Peacock Card, First Attempt

I have been wanting to attempt to make a peacock for about a year. My coworker has a daughter who loves peacock's and this year I told him I would do my best to get a peacock done for her birthday, I actually wanted to do a 3D one; but time was running out so I did a birthday card for her instead which can be framed and hung - I think she's going to love it. I will say I had some difficulty with this, I glued pieces down before thinking it all the way through; but I now know what I'll do the next time I create one.

Round Dog Frames, Zeke and Cori

These were a custom order for my coworker, yes; same coworker - what can I say, she loves my quilling. She wanted dog frames with the names quilled on each one, Zeke and Cori; I happened to find a paw print card stock that was just perfect for these. I wanted to keep them simple and the tone on tone paws worked perfectly I think. I quilled their names, a bone, a ball and a few hearts; she loved them.

Quilly Nilly Christmas in July

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For The Birds...

I coworker of mine asked if I could make her 4 birds, she has 2 already which are on their own bases; I told her for this I would put them all on one base so she wouldn't have all these single birds standing next to each other. I knew I wanted to incorporate a paper tree and a swing in her sculpture. After creating a sketch of what I wanted it to look like I started on the grass -  I fringed the grass for the base, wish I could say that was my own idea but it wasn't - I ran across the blog of a very talented quiller/paper artist named Suzana Ilic, she has wonderful ideas and creations; I can't believe I just discovered her.

Once I had all the hand fringed grass glued to the base, I moved on to the tree. I had some friends help me figure out how to do the top of the tree, I wasn't sure how I wanted to do it and their suggestions were great, I really like the different paper used for the tree and leaves. I quilled 4 birds in blue, yellow, rose and grape and added some flowers. I think my coworker is gonna love it. I love it, almost want to keep it :)

Sympathy Card Floral

One of my co-workers had a recent death in his family, his brother-in-law passed away unexpectedly; only in his 50's; sad to hear that. I was asked to create a card we could give to him and his family, this is what I did; tone on tone ivory floral with a deep blue swiss dot paper - simply pretty.

Custom Orders - card, jewelry box and frames

I've already started creating snowflakes for this year, so from now to the end of the year I'm sure you'll hear me complaining about working on snowflakes. I did have a small break to work on some custom orders, my coworker needed a jewelry box for a little girl, his mom needed some frames and my other coworker needed a unique Father's Day card for her husband.

Paper maché heart shaped box that I covered on the outside with the polka dotted paper, inside has been painted a solid white; then the whole thing has been sealed with Modge Podge. Three paper quilled flowers can be found in the pop up window, lilac, pink and pale yellow.

My coworkers husband makes security doors, we were trying to come up with something to put on a card and I thought creating a door would look cool, a lot of them lend themselves to quilling with their scrolls and flourishes. I went online and found some images of security doors and picked one that I liked.  I also put his initials in the middle which she thought was awesome, she's sure her husband will love it.

This is the 3rd time I've created these frames for my coworker's mom. She works for University of Memphis and uses them as door prizes when they have meetings. Being they're the Memphis Tigers I add the paw prints going up the side along with a football or basketball.

Oldies but goodies........

I was looking through some of my older quilled items (2006) and thought I'd post a few of them on here - it's funny how our creations change. When I first started quilling I would paint on paper maché frames or cards or boxes and then add my quilling - everything was super busy and colorful and dotty. I still like them but I look at them now and think of how I'd revise them if I were ever to do them again. What fun to look back, I'd still like to use the mobile and the baby carriage in something new, I think they're cute.

Painted paper maché box, quilled baby mobile

Lid view of painted paper maché boxes with quilled baby carriages

Painted paper maché tissue cover with quilled sunflowers