Beads for Bravery

This week's Diva Challenge is to do a tangle inspired by the Beads of Courage organization and their work helping ill children.  Wow.  Seeing tangible evidence of all of their bravery is humbling.  I will be saying prayers for little Artoo and the others being helped by this organization.

'nZepple, Jetties, "sez", and beads

This tangle was also inspired by Sandy Steen Bartholomew's gorgeous spider web. As soon as I saw hers, I knew I wanted to make one too.  And, when a student in last weekend's Zentangle 101 class commented about the "spiderwebs" that are part of 'nzepple, I knew I needed to use it.

Wishing you enough courage to get you through the week and hoping you won't need to use it.

--Cris

Weekly Challenge #9: Artoo

This week, "the Diva" came up with a new tangle in honor of her recovering baby Artoo and challenged us to use it.

View from 20,000 ft.

Yesterday, during the LONG flight from San Diego to Columbus, Birdie and I were fascinated by the geometry of Kansas from above.  Everything was divided into perfect squares.  Many of them were almost completely filled by perfect circles.  Then there were lines, all in the same direction.

In the midst of all of that straightness and symmetry was one meandering stream and one isolated square that was filled with untamed lines. Knowing that a photo wouldn't convey the feeling, I decided to make a quick sketch.

It was a long flight, like I said.  So, to pass the time, I decided to make a new sketch to use as a string.  By this time, the circles were gone, but there were lots of new meandering streams.  It is to this tangle, that I added Artoo's tangle.  His are the red ones.

Finally, I made a brand new tile for Valentine's Day with Artoo strung through the middle.  I'm not sure if this is technically an Artoo since it isn't "growing from a stem," but maybe it is a tangleation of Artoo.

Happy Valentine's Day to all of you.

My Heart Bleeds for Artoo

> This week's challenge broke my heart. I hope little Artoo feels better soon. The challenge was to tangle a heart using two of the previous challenges. I used the double pencil string for my heart and arrows, then filled it with stars. Just for fun, I tried to do mini Ixorus in the arrow tips, but I didn't have enough room.
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