Joey's #40: chillon on a twinchie

Joey gave us a nice, restful challenge this week: she wants to see us use the pattern 'Chillon' on a twinchie. That's a miniature card of 5 x 5 cm. Normally, zentangle tiles are 9 x 9 cm.

This challenge was so nice and restful that I decided to make two of them :-)

It's a String Thing #70

It's almost Christmas, so this week Adele Bruno chose a string and tangles that are festive: string 073 and two patterns: Verdigogh and Pauline's Pigtail. 

I was hesitating what surface to make black: the one under Pauline's Pigtail or the one under Verdigogh. I couldn't leave everything white, it felt I needed to put contrast in this tile. Finally, I decided to make the middle part black and do some shadowing over Pauline's Pigtail. Now that it's finished, I'm not sure if the black is too much of a weight over Pauline's (now squashed ;-) ) Pigtail. Luckily the last one still looks airy ;-)

Diva's challenge #196: All Dolled Up

This week's Diva guest blogger is Emily Classon. She asked us to get inspired by dolls, which is a real challenge to me, because I never was a dolls-girl :-) However, I love magic fairies (who doesn't :-) ), so I tried to create a tangled version. It didn't really work out the way I wanted, but at least she looks happy ;-)

Diva's Challenge #195

Another guest post at Diva's blog: this week it's Sandy Hunter. She asked us to change the structure of a pattern, while still retaining its basic basic elements. So: I put Inapod in a grid and Flux in a line. That was fun to do, thank you Sandy! I'm curious to see what other people did. 

Thanks as well to everybody who left (or leaves ;-) ) a comment. Makes me happy!

Something quilt-like

Joey's weekly challenge #35 is to tangle something that looks like a quilt. I've never quilted, so I just did what I felt 'quiltish' ;-)

It's okay in black and white, but when I think of a quilt, I think of plenty colours. Good reason to use my glaze 3D rollers!

Diva's Weekly Challenge #193 : TriTangle

Holly Atwater, this weeks' guest blogger at the Diva Challenge, liked to issue a challenge of THX (thanks). Why? Beacause today is Veteran's Day in the United States and in a couple of weeks, it's Thanksgiving. In France and Belgium, today is Armistice Day, so plenty of things to commemorate.

The patterns we were to use, are Trio, Huggins and Xyp. They form a lovely TriTangle with a heart in the middle to say THANKS!

I would like to say thanks to you as well for visiting my blog! :-)

Diva Challenge #192

Diva's Guest blogger Cris Letourneau arranged a lovely challenge, in which we were asked to use Seton. I wasn't really zen this week, so the lines aren't all as straight as I would have liked. It's allright to me, since tangling gave me the relaxation I needed. 

Diva Challenge #191: Monotangle Betweed

'Monotangle' and 'Betweed': two things I love! So, I was happy with this week's Diva Challenge :-)

I tried to pay extra attention to the shadowing part. 

Curious to see the other entries this week!

It's a string thing #63

Adele Bruno challenged us to use string 66 and some Q tangles. I chose Quib, Quandary and Quiltz and had a lot of fun with them. Thank you for another great challenge, Adele!

Diva's Weekly Challenge #190: "Pink for Ardath*"

This week, Laura asked us to use some pink in honour of Ardath, her grandmother who passed away due to complications of breast cancer.

My own gran, Alida, passed away 4 years ago at the age of 96, after having survived cancer at her 84th! She was a wonderful person who loved plants and flowers, and her favorite colour was pink. So, in honour of these two special grandmothers, I made this tile.

Tackle it Tuesday: M-O-N

This week's Tackle it Tuesday challenge is to use tangle patterns starting with M, O and N.

I tried Newell (new to me), Ogle and... NyMph... The last one was a mistake: I overlooked that I already had an N-tangle. Oops, wrong idea! Luckily there's an M in Nymph ;-)

Diva's weekly challenge #189

This weeks's challenge from the Diva is a UMT (Use My Tangle) and we're using Yuma by Tina-AKUA. Tina: I love this tangle! Thank you for sharing it with us. 

I decided to combine it with Inapod (a favorite of mine as well) and Striping. Quite like the result, it's always surprising to see what's growing out of your own hands :-)

Joey's challenge #30

Yesterday was Thanksgiving in Canada, so Joey chose 6 tangles representing things you may find on the Thanksgiving dinner table.

No Thanksgiving in the Netherlands, so plenty of time to tangle away ;-)

I chose string 126 and used all 6 tangles: Trivet, Allium, Kuke, Half Onions, Nvelope, Sunflower.

Nice challenge!

Joey's weekly challenge #29

String #010 and my favorite O tangles... I decided to keep it light and airy.

You can see other people's entries at Joey's blog. 

Diva's Weekly Challenge #188

This week's Diva Challenge is all about the National Coming Out Day.
To me, all people are the same, no matter what colour of skin, gender, religion, sexual preference or whatsoever one has. We all have a beating heart and no matter what path we take in life, we all want to be loved in a way that suits us. I'm glad different people have different preferences: the world would be boring when everyone would be the same...

So here's my tile, I've used patterns starting with LGBT:
Lacy, Golven, Baton and BTL Joos to cover T ;-)

Thanks to everyone who left comments in my previous challenges, it makes me really happy to read them :-)

It's a String Thing #60

Adele Bruno's 'It's a String Thing' challenge for this week was to use string #061 and 4 tangles starting with X: Xav, Xplode, X and Xeni.

Joey's weekly tangle challenge #28

Knitting - not my cup of tea ;-)
It didn't scare me to try out the tangle Knyt - although I noticed I found it almost as hard to tangle as I do to knit. I can do with a bit more practice, but right now it's allright :-)

You can see other people's Knyt-work at Made by Joey.

Diva's Weekly Challenge #187: Blind String

This week the challenge is to draw a string with our eyes closed. I decided to try and keep the string simple - in order to get not too many tiny sections. It's very nice to discover what you end up with, after opening your eyes :-)

I used Flux, Fife, Paradox and Inapod. Not sure if Paradox fits in with the other tangles, but that's how it goes ;-)

Here you can see the original string:

Joey's weekly tangle challenge #27

This week, Joey asked us to use string 012 and the pattern Cayke, in honour of her daughter's birthday. She will be 12 tomorrow, many congratulations! For the occasion, I tried to use festive tangles. 

Tackle it Tuesday - SEP

Artful Creations asked us to only use tangles that start with S, E and P.

I chose Skein, Etcher and PomX2.