Sunday, April 21, 2013

Jewellery Box


I was thinking of making a utility item using quilling and thought of trying out with a little jewellery box. Initially I had thought of using a box as a mold and quill over it but then decided to use more solid shapes of quilling paper to create the box.

I used around 110 strips of 30 cm length to make this box. I started with making a circular rim with 21 tight coils. To make the walls, I again used light coils but as this paper was thinner than the base rim, I pushed the circles into tight ovals and glued over the base rim. I created the wall with 7 layers of circles. To make the base of the box, I used a combination of tight and loose coil shapes. The centre piece is a tight coil painted in bronze colour.

For the lid, I again started with a circular rim of tight coils. I lined the inside of this circular rim with two 6 mm strips that were flush on the outside but protruding on the inside. The reason for this is to make the lid fit snugly on the box without sliding off. For the handle knob, I joined a 4 cm long and 6 mm wide strip with a 30 cm long, 3 mm wide strip and made a tight coil. On the protruding centre, I glued on a paper bead /ball and painted the base and the bead into bronze colour.

And here are some pictures of how the box turned out. You can see that the paper appears wet as I covered it with varnish last night and that is still drying up.

The finished box.













A peak at the inside.













Top view of the inside.














The lid from the inside showing the protruding rim.











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Monday, April 8, 2013

Challenge inspired card

When I started quilling, I used to take time to add borders to the card or layer the paper before adding my quilling to it. But lately, I have been just quilling on the card. So when I saw a challenge with a sketch at Come and get it Challenges, I just had to give it a try.

After looking through different colour combinations, this is what I came up with. Hope you like it!

 




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Sunday, April 7, 2013

The beautiful tangles.

Looking for new designs to quill, I dug into my embroidery book from a life time ago and decided to make the pattern on a card.

It looks so amazing in real life. The effects it produces looking from different angles is beautiful.

Here's how the picture looks from far.



And closer up.

And from an angle.


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Saturday, April 6, 2013

Blog Award - Yippee!!!

I am thrilled to receive my first ever blog award! Thank you so much Zoe for appreciating my work and passing me this honour.



Rules:

- thank  the person who gave you the award

- put a link of her/his blog in your blog

- put in your blog the logo of the award

- give the award to 7 blogs with less than 50 members

- put links to this blog

- inform these people that they received the award

- write 7 thing (facts) about yourself 


I have to pass this award to 7 bloggers with less than 50 members. Usually everyone is looking at popular blogs with a lot of followers so this is wonderful as it provides encouragement to new bloggers. Visit their blogs since they also have good crafts to share.:

  1. Nimmo
  2. Kavitha
  3. Swathi
  4. Maneka
  5. Sheetal
  6. Galina
  7. La Dolce Vita


Now 7 facts about myself:

  1. I love creativity in any form.
  2. I have tremendous patience.
  3. I am capable of thinking out of the box.
  4. I have always given handmade cards to friends and family.
  5. I have learnt quilling from fellow bloggers over internet.
  6. I love nature.
  7. I hate exercising.


Thursday, April 4, 2013

18th Birthday card

My son turned 18 this February. Now that is a landmark birthday! So I had to make something special for him. After raking my brain endlessly, I came up with this idea...

18 signifies legal adulthood. You are bestowed with a lot of rights: the right to drive, the right to vote, the right to signing all contracts without needing a guardian authorization, the right to a lot of good things as well as the right to legally pursue a lot of vices as drinking, smoking and gambling. So crossing the age of 18 opens up a special door, a door where he is legally allowed to make his own decisions. So basically at 18 you are provided with a key to a lot of rights.

My idea for the card was decided then. I wanted to make a key for him with the number 18 on it and a door that leads to freedom. I wanted to give him the message as Spiderman has said, "WITH GREAT POWERS COME GREAT RESPONSIBILITY" As my son's dream is to pursue law after completing his school this year, I wanted to write the message for him in a legal sounding language containing the gist of Spiderman's message.

When I told my quilling student whose son is 16 (now she is a dear friend) of my idea, she said she is getting goosebumps listening to the idea.

So much for the idea! Now on to the execution! This is the card that I have come up with.

I have used golden and black strips for the complete work. The shaft of the key is made by rolling a wider strip and then rolling it in golden paper. The letters FREEDOM are quilled with golden paper. All the text is written in free hand. The chain is quilled with 1.5 mm golden paper. I didn't want to glue the key down to the card, so I created a casing for the key where it can rest. My son can take the key in hand when opening the door that leads to adulthood. Of-course the key is connected to a key chain that is glued to the card so he won't loose the key!

Dear reader, you can be the judge if the idea was executed in a good way or not.





                                  


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