Tangled Tuesday No. 68

Welcome to another Tangled Tuesday! In addition to tangling my heart out over the past few days, I’ve been having a little fun spending money at the craft store (ahem), so have lots of good stuff to share with you this week. Hope you enjoy!

Is it just me, or does this little pile of potential delight your heart?!

New Tangles

This week I learned Tripoli, C-stem, Pebble Flowers, and Arc Flower, all from TanglePatterns.com.

Finished Projects

Once again this week I started AND finished a slightly larger piece – a 6″ x 6″ tile in a sort of Zendala format. I am on a roll!

ZIA 65

Challenges

I started out with Diane & Carolien’s Weekly Challenge #32: Tangle with U-K-H, choosing the tangles Up n Down, King’s Crown, and Harfe (all patterns I’d previously learned and used).

Zentangle 111 for Weekly Challenge #32: Tangle with U-K-H

Then I moved on to Zendala Dare #116 from The Bright Owl. I think this one turned out rather different from my usual style, but I kind of like it!

ZIA 64 for Zendala Dare #116

Next was joey’s weekly tangle challenge #87, which was to use Xplode in a monotangle. I wasn’t at all sure what I was going to do with this one, but then I remembered that I had a stack of black tiles and a whole batch of Souffle pens (see above!) just begging to be broken in… so I went for it.

ZIA 66 for joey’s weekly tangle challenge #87

A few tips for the uninitiated (of which I was one) about using Souffle pens:

• Work slowly and be patient or your pen marks WILL bleed and/or smudge and/or run all over the place.
• Allow your pen marks to dry thoroughly (and I do mean thoroughly) before going over them again or they WILL bleed and/or smudge and/or run all over the place.
• Did I mention being patient?
• Oh, and remember clear your workspace of cat hairs. If that’s even possible. *sigh*

Finally I completed The Diva’s Challenge #244, which this week was to do a “Tripoli Triptastic” tile. This was a new pattern to me, and though it looks like it should be a rather simple one, I’m not entirely convinced I really got the hang of it. Guess I need a little more practice.

Zentangle 112 for The Diva’s Challenge #244

Now on to a new week of tangling!

P.S.

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How have you been creative this week?
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