Diva Challenge #357: Paradox monotangle

When I saw the subject for Laura Harms' weekly challenge (#357) I just had to give it a go - Paradox has to be one of my favourites! I decided to keep it simple - blue micron on a pre-strung Zendala tile, shaded with blue prismacolour pencil, and some rounding. I left a few areas unfilled, but thought it looked unfinished so filled them in with black for a striking look. Too striking unfortunately! So I coloured over the black with silver gelly roll, but that didn't work either. Finally managed to colour over that with midnight blue gelly roll, which I was happy with! Finished off with white perfs in the blue filled areas, and gold perfs around the edge. I find it amazing that a series of slightly curved lines can end up as such a complex pattern - probably why I love Paradox so much! 

ValenTangle Day 9: Zendala

A fairly simple one today, with the prompt being a Zendala. I cut some red card into a circle then tangled Hearty around the edge using white gelly roll. The style was copied from Melinda Barlow's YouTube video tutorial. The outer hearts are connected with Heartvine in gold gelly roll. 

First Zendala

Finally got round to using one of my Christmas presents - a Zendala instruction and work book. I photocopied one of the pages of pre-strung designs onto sketch paper and cut them out, before starting this one. Kept it simple with Paradox and Betweed in the main circle, and Onamato as the border. Shading is a bit heavy four my liking (more noticeable in real life), but on the whole in happy with this first attempt. Looking forward to trying more, and adding some subtle colour.