{"id":7381,"date":"2010-02-23T12:42:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T11:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/?p=7381"},"modified":"2025-09-19T12:58:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:58:39","slug":"zentangling-like-a-mad-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/zentangling-like-a-mad-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Zentangling<br>like a mad woman!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Last week, I discovered &#8220;zentangling&#8221; (see former post) and I&#8217;ve been playing<br \/>\nwith it all weekend. Man &#8211; I&#8217;m hooked! I made 4 ATC&#8217;s this weekend and I also<br \/>\nstarted a mini-journal to be filled with zentangled pages. I&#8217;m having a blast!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m also happy that I can do this in the evening. I stopped working on art<br \/>\njournals or scrappages at night because of the bad (yellow) lamps we have.<br \/>\nI mean, the lights we have in the evening are nice and cozy but not suitable to<br \/>\nwork with colours. The pages always look different the next day so I stopped<br \/>\nworking in my art journal in the evening (at least if there&#8217;s colour involved)<br \/>\nBut these zentanglings are done with a black pen on white (or creme) so in<br \/>\nthe evenings I zentangle away! It&#8217;s such a relaxing thing to do&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I presume my brother couldn&#8217;t help but smile when he read my former post<br \/>\nand I can hear him say &#8220;Zentangling dear? I did that 25 years ago, remember?&#8221;<br \/>\nYes bro, I remember! It is even so much so that I still have that framed page<br \/>\nyou gave me back then (was it 1985?)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And here&#8217;s that page my brother made back in the days&#8230; he was way ahead<br \/>\nof his big sis &#8211; in zentangling that is \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/01_zentangle_rick.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7383\" title=\"01_zentangle_rick\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/01_zentangle_rick.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And here are the ATC&#8217;s I made this weekend.<br \/>\nI call these <strong>&#8220;Independent women&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/02_independent_women.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7384\" title=\"02_independent_women\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/02_independent_women.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(If you want to take a better look: the cards are separately published in<br \/>\nmy gallery. Look under &#8220;Artist Trading Cards&#8221; in my ATC\/Cards gallery<br \/>\non top of my blog)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I stamped the four ladies, and coloured them with pencils at first<br \/>\nbut that turned out way too soft against the black and white.<br \/>\nSo I used markers instead. The &#8220;skin colour&#8221; is a bit orange &#8211; I have to<br \/>\ngo buy me a good skin colour marker soon (any tips?)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/03_journal_front.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7386\" title=\"03_journal_front\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/03_journal_front-253x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>After making the cards,<br \/>\nI still hadn&#8217;t had enough<br \/>\nand I thought of an old<br \/>\npocket diary &#8211; cover I had.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I looked it up and decided<br \/>\nto start a &#8220;mini zentangle<br \/>\nart journal&#8221; in  that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It has a ring binder inside<br \/>\nand this makes it easy to<br \/>\nwork on the pages and<br \/>\nput them in the cover<br \/>\nlater.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I think I will alter this book<br \/>\nbut because the cover is<br \/>\nmade of some sort of fabric, I haven&#8217;t yet a clue on how I&#8217;ll do that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/04_journal_open.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7388\" title=\"04_journal_open\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/04_journal_open.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"355\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/05_journal_pag01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium  wp-image-7389\" title=\"05_journal_pag01\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/05_journal_pag01-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI had some cardstock<br \/>\nin this creme colour<br \/>\nand I cut pages in<br \/>\ndifferent  shapes<br \/>\nout of that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For now, there are<br \/>\nnine pages, but I<br \/>\ncan add more<br \/>\nif this  addiction<br \/>\nis going to last&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8230;but there&#8217;s a<br \/>\nstrong change<br \/>\nthis technique is<br \/>\ngoing to stay<br \/>\n&#8217;cause I had a lot<br \/>\nof fun making<br \/>\nthis first page!!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This morning, after I got out of bed (had breakfast, shower etc.) I put on the<br \/>\ncomputer and found an e-mail from my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/chrisaiton.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris<\/a> with a link pointing me<br \/>\nto a video she\u00a0thought I might enjoy&#8230; there could be no better way to start<br \/>\nthe day! My jaw hit the ground when I saw it, and I want to share it with all<br \/>\nof you. Especially if you like art journaling this is a &#8220;must see&#8221;!!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"450\" height=\"273\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/uUo4NbPtbPU&amp;hl=nl_NL&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"273\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/uUo4NbPtbPU&amp;hl=nl_NL&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Enjoy this video &amp; enjoy your day!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Je t&#8217;embrasse!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/maritspaperworld.com\/old-blog\/\">back to homepage<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I discovered &#8220;zentangling&#8221; (see former post) and I&#8217;ve been playing with it all weekend. Man &#8211; I&#8217;m hooked! I made 4 ATC&#8217;s this weekend and I also started a mini-journal to be filled with zentangled pages. I&#8217;m having a blast! I&#8217;m also happy that I can do this in the evening. 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