Choose a Letter

Here are the results of this week's challenge.  For some reason I chose the letter X.  There are only about 4 tangle patterns for this letter so I thought I better use some colour to liven it up.  Jay chose S, which has lots of tangles.  She tried to use tangles that she hadn't used before.

Here is mine with the tangle patterns, X, xenso and XYP.

Here is Jay's with tangle patterns written at the bottom of the picture.

Tangle patterns: stoic, scrumble, spaamanders, star map, swarm, sugarcane, striping, semaphore, and strircles (for those people who don't have their glasses handy).

Challenge #16 Choose a Letter

This week's challenge is to choose a letter of the alphabet and then head to the website, http://tanglepatterns.com.  This website is great for both the beginner and the novice zentangle people.  Here they list the tangle patterns alphabetically and there are so many to choose from.  

The challenge:

Once you have chosen the letter you want to tangle, draw it out in block form.  Then go to the tangle pattern site and have a look at the tangle patterns that begin with this letter.  Use only the tangles that begin with your chosen letter.  

For example:

If you choose the letter B, you could tangle it with the tangles: Bales, Bask-it, Bateek, and Beadlines.

Even if you don't chose to accept this challenge, check out this great site.

Challenge #15. Our Hands

We are going to cheat a little with this week's challenge.  Seeing as it is already Tuesday and the challenge has not been set, I suggested that we show you a zentangled hand.  We have both done this exercise before and it is easy and fun.  Just trace your hand and then fill it in with some of your favourite tangles. The spaces are small so you can try some new tangles that you haven't used before. Here are our hands.

This is Jay's:

Here is my hand:

We have already planned our challenge for next week and I will tell you about it on Sunday.

Enjoy.

Christmas Cards

Here are our cards.

Mine:

Jay's

Challenge #14 Christmas is coming

This week's challenge is to design a Christmas card.  It is not too soon to be thinking about sending those cards to family and friends.  So...think about snow, and sleigh bells and decorations.

Challenge #13 Embedded Quote

The challenge this week is to create a zentangle that incorporates a quote, or words as part of the design. It can be a single word, a lengthy quote, random words spread through the design, or even a design drawn on a page from a book or magazine that incorporates some part of the text.

We were keen this week and we each had a quote in mind and we finished it early!!

My quote was written by Becky Whitney.  She is the Wellness and Drug Awareness worker in this tiny northern community.  I saw this quote on a whiteboard at the wellness house and when I asked who wrote it Becky said she did.  I felt that it needed preserving because things on whiteboards just don't last.  This was the perfect challenge to get me started on this project for Becky.  I will give it to her next time I see her!

Jay choose this quote from Ulysses by Alford Lord Tennyson:

’Tis not too late to seek a newer world. 
Push off, and sitting well in order smite 
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds 
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths 
Of all the western stars, until I die. 
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: 
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, 
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. 
Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’ 
We are not now that strength which in old days 
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; 
One equal temper of heroic hearts, 
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will 
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. 

The Travel Mug Challenge

Here are the results of our Ikea Travel Mug Challenge.  This was a fun project.  We have tried to capture a picture of our mugs from a number of different angles.  We have also taken a photo of the paper before we inserted it into the mug.  These would make great gifts.

Here is mine.

Here is Jay's.