Zentangle® Amphora, Por Fin, Bales, and Striping

This is a "use my tangle" week over at I am the Diva. The selected tangle is Amphora by Lily Moon. This is on a Renaissance tile with a sepia Micron, white colored pencil, and a rust colored pastel pencil.

The focus tangle for Square One on Facebook is Por Fin by Cathy Staeven, CZT. I added Squid.

And, in my journal, I explored Bales and Striping.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I truly enjoy reading your comments!

Zentangle® Striping, Dazzly, and an Inchie

No post from the Diva this morning so off I went on a hunt to find that it is a Civic Holiday in some parts of Canada. So, I will simply post my Square One, a tangle called Dazzly, and Inchie for you for now and post again tomorrow.

Square One, Facebook's focus tangle is Striping. I added it to a string of Paradox.










Pattern Collections
Daily Pattern Focus for July, 30th was – Dazzly by Shazia





And, the prompt word from Every Inchie Monday, is Sheep. Are you the black sheep in your family? Come on, fess up, I won't tell.


Thanks for stopping by. Hope to see you again when the Diva Challenge is up on Tuesday!

Zentangle® Stripes, Bronx Cheer, and an Inchie

I never look at others' tangles before I post mine. Why? Well, if I see how wonderful they are I might be too intimidated to post my own, or I might feel like I have to go back and redo mine. I know, silly, but it is a flaw of my nature that I just have to work with, and not peeking is how I do it. Those of you who use blogger will know that when you open it up, the first thing it shows you is recent posts from those on your blogroll list. So, I open mine up to post and there is, where I can't miss seeing it,  LeeAnn's entry for this week's Dive Challenge and it, as always, is so gorgeous that my mouth dropped. Sigh.... I will post mine anyway LOL!

I used Beeline, Ambler, Hibred, Tortuca and Chartz. What's the difference between Ambler and Emingle? In Ambler, the pattern moves clockwise whereas with Emingle the pattern repeats.

For Every Inchie Monday, the prompt was "Quartz Crystal".  I started thinking about quartz. Did you know it is said to have powers? Like a crystal ball? Gel pens on black and I used some Glossy Accent over the ball to give it depth. I looked into my crystal ball and saw more time on the Internet, my studio getting more and more stuffed with things I need, and a lot of happiness.
What do you see in your future?

 And, I have joined another group on Facebook for people who really want to do traditional Zentangle tiles. It is called Square One: Purely Zentangle®. So, I will now post my weekly entry for that group as well. This week, we were to use Bronx Cheer as a tangle, not as a mistake cover.

Bronx Cheer, Striping, Tipple, and Quib

A Zentangle® Christmas Wish and a Dare

This week's Zendala Dare by Erin at The Bright Owl, was a very different template. The rectangles looked like dominoes to me and I was going to do them as such but decided it was too predictable. So I went with Hibred and added Striping and Betweed.

I want to wish all my fellow tanglers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday season for all.