Framed ZIA class

The idea for this class was born out of what I received from Cris Letourneau when she sent me things for visiting and commenting on her blog throughout the year. The mats are 5" squares with a 2.5" square cut out. There are two different ways that can do the backing. I cut sheets of Bristol vellum into about 4 7/8" squares. Placed this behind the mat and very lightly traced around the opening. They could then use this as a frame for their ZIA. When they were done drawing their tangles, used dot strip adhesive to glue the piece of Bristol vellum to the mat. The other way to do this would be to use a regular Zentangle® tile. After completing the tangles you would glue the tile to the mat and then glue the Bristol vellum to the mat. Either way you end up with a flat backing. Here are examples of what they came up with. They were able to finish one in the class and sent home the material to complete another.

This was a fun class. It allowed for time to work on tangles before we started on this project plus people could interact with each other.

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Class project: 3-D tile

Decided to do a different take on Randall Taylor-Craven's 3-D Zendala. It was in preparation for doing the 3-D Zendala. I also was curious what it would look like if you used different colored tiles. Did not get pictures of the ones from the class. This is the one that I did. This is labor intensive in that you do a lot of tangling.  Here are pictures and I will type more after the pictures.

This is only 4 layers. The largest one is a full size original Zentangle® tile. The next is a Renaissance tile with about an inch cut off. Did this by measuring in from the corner and then connecting the corner dots like you would make a border on a regular tile. The next is a Bijou tile. The last is about a ¼ of a full size black tile.  The ones that were cut, I used as a template for the second one. 

I did not tangle the whole tile except for the black one. I arranged them  on the tiles and traced lightly around the one on top. I then tangled just beyond this line.  To keep them consistent, on both sides, I used The same one on both sides and put a small arrow on the back to indicate the top of each tile. This helped when I was putting them together.

The last step was using the double adhesive foam circles to put it together. I used the circles and them cut them in half or quarters depending on the size of tile I was using. 

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