Every first Monday of the month is a Use My Tangle (UMT) for the diva’s weekly challenge. The UMT  challenge this week is to draw  a tile with Tri-Bee by Beate Winkler, CZT.  A step out for Tri-Bee is included in the diva’s post, as well as on Beate Winkler’s blog (links above).

I love this new tangle! It is easy to learn and there are many possibilities with it.  Tri-Bee seems like an organic sort of tangle — it just naturally grows in any and all directions. Very cool looking. Since this is my first attempt at Tri-Bee I went for a simple monotangle, with shading. Next time I would like to create a less random looking pattern, but for now I’m happy with my tile.

Thanks to Laura for featuring Beate’s pretty and fun tangle. Also, congratulations on reaching 5000 likes on The Diva’s Weekly Zentangle  Challenge page on Facebook!

This week’s diva challenge is String Theory: Stripes, aka ‘Stripeyness’. In other words, we are to draw stripes as our string and tangle away. Simple!

For my tile, I drew a series of horizontal, diagonal, and vertical stripes, and then tangled away. Tangles include: Meer, Greek, Queen’s Crown, Cloudfall, Trimond, Lealad, Ionic, Heartline, and XYP. Yeah, I wanted to practice a whole bunch of tangles in one go.

This week’s diva challenge is to create a tile using the pattern CanT. This brand new tangle was discovered at a CanTangle workshop by Chris Titus, CZT this past summer.  CanT gets it’s name from CanTangle. A step out is available at the link above.

CanT is a very versatile grid pattern with almost limitless variations. It was fun to give this new tangle a try and I am pleased with the result. Thanks Laura for sharing this new tangle!

Laura Harms, the Diva herself, is back from summer vacation. Welcome back, Laura! This week’s challenge is to draw a tile using the newest official tangle: Zenith.

For this challenge I drew a monotangle so that I could focus on learning the new pattern. It seems like Zenith would be especially nice as a border pattern. Anyhow, I wanted to see how it would look along a squiggly line so that is what I did. I enjoyed this challenge and am pleased with the result.

The guest blogger for this week’s Diva challenge #232 is Holly Atwater, CZT. Holly is providing us with a Duo Challenge where we can choose between doing an audio challenge (available on her blog), or to create a tile featuring the official tangle Betweed, by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas.

Life has been hectic for me the past couple of weeks. I’ve been busy getting my youngest off to college. At some point I want to try one (or maybe all three!) of the audio challenges, but I decided to go with the Betweed challenge. Thank you for a fun and interesting challenge with choices within choices, Holly!

The guest blogger for this week’s Diva challenge #231 is Sharla Hicks, CZT. The theme or idea for this week is Undulating patterns – think swaying, movement, tranquil, gentle, wavelike, organic, and repetition. The challenge is to create a tile using S and C curves which gives a feeling of undulating movement. The tangles suggested are IndyRella, SharlaRella, and Isochor.

My tile includes the following tangles: SharlaRella and Isochor, with touches of Fescu and Mooka. Thank you for a delightful challenge, Sharla! I quite enjoyed it.

Sandy Hunter, CZT is the guest blogger for this week’s diva challenge. We are asked to create a tile that features white space so that the eye can rest. It is true that we often do want to fill up every part of a string with tangles. This is fun but can also result in a tile which is too busy. White (negative) space is good.

When I began I was going to have a monogram where the letter was blank, surrounded by different patterns. (Thanks for the suggestion, Sandy! I’ve been wanting to do this for a while and hadn’t gotten around to it.) After I got going I decided to place Henna Drum flowers along the curves of my monogram. I thought it would work better to fill in the letter S with color, and have negative space surrounding it. While I’m pleased with the result, I think I will try to find some color pens that are more nuanced. My blue pen seems a tad too dark for this purpose.

Cari Sultanik, CZT is the guest blogger for this week’s Diva challenge #228.  The challenge is to create a tile with a natural, organic feel. It was tough to choose which tangles to use but I finally settled on Dandi by Sandhya Manne, CZT and C-Yeah! by Denyse Jones, CZT.  Also included are AHH and Poke Leaf. The image that I had in my mind was of plants growing in a field. Thanks so much Cari for giving us this delightful challenge!

What a nice surprise! For my second week participating in the Diva challenge the guest blogger happens to be Lee Darter, CZT. Lee was my instructor for the basic Zentangle class that I took last November.  Small world!

The theme for this week is Circus Life. The challenge is to create a tile with the tangles Tropicana and Cack. As a third element for the design add either Florz, Linq or Fescu. Thank you Lee for guest hosting this week’s Diva challenge.

For my tile I drew a large curving Tropicana pattern, and then added Cack at the bottom. For the third tangle I drew Florz across the top portion of the tile.