Tuesday 11 August 2015

we have lift off

For this week's guest-hosted Diva Challenge, the lovely Bright Owl asked us to have fun with one of her Zendala templates. 

I only discovered the pleasure of Zendalas and Erin's weekly challenges shortly before she took a break - but now she's back and I want to get back into doing them.  They offer a subtly different experience than other types of tangling.

I used the graphite transfer technique to copy the template onto a standard (9cm x 9cm) sized tile and it worked way better than I expected!  This would also offer a great chance to alter or omit any lines you don't fancy using.


And then I went in with my Micron - popping Sandy Hunter's delicious new Papermint tangle into the circular sections, and then a sort of Ticking variant into the leaf shapes and then a few bits of Beadlines and some tufts and dots and shading and there you have it! 

It looks like it's about to fly away, and I feel a fair bit lighter than I did when I started it! 

14 comments:

  1. I love your zendala, beautiful flowers, nice linework and i like the ticking variant and the papermint tangle. That one i never seen before..

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  2. Great zendala! Very playful--just makes me want to smile.

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  3. Really liked your zendala! Effectively look flowers - a nice contrast.

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  4. Very pretty I love the bead lines and your shading is amazing. 😊

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  5. Great contrast and it is very strong and beautiful. Very cool! Sarah.

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  6. A lovely zendala with great shading.

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  7. Very playful zendala with great shading!

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  8. This is so cute, and I love your shaded beadline at the edges!

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  9. Lovely zendala with a great contrast! Beadlines with its gives a fine accent!

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  10. Beautiful zendala! I love the beadlines and shading.

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  11. beautiful, i like the flowers

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  12. Love the flowers ! This is just great!
    Lee Darter

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