Some quilled cards

Today I am sharing some cards that I made for my stall. This first one has my favourite technique multi strip scrolls.The background handmade paper is actually very brilliant . This is one of my favourite cards .

The flowers are made using the alternate looping method. and the leaves are punched.

 Thanks to all of your wishes , my stall did very well.  My quilled jewellery were more popular , and much admired. Hope to post more pictures soon.

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Quilled butterfly card

       My elder son Abi is turning seventeen today, He loves reading books and listening to music and follows every sport happening round the world. He is in class twelve and has so much of studying to do. Since he helps me print and even search the internet sometimes he takes more notice of my quilling these days. I hope to interest him to try digital quilling after his twelfth exams.
       This is not the card I would normally make for him, but he liked this butterfly which I made sometime back and I had planned to use it on a card for him. I planned a more boy card but it did not turn out that way. But then I end up with all the cards I make for him so I thought I might as well add flowers and make it beautiful..

        This is another card I made just to use this sentiment and yet again used flowers. I am in the middle of preparation for a sale organised by the members of our library, Since this will be my first stall (really a very modest one) I want to put up a good show. I have made some cards and earrings. I have photographed some of them , all in a hurry, will post when I have the time.

Linking this card to Kavi's challenge, anything goes.FOR THE LOVE OF CRAFTING


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Housewarming card

         Just a simple house warming card , with simple quiling on it for an order from a friend. I had very little time for this card, I added the sentiment after I took this picture .
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Quilled cards

         I got more lovely hand made paper back from my trip to Bangalore , Here are a few cards I made last month using them.
 
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Arathi decorations

        Just a quick post to share my third and fourth arathi thattu decoration with quilling on it .Lamps can be placed in the center of the plates .This post  is especially for people who mail me for more ideas for decorating wedding plates.
        The second plate is decorated with spiral roses after I cut the paper with a pair of craft scissors.The green leaves are made from green paper from an old paper bag.

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Quilled peacock

      Me and my sister have always been fascinated by peacock patterns and designs . Quilling a peacock therefore has always been on my mind.. I am visiting my mother and I am with her today on mother's day .  I wanted to gift her something special  .Since my brother bought her an ipad she has been my regular reader. As soon as I post something new she calls me to say how much she liked it and  she also shares it with my father.
    I found a beautiful oil painting of a peacock on the internet and tried to quill mine to look like it.The most difficult part was to make and arrange the feathers. When I first arranged them I couldn't do it in a natural way without a lot of gaps in between the feathers .To make the tail more full, I first made a lot of eccentric circles with 2mm green colour strips and stuck them  together to form a layer and then arranged the feathers over them so that the green strips underneath showed in the gaps and also helped in giving dimension to the tail.
    I used only Pre cut strips and a needle tool ,it is such a joy working with pre cut strips as the finish is so much more fine

     Though now I like big projects , I would like to go back to the comfort of cards and small projects for sometime.I did not get much time to photograph this project,  I was working till the last minute and it had to be taken for framing . This picture I shot in Sunlight .

    It has been a very busy month with me crafting along with my summer English classes at our library, I still have a week of classes and looks like I am already behind in my Arathi plate decorations ,I wonder where time goes.

     Thanks for stopping by, and happy mother's day.

   

     

Quilling my profile picture

       It is with lot of joy that I share my most favourite and biggest project of all with all my blogger friends . This project is very special to me as I have long dreamt of quilling my profile picture.

       Durga or Shakthi  means  strength or energy and feminine creative power. The terracotta Durga  mask in my profile picture has been with me for the past seven years, it hangs over the door in my room . It is such a smiling mask and when the lighting in the room changes the expression on Durga's face seems to also change and I am forever fascinated by it

        I started this project last september ,I had finished only the top triangular part of the crown when I put it away to take it up when I had more time. Re starting the project was the most difficult part , I have more colours now and I also don't have some of the colours that I had used at that time. I also had to figure out the lengths of strips that I had used .But once I started I was quite obsessed with it . I kept at it when ever I found time not even going online some days:).I have to thank my husband for suggesting this project and getting me all the quilling paper that I needed  .

       I first finished the head dress and then the ears , hoping to quill the face too. I did not want to spoil the work  so I decided to print out the face alone. I found this face on a Tanjore painting and by that time even I started to think that my work resembles a Tanjore painting. I made a lot of adjustments to fit the ornaments around the image and quilled over the hair and all the jewels on her face. The fact that I could fit the head dress and the earrings around the image is nothing short of a miracle.Many thanks to my elder son Abi who helped me print out so many pictures and manipulated  the images to suit the colours that I have used.

       As this is a special project  I  only used pre cut strips  and a needle tool for the entire work.

         I still have to frame my work ,here I have just placed my quilled Durga on a board I have prepared for my next Arathi thattu.
        Thanks for stopping by, Have a creative day.