Diva's Weekly Challenge#257: "Guest Post - Oooh Shiny!"

This week's challenge was a Guest challenge by CZT Amy Broady.

She challenged us "to make your tangled work shine! Or gleam. Or glint. Add a special touch. I challenge you to include a METALLIC feature in your tangled art this week. It could be bold or subtle, a major feature, or a finishing touch."

Here is my tile with Coil, Mooka, Oybay and some Tipple.

I used my Derwent Inktense color pencils to make the Coil look like a metal. I also used my gold glitter pens on some of the Tipple

The metallic look was inspired by Eni Oken's gold work post on 'Shading Zentangle' group on Facebook

You can view the other entries for the challenge on Diva's blog

http://iamthedivaczt.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/weekly-challenge-257.html

Diva's Weekly Challenge#256 - Duotangle: Boo*Kee/Artoo

This week's challenge is to create a tile or piece using only two tangles by the Diva (CZT® Laura Harms)that are named after her two boys. The tangles are Boo*Kee and Artoo. 

I know it was a Duo tangle challenge but I could not stop myself from using Diva Dance. That's because I always see the Diva standing strong behind her boys.

Here is my tile.

You can view the other entries for the challenge on Diva's blog

http://iamthedivaczt.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/weekly-challenge-256.html

Diva's Weekly Challenge#255 - "Ghosts of Tangles Past"

This week's challenge is to look back into our archives and recreate a tile from past with our present style.

It's been a year since I started Zentangle. But I could still see some changes.

My old style was to draw a String, and fill in each section with a different tangle, shading was not important.

Now I use fewer tangles in my tiles, and I have now learned the difference that shading can make in a tile.

Here are my old and new tiles.

Tangle Patterns String#146, Onamato, Demi, Bask-It, Barberpole, Inapod

You can view the other entries for the challenge on Diva's blog

http://iamthedivaczt.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/weekly-challenge-255.html

Diva's Weekly Challenge #253: "New Tangle: Molygon"

This week's challenge is to use the new official Zentangle tangle pattern MOLYGON.
This is such a fun tangle. So many different ways you could fill it up.

I filled mine with Tripoli and Tipple.Here's my tile.

You can view the other entries for the challenge on Diva's blog
http://iamthedivaczt.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/weekly-challenge-253.html

Diva's Weekly Challenge#252-""String Theory: Tangle within a tangle"

This week's challenge is to use a tangle as our string.

I chose one of my favorite among the weave tangles, W2(Warp and Weft). 

So this is my String tile.

I used Arukas, Onamato and W2 as tangles. W2 inside W2.. yes like inception.. mathematically speaking its like recursion..

Here's my tile before and after shading.

Let's keep tangling!!

You can view the other entries for the challenge on Diva's blog

http://www.iamthedivaczt.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/weekly-challenge-252.html

It's my First Zentangle Anniversary!!!

Oh My God!! I can not believe it's been a year already. Jan 24th was my First Anniversary with the Zentangle Method®.

So here's my tile celebrating it.. Some Heartrope, Luv-a and Bijouism "Gratitude"

I am so thankful to Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas for sharing the Zentangle Method® with all, I would also like to thank my teacher CZT® Dilip Patel for introducing me to the beautiful world of Zentangle

"It's A String Thing!"#128

For "It's a String Thing" #128, Adele selected TanglePatterns String 129 by Nancy Smith

This week's tangles include:

Hypnotic by Elena Hadzijaneva - I had never done 'Hypnotic' before. A very simple, fun-to-do tangle!

Paradox by Rick Roberts, Zentangle® co-founder 

Adele was also kind enough to provide her tips for tangling both patterns.

Here is my tile.

Let's keep tangling!

The tiles entered for this challenge are published on mondays on Adele Bruno's blog
http://tickledtotangle.blogspot.co.uk/

Diva's Weekly Challenge#251-"Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day"

This week's challenge is to raise awareness for the Moebius Syndrome. 

Moebius Syndrome is a congenital nerve disorder which affects 1-2 in 1,000,000 people. 

Yes! Even I did not know about it till today! Diva's younger son Artoo was diagnosed with Moebius Syndrome when he was born.

This Sunday, January 24, is Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day.

So the Diva asked us to use the Moebius Syndrome Foundation's logo as our string, or create a Moebius strip out of paper and tangle that...

I chose to use the logo. I have tangled around the logo rather than use it as a string. 

My obvious choice of tangle pattern was Diva Dance. The Diva's strength as a mother is just so amazing!! I wanted to do this tile as a tribute to her.

The colour for MSAD is Purple. I  have used my Staedtler purple fine liner

Here's my tile.

You can view the other entries for the challenge on Diva's blog

http://www.iamthedivaczt.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/weekly-challenge-251.html

Diva's Weekly Challenge#250 - Bringing it Back to the Old School

This week's challenge is for us to go back to the roots of Zentangle®.

We had to create a piece on a WHITE 3.5" square tile, with a Black pen and pencil for shading, the way the Zentangle® method initially started.

So I started with a very simple String. I decided to use the first 2 official Zentangle original tangles I could think of. Cubine, Pokeroot!!

It was very relaxing not to have to think about which color to choose, about how I wanted it to turn out.. Just simply putting the pen to the paper and drawing each line.
Like Laura said, its all about THE PROCESS not the product!

Here is my string and my completed tile

You can view the other entries for the challenge on Diva's blog

http://iamthedivaczt.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/weekly-challenge-250.html

Diva's Weekly Challenge#249 - "DuoTangle: Celebrate with Diva Dance and Auraknot"

This is my first post in 2016 so, Happy New Year all!!

This week the Diva's weekly Challenge completes Five Years!! 

Congratulations to the Diva, CZT Laura Harms!

To celebrate the occasion, Diva has asked us to do a tile with a duotangle.  And the tangles we have to use are Diva Dance and Auraknot.

Pictures of my tile before and after shading.

You can view the other entries for the challenge on Diva's blog

http://iamthedivaczt.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/weekly-challenge-249.html

"It's A String Thing!"#123

For "It's a String Thing" #123, Adele selected TanglePatterns String #123 by Kim English

This week's tangles include:

Daviso by CZT® Katie Crommett - I had never done 'Daviso' before. 

I used Linda Farmer's tip of using a diamond grid to draw Daviso. Very helpful I must say

Holiday Ornaments by CZT® Suzanne McNeill  - this is one of my favorites!!

I was down with Flu from Monday so I had lots of tries with this combination. My husband was so sweet to do all the cooking!! :)

Here are my tiles. 

First tile I did , the circles in the String looked perfect to be the holiday ornaments.

On the second attempt, I wanted to use Daviso in the circles.

Third attempt, I just did Holiday ornaments along the string line.

What fun it was!! Not the Flu but the tangling!!

Let's keep tangling!

The tiles entered for this challenge are published on following Monday on Adele Bruno's blog

http://tickledtotangle.blogspot.co.uk/

Diva's Weekly Challenge #248: "Give the Gift of Zentangle"

This year's final Diva Challenge will be to give the gift of Zentangle! 

I created one for my 2 year old son's play-and-stay group's coordinator Sophia. We moved to UK in Aug 2015. The move was more difficult for my son. She has been helping him a lot to adjust in the new environment.

I was also planning on giving tangled Christmas cards to all the other mums in the group. I have been working on these over the weekend. I hope they like them.

Let's keep tangling!

You can view the other entries for the challenge on Diva's blog

http://iamthedivaczt.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/weekly-challenge-248.html

"It's A String Thing!"#122

"It's a String Thing" #122, Adele provided a String of her creation TanglePatterns String #122 and tangles selected are

Verdigogh, a Zentangle® original tangle by Zentangle® co-founder Maria Thomas

Kuke by CZT® Katy Abbott

63Y by CZT® Hsin-Ya Hsu  

I decided to do Verdigogh along the String line, 63Y in the circle and Kuke all over.

I have used Staedtler fine color liners keeping in with the festive mood. I also used gold glitter gel pen to do some CO2.( I just love this tangle!!)

Here's my tile. You can not see the sparkle of the glitter pen though.

I tried taking one more in this angle to see if the glitter will show up, but this too is not clear enough.

Let's keep tangling!

The tiles entered for this challenge are published on following mondays on Adele Bruno's blog

http://tickledtotangle.blogspot.co.uk

Diva's Weekly Challenge #247: "UMT: African Artist"

Today is the first Monday of the month so that means it's Use My Tangle (UMT).

Laura has selected a beautiful tangle 'African Artist' created by CZT® Tina-Akua Hunziker. 

The tangle is very easy as its just composed of free flowing lines. This is my first attempt with this tangle, but definitely not my last! I added some 'Diva Dance' as a border.

Here is my tile.

Let's keep tangling!

You can view the other entries for the challenge on Diva's blog

http://iamthedivaczt.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/weekly-challenge-247.html

It's A String Thing # 121 - Aquafleur Monotangle Christmas Tree

In this week's "It's a String Thing" #121, Adele wanted to mark the beginning of the Christmas season with a tree theme this week.

What co-incidence!! This week has been all about trees on the Diva's challenge too(you can see my Diva challenge response here).

She provided a String in shape of a Christmas tree and she wanted us to monotangle it using Aquafleur - an Zentangle® original tangle by Maria Thomas

  

I started off and drew the Aquafleur. But felt like using some color. And then before I knew it, my whole tree was colored.. And its not a monotangle tile either.. I ended up adding some Ahh, CO2 , Diva dance to make it more festive.. Also a letter 'S' border..

I got carried away and you can't blame me!!

Here are the pictures of my tile along the way..

Let's keep tangling!

The tiles entered for this challenge are published on mondays on Adele Bruno's blog

http://tickledtotangle.blogspot.co.uk/

Diva's Weekly Challenge #246: "Monotangle Trees"

This week's challenge is a Guest post on Laura's blog by CZT® Dilip Patel.

He is from Bangalore,India and I am so privileged to be one of his students.

He wanted us to choose any tangle pattern of our liking and create a tree using only the chosen tangle over strings representing a tree.

Here are my tiles.

First tile with CZT® Sandy Bartholomew's pattern Mumsy

Second attempt with Zentangle®-original tangle: Pokeleaf

Let's keep tangling!

You can view the other entries for the challenge on Diva's blog

http://iamthedivaczt.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/weekly-challenge-246.html

Diva's Weekly Challenge #245 - "Back to Basics - Hollibaugh"

This week, Laura wanted us to use the Zentangle®original tangle pattern Hollibaugh.

I have been wanting to try out this new tutorial on creating Jems-kind of look using watercolors.This tutorial was shared on the Zentangle® group by Kae Yoshino.

It did not come out as shown in tutorial as I used watercolor paints instead of color pencils as required by the tutorial. But I am happy that I tried something new!
Here's my tile.

Let's keep tangling!

You can view the other entries for the challenge on Diva's blog

http://iamthedivaczt.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/weekly-challenge-245.html

Jems Tutorial Link:

http://tanglefan.hatenablog.com/entry/2015/11/08/170932

"It's A String Thing!" # 119

In this week's "It's a String Thing" #119, Adele wanted to mark the 100th anniversary of the iconic bottle design of the Coca-Cola Company.

She selected TanglePatterns String 011 (by Yamit Fridman) whose lines suggest a bottle shape.
Patterns  are
100 by CZT® Adele Bruno
Bublz by Lori Byerly
Ripples by Helen Williams

I decided to use 100 along my string line. 100 was easy to draw. That is a stepout that is so simple to remember and so many variations.
I had a tough time deciding whether I wanted to put Bublz inside the bottle shape or Ripples to look like the glass. Then I decided that since Adele selected Ripples because it reminded her of the feel of the bottle, Ripples it would be.. I could not stop with the Ripples so left with very less space for Bublz..

Here's my tile.

Let's keep tangling!

The tiles entered for this challenge are published on mondays on Adele Bruno's blog

http://tickledtotangle.blogspot.co.uk/

Diva's Weekly Challenge #244 - "Tripoli Triptastic"

This week, Laura wanted us to use the Zentangle®original tangle pattern TRIPOLI.
Frankly, I have not used this tangle much. But the step-out page suggests that a lot of different variations are possible. Both variations in my tile come from there.

Here's my tile.

Let's keep tangling!

You can view the other entries for the challenge on Diva's blog

http://iamthedivaczt.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/weekly-challenge-244.html

"It's A String Thing!" #118

In this week's "It's a String Thing" #118, Adele wanted us mark the oddity in the calendar year (pun intended).
Friday was 11/13/15.It was also ODD DAY, the sixth and final time this century that the date is a continuous sequence of odd numbers.

We had to use Joyce Burns' String 017 (odd number again!!)
along with the 11th, 13th, and 15th tangles listed on TanglePatterns.com:

Acrosstick  by Ed Gucker, CZT
Afterglo  by Carole Ohl, CZT
Ahh by Maria Thomas, Zentangle® co-founder

Here's my tile. If you count the no.of times I used each pattern, you will find I used odd numbers. I used 9 squares in Acrosstick, 5 of Afterglo and 15 of Ahh.
How's that for celebrating Odd numbers!!

Let's keep tangling!

The tiles entered for this challenge are published on mondays on Adele Bruno's blog
http://tickledtotangle.blogspot.co.uk/

PS: Don't forget to check the date at the bottom of the tile.