Weekly Challenge #294

Greetings Fellow Tanglers!

Short and sweet this week. I will post more if I have the time later, but a busy week ahead, so for now, the challenge this week from the diva is to use fragments and reticula. Here is my fragment and the reticula using the fragment. 

I also played around a little bit more with Keeko, from last weeks challenge.

 

I would like to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!

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Weekly Challenge #293

Greetings Fellow Tanglers!

The challenge over at the diva is Keeko this week. I used it very simply for my first one to create a frame. With Thanksgiving coming up next week I wanted to remember to give thanks for all the support that you have shown me over the past couple of years both for my art, and for me as I have struggled with my new reality with Hubby. I am truly blessed to have this supportive group of fellow tanglers to help me out on my journey. Thank You!

As for the second, just some more playing around. Keeko wrapped in a spiral with the morph from Keeko to Nekton, for the background. 

 

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IAST #170

Happy Friday!

I had a little extra time this week and decided to tackle It’s a String Thing. It was a simplicity theme. The string was nice and simple, and only two tangles. Oke, by Michele Beauchamp, and Jelly Legs, by Amber Davis. Here is what I came up with. Didn’t turn out to be that simple of a tile, but I had fun with it. Still in that fall mood, so added a bit of pastel to this one.

Have a great weekend and Tangle on!

Weekly Challenge #292

It’s use my tangle week over at i am the diva and we are using EAXY, a tangle by Nadine Roller, CZT. I had started this Renaissance tile that I had sprayed with a couple of colors of liquid watercolors, with the beginnings of Gourdeous, so decided that I would finish that out, and use EAXY as the background. I didn’t find this an easy tangle to keep even, so decided to embrace the going with the flow, and just let it change scale as it wanted to. My chop even fits in this one and almost becomes part of the pattern. I am still in my fall kick, so added a bit of color pencil to brighten it up here and there. I think that is is going to become a card for Thanksgiving for my Hubby.

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Weekly Challenge #291

Greetings Fellow Tanglers!

I hope that you all had a great Halloween. The challenge this week from the diva was a Halloween theme tile. This one gave me fits, but I am posting it anyway. Didn’t have my normal watercolors around, so used some old ones at school for this tile. The moon started out white and I added the crescent moon to it using a gray marker and a metallic Gelly roll pen. Then decided that I wanted to add some yellow to it…. Big mistake! Started with a Tombow marker which started to smear the marker and pen. Stopped having done just an edge of the moon. So on to plan B. Use the watercolors to watercolor over the moon… smeared everything more. Quick rinse it under running water, which washed off all the smears and faded the crescent moon, but salvaged the tile. Add the yellow with colored pencil. Done for this week at least. Not quite what I was planning, but so it goes.

 Tangles used, Crescent Moon and Widgets

 

I also decided this month to do one of Stephanie@Everything is Art, tanglelendar. You can find her calendar pages here. I had fun with this, and my kids at work liked watching how it came along during the month.

 

 Happy Hump Day!

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Weekly Challenge #290

Greetings Fellow Tanglers!

The challenge this week from the diva is a duo tangle using NZeppel and Flux. I used a modified version of Rick’s Flux, on a background of NZeppel. Here is my little seasonal  Zia for the week.

I also had some time last weekend to go out and see some of the glorious fall foliage that Minnesota is gifting us with this year. Here are a few photos for you to enjoy!

I couldn’t stop playing around with last week’s challenge of Leafy Goodness, so here are two more tiles along with my original from last week. I printed leaves on all of them, as the start, and tangled around them. I had computer issues last week, so my post was from Pinterest, as my iPad was the only thing that seemed to be working.

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Have a great weekend and Tangle on!

Weekly Challenge #288

Greetings Fellow Tanglers! 

Happy Hump Day!

This week’s challenge over at i am the diva, is “Simply Gourdeous”, an ode to the fall season. I have parent teacher conferences this week, (I know, Already!), so this is going to be a short post. Here is my ATC size tile featuring the tangle Gourdgeous and a little Sampson thrown in.

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Have a great weekend and Tangle on!

Weekly Challenge #287

Greetings Fellow Tanglers!

The challenge this week from the diva, is a UMT (use my tangle) challenge using Daniel Lamothe’s tangle Dreamcatcher. I think that last week’s straight line challenge rubbed off on me as my Dreamcatcher ATC this week is a very straight line one. 

Had to throw some more curves into the mix too.

 

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Have a great weekend and Tangle on!

Weekly Challenge #286

Greeting Fellow Tanglers!

The challenge over at i am the diva this week is Straight to It!

Straight lines for everything, or at least as straight as I can make them! I started out with a string that used my initials. I found that I really really had to concentrate on those straight lines, so it wasn’t a zen for me as it could have been. In the first tile I used IX, Nexton, and Paradox. I found that there was not as much contrast as I would have liked so I used some shading to hopefully help with that.

On my second tile, I again used my initials for the string and for tangles used a straight line version of Piza, Palreva, Phroz, Shattuck, Knase and Braze.

 

Finally, I had had enough of the straight lines and decided to throw some curves into an artist trading card.

  

The Diva and her Niece also had a fine time at Paint Nite. I had to include my photo from the night my friend Stacy and I went to Paint Nite, here in Minnesota. Same subject, different color palette.

 Thanks for stopping by, and for all of your lovely comments!

They do make my day!

Have a great weekend and Tangle on!

Weekly Challenge #285

The challenge from the diva was to relax and get back some of that Zen while tangling this week. I almost always tangle this way. This past year especially. It has been my escape from the dealings with my husband’s dementia and all that that entails. I started this on out with a basic string, and used some of my go to tangles, ones that I didn’t have to think about. 

 Tangles used; Onamato, Printempts, Paradox, Purk, Yincut, Poke Leaf, and Poke Root.

 For the second little bijou I just started without a string and let it go where it wanted to go.

 

 Tangles used: Tipple, Printempts, Zinger, Poke Leaf, Herzlbee, Schnucki-bee-Doo, Msst.

Thanks for stopping by, and for all of your lovely comments!

They do make my day!

Have a great weekend and Tangle on!

Weekly Challenge #284

Greetings fellow Tanglers!

It was a short, fast, furious summer for me this year and with all the stuff continuing to go on with my hubby, I didn’t really do any tangling at all. Usually summer is my time to really go to town, but not this year. Decided I had to break that habit, and carve out a little time again. I will say that I am feeling a little rusty! I am already back to school again, and almost done with week three.  It almost feels like I never left! The challenge this week from the diva is a monotangle using Tripoli. Here is my tile for the week.

Here’s a little bijou tile with some different ways to embellish Tripoli, so I have a collection of possibilities.

I also did last week’s challenge but never did get the time to post it so here is that one using Center Square by Aleesha Satta, CZT.

Thanks for stopping by, and for all of your lovely comments!

They do make my day!

Have a great weekend and Tangle on!

Weekly Challenge #270

Greetings Fellow Tanglers!

Crazy busy right and counting down those last 5 days of school! Needless to say I am buried in grading and the end of the year wrap up. Diva challenge this week, "Skye", a fun tangle from Margaret Bremner You can see my first attempt here. This tile, much like life right now seemed to have a mind of it’s own and went a bit nuts!

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Have a great week and Tangle on!

Weekly Challenge #269

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I hadn’t gotten around to trying the new tangle Ellish yet, so the diva challenge this week was just what I needed. Worked with 6^th grade kids during class today to try it out. They are finishing out their school year making Zentangles and are really excited about this. I had a couple of kids that wanted me to teach them how to tangle Ellish today, but I asked if they would give me until next class to practice, as this was the first time that I had used it. They are looking forward to learning it next time.  I can see that this tangle is going to become a favorite of mine, as it really is fun to do. I also enjoyed playing with the shading!

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Have a great week and Tangle on!

Weekly Challenge #268 and IAST #145

Happy Friday Fellow Tanglers!

It is beautiful spring weather here and lots of warm sunshine. I am looking forward to maybe getting a bit of gardening done this weekend.  Had a bit of extra time this week and decided on a second tile, and followed a couple of other people’s idea to make the tile work for more than one challenge.  Here is the tile that works for Adele Bruno’s, “It’s a String Thing”, and also works for my second tile in the diva’s challenge this week for “A bit-o-black”. I used Watercolor, Color pencil, Clear glaze pen, micron and graphite for this one.

Have a Wonderful Weekend

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Weekly Challenge #268

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Happy hump day! I have been busy pushing the kiddos at school to finish projects now that the end of the school year is fast approaching. Sixteen school days left, but who is counting! (OK, I am) With an A-day B-day schedule that means only eight more times for us to get it done!  The challenge this week over at i am the diva is to use a “bit-o-black. I had some fun using a couple of new to me tangles. Batumber, a combination of Twing and Kuke by fellow CZT IX, Kelly Kelly, and ‘dillo by Lori Manoogian, throw in a bit of Printemps and done!

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Have a great week and Tangle on!

Weekly Challenge #266

Greetings Fellow Tanglers!

The challenge over at i am the diva, is a use my tangle week, with Henrike Bratz’s tangle Crux. The rain has finally stopped, and now it looks like I am going to have to break out the lawn mower for the first mowing.

 Crux and Well.

I also made these tiles that will be used as RAZ, random acts of zentangle in the care home where my husband lives. The staff takes such good care of him, so I often will leave tiles around as a special treat for them to find.

 Thanks for stopping by, and for all of your lovely comments!

They do make my day!

Have a great week and Tangle on!

Weekly challenge #265

Greetings Fellow Tanglers!

It’s been a rainy dreary week here in Minnesota, with cold blustery winds. Perfect for a cup of coffee, and a tangle or two. Here is my tile for the diva’s challenge to use stripes.

Tangles used: Tropicana, Buttercup and Well.

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Have a great week and Tangle on!

Weekly Challenge #262

Greetings Fellow Tanglers!

This is a quick one this week. Have been under the weather with a spring cold, but had to try out the diva’s use my tangle challenge. I started with a tile that had a watercolor wash on it to try out Lynn Mead’s, Fassett. I just let it morph where it wanted to, and used some prismacolor pencils for the shading. Enjoy!

Thanks for stopping by, and for all of your lovely comments!

They do make my day!

Have a great week and Tangle on!