ATC format

This is my first try at doing an ATC (artist trading card). It is a smaller format, about the size of a business card.

Uses: Punzel; Reticulated; Unyun

Up to E now

I'm back to doing some alphabet tangles now. I've gotten up to E. Here's my first all-E tangle.

Uses: Ennies and Euca

Last time with D

I do believe this will be the last D-tangle. I'm moving on up to the E's. This one is a little different from others that I have made, as it has more blank space. Still haven't got the shading right.

Uses: Droplets, Drupe, Dutch Hourglass and Dust Bunny

Dew Drops

I recently purchased some Dew Drops ink - for rubber stamping and other projects - and decided to ink up a Zentangle square before I started tangling it. The first attempt did not come out to well, as I also colored parts of the tangle with colored pens and just didn't like it. This one I decided to tangle in black and white ... errr ... well, black and INKED, anyway. I rather liked the result. I have also purchased a corner-rounder and like the look of the rounded corners.

Uses: Dragonair and Squid

Found another C tangle

I was looking through my scans and found this tangle that I never posted. It belongs with all the C-tangles!
Now that I look at it, I believe I was going to try to re-scan this to get the shading to show up better. Oh well. Here it is anyway.

Uses: Celtic; Cirquital; Cockles & Mussels

A little different

I intended for this tangle to be another all-D tangle, but once I finished DeKore - which turned out larger than I expected, I decided to try just one background tangle to finish it off, and I didn't like any of the "D" tangles that I found. So I used Cadent, which is one of my favorites. I liked the way it came out and added some color to it, which I liked even more. The pink is a glitter pen, which doesn't really show up on the web - so imagine a little shimmer where the pink ink is.

Uses DeKore and Cadent

D again

Here's another D-tangle. The "diamonds" were colored in with gold glitter pens. It does a nice glittery effect.
Now that I am making more and more tangles, I need to find a way to keep them. I suppose I should find a nice box which I can display on my coffee table or shelf or something..hmmmm....Looks like a trip to the craft store is coming up! (Like I need an excuse....)

Uses: Diamond Drops; Dust bunny: DL nebula

Finally!

After making some tangles that went right into the garbage, I finally finished one I like. The diamonds are filled in with Sakura gold glitter pen and do glimmer on the original.

Uses: Diamond Drops; Dust Bunny; DL Nebula

Time for the D's

Moving on to the D-tangles now. I finally figured out how to get the shading to scan better.

Uses: DL Labyrinth; Diamond & Squares; Dragonair

Another C tangle

I finished another C-tangle, using a tanlge I have never used before, Chard. The shading didn't really scan right.

Uses: Croon; Chainging, Chard

C-tangles continued

I intended to use more tangles on this one, but once I got this far, I decided I liked it just the way it is. But I did decide to use some color.

Uses: Cat-kin and Chainlette

Starting the C's

I have made it to the C-tangles now. I like the open-ness of this one.

This uses: Cockles n mussels; Cadent; Cat-kin; and Chillon

Doing B again

This MIGHT be the last B tangle - unless I find some more that I want to practice. I believe I really wanted the left side to be the bottom, but I scanned it this way. Doesn't look too bad....

Uses: Bridgen, Boucle, Bluebonnets, Bumps, Bubbles, Bandola and BB

More B Tangles

Here's another B tangle. I found some more B tangles, so there will be more B postings in this series. Will I ever make it to C???

Uses: Barbed wire; Black-eyed peas; Bilt; Box spirals; Betweed; Basketweave; Beadlines; Beelight

Roller Coaster

I've finished one last B tangle and have been working on tangles starting with C but haven't gotten them scanned yet. They will be posted later this week. Here's a tangle I did a few weeks ago. I think I'll name this creation Roller Coaster, which it sort of resembles. Well, at least to my eye.

Tangles used: Strata, Stoic, Bubbles and one I forgot the name of.

Seeing double

Late last year, I was experimenting with making ornaments and Christmas cards using Zentangles. I made a design that I liked, then copied it and colored it. Below are the results.

Tangles used: Betweed; Beadlines; BB, and one I don't know the name of.

I didn't use these designs for anything. They've just been sitting in my "finished" folder. Thought I'd share them.

Mostly B

 Back to the B's. This is mostly B-tangles. It uses Bubbles and another tangle I cannot find the name of.  When I started doing these, I got myself a small spiral bound sketch pad - the kind made to be very portable - and started putting tangles in it that I liked. Sometimes, I forgot to put in the name. The background "webbing" is one of those. I did put some shading in this one, but it doesn't seem to have shown up on the scan. Perhaps I need to make the shading more obvious.

Bubbles and an unidentified tangle

Last A

I finally finished a tangle that I can post. This one came out OK. Anyone know a good place to learn how to do shading??? Guess I should learn how to do the patterns first, but I love looking at the ones that have shading. This pattern was made with all A tangles.

Antidots, Ahh, Arc Flower, Ash leaf, Afterglo, Arrowheads and Ambler used.

This A gets a D

I finally finished another tangle - using A's.

This one uses Afterglo, Arc Flower, Arrowheads, and Antidots

I'm not to fond of this one - it looks unbalanced to me. But, it does use some Tangles that I have not used very often.

Busy days

Sorry I haven't posted any new tangles. I've been busy with some other things (insert EQ2 here.) AND making some cards. I have lots of birthdays coming up in March. I've been using a technique I learned years ago, but just started do more of called Iris Folding. Guess I should have scanned the cards I made and sent already (Valentines)  - but I didn't. Just wanted to get them in the mail on time. I'll try to remember to scan any new ones I make and post them at a later date.