Spring is here

Although living in Dubai, you just see summer days and not so summer days but at this time of the year, I am always reminded of the snow and the wait for the first leaves to sprout when I used to live in Sweden just the winter before last. So I decided to make this wall hanging as a welcome to spring! For the long leaves twigs, my thanks to Anatasia for posting such a helpful tutorial. I will be coming up with a tutorial for the shrubs, a technique that I have created on my own instead of using husking. My favorite here is the border.

                                       

I am linking this post to

• Craft Room challenge - In the garden
• For the love of crafting - Challenge 13 Season's stories
• Through the craft room door - TTCRD March 26- April 1st
• Fussy and Fancy - Spring Days

If you find my work inspiring and create something similar, please quote my work and blog in your post. I would also appreciate if you leave a comment. All budding artists do need a pat on the back! Thanks for visiting!

My 3D quilling homework

I have been looking at such beautiful 3 dimensional quilling pieces on the internet and I had to give it a try. The pictures I present here of the quilling pieces are done by me but in no way my original creations. They are just reproductions of the tutorials I have followed to help me get an understanding of 3 dimensional quilling.

Some quilling miniature plants in pots.

These flowers look so adorable. They are slightly bigger than the pinhead shown in the picture.

I followed the tutorial by Tammy on YouTube at this link.

 The cactus are really simple to make. But they look like real. Again Tammy's tutorial at this link.

A scale to show their real size.













And a quilled cute little piglet!

I found the tutorial for this cute little piglet on the internet. I had made it a long time ago and only took its picture now. I think it was on Pritesh's blog, http://quillingmesoftlee.blogspot.com.  And now when I am trying to look for the tutorial again, I just cannot find it.

You would surely not want to miss a peek at its sqiggly tail!












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Back Again

Its been almost a year since I last posted. Have been busy with life in general. Its not that I have not been quilling at all in this past year, its just that I have not posted anything. I always come back to quilling when I need relaxation but then soon it turns into obsession and I have to force myself to put all quilling tools away under lock and key as my other work starts getting neglected. Working from home requires a lot of discipline!

In the next few posts I plan to upload some of the pieces waiting to be part of my blog. I start here with some framed quilling work.

For the double fringed flowers I took inspiration from Inna Dorman's tutorial that you can find here.

For this creation I have used the combing technique to create the leaves. A tutorial by Lin is available here.
The trisula flowers are inspired by Tri Puji Lestari.

This assembly is an attempt to create the famous Neli's quilling.

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More business cards

I have been making more business cards and this time I tried with 1.5mm quilling strip width.

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Business Cards

Preparing for the exhibition, I needed business cards. But these had to be unique and personalized. So instead of going out to a business card vendor, I decided to make them myself from scratch. I searched for a printable business card template, fed in my details and printed out the cards. Once I had the cards all cut, I started with the process of personalizing them. Here is the result.