Tuesday 28 May 2013

Diva Challenge #120

The Diva set the challenge this week to use the tangle Bales. Here is my entry:
 
 

I also found a place in the UK which sells 9cm by 9cm square paper tiles really cheaply - I'd love the official tiles but they are very expensive over here - these tiles are making tangling a lot quicker, before I was working in an 8x8 inch book so each tangle took up a far amount of time.
 
Looking around at zentangles I keep being drawn to flowers, here is one of my flower tangles on my new paper tiles.

Sunday 19 May 2013

Diva Challenge #118

This week was UMT week on the Diva's weekly challenge, we had to use the tangle Kuke which I had never used before. I was also taking part in a postcard swap at the yahoo ZIA group so I mixed the two. The Kukes ended up smaller than I had planned but they will definitely be a tangle I come back to again and again.
I also have included a picture of the other postcard I'm sending out for this challenge. I'm hoping as I'm a newbie the recipient won't be expecting any masterworks.

Thursday 16 May 2013

Monotangle Challenge #11

This week Roy challenged us to use the tangle Fengle. I had tried this tangle earlier in the week but couldn't get to grips with it so I was dreading this but after a few tries on scrap paper I had the hand of it.
This is an ATC for a swap, I started putting a little bit of water colour on it and then got a bit carried away.
 
I have a few more things I want to try with this tangle so I may have more to show later on (I think I say this every week!)
 
Happy tangling

Thursday 9 May 2013

Monotangle Challenge #10 HI-Cs

Roy at Mindful creation posted this monotangle challenge this week, HI-Cs, yet another tangle I got to learn from scratch.
Circles and a bit of colour this week.
Looking forward to seeing what other people have done with this tangle.

Thursday 2 May 2013

Monotangle challenge 'Nzeppel'

This week Roy set the tangle 'nzeppel' to tangle, as usual this is a new tangle to me so I had to get to grips with it first, I also decided to make my first sphere.
I had great fun with this one and love the way it turned out, the hardest part was drawing the grid. I think I'll be creating another Nzeppel monotangle as I've got lots of things I want to try out with it and expect to see it encorporated into many of my tiles.

Wednesday 1 May 2013

Diva Challenge #116

This week the Diva sent us the 'Blind Sighted' challenge, to draw a string with my eyes closed. She is repeating a past challenge which everyone else did a few years ago but I only did last week.
My first attempt had way too many spaces to fill and I decided to find loads of new-to-me tangles. This took forever, it's still not finished and although I like sections I don't like it as a whole.
This is my second attempt, far simpler.