It's been a long time!

After a much needed break from posting online, I am giving it a go again.  I just got caught up in life, and  needed some time away.   I spent last fall getting ready for a few Christmas sales, which went fairly well, but as I say , they can always be better too!  I sold lots of quilled ornaments, and bookmarks, a long with friendship bags, but not too many cards.  This was a shock, as I sell quite a few privately, so thought I would sell lots at my sales... Oh well, on the bright side, I have a nice stock made :). 

Someone Special card: For the flower, I used peach colored strips wrapped around a dowel, and then shaped like a grape roll to give added dimension with a pearl to finish it off in the center.  The leaves and scrolls are light green, and then I added little quilled pegs in the corners.  This is a simple faster design that can be used for many different occasions. 

For the birthday card I used light yellow and aqua colored strips.  The fringed center is both colors, made from 1/8” strips rolled together.  The leaves are a moss green color, both quilled and alternate side looped.

Sympathy Cards

Here are some  Sympathy cards that I made in the past.  Most of them are quilled.  These were made before I had my Big Shot  embossing machine. These first ones are some of my early cards.  You'll see a lot of my folded roses on these.  I also like to use punched leaves, and tiny punched flowers as well.

 

This next one was a design team project using black and white... The punched flowers are velvet/suede paper. 

These 2 are similar in design.  I used the Onion Holder to make the cross on them.  I like to use Ornare (paper pricking) to accent the quilling.  Pearl Papers were used for both.

For this next one, I embossed the outside, and  hand embosed the flowers ont he square using a brass template.  Again, pearl papers were used. The Green leaf one was done with peel offs on water color paper, and colored with Tombow markers.  This is a fun technique. The gold leaf on the black card is the inside of the leaf peel off.

Gilded Papers From Book Pages

A couple of months ago, a friend of mine was going to get rid of some of her old Readers Digest Condensed books. She told me that the edges of the book were gilded in gold. Since she was going to put them in the recycling bin anyhow, I asked if I could have one. After I got it, I other two side's edges with a yellow gold acrylic, which looks not too bad, but it is not nearly as nice as the top metallic edges. The pages are aged, and look like an ivory color now, which is perfect for antique style quilling.

I also came across a small pocket calendar that someone had given to me a few years ago. I kept it, as the pages were bright white, and all of the edges were gilded in a very shiny metallic gold. Again, perfect for quilling! For both the readers Digest, and the calendar booklet, I pull some pages out when I need them, and then just trim either 1/8" or 1/16" wide strips, using my Fiskars Euro Trimmer (pages then go in our recycling bin). The paper is lighter in weight, but it still rolls pretty well. For both, the shine of the gold edges is comparable to the high shine of Jane Jenkins's gilded quilling strips. The following are 2 similar cards I made with both the ivory and the white gilded strips. It's hard to get a great picture, because of the amount of metallic shine from the gold edges. I hope you like them. They are both birthday cards, using the Cuttlebug Happy Birthday folder for the background. Both ovals are from Spellbinders Nestabilities. I did the edges gold using a Krylon 18ct. Gold Leafing pen.  This has me keeping my eye out for old books with gold edges....Enjoy, and as usual, all comments welcome!

Birthday Cards For a Couple of Sisters

This might be a tad confusing, but I made this first one for a friend of my mom’s (named Bea), who ordered it for her sister’s birthday (Alice), and was going to give it to her when she came here from Ontario to Alberta for Bea’s Birthday which was close to the same time, and saved her mailing it (Confused yet?). I did my usual roses, and added punched butterflies as well. It's nice when Bea orders cards, because she lets me do almost anything I want, and she is always pleased with them.

This next one, my mom asked me to make for her friend Bea who was having her 80th birthday, and her family was having a huge party for her. So, her and her sister both received a quilled card that week :) . Bea’s Card was done in fringed pink flowers and blue teardrop flowers. Once again for both cards I used texture plate from Sizzix set #19.

I thought I'd show you some of my pieces from April and May....

I made these a few months ago. This first one is a thank you card for one of my quilling friends in Victoria. I used the Spellbinders nestabilities inverted scalloped square to cut out the square in the card. I especially like these dies for cutting out scalloped shapes in the cards. They do an awesome job! I then used a quilled butterfly for inside the square. The texture plate is from Sizzix set # 19. It’s in shades of purples, but my camera doesn’t like purples too much, so it looks an odd color from how it really looked.  I colored the ribbon using one of my Bic markers.

This next card is a birthday card for another quilling friend in Victoria.  It’s my rose splash design. The embossing folder is the Cuttlebug A2 Happy Birthday folder. I cut the strips for the leaves using a 1/8” shredder, I think my fringed flowers were cut ¼” strips of pearl white, and the roses are about ¼” strips  of Paplin's pink pearl accessory sheets that I cut using my Fiskars Euro-trimmer. 

Wedding Season Means Lots of Cards!

May, June and July were very popular for weddings this year! I had 3 weddings to attend 3 weekends in a row, so needless to say was busy making cards for them. For all of the cards, I used spellbinders nestabilities for cutting out the fancy ovals around the text . I just love the nestabilities, as they give such a clean cut, and add so much to the designs. The printing was all done on my computer.

I also had a couple of special order cards one was for May, and the other was for July. They were being given by a grandmother to her 2 grand daughters, so it was requested that they both be close to the same. This is the design that she wanted, ivory Calla Lilies. They both even had similar verses.  I was told they both loved them and are having them framed.  They were all teary eyed when they told me, which was a good feeling, to see them so happy with them.

My Nephew was married June 19th.  In May I went to his fiancée’s shower, so this is the card I made for it. It is a money /gift certificate holder card. The leaves and scrolls are done in 1/16" narrow strips.  The roses are made with 1/8" wide strips

Their wedding was a medieval theme, so I used the same font as what was on their invitations for their wedding card. She had told me for flowers she was having dried flowers wheat, and peacock feathers. So, this is what I came up with. The wispy tendrils are from peacock feathers (My parents have peacocks on their farm). The picture does not show it well, so I hope to get another picture of it in the near future. The background is the scroll texture plate, from the Sizzix Texture plates #19. I also used touch of gold paper for the bells, and small flowers, and Merlot metallic papers for the fringed flowers. This was not my usual style, but they were thrilled with it. I didn’t like it as I made it, but by the time I finished, I quite liked the result.

The next weekend we had Bill’s sisters wedding. Her theme was colorful summer flowers and butterflies, so I did blue fringed daisies, some small punched flowers, and a metallic looped teardrop butterfly using saphire metallic strips, that I edged with  twinkling H2O's water colors, and  I also used the bright white holographic edged strips from Jane Jenkin's papers. I love those papers!  This is the result. Again, I used a texture plate from set #19.

                                                                                                                              

The 3rd wedding was friends of ours. The silver hearts were on their invitation, so I added them to the top corner. I used pearl papers for all of the quilling. The embossing was done with the Victoria Folder, which as you may have guessed, is one of my favorites.  I especially like how this one turned out. 

Finally! Individual pictures of Demo Samples and Descriptions!

Finally I have posted individual pictures of my demo sample, with descriptions of them!  May and June were crazy around here.  I had a banquet, and then 3 wedding from June 19th to July third, plus some special card orders to get ready.  Eventually I'll get pictures posted...I hope you enjoy the  demo samples!

Card #1 Tools used:

Quilling slotted tool, Tacky glue

5 petal teardrop flower and shaped marquise leaves, with open scroll tendrils, using the slotted tool. Embossed with Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder on punched scalloped oval, and Victoria folder for background.

 
 

 

Card #2 Tools used:

Slotted quilling tool & crimping tool, Crafters Pick “The Ultimate” glue.

White scalloped oval stuck on pink card with the Sookwang double sided tape, & then embossed with the Cuttlebug Victoria folder. I Pearl 1/8” crimped strips, along the short sides. ¼” wide white pearls strips crimped for the bow and 1/8” silver quill-trim strips for the bells.

Card #3 Tools used:

Quilling needle tool & crimping tool & amp; Tacky glue.

White scalloped punched square embossed with Cuttlebug Candy Cane Stripes folder. Background embossed with Birds & Swirls folder. I used the crimper for the Sunflower center, leaves, and corners. The petals were made with the needle tool. I used Stardust clear gel pen to highlight the flower center.

 
 

Card #4 Tools used:


Fringing Clip, El’s Scissors, slotted tool, and needle tool. Tacky glue & Crafters Pick “The Ultimate” glue.


Scalloped punched oval, and background debossed with Victoria folder at same time, and then oval mounted with foam tape. Corner flowers are Paplin’s graduated ¼” wide strips, fringed with clip and scissors, and then rolled with slotted tool. The leaves made with needle tool. The larger flower is 3/8” pink pearl strip with a 1/8” wide white strip for center. Fringed using clip, and scissors, and then rolled with the slotted tool. Leaves are made with the Alternate Side Looping technique.

Card #5 Tools used:

Needle tool, Designer/circle sizer board, pins, and tacky glue.

Punched scalloped oval on pink background that was embossed with flower border folder, from Cuttlebug Just My Type set. 5 petal flower leaves & scrolls made with the needle tool. The petals are eccentric teardrops made by using the designer board/circle sizer, and offsetting the center of coils (using pins), then gluing. Once glue is dry, shaping into teardrops.

Card # 6 Tool’s used:

Needle tool & El’s scissors, & Crafters Pick “The Ultimate” glue.

2 punched scalloped squares layered, and mounted onto background that was embossed using Cuttlebug Divine Swirls folder. Roses made with the needle tool. Large on is ¼” pink pearl, the small ones are 1/8” pink pearl. The large leaves are fringed using El’s scissors (scissors like tweezers), and the small leaves are marquise shapes made with needle tool.

Card # 7 Tools used:

Needle tool, Designer/circle sizer board, pins, and tacky glue.

Black card is embossed with Cuttlebug Oriental Weave folder, and mounted on pink card. The teardrop shapes of the butterfly are eccentric coils made using the designer board/circle sizer, and offsetting the center of coils (using pins), then gluing. Once glue is dry, shaping into teardrops. Open scrolls and body are made All scrolls and coils rolled with the needle tool. The paper is from Lake City Touch of Gold mixed pack. Colors are pink & black.

Card #8 Tools used:

Quilling Comb/Onion Holder & Needle tool, & tacky glue.

Plain white punched scalloped square, mounted on plain lilac card. The corners and wings of humming bird are made with the quilling comb/onion holder. The head and body are made with the needle tool. *This bird is from Quilled Creations quilling comb kit.

Card # 9 Tools used:

Quilling Needle tool, ¼” dowel, tacky glue.

Lake City touch of Gold Ivory strips. Foam tape

Teardrops are quilled around a ¼’ wide dowel. The leaves, scrolls & flower center are made with the needle tool. I mounted it onto a punched oval, that I had first done the edge in gold then it is mounted using foam tape onto the embossed (Victoria folder) piece which I used a brillo stomper to add some gold flecks, but they don’t show up well in the picture. The embossing was mounted with double sided tape.