Weekly Challenge #386 - "Pick up where you left off"

That is so true. You can always go back and touch up an unfinished art project. Saying  is one thing but doing is another.  So this week's theme is a good push to finish an abandoned tile: Look for an unfinished tile and breathe some new life into it.....
I found one which I didn't like,  it was left in a stash of some more unfinished tiles. Time to at least finish this one.

I started with good spirit but messed up on the  second part of the CB5 tangle. Didn't work out good so I almost put it back but then this popped up in my head: There Are No Mistakes in Zentangle!! It doesn't have to be perfect! So I just used a background filler with lines/aura's and that worked out well.
Here is my finished tile:

Tangles used: CB5, Y-ful-power, Atura and Boing

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Weekly Challenge #385: Valentangle

This week's challenge is: be inspired by Valentine's Day. Well Valentine is over and I'm late making this tile but still in time before next week challenge will be posted. 

I don't do Valentine's Day on February 14. I would rather be surprised unexpectedly.

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Weekly Challenge #384: "UMT - Anthem by Jody Genovese, CZT"

The first Monday of the month is a Use My Tangle challenge brought to us by one of our tanglers.  This month tangle  is called Anthem by Jody Genovese, CZT.

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Weekly Challenge #383: "New Official tangle: Ratoon"

Ratoon was on my to-try-list so this challenge gave me a push to work on it this week. First seeing Ratoon  I thought it looks complex  but really it is not hard at all when following the directions. After a little practise I got the hang of it.  Decided to make several Ratoons on my tile. More practise for me.  Since it snowed last night and snow had formed ice crystals on my attic window this morning, I named  my tile "Snowflake Ratoons". 

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Weekly Challenge #382: Stripes o plenty

This week's challenge is to use a string of stripes. 

Done it the easy way, no movement in the tile

but it was just fun tangling on this rainy Sunday. 

Tangles used: Knight's Tri, Inlay, Basilica, Square Grid, Nzeppel, Cadent Grid and Florz.

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Weekly Challenge #381: "A Happy (new) Medium"

This week's challenge is to try tangling with a medium you haven't tangled with before. the idea what came up first was my Tombow pens I used before my Zentagle period when I was a stamper. these pens have a brush tip and a fine marker in one. I had not used these pens for quite a time and some had dried out but I still could use a few colors. It didn't turn out to my liking.

So another idea popped up. I could use a stamp!! I found a window stamp. 

and this is how it turned out.

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Weekly Challenge #380: Spundala...Zendala....Zenbuttonz....it's a circle.

Best wishes for 2019!!!

2019 has just started and I noticed that I haven't  participated in  I am the Diva Challenge since 02/13/2015. I haven't done so much tangling lately. I think this will be my New Year's resolution:  picking up Zentangle again.  I read that a third of resolutions don't make it past the first month. Don't let myself get discouraged of that.  

Laura, the Diva, leads  her challenge to all Zentangle enthusiasts into her 9th year now. 

The first challenge for 2019 will be a circle. She got the idea from a friend who used a paint spinner to make spundala's. I don't have a paint spinner,  I will be looking in thriftstores, maybe I find one and try to use it to add color and have some fun with it with my grandkids.  For now it came out as a plain black and white one. 

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