One two buckle my shoe

I couldn't resist, and inchie, twinchie didn't seem to fit.

Inchie -zigzag

Tangle Rain

 Twinchie - holly

Happy holidays to all.

Christmas K.I.S.S.

I am working on my Diva Challenges for 2013 and was doing #121, a use my tangle challenge. I started with a spiral for my string and then did the initial tangle on it. When I started I was going to do the tangle on both sides of the line. Then I thought about doing another small spiral inside the original. As I was finishing the end of the spiral I was thinking about what else to add to it. After going back and doing some embellishment to the tangle and then shading, I thought about the Diva Challenge for this week and decided to do nothing more to the tile, the very simple image was pretty all by itself. Since my spiral ended up looking like a C and given that Christmas is almost here, I am calling it Christmas K.I.S.S.

#121/198 "Christmas K.I.S.S. Tangle: Birds on a Wire

Pucker Up

This week's Diva's Challenge is K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Silly).

Two posts

I have decided to make two posts today.

Catchup update

It dawned on me earlier today that Christmas is next week. Who knew?

String Thing 70

The String Thing challenge this week uses the tangles Verdigogh and Pauline's Pigtails (Adele Bruno), and String 073.

Jury Duty

I received a summons for jury duty the last week of November.

Diva Challenge catchup update

 Well I am still working on catching up with the Diva's challenges.

New challenge

As if I don't have enough to do, I ran across a new tangle challenge to try.

Paper Doll

After viewing the Diva's challenge for this week the song "Paper Doll" has been rumbling through my brain.

Never

say never. I had a lesson in that this Thanksgiving.

Think outside (inside) the box

This week the guest blogger for the Diva asked us to take grid-based tangles and make them freeform and/or take a freeform tangle and put it in a grid.

Anniversary

Today is an anniversary of several things.

Tackle It

I am posting my Tackle It Tuesday response for this week.

Thankful

This is the month of giving thanks in America. I am thankful everyday for family, friends, life.

Embracing the "Yuck"

This week's Diva Challenge is to use your non dominant hand and do your tile.

Opticals

I did my Square One tile on Friday, but didn't scan it until today.

Square One

I am posting the tiles I have done for the Square One facebook group.

Tangling fun

I finished my Tackle It Tuesday challanges. I had fun doing my pumpkin.

Alphabet Soup

I have caught up on my Tackle It Tuesday alphabet.

In Memoriam

Today is veteran's day in the U.S.. As I take time to reflect on this I want to thank all of those, not just here, but around the world who have sacrificed for the freedom and safety of others.

Early Start

I got up early today and decided to check out Blogger. I already had my inchie done and saw that Joey had posted her challenge for this week.

Last Strings

First of all, I have had over 5000 views. Thank you all for looking at my blog and my work, it is truly appreciated.

Weekly Challenges

I am posting my weekly challenges. I even managed to do Joey's Challenge.

Catchup #4

I am posting some more of my It's A String Thing challenge catchups tonight.

Post 3

Twinchie Tuesday 10/28 Pumpkin

Every Inchie Monday 10/27 vegetable

Abstract painting

Knustler view 1 work in progress

Knustler view 2 work in progress

Ing study with Knightsbridge and Onomato

Orb study Tangles: Bunzo, Spokes, Tip

This is my third post for today. Thses are various things I have been working on.

Post 2

This is the second of my posts for today.

Post 1

My next few posts are going to be picture heavy. I apologize in advance. Today I am doing three posts.

Picture Post

I am caught up with my Joey's Weekly Tangle Challenges, all except for this weeks. This week we are to tangle a mandala, not sure if I will get this done on time.

Hello

I got my internet back and can blog once more on a regular basis.

Temporary loss of net

I will be without the internet for a few days. Hope to have it back on Monday.

Streak over

Kansas City lost game one of the World Series 7-1. However, there are still at least three more games to play.

Pink

Today's Diva Challenge is to use pink in your tile in honor of her grandmother who died from breast cancer complications, or to honor someone you know who has been touched by breast cancer.

Uncorked

This week's It's A String Thing Challenge was to use Adele Bruno's String #62 and her new tangle Uncorked. It's the 62nd challenge in the series.

Pulling Hair

It's a good thing that we only speak figuratively of pulling out our hair in frustration, otherwise I would be bald.

American League Champions

                                          GO BLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We swept the championship series and won 2-1. Now we are waiting to see who we will play in the World Series. I am so excited.

Apology

                                              Go Blue!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I apologize for not posting that last night. The Royals won 2-1. I was working on the tree again. It is funny how one name, the correct one, can make a difference.I might end up dealing with it again today, I haven't decided yet. In the meantime, I am working on my Diva Challenge and Joey's Challenge as well, I have completed two tiles but am not ready to post them yet. I don't know that I really am satisfied with the Diva one yet. I will post it, but may do another one.Thar is all for now may post again this evening.

Catch Up

I am posting my It's A String Thing catch up tiles 1-9. I also did my inchie for today. The word was ungual (talon, claw or nail). I had to look it up.

Sidetracked

I have been working on my It's A String Thing challenges today. I am currently up to #6. I will scan what I have done so far tomorrow. I got sidetracked yesterday with a genealogy endeavor. I helped my daughter and her husband start his tree and ended up working on it all day. I was able to establish the information on his grandmother's family on his father's side back six generations. I was so absorbed in what I was doing that it was well after midnight before I stopped. I started to work on it some more today, but decided not to. My daughter called around noon and I ended up spending about an hour and a half working on it again. Jessica and Ronnie ended up coming over for dinner and just left. I didn't get an opportunity to meet my cousins, but I had a good time with family anyway. Hopefully tomorrow I can get back on track with what I was doing.
I'm still having computer issues which seem to just grow on a daily basis. The little bell on Google tells me I have 4 messages but won't open to let me see them (pooh).
If anyone is interested in assistance with their family tree let me know. There will be a fee involved, simply because of he time it takes, but we can discuss it.

Hot!!!

The first game of the American League Championship game is finally over after 11 innings. Royals 8-Baltimore 6. They are really making my head hurt and my heart pound.

Same old Same old

I worked on getting my other challenges for this week completed and scanned. I also put them on my SD card so I wouldn't have too many pics on my computer.

Celebration

This week's Twinchie Tuesday word was cake. Since I had already used the tangle Cayke several times, I attempted to just draw a cake. I put candles on it and put Breast Cancer Awareness on the icing in celebration of this being awareness month. Instead of my usual signature orb I placed pink orbs on the candles.

Tolerance

Tolerance (noun): the ability or willingness to tolerate something, in particular the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with.

Woot! Woot!

The Royals won the division series defeating the Angels 8-3. This is really great because the Angels had the best record in all of baseball.

                                              GO BLUE!!!!!!

Blessings

Yesterday morning I was listening to one of my favorite songs, "When You've Been Blessed" by Patti Labelle.

Diva's Challenge Accepted

Here are my responses to date to the Diva's Weekly Challenge #187.

I was out walking earlier today and came across this little tidbit.

Teeny Maple Leaf

I guess I'm still stuck on the leaves. This was actually a very pretty red when I first saw it, now it's just sort of brown. I had to include the penny to show how teeny this leaf is.

I am still working on my challenges for this week and will probably post them tomorrow. Just got through looking at some of the responses to the Diva's challenge for this week. Off to look at the inchie responses.

Follow the link below to read about Joanne Fink's new book that she wants to self publish. It deals with grief and loss.
http://www.zenspirations.com/blog/when-you-lose-someone-you-love-kickstarter.html

GO BLUE!!!!!!!!!!

We won! In the bottom of the 12th inning Kansas City won 9-8 after being down 7-3 after the 6th inning.


                                                   GO BLUE!!!!!!!!!!
I like to think my inchie had something to do with it (hee hee).

Go Blue

The Kansas City Royals are playing the A's tonight in a wild card game at Royals stadium. In honor of this feat I made the following Inchie for the Every Inchie Monday Challenge.

New creations

I finished my Abstract Face and my cousins hand this weekend. I also completed two more hearts.

Tangles: ING, Paradox, Facet, Cadent

 I used Derwent Intense and Coloursoft, and Crayola pencils.

Barbara's hand

 Tangles: Betweed, Amphora, Riki Tiki, Arckles, Bunzo, Aa's, Henna Drum, Tipple

Heart 3

Two Hearts

Go Blue

The Kansas City Royals are going to the baseball playoffs for the first time in 29 years. Go Blue. I am not a big baseball fan, but right now I am ecstatic.

Leaves, cake and commenting

Leaves: The Diva's Weekly Challenge and It's A String Thing.
Cake: Joey's Weekly Tangle Challenge.
Comments: Preview is essential.

Salmon

Every Inchie Monday challenge this week is Salmon.
Now, I am no artist and don't really draw fish. I don't even fish.

Happiness is...

Remember when that was all the rage?

The Pink Orb

I finished my tile for Tackle It Tuesday. This was more a matter of deciding what I was going to use, We needed to use tangles that started with S, E, and P. After much playing and deliberating, I had the duh moment. For P I could use my pattern, Planturn, you can find the step outs on my blog. I then used Sp-Eye-Ryl, Eez and Euca.

Back to Googly

I am back to using Google again, Mozilla had me very frustrated today. I switched back to Google for the time being. I like both search engines for different reasons. Google automatically translates blogs for me, or at least asks. Mozilla lets me put comments on some blogs that Google won't. Since I am currectly trolling around, I can do that better with Google. I can't watch Netflix on either right now.

Nothing New

I don't have any new pictures to post today. I finished my tangle for the It's A String Thing challenge, but haven't scanned it. I went over to my daughter's this afternoon and watched the latest Captain America movie. Her husband is a Marvel Comic fan. The movie was action  packed and made me want to watch some of the other Marvel movies. Unfortunately, I had to leave and will have to do that some other day. I spent the rest of my day working on my project lists. I realized there are probably a kajillion tangles out there and admire Linda Farmer, Genevieve Crabe, and Sandra Strait all the more. Kudos to you ladies and keep up the good work.

Waiting ...

My get up and go, got up and went. I'm waiting on it to come back.

Pulling out my hair

I have done something once again to my computer and lost my Silverlight plug-in. Even worse I can't install the plug-in because i already have it and I can't remove the old one from my computer. This all leads to me not being able to watch anything on Netflix. I am so frustrated, I'm pulling out my hair,arrgghhhhhh!!!!!!!!.
I have not started on any of the challenges this week, but have looked at some of the ones that have been posted. I joined twitter the other day and have no idea of what I am doing over there. I am making progress on my project. I am currently working on two lists at the same time since they contain a lot of the same information. I am going to try and do some tangles this afternoon and will post them when done.

Projects

I have been working on my lists project for the last couple of days. I am currently putting the info in a word document to be printed out for my reference book and left on the computer for later additions. There are still a lot of tangles for me to find and draw, but it is taking shape. I have also been working on one of my abstract faces pictures that I do.

Small post

I spent today working on my project. I have made it to the W's in my index card file, but still have some tangles I need to do. I played with X-Did some more but not ready to post that yet. I talked with Momma D's daughter about my idea for her mom. She didn't agree with it, so that's pretty much that. No pictures tonight.

Square One

I completed the first six Square One:Purely Zentangle tangles today. I am posting the pictures in the order presented on the facebook sight.

Art

I don't often follow art blogs; however, I like to do scratchboard works occasionally, and came across a blog by a scratchboard artist named Sandra LeFaut. Her work is truly amazing. While there I found the blog of another artist whose work I had seen on The Art Colony. Her name is Karen Hull. Both of these women do phenomenal work. Their links are:

Play-ING

I have been play-ING with ING all day. At first I was doing something that wasn't quite right and then I corrected it. I also did some play with X-did.

First X-did. I am still playing around with different ideas in my head and haven't really done any fills.

Long Week

It has been a long week already and it is only Tuesday. I feel like it should be Thursday. I did not post Sunday or yesterday. Yesterday I was just ready to go to bed. Sunday I had a pleasant surprise. My daughter and her husband came over and fixed dinner. Pork chops, mashed potatoes and gravy ( made from scratch), seasoned green beans, corn on the cob, rolls and a salad. I am still eating leftovers. We ended up watching a movie and just talking. They stayed until 11 PM, by then I didn't even go back to my computer, went straight to bed.

Trying something different

I am a client of Google Fiber and used Google as my search engine. My son-in-law had put Mozilla on my computer and I didn't really use it. Due to problems watching Netflix and connecting to certain sites with Google, I am now trying Mozilla. I have noticed a difference in picture quality while watching Netflix, much better. I can also get to most of the sites I don't look at a lot. Google kept giving me a non secure message and I would have to go to Mozilla to get to the site. Now I get to figure out how to customize Mozilla for my taste. As stated yesterday I haven't done any tangles today. I have worked a little bit on my project, added some more blogs to follow and am in the process of looking at other people's efforts on the challenges I follow. Tomorrow doesn't look very promising either. I have some websites I want to look at and need to look up some information for my friend's mother. I will be working Monday morning this week and won't be able to start my challenges until Monday evening. However since Every Inchie Monday and Twinchie Tuesday have their list of words posted for the year I can do them ahead of time. I may work on those tomorrow, but will not post them on my blog until the appropriate time.

No pictures today

I pretty much trolled around on flickr today admiring the work of others. Also, I went to the library the other day and now have some new books to read. I got the two books that finish a trilogy by Deborah Harkness. Shadow of Night and The Book of Life.

Challenges Complete

I have finished this week's challenges.

First I want to put up my Tackle it Tuesday challenge again. I went back and shaded it and added some color.

Two challenges finished

Two done and two to go.

I finished the It's a String Thing Challenge and here is my entry for that one:

New Look

I changed my blog some more yesterday and I'm trying to see if I like it better. I also made some behind the scene changes. I am trying to see if I can use the labels thing to make a list on my blog of stuff. I like that on other people's sites. Does anyone know where I can get a bookshelf for my blog (like Shelfari?) ? I did figure out how to get the badges on my site and even managed to get that clock thingy I like so much ( saw this on StudioML's blog).

I started a new challenge this week, Twinchie Tuesday. This week's word was Safari. I wanted to do an animal, unfortunately, I can't draw one. So I opted for the tangle pattern Zedbra. This tangle was created by two Canadian CZT's and they stated that in Canada they do not pronounce Z zee but zed. So I made a herd of Zedbras (okay it' s only two) for my Safari twinchie.

Zedbra on Safari

I still have to complete my Diva, It's a String Thing and Tackle it Tuesday challenges, not to mention the continuing work on my project ( I am up to the L's). So I am off to my appointed tasks.

Almost forgot about my Joey's Weekly Tangle Challenge. I drew my basic design or it yesterday, but have not begun to tackle (tangle) it yet.

Reading is fundamental

I tell my daughter all the time: Reading is fundamental. I need to listen to myself. Someone had posted their entry for Every Inchie Monday and I went to the sight, thinking they had posted the information already. I happened to read the list on the left hand side of the blog in it's entirety and realized that they had the weekly challenge words posted for the entire year listed (hit myself in the forehead and said duh). That being said I went ahead and did my inchie and had it completed by 12:04 A. M.. Of course that means I actually started this post a little after midnight.

Frustration

I have been trying to post the badge for Joey's Weekly Tangle Challenge and Tackle it Tuesday on my blog for days now and I can't get the actual badge posted. It is frustrating me to no end. I spent the day looking at tangles that others have come up with and copying them into my book. This is a long process as I am sure many of you know. Once again I can only say how awesome all of you are. There are days when I look at your works and want to crawl into my little hole because I can't do that. Then I way to myself, just keep practicing and you will achieve your own degree of awesome. I do want to thank all of you for posting and sharing your art, tips and tangles. I have learned so much not just about doing tangles but about art in general. To those of you on flickr, thank you for sharing your photos of not only your art work, but of your lives.
I am grateful to:
Rick and Maria for creating this wonderful form of self-expression and self-therapy;
Linda Farmer for creating TanglePatterns ( http://tanglepatterns.com) ,
Genevieve Crabe ( http://www.amarylliscreations.com/zentangleharmony ) for her weekly roundup,
Sandra Strait for her daily links ( http://lifeimitatesdoodles.blogspot.com ), and
all the wonderful people who participate and share their art and their selves.
God bless you all and for those in the USA have a safe and happy Labor Day.

computers...arggh!

I started the day off adding some new tangles to my book. I then went with my friend to her grandson's swimming lesson and to pick her brother up from the hospital. When I got home I decided to upload my photos to flickr and remove them to an SD card. I also ended up putting my photos of my jewelry on flickr. In the process of doing all this I was telling my daughter that y computer was running slow. She suggested I take some of my photos off the computer and then asked me had I defragged it and had I removed the cookies. I did all of that and now 5 hours later I am posting to my blog. I also have had to sign in to all my sites I usually go to since I deleted the cookies. Is the computer moving any faster? Not that I can tell. I'll see how it does tomorrow when I log on. Needless to say, I didn't really get any drawing done today, and haven;t really had an opportunity to look at what other people have posted. I still have to check my e-mail today. Hopefully I can do something tomorrow.

C. O. N. spiracy

I have a friend that always spells out the first three letters of conspiracy and says it's a C. O. N. spiracy. After doing my Diva challenge for this week and progressing on to the It's a String Thing challenge, that was my first thought. The Diva asked us to do stripes for this week, and my first thought was to use Striping in some way. I nixed this idea because I'm not comfortable with that tangle. So I went ahead and did my tile, submitted it and blogged about it (see  Calendar and Stripes) on Tuesday.

Calendars and Stripes

This week at Joey's Tangle Challenge she asked us to tangle a calendar. I had already torn apart the remainder of my 2014 calendar and decided to use it. I tangled on November because it had the most usable space. Now I will have something pretty to look at in a few months.

Oops

I worked on my large ZIA collage and one of the hands today. I just finished the hand, and that's where the oops comes in. I almost didn't finish the large ZIA because I wasn't liking the direction it was going. I went ahead and finished it anyway, and like it more than I did at first. On the hand I attempted the tangle Pea-nuckle and it became an oops.

Hang in There

I feel like the cat hanging on the limb with the caption "Hang in There" underneath. I finished up the part of my project I was working on yesterday. Now it's on to another part. I did manage to do my Tackle it Tuesday tile today. This week was the letter X.

X
Tangles: Xenso, Xplode, X, XYP

I am going to find something to watch on Netflix, listen to the football game and follow the baseball game online. I even think I'll have some popcorn.

Late Post

I have been working on my project some more today, when I wasn't at work. I have not tangeled, but I have been using my pens and pencils. Right now I am working on compiling lists. I have also been looking at the work of many artists. There are so many talented people out there and I am constantly being amazed, excited and delighted. I would love to meet so many of you to talk one on one and watch you work. It is exciting to see how we can all be presented with the same material and come up with so many different results. At the same time, while working on my project, I am wondering if I have bitten off more than I can chew. Probably, I am always going overboard with things. When I do my jewelry, or decide I am going to crochet to use up my stash, I always find myself going and getting more. It kind of defeats the purpose of reducing my stash. However, in true Cappy fashion, I am going to stick with my project and hopefully stay focused enough to finish it. I hope to do some tangle work tomorrow since I do have some deadlines to meet for my challenges this week.

String thing 54

I ended up working today and did not get a lot accomplished. I worked on the It's A String Thing challenge this evening. I started this challenge three times and decided to commit to the final attempt. I like all of the tangles that were chosen, and have probably played around the most with Rick's Paradox followed by Rosewood. Bitten is the least used of the tangles for me. This was done with String 52. My picture is done on a larger sheet of paper with a square that is tile size.

I have been having a very financially stressful year and this evening I am just disgusted with how some things went today. In the words of "Gone With the Wind":

"...tomorrow is another day".

All Tangled Up

I spent the majprity of my day today working on my project. I got the first part done, which involved making a list. I am now working on part two, which also involves making a list. I have a feeling before it is all done that I may have to teach myself a little something about Excel ( scary). I did manage to scan two tiles I worked on. One was for every Inchie Monday and the other was for Joey's Weekly Tangle Challenge. I think I am going to redo the tile for Joey's challenge.

Quick
Tangle: Hurry

Joey's Weekly Tangle Challenge
Tangles:Huggins, Cadent, Huggy Bear, Maddie 2 (Lila Popcheff), Planturn (JLJohnson)

The picture below is a tangle collage I am working on with my pattern "Decollation".

I am so happy that I have had over 1000 visitors to my site. Thank you all for viewing and commenting.
Have a blessed evening.

New Project

I am currently working on a new organization project for the tangles I come across. I am also working on a Twinchie project that may take me more than 2 or 3 months to complete as I will only be working on it occasionally. I didn't work on any zentangle projects today. I did sit and stare at the hands I am going to work on. That is part of what led to my new projects.

I am also watching some old things on Netflix, and plan to have a Star Trek movie marathon. I was really excited to see they have put Criminal Minds on there also. So, I am off to work on my project and watch Criminal Minds.

"Anything that is not actually impossible can be done, if one really sets one;s mind to do it and is determined that it shall be done."  Sir Nicholas Winton

New

Monday, time for new challenges.

 This week the Diva has said Water (kind of like E. F. Hutton). Hmmm, what to do?

Beach Solitude
Tangles: Agua, C-Scape, Waves, Sanibelle, Aquafleur  

I thought of the ocean and the beach. Mind you I live in the Midwest, not a lot of ocean here. I blended Agua into C-Scape into Waves. The above picture was pre-color right as I started coloring.

This is the picture with color added.

Every Monday Inchie's challenge is Quick. I'm still working on that and will post it when I figure it out.

Yesterday two of my cousins stopped by the house. They were coming from a picnic for their 50 year high school reunion. While they were here I traced their hands to tangle. Below are the pretangle images.

Joey's Weekly challenge tangle is to tangle two of something:
a string that creates two shapes (like string #110) or
a mirror image tangle (oh that sounds fun!)
or using tangles that have only two strokes?!

I put some new pages on my blog. They are for my tangles that I came up with. If these are some that are already out there under a different name please let me know.

Do You Cheat? I Do, Sometimes.

I sometimes do the little "shortcuts" that I think make things better. Either in appearance or ease of producing. In doing Zentangle (R) tiles, I sometimes use a dot grid from a printout of dots I made (along with squares also). It all depends on waht I am doing and how uniform I want it to look. I do most of my work freehand, however there are times when I want my dots or squares to line up. I mostly do this when I am learning to do a pattern. After I have "learned" how to do it, then I play. Then I do the what if. What if I curve the lines, what if the lines are wavy, what if the dots are farther apart or closer together? Sometimes I cheat on Sudoku puzzles also. If the answer is in the back of the book and I am seriously stuck, I cheat. I don't, however, cheat on reading. I will not flip to the back of a book to see the ending, I like being in suspense as to the outcome. I don't cheat at cards. Years ago my husband and I were playing poker for Pokeno chips. He ended up taking all my chips and I realized he was dealing from the bottom of the deck, so to speak. I have not played poker since ( that was over 30 years ago). When I said something to him about it he chuckled. When I put puzzles together I break apart all the pieces first, mix them up and don't use already attached pieces.
Do you cheat?

Enough on that subject. I was playing around with Fracas an official Zentangle(R) tangle earlier and came up with a pattern I really like. It reminds me of so many other patterns, with little twists. I woke up this morning and played with it some more. I originally started with what I think of as the cross pattern (i.e. the beginnings of Fracas, Ixorus, Drupe, etc.). I guess it's more like a star shape.

 After I played with that I went on to a square gird,

a triangle, and a circle.

More triangles.

My practice page.

Some Inchies.

Finally I had to come up with a name. This was not an easy task. After much deliberation, I came up with Decollation. Why? It reminds me of Art Deco and also tangellations on numerous other tangles.

The step outs for Decollation are below.

Decollation Monotangle.

Almost pretangle

Before shading

Shaded

Challenges completed

When I first began doing the few challenges I chose, I thought they wouldn't take long. Duh!!!, they are challenges. This week I did some experimenting and playing with different tangles. I am posting the results of my Tackle it Tuesday challenge, the letter W this week, and my second It's a String Thing attempt, which I really like.

Tackle it Tuesday: W
Tangles: Wirly Bird, Widgets, Wired, Wist

I love Wirly Bird and all of the things you can do with and to it. I also really like Widgets, but don't often get to use it. I have problems with Wist, which is why there is so much of it on this tile. I had originally planned to use only a few outcroppings of Wist and then do some with Wired. After I started, however, I liked the way Wist looked coming out of Wirly Bird and did it all the way around. I then used Wired as a fill for some of Wirly Bird's wings.

Flighty
Tangles: Pokeleaf, Onomato, Hurray, Planateen

In yesterday's post I mentioned that Planateen was a tangle I struggle with, so I decided to give it one more go. I really like the result of putting it inside Pokeleaf. For some reason this image reminds me of an abstract bird in flight, hence the name Flighty.

Thank you for stopping by to look and please leave a comment.

Long Post

I am posting the pictures I have been working on this week. I haven't posted anything on the challenge sites yet.

These are the ones for Joey's Weekly Tangle Challenge. This week it was to tangle a sun. I think of red, yellow and orange when I think of the sun.

Attempt 1
Tangles: Zenplosion Folds, Wirly Bird

My first attempt involved drawing a circle and surrounding it with Wirly Bird using alternate stripes in the rays. I then attempted to do Zenplosion Folds inside the sun. My first couple were a little off, so I went back and read through the steps again and they got better.I used Colored pencil and graphite pencil to do the shading and coloring on the inside. On the rays I used Micron 01 and 02 pens.

Attempt 2
Tangles: Spiteria(Wanphai Nongrum), Maddie 2(Poppie), Roel variation

My second attempt again involved drasing a circle and I used Roel with only the area closest to the circle being filled. I yjen made avals on the innerpart of the circle and used Maddie 2 a lovely art deoey pattern by Poppie with different fills. For the center I did Spiteria a very beautiful starlike pattern by Wanphai Nongrum.

Sunplosion(attempt 3)
Tangles:Zenplosion Folds, Xplode

My third attempt I thought of the sun exploding, hence the title Sunplosion. I colored the background using colored pencils from yellow to orange to red. I then used Zenplosion folds again with the tangle pattern Xplode.

Attempt 4
Tangles: Footlites, DL Sunray

Attempt 4 colored with colored pencils

I then decided to only use part of the circle on the tile. because Footlites reminds me of spotlights I used that for the rays of the sun. For the interior I decided to use DL Sunray, again because of the rays. I shaded it with graphite pencil and then used colored pencils to color it. Looking at it again I may title this one Sunspots.

Attempt 5
Tangle:Brandee (Anneke van Dam)

 For my last attempt I was looking at Anneke van Dam's blogspot to see the step outs for MacDee and came across her tangle patter Brandee. It looks like flames and she had used a circle to show how well it works around any shape. I already had my half circle prepared and decided to use this pattern (shown above). Since I really did not like my first attempt at MacDee, I thought why not use the patterns together. I rather like it. I used Micron red 02 and yellow 01 for MacDee and Micron 01,08,Graphic 3 and orange 01 for Brandee. I think I'll call it Scottish Heat (what do you think?). I do believe this will be the one I submit for the Diva's Challenge and attempt 4 will be submitted for Joey's Challenge.

Attempt 5 completed
Tangles: Brandee and MacDee (both from Anneke van Dam)

Diva's Challenge
Tangle: MacDee

This was my first attempt at MacDee and was originally a monotangle (plus learning how to do it). I really like the plaid. but I'm not crazy about this tile.

It's a String Thing #53
String Pattern 54
Tangles:Hurray, Onomato, Planateen, Pokeleaf

Colored Pencil, Micron 01 pen

 

I made this the first day it was posted, but wanted to try some other ideas. Pokeleaf and Onomato are two of my go to patterns. I have never used Hurray, but I like the simplicity of it. I have only used Planateen twice because it is a challenge to me. I started not to use it, but decided to step out of my comfort zone. I need to play around with it some more because I really like the way it reminds me of clay tile roofs ( we have a lot of those around here).

I am still working on this one trying to decide a few things. I will post an image when I am finished.

 A while back I indicated I had some WIPs that needed to be done. The image above is one I worked on this week. The next three photos show it at different stages of work.

And the finished project.

Circular
Tangles: Oorbelle (Pennyb), Footlites, Paradox, Easy 3's. Cameo, Maddie 2 (all three by Poppie), Abacus (Lori Byerly), Daggerly, MacDee (Anneke van Dam), Fandango, Kuntsler (Margaret Bremner), Crescent Moon, Da-Kris (Sharon Robinson) and one I am calling Polka

I still have a little more shading to do. I wanted to try some tangles that weren't on Linda Farmers TanglePatterns. It took me several tries to get Da-Kris right, although I do rather like my blunders. I think I will be using all of these tangles again and will be working on "Polka" more in the future.