Quilling Love

HI, 

Its been a while since I took up my quilling tool and some paper strips..

Few days back a friend demanded a card especially with quilled flowers on it..So here I am sharing my pretty little card :)

I have used the Papericious Wooden collection- one collection I totally love..

I am addicted to malaysina flowers when i get to quilling..and this time also it proved right :P I could not stop myself from executing another set of Malaysian flowers.

The stamped sentiment is from Altenew and the birthday diecut from Technique Tuesday.

Entering the card in Papericious July challenge

 
(I have used papericious wooden collection, mulberry flowers from the mood board)

Do leave some love :)
Keep Crafting.

Quillograpghy

Hi,
Quilling is my fav thing to do and especially the typography using 3mm paper strips..its therapeutic and also fun to do...Yes! it definitely needs a lot of patience but the end products make me forget all those hours of sitting in the same position...without even lifting the head :)

2 years back when i started quilling and was searching google about the technique, the first thing i came across was Quillography by Yulia Brodskaya...and nothing inspired me more..She is an amazing artist and I proudly admit that her work is my inspiration..
Another person whose work i just love is Pritesh Ananth Krishnan (Artizire founder n creative head).I like the precision she has...and I am trying my best to get the same...Its still long way to go...

Hridya ..wanted me to blog about typography with paper strips...though i don't have much of photographic collection of the same...A few which i have i m sharing...

here is how to start...

1. Decide on the sentiment, name, initials etc and choose a font, but remember to take a font which gives you space to design and is easy to manoeuvre.
2. You can print the font with desired size or draw it on your final surface.
3. Now what you need is paper strips (3mm, 5mm, 10mm) whatever you feel comfortable to work with ...my personal fav is 3mm.
4. And yes you need your quilling slotted tool, fine tip tweezers, scissors, any quick drying adhesive with fine tip nozzle (i use fabric glue, its quick drying , dries transparent and no mess adhesive).
5. Go about putting a fine line of glue to the drawn/transferred letters(using a carbon paper) and then adhere the paper strip.Put glue only to that much area which you can cover in one go , otherwise the glue dries..so its a slow process which needs a lot of patience. 
6. If you wish you can draw the design reference on a rough paper..I usually don't stick to my references..by the time i complete it..its all together a new design..:P

Hope these guidelines are of some help..

memories...

HI all, 

Hope you are enjoying the wedding season...

Its always been Quilling which i do the most but recently i tried my hands on Textures.

Have seen some wonderful projects using modelling paste, gesso, stencils etc etc...

So i was too tempted to try my hands on this ...

And coincidentally had my cousin's Silver jubilee coming up so thought why not create a layout...

So i took a canvas stretched on a wooden frame, used Texture white and created some circular patterns with Comb.Love the way the circles turned out..

Wanted to make it colourful so took up my distress inks ( i m totally in love with these!! :P) 

I always wanted to create something with photographs...so asked my nephew to get me there wedding pics(the day the journey started)...what could be better for remembering 25 wonderful years of happy wedded life..

And as i said i have been doing quilling , quilling n quilling...my family loves when i add quilling to there gifts...so it had to be the paper strips again..

So here is my simple no fuss layout..

Hoping you all would like this..and especially my brother loves his surprise :)

entering in:1. http://lulupu.blogspot.in/2013/11/challenge-21-magical-memories.html
               2.  http://crafterscornerindia.blogspot.in/2013/11/nov-challenge-14-make-it-festive.html

thanks for stoppin by...:)
happy crafting
lekha

Quilled happy birthday...

Hi all,
Birthdays!! Wish this day came twice a year!!..All the lovely wishes and beautiful gifts from family and friends just make that one day so special. And what else could be better then getting a surprise Cake!!
Yesterday  me and my group of friends threw a surprise birthday party for our beloved music teacher..With a huge handmade greeting card, gifts, a lovely chocolate cake and a song specially composed for her ...She loved every bit of the surprise.

Black Forest Cake

Top Icing

So I thought of sharing this magic recipe ...
For gluing this cake together you will need small round box, quilling strips of red, white ,light and dark brown colour, small silver beads, adhesive, quilling tool.

• Start with quilling the different colour strips and giving them shapes.
• cover the small round box with a white or brown sheet of paper so as to get a neat effect on the base
• this cake needs all your imagination for the icing
• you can give your strips the desired shapes required as per your icing design (here I have played with few basic shapes: triangle, open and closed coils.
• use small silver beads to give the look of sugar balls
• use your imagination to create different flavours: pineapple, chocolate truffle, praline cake...

Hope you all enjoyed being part of the Cake class....

Happy Crafting!!

Hi all...
Thanks for visiting and appreciating my First blog!...I hope you will enjoy reading all the upcoming ones too.
The next one I am adding here is really a simple Quilling Card.
One of my friends' told me how her little daughter was interested in all the art and craft activities. Thus, I am adding this easy card for all the cute, little girls out there. :)

Now its Magic time...

• take any colored card sheet of your choice,
• mark four windows of equal size, and you will be needing a paper cutter to cut out the window section,( to be done under adult supervision!)
• take different colored quilling strips, roll into coils of different sizes,
• make different shapes and stick them together to form flower, butterfly, bird etc,
• a little touch of your color pencils in the background can give a whole new look to your card like a rainbow, leaves, sky etc..

Happy Crafting!!

Flying Butterfly Bday card

 Hi all...
Butterflies.....One of God's BEST creations to tell us how beautiful the world around is and how lucky we are to be a part of it... and another great feeling is to wish a dear friend on one of the best day of the year..their BIRTHDAY!!...So, what else could be better than gifting a handmade card with all your love and affection and good wishes to your loved ones!! 
Touch your Magic Fingers to

• Colored quilling strips of your choice, 
• Draw a butterfly motif on a rough sheet,
•  Roll the strips,
•  Give them different shapes( drop, marquise,leaf etc), 
• Glue all the shapes together according to the motif you have drawn
• Assemble the completes butterfly patter in any form along with a little background of flowers, a blue sky, bright yellow sun...

Voila....the magical butterfly is ready to fly off to your friend with your Birthday Wishes!!