Tackle it Tuesday: D-E-F

Yes, I'm a bit late with this last weeks' challenge "Tackle it Tuesday: Tangles starting with D-E-F", but I still wanted to do it. I used these tangles:

• Dooleedo by Ksenija Vojisavljevic
• Ennies by Zentangle
• Footlites by Carole Ohl

Now I can start with this weeks' challenge with G-H-I :o)

Have a great evening,

Love, Joya

Diva-challenge # 204: Valentangle

This week's challenge at Diva's Blog is "to get into the Valentine's Spirit", and I wanted to try a Mandala with some simple patterns from the web and a dice, so I must not decide which element I had to use in the next row. It was relaxing and in the end I decided to use some red, so I got a "Valentangdala" or something like that :o)

(In original it's not that dark, but I couldn't get a better foto, it's still rainy outside here since the weekend.)

Have you all a merry Velantine's day ♥

Love, Joya

Square One / Muster-Mixer # 3

It's my first time trying a "Muster-Mixer" (= to mix or merge two or more Tanglepatterns). The german "Freude mit Zentangle"-Blog (= Fun with Zentangle) started its third challenge with mixing the patterns Cadent and Buttercup. The weekly challenge of the Facebook-group "Square One - Purely Zentangle" is the pattern Well, and I thought it matches to the other ones, so I started to tangle around with these three patterns. It's totally different to my usual tangles, but it was fun to merge the patterns into each other, I will try some other patterns to merge in the next weeks.

Have fun,
Joya

String Thing # 78

Here's my tile for Adele's String Thing-challenge #78. She created a new String with hearts and we had the choice between these patterns to fill the string:

• Heartline by Helen Williams
• Hearty by Livia Chua
• LG by me :)
• Love Line by Judy Murphy

I used all of them and colored the tile with some red.

Have a great Valentine's day folks ♥
Joya

Do you know "dangling"?

Last week I bought the book "Zenspirations: Dangle Designs" by the fabolous Joanne Fink. I wanted to by it many times before, and when I discovered a forgotten coupon for Amazon in my mails I had to buy it :)

I know, it's very, very colorful and has much details, but once I started I couldn't stop until my eyes got tired and all blocks were colored :o) Next time, I will try to left more free space and less color. There are so many possibilities and it's much different to Zentangling, but I like it very much just to doodle around without strings and patterns ;o)

Did you ever hear about Dangling or tried it by yourselfs?

Love,
Joya

Square One: Quandary

In the Facebook-group "Square One - Purely Zentangle" the topic of the week is Quandary by Zentangle. I used String 124 and the patterns Quandary, Florz (also by Zentangle) and Phroz by Lynn Mead.

I'm not really satisfied with this tile, it's not really creative and a kind of boring and Quandary is not one of my favourite patterns. And next time I will try Phroz a bit larger so I have more space to draw the details.

Love,
Joya

Joey's challenge # 45

This week we have a very funny challenge at Joey's Blog. We should use our hand as a string and fill it with tangles we want to use. I chose many patterns:

• 8 of Diamonds by Sue Jacobs
• Akoya by Sandy Hunter
• Amphora by Lily Moon
• Antidots by Anita Roby-Lavery
• Antique by Kathy Barringer
• BB by Zentangle
• Lachrymose by molossus
• Lotus Flower by Quaddles-Roost (Deviantart)
• Lyptus by Precious Worker
• Zöpfe by Kunstkramkiste (Simone B.)

Sometimes I like to see the differences between shading and no-shading, so here's the picture of pre-shading:

Have a great week,

Joya