Diva Challenge #100

A quick post today as I am running late with the Christmas preparations.

When I tried this one I only had a blue pen to hand, so here it is in blue

and converted to black.

Diva Challenge #98

The challenge this week from Laura at I am the Diva  was to use the Tangle, Keenees, this is a tangle that I have used quite a lot so I decided to try and use it in a different way this week.

I have watched a few of Vihart's videos on Youtube and they are great see here for an example of what gave me inspiration for my first tangle. Another of her videos triangle party is well worth a watch also.

Keenees and Mooka

For the second attempt I just had some fun and did a ZIA monotangle. The beaks are orange but my scanner has made them look red.

Keenees

Enjoy!

Thanks for your visit and comments, I love to hear what you think.

Diva Challenge #97

The challenge this week from Laura at I am the Diva was to do a tangle with "No Strings Attached".

We were to create a tile, zendala, or ZIA without using a string.
I had a lot of fun with this one and took 3 different approaches.

We have recently been catching up with the first four series of  "The Big Bang Theory", a program which makes me laugh out loud.  So my first Zia was based on the "Big Bang!"

 

The second idea I was inspired by a tile from last week's challenge, Sorry I can not remember who's tile this was. It was to use Hollibaugh and tangle the spaces (I hope that doesn't count as a string)

For the third ZIA I decided to take a random approach.

Using the Tangle Patterns website I asked one of my family to randomly choose a letter, then depending on how many tangles started with that letter I got them to choose a random number, this gave me my first pattern. I just kept going like this until I had filled up the whole page.

 This is fun as it takes the control away from you and I used some patterns that before I had skipped past without even considering. You also have to find a way to make these random patterns work together.



Tuftid, Moving Day, Basketweave, Me-three, Scrumble, XYP, Emingle, Diagonals,
 Yang, Pane, Kinetic, Cracked,Cirquital, Cross Stitch

Diva Challenge #96

The challenge this week from Laura at I am the Diva was to use the Tangle Zinger which has recently been named by Rick and Maria.

I have not tried this one before and I like it, I used it like a plant in this tile which has quite an organic feel to it.

Diva Challenge #95

The challenge this week from Laura at I am the Diva is to use Mickey Mouse as your inspiration.

I live in Scotland but have been to Orlando for many holidays and always had a fantastic time at Disney, there's nowhere else quite like it.

I decided to go with the obvious inspration, the mouse himself. I started with the ears and went from there. Ttangles I used were: Cadent, Beadlines, Betweed, Shattuck, I can't remember what the one for the nose was!

I followed up with a plain old M which I tangled in.

Tangles used are Shattuck, Tripoli, Groovy, Cracked, Crescent Moon,Keenees Arrowheads, BlackEyed Peas, Ambler, Strircles

Diva Challenge #94

This week's challenge from Laura at I am the Diva was to use the tangle SOCC created by Erin.

This was a new tangle to me and I really enjoyed using it, the first one is a monotangle, I did this just to get a feel for it and how it worked and then I was a bit more adventurous for my next tile.

Zendala Dare #30

It's been a few weeks since I have managed to do one of Erin's dares. Here's a link to this weeks challenge  http://thebrightowl.blogspot.co.uk/.

As well as the Zendala template, the dare this week was only to use tangles starting with the letters
 P I E and to use a tangle you had not used before.

I went for new tangles Eye-wa, Eddy, Intersection and an old favourite Paradox.

I am not sure about this as it doesn't flow that well for me. I found it quite tricky using only these tangles, but a great challenge and one which pushed me out of my comfort zone of using the same tangles again and again.