Three Cards by 3

Last night I was awake till 3 in the morning trying to complete three cards all at the same time. At just around 3, my 7 month old woke up with a smile, sat up, embraced our dog who was sleeping at his feet and gently called to me, as if asking me to go to bed. Luckily for me, I was almost finished by then.

The first one of the cards is inspired by the current sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch. I made a quilled flower for he focus of the card and some buds and swirls to accompany it.With it I will be playing along their current challenge.

The next card's been made to participate in the current challenge at Dynamic Duos. In this challenge one had to make a card in grey and any other color of one's choice. I chose teal and this is what I came up with.

The last one is a simple thank you card with some hand-painted flowers.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you liked my creations. Till next time, happy crafting!

Indrani

Nocturnal Creations

It is becoming increasingly difficult to work in presence of my 7 month old. He is in that experimental phase of his infant-years where he's grabbing everything he could and placing them straight into the mouth. Wow! Quite a difficult situation for a crafter who has her embellishments all over while working. And dangerous too. So these days I am primarily nocturnal, sticking to all my crafty work at night only after my baby is asleep.

I have been meaning to play along the current challenge at Beyond Grey Challenges for a long time now. The challenge involves creating an argyle in your project which I found very interesting - so I came up with this card last night.

Some newly acquired water colour pencils were put to good use to create the argyle background. Thereafter some die cut layer and then some quilling completed the card. And lastly have sprinkled three random diamonds with silver glitter. Here are some more close ups:

Hope you enjoyed the creation. This one will be participating in the challenge#33 at Beyond Grey Challenges.

Indrani

Some More Glitter

So I thought of combining some quilling work with a dash of glitter. It turns out that a little bit of bling can work wonders.

In this card used a pink, brown and cream colour scheme overall and also for the quilled flowers. Did some die cut leaves in pink and printed paper for the background to the flowers and embossed a strip of paper to give the look of a lace. Lastly added some glittered centres to the smaller flowers. As a contrast to my previous glitter card, I kept the glitter to a minimum. 

I loved the result. Hope you’d like it too. 
This would be my second entry for the Itsy Bitsy "All That Glitters" Challenge and my first entry for the Pin and Tack "Spark Your Creativity Now!" Challenge.

Indrani

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