N'Zeppel

N'Zeppel, who doesn't love N'Zeppel? It fascinated me from the first moment I saw it. I loved the free form version of it, especially when I saw that it could be rounded out to make the optical illusion of a curved stone. It just reminded me of crazy paving, or those crazy stone chimney breasts that were popular in the 70's (was it the 70's?) Some people even decorated the outside of their house with it, most notably Vera and Jack Duckworth in Coronation Street lol.

Well here is my version for Joey's Monotangle Challenge #77 .......

A plain and simple tile.

There are not many tangle patterns beginning with Y that I like drawing. I have enjoyed discovering Yew-Dee however. This is the pattern that is new to me. Along the bottom I put some Ynix, but I have used that before and so I stopped there and have a very plain and simple tile for the That's New To Me Challenge.  .

Lealad

L for Lealad by Lily Moon. Sometimes I struggle to think of variations for the Tangle Me Three Challenges, but this time they just seemed to flow from my pen. I am sure some arty people will be able to produce some amazing ideas with zing, but at least I remembered shading ,which for me is good. Perhaps I should have tried to change the flower too, in fact I can think of lots of variations for this tangle but it is not called Tangle Me 100 and I am pleased with the tile as it is :-)

The original tangle is within the L which is for Lealad and for Lily Moon. On the left hand side I did a curved variation and on the right hand side a horizontal version.

Undine, jonqual and bumper

U J & B are the letters this week for Diane and Carolien's Challenge. I struggled to find a U tangle that I liked. I didn't want to use Umble and the others didn't seem to fit the bill. In the end I chose Undine which I hadn't used before. Around the top edge I used Bumper and the lower portion is filled with Jonqual. I really love doing Jonqual in this wiggly shiny fashion. I saw someone on Square One do it like this and I have used it ever since.

The String for this week's It's a String Thing looked very interesting this week, and I enjoyed the chosen tangle patterns too. I am not sure why the diagonal line is across the bottom part of the string. It divided the smallest square into triangles but apart from that didn't seem to create any extra portions. I liked all the patterns, and I think I am going to repeat the tile several times with the tangles in different parts just to see the difference, I drew this one in my sketch book, but it is a normal tile size.

Zenith

The Diva seems to have had a great summer. I do envy her time spent at CanTangle. It must be such fun to meet up with other tanglers. I love all the interaction on these blogs through the newsie posts and comments left by visitors, so I can just imagine all the chat and laughter when Zentanglers get together in real life!

Zenith is The Diva's choice for the challenge this week. I like this new tangle but my brain can't seem to get beyond seeing it as a border tangle. I am sure when I start to visit the entries there will be some amazing tiles where it will be mixed with other tangles on artful tiles, but I stayed with Zenith and just made a Monotangle with it.

A Kicking K :-)

K is an amazing string for Tackle it Tuesday. Everything fits around it. I used Kinetic, Knase, Kandy Ribbonz, Kozy and Keeko all drawn with the Derwent Sepia Pen. Once again I really enjoyed this challenge.

Tropicana/ixorus

1st September and I nearly didn't get this done in time. Fortunately it suddenly popped up on the English Channel of the Muster Mixture Challenge and reminded me that I had thought of doing this on a Black Tile. Black tiles lend themselves to simplicity I think. I simply drew Icorus but replaced the moon shape with the arch of Tropicana. It turned out more effective than I thought. I didn't realise those arch shapes would line themselves up in circles.