No Strings Attached

This week Laura challenged us to draw without a string.

Like many others, I started in the corner and worked up and out from there.

And surprisingly, it didn't take me long to do. The choices of tangles flowed one after the other.

The tangles I used were Scallops, Socc, Khirkee, Sand Swirl, Koryl, Lotus Pods, Shattuck and Waves.

Must do this more often!



Happy tangling...
Claire

Opposites Attract

Laura invited Guest Challenger, Christina Vandervlist, to set this challenge back in August 2011.

The challenge was to use either all straight lines or all curvy lines for the string, and then fill the string with it's opposite!

I felt the need to do both of these...


Here's the straight string:

Unshaded

Opposites Attract - Straight String
Curvy Tangles: Warped Eggs; Nipa; Dansk;
Scallops; Unyun; Assunta

And the curvy one:

Opposites Attract - Curvy String
Straight Tangles: Ixorus (variation); Static;
Knightsbridge; Baton

 And finally a few close-ups:

Happy tangling...
Claire

Fairyland

In July 2011, Laura handed over the reins to Carol Bailey Floyd to set the challenge for the week, and the challenge she set was to create a Zentangle fairy home.

So here's my Fairyland:

Fairyland
Tangles: Scallops; Msst; Ahh;
Btl Joos; PokeLeaf; Drupe; Shattuck

Alternative angle...

This was a big challenge for me, as I usually prefer the more geometric patterns!

Happy tangling...
Claire

Zendala Dare 29

A big shout out to Erin who managed to get the dare up even though she's feeling under the weather... Hope you feel better soon!

The template this week is a really nice one:

Dare 29

I got stuck a little along the way... thinking too much!
I chose to use Florz again, like in my tile for the weekly Diva challenge, inspired by this Zentangle post from Maria earlier in the week.

So here she is - unshaded:

Tangles: Betweed, Florz, Sparkool, Scallops, Paradox 

 Shaded:

 Up close and personal:

I had great fun with this! How did you get on???

Happy tangling...
Claire

A Little Help from my Friends

So in this challenge set back in May 2011 by Laura, the idea was to get someone to draw a string for you.

I had MoH draw this string:

MoH's String

and then I worked my magic, and this is the result:

Ta-Da!
Tangles: Nzeppel, Fescu, Crescent Moon,
Meer, Scallops, Paradox

Happy tangling...
Claire