Challenge 120: Tangleation Nation: Bales

Happy Memorial Day!  This week's challenge from the Diva is to experiment with Bales.  I decided to try it out on a pre-strung mandala that seemed just perfect for this challenge.  Although a few of the spaces were not square, I stuck to the same steps for bales and then had fun with all the variations.  

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Challenge 119: Ebony and Ivory

This week's challenge has us using equal parts black and white.  It is hard not to try to plan out what you are going to do as you try to create balance on the tile, or zendala in this case.  I have not used many of my zendala tiles and thought this might be a good challenge to try one on.  Challenge is appropriate this week because although I think I have a good presence of white and black I know it is not quite in balance.  Initial plans to black out areas to use white pens on were thwarted by three crescent shapes near the center instead of an even number.  So I turned my attention to the outside shapes and planned to complete three of each but got to the last one and felt like I needed to combine it with the last crescent.  I am pretty happy with how it turned out.  Hope you had a more zen experience with your challenge this week. 

Tangles: Sparkool, Tipple variation, Barber pole, Printemps

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Project: Elephant

Had a chance to work on another one of my finds from my craft store field trip this past weekend.  I found these cut out elephants that I thought would be fun.  I have had a project in mind with elephants and I thought I would practice on these.  I am pretty happy with how this one turned out.  Really enjoying using some color.

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