Quilled miniatures

QUILLED MINIATURE FLAMINGO.

    I chose to quill this bird for its colour. My brother is visiting from Australia , this time with his kids(The framed grape vine is for him) . My six year old niece Prisha loves all things pink. She will be visiting me next Monday and will be with me for just that day. My plan is to win her over as soon as she comes. 

   
    Quilled miniature girl.

      I have tried to keep it simple as this is my first trial at quilling miniature people. I don't have the colours for the face and so had to hand cut strips and I am very happy with it. There is a lot of room for improvement I know, but it looks good enough to interest a little girl. 


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Quilled grape vine.

      This would be my first framed work. I shot these pictures before framing it. My husband has long been telling me to come out of the comfort of quilled jewellery and cards ,but I am honestly scared to start something big. This is not very big but the biggest quilled work of mine. 

      The coils for the grapes I had made a long time ago even before going to Bangalore. i thought I will finish this there , but my mom likes to have my complete attention when I visit her.So the coils remained in a box. Now I need to give someone my quilled work as a gift and that encouraged me to finish this grape vine.

     This is not my design, it is something I found at Claire's blog . I have tried to recreate her grape vine, for which she has given very easy instructions.I really love her blog and have learnt a lot from her work.

       The background is a handmade paper which really brings out the colours of the strips I have used(which are brighter than they look in this picture).I have used 3mm purple colour quilling strips for the grapes and 5mm green colour quilling paper for the leaves. 1cm wide brown strip for the large stem and  5mm for the smaller ones.I quilled the entire piece with my tapestry needle to which I have attached a handle.


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Quilled flower bunch

          When I start making quilled jewellery , its very difficult for me to think of cards again. I have been quilling some earrings and gift tags for my friends . A link from facebook took me to this site where I found this bunch of flowers which I think is more like a kusudama. Here's my own trial.

   I made six flowers and stuck them like I would stick petals but on the wrong side.That is, I stuck the flowers upside down to make a flower with one flower in the center and the rest of the flowers like petals and then after the glue dried I turned the whole flower bunch upside down. I must own that some glue is showing and it is not as beautiful as the original , still I like it and it is a nice idea.


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Quilled earrings and a flower

  

      This one is made from 3mm width purple and ivory crimped strips - I love to work with crimped strips .

      The husked flower and crimped flower earrings are small and were made as a special request for small kids.

      The crimped flowers are made from 3mm width blue pearl colour strips.

          These brown crimped earrings ,for a chocolate lover perhaps? made from brown and metallic brown colour strips.

       This is  my favourite , tight coil earrings made from red and blue strips.




QUILLED FLOWER-

  With such encouragement from white Racoon I made this quilled flower to enter the Homyachok quilling challenge #1. The petals are made from eccentric circles. For the center fringed flower I have used the same crepe paper I used to make my crepe paper rosettes. The paper is duplex with yellow on one side and very light yellow on the other.The background for this flower is a handmade paper to give the illusion of water.


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Abi's birthday gift

        Today my son Abi is turning 16. I decided to quill some things that he likes the most and give it to him as his birthday gift. Anyone who knows Abi will tell he can't do without books. He is a voracious reader and is so well informed.My first gift was a stack of books. Akhil came to my rescue and showed me a logo which had two  red socks and said that his anna(elder brother) will be delighted if I quilled the logo of Boston red sox.

       I always pride on knowing every thing about my kids and I was surprised that Abi should have a favourite baseball team and more so as baseball is not popular in India.

      Once I decided on the logo I decided to make fridge magnets and gift them to him. My husband wanted a card to write our wishes so I stuck them all on to the card without the magnets but gave the magnets to him, for him to use as he wishes. 
   

He  has always been crazy about cars since he was a little kid and can't wait to drive one.It has not been easy at all quilling for my kids ,they have seen me quill so much that nothing surprises them. And to quill for them without their seeing, I have found is impossible.

After i finished this card i realised that this card would be right for a six year old as well. I wonder if I will ever think  my kids grownup .And he was delighted with the logo:)

 I can't thank my fellow blogger's enough for their support , I don't think I would have learned so much if it were not for these talented people who share their work and tutorials . Blogging has helped me learn so many different techniques and styles which no one book can give.Thank you .


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Quilled baby card

            This will be my first baby card and I have tried to quill a baby in a cradle.

A well worn cotton saree is all it takes to make a makeshift cradle  .My kids did not take to this cradle, which was very well with me. Except, Abi slept in such a cradle for a month or so and would always peep like this when he wakes up and I have such adorable pictures of his looking from his cradle. 

         I used crimped strips to make the word 'girl' , The 'G' unfortunately looked like 'C',I altered it a bit and  hope it looks little more like 'G' now. I found both the baby in the cradle and the girl lettering on pictures of stickers on the internet.

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        Take a quill pill  Baby cards.

Quilled card

             This card is inspired by ICR4 colour splash- black and white with hues of blue. ICR4
         I made this husked butterfly , I already had a blue colour fringed flower which I used in this card. Really simple one but not so easy for me , just using these colours.I punched out some flowers for the background . 

         I would like to thank all my blogger friends who encourage me with their kind words and make me like my work more than I did to start with. When it is not easy to craft through the ups and downs ,which is typical of life , the comments that I read make me believe in what I am doing . Thank you all for making blogging so enjoyable .


     I sometimes drop my flower into this small bowl (this is half of the round box in which gems chocolate came) to angle the petals a bit. I have stuck a small cone shaped paper at the bottom which also helps keep the shape.
       

        Inspired by Ann Martin's post on Aluminium quilling, I tried a very simple quilling by cutting out a used can. Ann's post shows some intricate work ,do take a look if you haven't yet. If you would like to see how I did it I have some more pictures here.

         My Crepe flower card made it to the top three at ICR3 ,
         My monochromatic card made it to the top three at kavitha's guest challenge and won the take a quill pill challenge for may.

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