CALL IT BY ITS RIGHT NAME.

Diva Challenge # 237 this week was by guest Charlotte Carpentier, CZT, and involved finding something around the house that one could use for a stencil.  I knew right away that--since it's fall--I wanted to use my apple corer. 

After all, fall is all about apples, right?

I love my apple corer, and I love the many varieties of autumn apples.  

And I often use the corer as a quick way to draw the string for a Zendala.  It works like a charm for that.

She also suggested we use a spray color with the stencil to form a string for our work, so I puzzled about that and thought about a watercolor wash, but then realized that I have a bottle of Walnut Distress Spray, never used, and I decided to give that a try. 

So, spritz, spritz, spritz...and I came up with this.  Alas, I began tangling on it before I remembered to take a photo, but you can still get the idea of what the string looked like--kind of a cross between a Renaissance Tile and a plain white one.

THE STRING--EXCEPT I HAD STARTED TO TANGLE BEFORE I REMEMBERED TO TAKE THE PICTURE.

WHERE THE TITLE OF THIS POST CAME FROM:
As you can see, the instant I had the string I thought of using the tangle Foot-lites by Carole Ohl, CZT for some of the sections.  But I couldn't quite remember how to do it since it had been awhile.  And...UNFORTUNATELY...my aging brain remembered the title as "Spotlights."  So off I went, googling Spotlights and getting nowhere.  A couple of puzzled and frustrated hours later (it was pretty late at night by my standards, so being tired was not helping), I put out a call to other CZTs and Lauren Spiegel Eldon came to my rescue, asking if perhaps I might be looking for Foot-lites, not Spotlights?  She was very tactful and of course I had a massive "DUH!!!!" moment.

Ah, the aging brain. 

It matters to call something by its right name.

But I was on my way.  Here is the resulting tangle for the Diva Challenge:

I'm not quite sure what I was intending with the white pencil on the brown sections...I may have to re-do some of that, but overall I like it.  In addition to the Walnut Distress Spray, I used a Rainbow Pencil, a Prismacolor White Pencil, and a Brown Micron 01.

And now for a little iPhone app fun with the tile from this challenge:

USING THE IPHONE APP "CAMERA +"

USING THE APP, "PAINTERESQUE"