Kute Kuke

I'm liking Kuke. It's a pattern brought to us by Katy Abbot, CZT via Laura Harm's Weekly Challenge #118: UMT v. XVI. UMT stands for Use My Tangle and Laura challenges us on the first Monday of every month (or thereabout)  with a tangle brought to us by one of her readers. Katy's Kuke came about from a cucumber slice. You never know when or where you might find inspiration!

I also was playing around with some color and art a la Stella (Loretta Grayson). Here's what I came up with:

 I'm liking it. Now my challenge, as always, is how to frame my work. I really have to plan ahead a bit more and choose some frames first THEN create the artwork so it will fit. I was looking at Facebook earlier today and there were some wonderful photos of northern lights taken early this morning. This kind of reminds me of those.

What a quandary

This week's Diva Challenge is to create a tile using a new official zentangle pattern called Quandary. It's an interesting pattern, keeping one's mind thinking of triangles, or groups of three. It's easy to try to create the flower shapes but then one can get lost. To get back on track I had to remember the triangle. Keep present. Breathe. Enjoy the beauty as it unfolds.

It was certainly a lot of fun to play with. I have a few forms of Quandary, Zedbra, Keenees, a variation of Chillon, and ? (sorry, can't remember the name of the tangle used inside the huge Quandary).

Challenge #85

The Diva Challenge #85 is to create a tile trying out Copada designed by Margaret Bremner, CZT.  I also used Camelia, Zedbra, Purk, Flux and Hazen.

I kind of got lost in my Camelia pattern and didn't quite get it, but close. Actually, I kind of like it the way it is. I'll give it another try later.

Have a great rest of the week!