But, What Do You Do With Your Tiles?

I am currently looking into a way to make them into coasters. I think I am going to laminate them and insert them into something. Still working out the details. :) Most of the time I draw onto bigger paper and make cards with my tangles to give away.

Besides the usual, as; pictures on the wall, in photo albums or books, as gifts for friends and families, I also collage them onto tins or containers of every shape and size as well as; onto canning jars that I fill with granola mixes, or cookie mixes, or onto cups and saucers, or cooking ware, and anything that isn’t or is nailed down. etc. Plus, I put them onto clothing as fixed (or unfixed) attachments, or turn them into little gift boxes or gift bags putting other tiles inside or with other gifts. These I call my treasure boxes. Tiles are also, great made into table clothes, napkins, or placemats. The ideas are endless, just be creative and try anything.

I store mine in an album and rotate favorites on a mini easel. But as I’m sitting here reading all these lovely posts at my antique desk with a glass top, I’ve decided to start a new display on my desk under the glass. Thanks for all the inspiring ideas!

of my example tiles as a small memento of the occasion.

I have a lovely hardcover book and I use “photo corners” to hold my tiles in place – two per page.
I also date the tiles on the back and sometimes I go through them and look at the dates because I can see my emotions during a particular time period, reflected in my tiles.
I have really enjoyed reading what others do with theirs, and have taken inspiration from a lot of their ideas – thank you for sharing!
Heather

Maybe ya’all are the normal ones and I am weird. I don’t tangle as often as most of you do, but I have a few tiles completed. At one point, I had started numbering my tiles as well as dating them (on the back). I apparently didn’t keep up with that though, since I do have some un-numbered tiles too. I only keep the ones I like. Those I don’t like, I’ll destroy… I am my own worst critic. I have that wooden treasure box Jan Brandt mentioned. I meant that box to be on my desk with a few blank tiles and my completed tiles in it, so I could look at the finished ones and grab a blank to start another… Inconsistency bites me on a regular basis, so my Zentangle stuff, including the original Zentangle kit – where most of my finished tiles are stashed – is all over the apartment.

I use them as “tuck ins” for birthday cards and my penpals.

I keep mine in a binder, in pages similar to the ones shown in your photo. Sometimes I’ll take one out to tuck into a greeting card, use as an example in a class I’m teaching, etc. – in those cases, I always take a photocopy of the original and keep it in the binder pocket so that I can see everything I’ve created even if the original is missing.

I create greeting cards with my tiles. I glue them on either a black or colored piece of paper to give them a 1/4" frame and then glue them on plain white cards that I get at Michael’s. Sometimes it is hard to give away one that I really love, but I take a picture of it and send it on. The problem is that people love and expect them now so I have to keep a big supply ready for sending! I do have to keep myself from creating a zentangle with the card in mind, however. That seems to stifle creativity – that feeling of wanting it to be perfect. So I create my tiles as usual, with no goal in mind, and then see if they would make a great card. I also have small frames around the house big enough for a 31/2" tile and I change them out occasionally with a beautiful tile that makes me smile.

I have a little cube box with four display panels and a space inside. It is rotates so that each side can be viewed. Every new tile I create is put in a display panel and the one it’s replacing is put inside the box. Some tiles may not be replaced and put inside the box for quite a long time – not until I create one that I like better. Whenever I wish to enclose a note with a gift, or send a message, I choose a tile from inside the box and send that. So far, the box has never become so full that I cannot add to it, but I guess this will happen eventually. I do also have a picture frame that displays 16 favourite tiles which are renewed now and then.
I have enjoyed hearing what other tangling artists do with their tiles. Best wishes, Nor’dzin (Wales, UK) (blog: ngakma-nordzin.blogspot.com)

I posted a photo of it on the app a while back…….

I started my Zentangle journey 3-4 years ago, at first not knowing how to go about it as there were no teachers in my area and I still hadn’t heard of my wonderful teacher, Maria. I think I first heard of her a year later and attended a 4-hour course she organized in Madrid. It opened a huge window of possibilities for me when she explained how it was done properly. After that, the fact that I had to travell 4-5 hours didn’t stop me (travelling never does) from attending her intensive courses in Madrid. My tiles changed a lot with practice. As a result, I started piling them up and my mum made a wooden box for me to keep them. I still have them there but then I thought it would be great to give them away to friends and loved ones as mementos or simply because I felt like giving them away to someone. Some of them I turn into coasters, laminating them (my local copy centre does it very cheaply), others I frame or give them as they are.
I’m now thinking about buying an album and placing them there as the box is now too full.