to four different Michael's and found that we already owned the ones that they still had - we missed the beginning of the sale by two days.  Last night I had to go to Menard's and they have Cricut Cartridges there - Never in a million years would I have looked for Cricut "stuff" at Menards. They were also selling them at $9.98, so I picked up a few that I didn't already own. I felt like I won the lottery.  Anyway, the point is now my friend and I are challenging each other, we are going to actually use the cartridges that we have to create cards. YIKES - use what we already own, who does that???


CRICUT CHALLENGE - We are picking a cartridge that we have and making two cards from the cartridge, we have to have the recipe with the card so we can go back and duplicate it when we want.  The first cartridge I'm going to use is Celebrations... This is going to be interesting.