Balloons

This weekend I spent some time with friends at the locally owned scrapbook store Eclectica, it was their monthly crop and I was able to work on my 50 card order. I decided to work on the birthday cards, came up with a design and created that design in both girl colors and boy colors. I love how these cards turned out, they're so festive; I definitely need to add those to my shop later on. I have other cards as well but I need to take photo's of those, I'll add those soon though.

Floral Wood Cross and a Card

I received an order recently for an item I actually hadn't done in many years, my floral wooden crosses. I had originally found the wood crosses at Michael's, painted them and embellished them with colorful quilled flowers, and actually had them on my list of projects to do this year so it was just fate when I received an order for one. Here is the finished piece, it's so colorful and is just so pretty in person. I hope she's thrilled with it.

The card was created for a close friend/coworker who is leaving us. She's still working for the same company, just transferring out of state, we'll miss her although I know we'll still be seeing her from time to time.

Cards, cards, and more cards

A couple weeks ago I was thinking that perhaps I would take a break from making cards, and the next day on Etsy I received a convo from a woman who wanted to see if I could do a large card order; how funny is that. Since deciding I should take a break from making cards I've received her order for 50 cards, a coworker needed 3 cards made as thank you's and another coworker needed a custom birthday card; so needless to say I'm making cards, lots of cards.

••• Custom cards for my coworkers •••

••• Some of the generic florals for the 50 card order •••

Bouquet of Red Roses

A coworker of mine asked if I could make a rose with a stem for Valentine's Day for her sweetie, who does not like real roses because they die. I knew I had purchased a pack of floral stems quite some time ago but it was a matter of finding them, I found them; and created one red rose. I was thinking I could make a vase with 6 roses, she thought that was a great idea. I sketched how I thought I would make the vase, and fortunately it turned out like I wanted. It measures about 3 1/4" tall, the vase is 1 3/4" tall. These would make a cute, unique birthday or anniversary gift as well, off to add it to my Etsy shop.

Things are starting to pick up, I have two custom card orders to work on next. One is for 50 cards, that should keep me busy for the next month and a half. I'll post those cards as I go.

Quilling Class: Fabulous Flowers

Fabulous Flowers was a hit! We had so much fun in this class, it was a workshop length class which is 3 - 4 hours long, I taught them roses, fringed flowers - hand fringing and I let them all try out my fringer. I also taught them to create a husked flower. Let me just say, they loved the fringed flowers. The first fringed flower I chose to create out of Bazzill card stock in teal, ivory and a cocoa brown - they turned out soooo cute. We then learned roses, which was trickier; knew it was going to be but they all got it after 3 or 4 tries. Next was a husked flower with a mini fringed flower - as a challenge - they all did great on that too, in fact; a friend of mine took the class and she actually taught me a thing or two with the roses and a new way to fringe flowers - it was awesome. We had some free time so they took turns trying out my fringer machine, which they all agreed would be worth the money; and then a couple gals continued trying to make roses while a few others worked on more fringed flowers. It was fun!

Here are some photo's to show what they created. The first image is from the class, we did decide that roses are easier using 1/4" quilling strips instead of the 3/8" strips that we were using for the fringed flowers. A couple of my friends that had taken the class had so much fun, they went back to one of their houses and continued making the fringed flowers; the second photo shows what she created, I love her color combination. She said they were having a blast creating those flowers. Yippee!

Next month at Eclectica I'll be teaching a beginners class and a class on birthday elements, which should be fun. Well, seeing all these flowers makes me want to get fringing, I'll post some new things soon I'm sure. 

Taught a quilling class on Saturday

Well another successful quilling class this past Saturday at Eclectica. It was fun, and everyone did great; I taught them how to do a daisy tag and a flower bud acard; both are from Quilled Creations with a smidge of tweaking from myself. I'm still trying to figure out how many projects to plan, the first class we did a tag with a flower, a snowflake on a card and a pumpkin embellishment and we ran out of time; this time I planned a flower on a tag and a card with flower buds and a small butterfly; and if time permitted some hearts. It was perfect, the class was around 2 hours; and I think we may have gone a little over that but we were able to finish the tag and card and one of the gals (who has previous quilling experience) did a couple hearts. So, I now know to only plan a couple things if it's a beginning quilling class; at the end of the month I'm teaching a quilling class based on flowers - quilled roses, probably a husked flower and fringed flowers; still trying to figure out how to explain roses......anyways, here are photo's of the projects we finished this past Saturday.

Roses, Strawberries and Cupcakes

Can you believe it's already December 29th, creatively; I'm looking forward to 2012. I've made a list of new items I'd like to make and have already made a couple so I'm happy about that. We had a good Christmas this year, I hope everyone else had a fabulous holiday as well.

A coworker of mine requested a card for his friend's upcoming wedding. Their colors are red, black and white; and he was envisioning a heart made out of roses. I found a nice black metallic paper, which I used for the front of the card; which was then embellished with approximately 47 red roses - that took awhile to do - then I printed their names and their wedding date, scalloped it and added some glitter and it turned out just lovely. It's been added to my shop, where you can customize the text - here is an example of it with "I love you".

I also had planned on making more jewelry/trinket boxes this year. They're like little sculptures to me, I really enjoy working on them; and very recently I had sold a few that I had in my shop - so I thought now was as good a time as any. I first made the strawberry, then the cupcake; I still want to make one with a ladybug but haven't figured that one out yet - that will be soon though.