A Dare, A Challenge, and the Tangle of the Week

I am running a bit behind this week. We were gone for a few days for a friend's wedding. I'm up and running again and have completed the Challenge, Dare, and TOW.

The Diva challenged us to do a tangle called Cruze, by Caren Mlot. This is a fun tangle which I did on a water colored ATC. Trying to kill two birds with one stone, this ATC will go with my deck of cards CZT (Certified Zentangle Teacher) swap.

The Zendala Dare #79 for the week was to do something to thank the founders of Zentangle, Rick and Maria, by doing something that makes us think of them. I am ever so grateful for having Zentangle in my life and I count my CZT training as a highlight of my life as well. I always think of Maria when I attempt Mooka (you must watch this video if you have never seen Maria do Mooka). I say attempt, because once you watch this, you will know why LOL! Then, Paradox is just Rick to me. Probably because his name is on it :)

And, finally, the TOW from my Yahoo group was to use Zinbolic by Patty Meijer. I also used some Antidots and a variant of Crescent Moon:

C-scape and Zendala #59

This "getting ready to retire" is exhausting! I will really need a good rest when this upcoming, last week of working is over :)

This weeks Zendala template from Erin at The Bright Owl looked so simple. I, of course, had to make it not simple. I did enjoy working on it though. A lot:

Then, I did a TOW (tangle of the week) with my Yahoo group using Susan Olsen's C-scape. Oh, what a lovely new tangle is that one. I had days of playing before I settled on doing it in the round - just to see if I could:

 Next time you hear from me, I will be RETIRED! (Does that mean tired all over again?)

Hollibaugh and Dare #58

Here it is, Sunday again. I like to complete Erin's Zendala Dare and a TOW for my Yahoo group on Sunday, if I can. I was hankering to do some laced. I added Queen's Crown in the center in a circular pattern and some Pia. 

This is what I came up with for the Dare:

And the TOW was to use Hollibaugh:

A Dare, Bookmarkers, and Maisma

Geneviève Crabe contributed one of her Zendala templates today to Erin's dare from The Bright Owl. This template had LOTS of lines and I started spinning until I remembered that you do not have to include every single line into your tangle. Well, even with those barriers removed, I still managed to add more of my own even after I had removed a lot of the originals:

I also have a trade of vined and flowered bookmarkers that need to be mailed out:

I sprayed the 2" x 6" cardstock before I added the tangles with colored pens. I used Henna Drum, Zinger, Jax, Limpitz, CatKin, Rose and Barberpole. Then, I added some Copic markers for highlighting and shadows.

The TOW for this week was to use Maisma by Linda Dawson. Take a look at Linda Farmer's Tangled Patterns Site. I felt "boxed in" by it, so I went outside the box:

I so appreciate your looking at my blog and appreciate getting your comments. I will, hopefully, be getting my CZT certification soon and am trying very hard to get my work to be worthy of the title. I don't feel that my work is as neat as I would like so I try to make up for it in originality. I'm not sure that is a fair exchange though LOL! How I so admire all the real talent out there. I love how everyone shares so willingly in this tangled community!

Hi-C and Angle Fish

This week, Roy from Mindful Creations asked us to do Hi-C from CZT® Anita Roby-Laver. This is a great tangle, but I was unsure how to use it as a monotangle. The first one, I did "inside out", and couldn't figure out what was "wrong" for a second. I liked it but decided to try again. I think I like the second one better where I did right way then inside out again:

 I also finished a TOW for my Yahoo group where we  used CZT® Marizaan van Beek’s Zentangle® pattern: Angel Fish. I really like the simplicity of this tangle:

This and That and a Monotangle Adventure

We had a lovely visit with friends from Canada yesterday. I gave my sewing friend a label for one of her fabric boxes:

Then, I demonstrated Zentangle for a new Canadian friend:

Today, I worked on a white on black:

I used chalk for the shading. Not sure how I like that though.

Then, I worked on something like Zentangle®, but not really. This is for my Yahoo group's TOW (tangle of the week). It is called Mehndi and is used to do henna patterns. Look it up on the Internet and you will find many beautiful patterns. It is very soft in some respects as it can't be shaded, and then it is also heavier as all small dots will be filled. This is only if you are truly trying to make it look like henna body painting though.

And, finally, I finished Roy's monotangle adventure for Onamato:

A Dare #49 and a TOW for Week 9

Erin, The Bright Owl, challenge #49:

I tried not to drown it in tangles like I usually do. It is hard to stop though. Thanks Erin!

This week's TOW is Phicops. I can't believe how many messes (I know, there are no mistakes in Zentangle, unless you are trying to do a certain one LOL) But, I finally understood it. Just a bit slow at times :)

TOW Anitdots

Week #6 of the Yahoo TOW is to use a tangle by Anita Roby-Lavery called Anitdots:

This can be used in so many ways. Stack 'em on a line, use for filler. Fun to do too.

Chillon

My Yahoo group, week 5, Tangle of the Week, required that we use Chillon. I tried playing with the shapes of the foundation lines and really like the one that kind of stair-steps on the right side:

Or, how about in the round?

A DARE and a TOW

My Yahoo group TOW for this week was to use Ogee. Interesting. Look it up on the Internet for samples of this wavy line:

Erin's challenge from The Bright Owl this week was a very interesting shape to work with:

I used Beanpods in both. The first has a bit more depth as I think I put more time into it.

Bales

The ZIA Yahoo group has a new challenge called TOW (tangle of the week.) This week, it is BALES:

Having a bit of difficulty making this blog assessable to interested readers. Thanks to Susan Clark, I now have two working ways for this to happen. (As you can see by my photo, I've joined both ways to test it out LOL.) If anyone else has ideas on how to do this gracefully, or with ideas to jazz up the site, I'd love to hear.