Thursday 16 October 2014

zentangle tags


The challenge for October for the Chocolate Baroque technique tags was to use zentangling - this was definitely not one I looked forward to!
 I can admire the work that many people do - indeed I own a beautiful tangled birthday card, and am totally awed by the skill of Paula - but it is not something that I would in any way describe as relaxing.
I dug out an ancient Elusive Images mandala stamp, (sadly no longer available, they were great fun to do), stamped it in black versafine onto white card and added stripes and dots in black marker pen, and some solid black areas too.
Once all filled in, I cut it out and glued it onto a red tag - first one done!
I did think about just repeating it for the second tag, but decided to try using a newer stamp, the clear peony, which hadn't seen a great deal of use.
Again black versafine on white card, and more marker pen, this time mostly just stripes, with circles where the stamens were in the centre. A quick whip through the big shot with a spellbinders die, glued onto another red tag, and that was it.
The tags went into the post very quickly before I had any second thoughts, working on the principle that almost any swap tag was better than none...............

4 comments:

  1. Great choice of background colour for your tangles - keep going, I promise you it really is relaxing!!

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  2. Your tags are lovely vronnie, sadly I forgot to take a picture of mine before I posted them so I'm just waiting for Margaret to send me the picture when she photographs them for the swap

    Jackie x

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    1. been there, done that Jackie! just try to remember before I post them now.............doesn't always work though

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  3. Love the black and white with the red. Fab Zendoodling - even if you didn't enjoy it!!

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