Diva Challenge #120

The Diva set the challenge this week to use the tangle Bales. Here is my entry:

 

 



I also found a place in the UK which sells 9cm by 9cm square paper tiles really cheaply - I'd love the official tiles but they are very expensive over here - these tiles are making tangling a lot quicker, before I was working in an 8x8 inch book so each tangle took up a far amount of time.

 

Looking around at zentangles I keep being drawn to flowers, here is one of my flower tangles on my new paper tiles.

Monotangle Challenge 03

Roy at Mindful Creations posted his third Monotangle Challenge today, this was not just my first challenge but also the first page in my new book brought especially for zentangling. I decided that I would learn a new tangle for this challenge (as I don't know many that isn't hard), I used candleglow, and enjoyed experimenting - although you can see at the bottom of the page I made a big boo-boo and ended up hiding it behind an even uglier flower, but it was too late to start again and I've only been doing it a few days, so hey-ho.

I drew out the template then spent 20 minutes worrying about where and how to start, I had an original idea but the end result ended up nothing like it as I kept changing my mind as I worked.

What I learnt: Don't be scared of templates, my copic caoi markers bleed through the page but I love C-1, my pad is fairly large (maybe 20cm by 20cm) and therefore zentagles take a lot longer than 15 minutes.

Any comments and tips welcome.

Katrina