Hi everyone, I,M BACK!
I,ve had 2 months off from Challenge club as I have been so busy with other things, I just did not have time for anything. I have missed being a part of the community, so… this month I made time for ME, and the club.
This month is Dancing Funnel technique taught by Tatsiana Serko. Her soaps are amazing and guess what??? I have one of her cutters and mould on its way to me right now!! I’m so excited!! It will be the only one in the World, designed for me and not repeated, how cool is that? I have waited since May as she was so busy but I didn’t care, it is in the post and I will be receiving it soon. Yayy!
The dancing funnel, when finished, reminds me so much of a tortoise shell. When I was a little girl, I had a tortoise that lived in my garden but one day when I went out to feed her, she had ran away. Well….. Walked away, very slowly, never to be seen again. Sad times in the life of a 7 year old!!! She was probably about 500 years old and fed up of living in my little garden and wanted to explore pastures new, well thats what I believed and no one is changing my mind 🙂
I picked my colors based on the tortoise shells in the pics. Blue, green, black and yellow.
I used Lemon peel zest fragrance oil as it behaves very well in cp soap and just love the fresh lemon fragrance.
I used black as the the base dot colour, then filled in with the blue, green and yellow alternating the colors in each row.
I split my soap batter into 4, but used slightly less black than all the other colors. I still had black left over at the end.
I started off with the black dots and filled in from there on.
I was running out of yellow for the top so should have stopped at the blue.
Once done, I put it to bed until the next day. When I took it out the next day it looked horrendous and Jurassic looking. Thank goodness for soap planers! I had to plane quite a lot of the top off the bars which took most of the top ring off making it look different to the technique but I did follow the tutorial.
After cutting and planing and cleaning up and beveling, it sort of looked acceptable. I’m not so sure of the colours but it smells nice. I was going to have another try but as always, time is not on my side so this one is it. Here is the cleaned up pics.
So there you have it, “The Dancing Tortoise”.
I’m so glad to be back and can’t wait to see all the lovely entries.
Thanks Amy and Tatiana for another great tutorial and challenge.
As always, Love from Spain.
Carolyn x
omneyaswish said:
Looks absolutely gorgeous Carolyn!!!!
Love the colors ❤
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siennalilysoaps said:
Thank you so much Omneya! Good luck with yours too x
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Teressa Mahoney said:
Wow! I’m amazed at how symmetrical you got your soap. It is stunning!
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siennalilysoaps said:
Thanks so much Teressa! I just filled in the gaps in-between and thats how it came out 🙂
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Helene said:
This is a gorgeous soap!! … and I LOVE the inspiration for it 🙂 So original!
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siennalilysoaps said:
Thank you so much Helene! My escaping little tortoise left her mark lol x
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Lisa Rapp said:
I really like how organized your layered your colors, and I love the blue outline very pretty!
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siennalilysoaps said:
Thank you so much Lisa! I tried to keep it all in lines 🙂
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Debi said:
WELCOME BACK, Carolyn!!! I’ve missed seeing your incredible Challenge Club creations!
This turned out so beautiful, as usual! And so precisely done. When I first saw it, it looked like an ornate and beautiful box. I would also swear your long lost turtle was sending you some sort of message through the soap! From the picture of the soap the next day, it is amazing how much it looks like a turtle!! Maybe she is saying she misses you 😀
Anyway, thanks for another stunning creation!
And truly, welcome back! ❤
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siennalilysoaps said:
Thank you so much Debi! You are my favorite person in challenge club. You are such a team player and always take the time to leave lovely comments on everyones posts, that takes some time to do yet you always do it. Thanks for the welcome back and I believe too that my escaping little tortoise is sending her message wherever she may be lol, after all, she will be around 540 years old now 🙂 sending much love to you my friend x
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Yvonne Massey said:
Carolyn, you did a great job! I only got one chance to do mine and it was a complete mess. Lol beautiful job!!
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siennalilysoaps said:
Thankyou so much Yvonne💕 I only got the one chance to do mine this time too☺️ Not as easy as it looks x
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carmeniclodean said:
Welcome back Carolyn! 🙂
I’m pretty sure I said it before but I don’t have a problem repeating myself (:P): you should be a writer! I can’t wait for the link up to open not just because I wanna see your beautiful soapy creations but also because of your blog. I always read it many times 🙂
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siennalilysoaps said:
Aww Thanks Carmen💕 So glad you enjoy it. I like having a place to write but don’t think I will become a writer anytime soon lol. Too many jobs already☺️💕
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Cris Bean said:
love your layers!! and a great comparison to a tortoise shell!
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siennalilysoaps said:
Thanks so much Cris 🙂
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