Valentine theme cards

February comes with love in the air! There are love songs and romantic movies coming on TV. All jewellery suddenly takes the shape of hearts. There are heart balloons and chocolates in heart shaped boxes available in the malls. And what better way to express all this love than quilling cards. I have been making a few of them and am posting them here.

I had first made this card last year for my friend's son who was getting engaged. I have recreated it now and am very happy with the result. I specially love the rings in between. A remarkable improvement in my own work over the past year. I feel proud!

 I love the simplicity and crispness of this card!

 Say it with bugs...

 and butterflies!

 Why should the frogs stay behind?

Specially the cute ones!

 And when they do hop into each others hearts, their heart becomes one!

How cute they look!

 It has always bee..n the mystery of the flowers and the bees.

 So to solve this mystery lets sail together to the end of the world. May the sun shine on us and the stars guide us in the night.

The boat is strong and sturdy to bear all the storms of the journey together.

 Back from the journey its time to brew some tea with love...

 And you are still as cozy to me as a cup of tea!

You are indeed my cup of tea...

 And when memory fades we are still each others!

 You can say it with roses...

Even the tiny ones sing out their love!

 You are and will remain till eternity in my heart!

U R in my heart!











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More creations for the Art and Craft Souk

I have been busy preparing cards for the souk and here are the results.

 

 

   

 

 

 

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More cards for the Art and Craft Souk

Here are some more of the cards that I have prepared for the ARTE craft souk.

 

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Indian Craft Room challenge, ICRC14 - Anything Goes + Clean and Simple Cards.

This is the first ever time I am participating in an online challenge. The challenge is a clean and simple entry for ICRC14 challenge in the Indian Craft Room.
Keeping fingers crossed!

And here are the cards I have submitted for the competition.

Just Clean and Simple!

A single blossom

Early spring

Harmony

A climbing vine

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Art and Craft Souk

I am so excited these days and can only think, do, and dream of quilling. I came to know about a very unique concept in Dubai started by ARTE (Artisans of the Emirates) where they provide an avenue for new and old artists to display their artwork, sell and create contacts. Souks are held twice every month and I am preparing to exhibit my work on the 10th of Feb in the Times Square Centre Souk. I have been working hard to create a lot of greeting cards.

I will post all of these here in this post and in the coming posts.

Christmas Card

My posting has been overdue for a long long duration now, but here I am back and hope to be more regular now.

This is a Christmas card that I made for a very warm and friendly couple.

 The bells bring on the Christmas spirit!

I tried out some Calligraphy skills.

DIY Quilling tools

An artist's delight are her tools. Whenever I enter a craft shop, I tell my family to go and do whatever errands they want to do at the mall so that I can enjoy browsing through all the wares at the shop. I would always end up spending most of my time at the tools section. But quilling is such a new art for so many craft shops, that I hardly found the things that I was looking for in the shops in Sweden.

After coming to Dubai, I have been searching on the net to find places where I can find quilling paper, quilling comb, paper crimpler, and so many other tools but have not been successful till now. Well that doesn't really stop an artist, does it? So I have been a bit creative and here are the results.

This is my very own paper crimpler and it gives beautiful results just like a professional paper crimpler. And all it took was 9 pieces from my son's Logo box!
I am so proud of myself!

Soon I will be posting the results of using my brand new tool.






Quilling needs glue but you need to maintain a fine balance. Too much glue will smudge your fine delicate work and ruin it. I had always looked at special glue bottles on the net but never found them in Sweden. So this is what I had created a few months back. It has served me loyally and helped me in so many of my projects giving me control over how much glue I want.

I made the glue bottle with a used hair coloring bottle. I cut the tip slightly and capped it with a 0.5mm lead pencil head.

And I seal the bottle with a pearl head pin and keep it inverted so that it is always ready to dispense just that tiny droplet to make neat projects.









 Here's another slotted quilling tool that I have made with the only difference that it does not have a slot!

Its just a fine needle inserted into the tip of a lead pencil and VIOLA, I have a quilling tool ready!










It was fun sharing my creative tools.! Hope you enjoyed reading and also found the tips useful.
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Something Fishy!!!

Finally after a long long time, I am back in action. Its been almost 3 months now since we moved to Dubai and about a couple of weeks ago we finally shifted from the hotel apartment to a house that we have made into our home. And I have organized my tools and paper and am ready to begin posting.

After moving to Dubai I have only made one quilling card which was for my son's Birthday in September. Every evening after coming back from school, he would go to the pool for a swim and then come back and ring the doorbell with his swimming glasses on and a grin that made him look just like goldfish. So for his B'day, I made him this card.

I specially like the weaving for the water affect.

The fishes are quite simple but the quilled eyes give them a character.

 

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Some more gift tags

We will be moving to Dubai in 10 days. After a settling down phase, I hope to have time to do lots of quilling and keep my blog updated more regularly. Looking forward to that!

Here are the remaining gift tags. Thanks for visiting!

No Party without balloons!

                                      

A heart for you!











2 little ducks go quack quack quack!

Time to study!

 Little feet fill homes with joy and laughter!

Its your big day so here's a little present for you! The boys are so pretty!










And here's another gift!

Presents are always welcome!








I love the colors!