Just Saying Hello

With today's card I have tried another way of weaving quilling strips to create a mesh effect.

I first embossed a white card stock and then die cut an oval from the centre. Thereafter used two toned strips to weave the mesh. Then covered the back of the mesh with another oval die cut to give it a background. To highlight the emboss, have sponged some pearl acrylic (sky blue and white) paint on the two diagonal corners. I am in love with these pearl acrylics from Camel Fabrica and extensively use them in my works.

The digi in the card is from Sliekje's Digi Stamps. The site has some cute animal digis. The three big yellow flowers in the upper right corner are handmade while the smaller ones are punched. Signed off white a "Hello" sentiment.

With this card I will be playing along the following challenges:

Retrosketches#69

Quirkycrafts Challenge# 13 2013 Everybody Wants to be a Cat

Ciao

Indrani

Inter-weaved Quilling Strips

The idea of inter-weaving quilling strips struck me when I watched this video from Christina Griffith's cardmakingmagic.com. Her video tutorials on various card projects are truly awesome and one of the most-watched by me.When in this video I watched Christina weave ribbons to get the look, I thought of replacing the ribbons with quilling strips for my version. I have used 7 mm quilling strips for this card.

The digi is from The Paper Shelter, one of my most loved digital stamp websites.

With this card, I 'll be playing along the following challenges:

Freshly Made Sketches 91
Pin and Tack "Spark Your Creativity Now" Challenge


Indrani

Laced Up

An old piece of lace I suddenly chanced upon was put to good use the other day. It found place in one of my works and a new card was created. I quilled some flowers and leaves in combination with the hues of the lace and this is what I came up with.

The small blue flowers were made by overlapping equal sized quilling strips and placing them in a circular fashion. The leaves too were made using the same method but are not of equal sized strips and were not arranged in a circle. I got the idea for these flowers and leaves from a daisy tutorial at Daydreams.

Ì advertently did not get too elaborate with the quilling part as the lace did that job for me. But what if the lace itself could be quilled? Maybe that's a project I should try sometime soon. Will get back to you all if i am successful.

Till then, happy quilling!

Ìndrani

Endless Art...

What I love about paper quilling is its unlimited creative options. Play around with the colours and techniques and you could something new everyday, for the rest of your life! I am new at this art and am still learning.....and I am hopeful this process of learning will never end. And as I am learning I am tempted to experiment as well. The creative side of me was dormant for a while now but has found vent once again. And I am loving this new me.

In this card here I made a background for the actual work with quilling strips. I interwove them to create the background. This method is not unknown but I thought applying this as the background to the actual work will be something new.

Let me know what you think about this one. And I will await suggestions.
Take care for now.

Indrani