I like to give small quilled cards to my students . Last year I made lot of flowers to encourage them and it worked so well I am making some this year too. Its also so wonderful to see the reactions of kids who see quilled work for the first time.
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Another girl card with something on it which was on my to-do list for a long time-a quilled dress for a girl. New clothes are as important as a beautiful birthday cake for a little girl.
Another picture of the quilled dress. I do so love to work with crimped strips. I have used two shades of blue strips for the dress.
Today is the first day of my summer classes and I expect to be super busy for a month . I still have a couple of card requests and so will be quilling too.
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I was asked to make a card with a raspberry on it . I really had to search to find out how a raspberry looks like .Thankfully I also found a few quilled raspberries in the quilled creations gallery.Along with the raspberry I also quilled a slice of watermelon , a strawberry and an orange slice(or lemon slice like Akhil seems to think).Quilling the fruits with all the small elements was not easy at all.
I want the card to delight a little girl for whom the card is . My kids liked the quilled fruits and I hope she likes it too.
Its summer here and Chennai is becoming hotter by the day but then, it is also the watermelon season.
The request is from the girl's grandmother ,she is also the one who bought my first card and the sweetest of people .She wished me so well when I was too nervous and unsure about selling my work.
Take a quill pill - season
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Quilling flowers is what I love the most and what could be a better gift than a bunch of flowers. I made this card for a butterfly lover and so I included this small butterfly. I have already sent this card and hope it reaches her safely.
The card is for non other than our kavitha of kalalayaa .Ever since I received her candy I have been thinking of making a card for her. I had a lot of card requests that I had to finish but ,better late than never . I enjoyed making this card and hope she likes it.
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As a part of observing world Glaucoma week(couple of weeks ago), a hospital near by offered the women members of our library free eye check up for glaucoma .Though I couldn't take the offer lot of our members did and so a thank you card for the kind doctor for her valuable time.
I was asked to make the thank you card, and as I thought about an ophthalmologist the first thing that came to my mind was the dreaded eye chart.
For the eye chart (THANK YOU DOCTOR) ,I stuck at least six strips of thick black strips for the first row and then four strips for the second , two strips for the third and single strip for the last row. The letterings I found most difficult and time consuming. The flowers are a bright violet colour , but doesn't show in this picture.
For the butterfly , I have used eccentric coils . I have stuck three different colour strips for the wings.
Update : Katrin has a neat tutorial for these flowers in her blog.
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My kids have their exams going on and soon it will be vacation time. Every summer , classes are conducted at our local library for school children . This year classes for quilling is also being planned. I will not be teaching quilling , I have my English class each summer for the past seven years. The girl who has been asked to teach quilling is a fine arts graduate and Akhil's favourite drawing teacher.
Our co-ordinator asked me to make a quilled card to show people who come to enroll their kids for summer classes -since most of them have not heard of quilling. She wanted me to give an example of the basic shapes of quilling in my card. I have tried to use all the basic shapes in the flowers and the leaves ,a bud and a fringed flower to show some variations with tight coils.I included quilled letterings also to show how much more can be done with paper strips. It is just lack of further space on the card that stopped me from adding other techniques.
I like to recycle as much as I can ,I have cut an old wedding card in to strips for the basket. I rolled the strips and pinched them to make identical semi circles and stuck them on the flat side . It had a very rich shimmer on it and using the strips flat gives a nice effect.
Most of us know how to make a fringed flower , I include these steps for my non blogging friends who like everything to be in my blog.
To make the fringed flower- take a strip of half inch width and cut fringes with a scissor as shown . Stick a 5mm width strip to the fringed strip .(click on image to enlarge)
Roll the strips using a slotted tool starting with the 5mm strip and make a tight coil.Continue rolling the fringed strip over the tight coil.
Stick the end of the strip .
Press the fringes on all sides with your fingers ,here's a beautiful fringed flower with a tight coil center.
The news of the devastating earthquake and Tsunami in Japan brings very sad memories of the agony which lot of people in Tamil Nadu went through not many years ago. I end this post with thoughts and prayers to the people of Japan in these difficult times.
