Handmade Diwali Cards 2014 - Design 3

Hello! This is my third card in the series of Diwali Cards that I made this year. You may view my other Diwali cards here.

 

I wanted to depict rangoli (floor art) on my card and what better way than to do this with quilling.

 

Instead of the regular sentiment, I decided to do something in the form of toran (decorative door hanging). I have written the greeting in Hindi and secured with a string. The decorative lace border adds to the overall look of the card.

 

 

Challenges Entered

Imaginations October Challenge - Festivals

Quilled Name Plate - Angak

This is another quilled name plate that I made on order recently. Since it is for a boy, the color palette is mainly blue. I didn't want to keep it simple and straight forward so I have overlapped the alphabets and arranged in this manner.

The work is this name plate is very minute and it took me more time to create this as compared to other one I made for NAVIKA. 

 Few close-ups...

If you wish to see more of my name plates click here.

Thanks for dropping by and for your sweet comments! Have a great day!!

Challenges entered
Itsy Bitsy - Anything Goes
DCAM Challenge #3 - Photo inspiration

Quilled Name Plate - NAVIKA

Hi friends! I am very excited to share this Quilled Name Plate that I made on order. I had very little time in hand to finish this owing to work and festivities, but I am glad I could deliver it on time.

Though I have made many Name plates for kids in past, this was my first quilled name plate for a kid. I had made one quilled name plate for a couple using bee hive technique. But I have tried this type of quilling technique for the first time. I would like to thank few bloggers whose work inspired me.

• Yulia for this type of quilling technique
• Pritesh for the daisy flowers
• Miyyah for the roses in this post and leaves from this post

So here goes the Quilled Name Plate for baby Navika.

 A close-up angular shot..

  Side view...

 Another side view...

Few more close-ups

 Hope you like my work. Would to glad to hear your comments/suggestions!

Challenges entered
Itsy Bitsy - Anything Goes
DCAM Challenge #3 - Photo inspiration
A Creative Romance - Pink
Alphabet Challenge - R for Roses

Anniversary Frame with Quilling

Hi. I am so happy I am back to quilling with these last few orders that I received. The client wanted a big frame with 3 pictures and a personalised message and lots on quilling along the pictures. This is what I came up with. The moment I got this order I knew I wanted to pick up pastel shades. The picture along after framing is not captured very well as I was in a hurry to ship it.

This picture will give you a much clearer glimpse of the frame. I wanted to give a nice background to the frame and not just quill on a plain paper. So I decided to use some pretty pattern papers. I took a print-out of the wordings that the client had sent.

The client specifically wanted these quilled birdies from my 'Love birds card', in the frame. A close up of the quilled birdies all glittered up!!

 Challenges entered:

Docerela Creations - #38 - Color Pallete

Charisma Cardz - #20 Here Comes Summer
Creative Moments - #17 Circles

MilkCoffee Challenge - Load on the Flowers
Penny's Paper-Crafty - #128 Circles

Crafters Corner - Summer Sundae

1. Used 2 punches - Fiskars scallop punch & MS Doily lace
2. Used 2 pattern papers
3. 3 embellishments - Quilled flowers, butterflies, metallic button
4. Dash of glitter on birds

Quilled Name Plate

Hi. I made this name plate on order. The color theme suggested was Red and Gold and the technique required was quilling with beehive. I have used 2 shades of red. Not sure if its visible through this picture. One of the WIP photo below shows it well. I have not incorporated too much design into this so that the names can be read clearly. I used a handmade paper from a local shop for the base. I painted it with bronze and golden paint to make the texture stand out and I really liked how it enhanced the overall look.

 A look at some work-in-progress images.

Do you see the difference in the bg color here. The bright bronze and gold makes it stand out.

This is my first attempt at a quilled name plate. Do let me know your frank feedback on this.

Edited: Thanks for your feedback friends. No, this is not my handwriting. I took a print out and traced it on paper as printing on handmade paper is not possible.

Monochromatic Easel Card

Hi All. Today I am sharing an easel card that I made on order. My client wanted an easel card to accomodate a picture of her mom-in-law along with some sweet wordings that she had sent. At the bottom, she wanted to put up a picture of herself and her husband along with some more personalised messages.

She also wanted lots of quilling on the card. So this is what I came up with. Monocrhomatic theme is just a co-incidence. I have mainly used green and yellow..

Challenges entered

For the love of crafting - #15 Monochromatic

Quilled Photo Frame - Yellow

I made this frame on order on an urgent basis. The brief was to have contrasting colors. The pattern is same as my earlier frame.



Challenges entered

Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes

Crafty Bloggers Network - Anything Goes

Make it Monday - always Anything Goes

There She Goes - Flowers

Quilled Photo Frame on Order

Hi friends. I know many of you have been telling me that I don't quill as much now. I too miss quilling a lot and I really feel a piece of quilled art really gains lot of appreciation among craft admirers :)

 

So here is a quilled photo frame that I made on order recently. The brief was to use subtle colors for quilling. Therefore I chose pink and to add a contrast added purple small flowers. For the first time I have combined punched leaves also along with few quilled leaves.

Here is a closer look at the flowers...

 

 

Challenges entered

Crafters Corner Challenge # 4- Anything but not a Card or a layout

Quilled Bookmarks for Swap

This is a long due post. I had made 22 bookmarks for National Quilling Swap arranged by Gopi Shah. 22 people participated in the first ever quilling swap held in India and we had to make bookmarks equal to the number of participants.

This is the entire bunch. I have made all in same design but different colors and the type of papers used are also very different. Do have a look at the individual pics below. I have grouped them by colors.

I have used papers from magazines for these red ones

 For these I have recycled an old greeting card...

 For these I used wrapping paper on top..

 For these I have trimmed borders from journals and punched them

 For the blue ones I used paper scraps and punched them

 Here again I have used all assorted papers, some are from old cards, some from magazines and sone is from Itsy Bitsy sticker backing.

 Here also I have all assorted papers.

Challenges entered

C.R.A.F.T. - Monochromatic

Little Miss Muffet Challenges - One layer or CAS

Paper Play – Simply cute
Penny's Paper-Crafty - #97 Anything but a Card

Quilled Border Card 2

Hi. This is my second card in the series of Quilled border cards. The first one is here.

I first made the quilled border and then colored the digi to match the border. I used Faber Castell water colors pencils to color the image.

Challenges entered

Simply Create Too - Anything Goes  

Digi Doodle Shop's Best - Anything Goes

Quilled Paisley

Some projects take unusually longer time to end! Has it happened with you as well? I started this card some time last year but never could finish it off. Guess everything happens at the right time. I was waiting for the right elements to complete it :)

I tried a quilled paisley for the first time. I love paisley shapes and really wanted to make it in quilling. The look of the card is quite traditional and Indian.

Hope you like my card. Have a great day!

Challenges entered

For the love of Crafting - CAS Card
 Amusing Challenges - Anything Goes
That Craft Place - Vintage 
Lulupu - Create your own embellishment

Tricolor Earrings

Hello Everyone! Wishing you all a very Happy Independence Day!
We had a gala time yesterday in office deocrating our floor for Indepence Day celebrations.
I will share some pics from the event soon. In the meantime, here are few quilled earrings that I made for my colleague and and my boss. Everyone really liked the idea.

We were supposed to dress in ethnic wear so we wore tricolor dresses and painted our nails in tricolor, wore tricolor bangles, etc.

Challenges entered

ItsyBitsy - TriColor Challenge

Recycled Bookmarks

Hi All. These are some bookmarks that I made using old wedding cards.

The texture of these handmade papers is really nice and I wanted to make use of them.

I have stuck colored papers to hide the text on the cards and retained the golden border on top and bottom. 

 

 Thanks for visiting!

Challenges entered
YNS Challenge #10: Books!
Crafts and Me - #96 use a digi