A Happy Juicy Birthday

I had hoped to have this card posted yesterday but time did not permit. My coworker (yes the same one who orders everything) asked me to create a Juicy Couture birthday card for her daughter's 22nd birthday. I've heard of Juicy Couture, brand name for fashion, jewelry, hand bags; it's not my thing so I had to look up the logo/icon - the perfectionist that I am I wanted to make sure I got it correct. I used white swiss dot for the background, decided to go with a nice plum colored card stock for the purse shape and used silver quilling paper for the crown. I added just a light bit of clear glitter over the top of the crown just to give it some bling. My coworker loves it and is sure her daughter will as well.

Happy Birthday, Wine Bottle Card

How exciting, to be part of another blog hop - and a birthday one at that.

Happy Birthday to the talented Linda of Krazyquilling!

My coworker who buys everything from me asked that I create a birthday card for her manager - I know him since he's one of my manager's as well just not directly, well I needed to know some of his likes so I could do it right. He likes to drink wine, not much to go on but I was going to make it work. I started looking through my section of masculine papers and found this great argyle which I've been wanting to use for months - I know he has one or two argyle sweaters so surely he's like it on a card. I then set forth in creating the wine bottle, but the label needed something - I then added the grapes and quilled the leaves - it was perfect (or so I thought). I must say I was very pleased with it even though it's a little more bold and busy then I normally do, my coworker loved it and so did her manager; so that's what really matters.

Here is the blog hop list to follow, don't forget to leave a comment on everyone's blog for a chance to win:

Linda - www.krazyquilling.com

Angelica - www.handmadebyangelica.com

Jessica- www.kinderstampo.com
Emma- www.creativetimeforme.com
Tracey- www.quillynilly.blogspot.com/ (this is me)
Carri- www.doubleclickconnections.blogspot.com (your next stop)
Alex- www.youhadmeatcraft.com
Pam- www.pammejo-scrapbookflair.blogspot.com

Bonnie- www.ascrapabove.blogspot.com Nikki- scrappinnavywife.blogspot.com Abby- scrapbookaholicbyabby.com Katie- www.craftingwithkatie.com Debbie- craftydeb-ddscrafts.blogspot.com Glora- glorascrafts.blogspot.com Leanne- createdbyleanne.blogspot.com Vicky- luvmygypsy.blogspot.com Laura- www.makinprettythings.com Tanner- www.mrcricutcrazy.com Carol- www.happyexpressions.blogspot.com Marta- www.pattisscrapingtime.blogspot.com Shannon - www.purplelionpaper.com/blog Linda with krazyquilling will also have a Live U-Stream with more Giveaways tonight at 10:00pm EST CLICK HERE FOR U-STREAM Make sure you leave a comment on every stop for a chance to win A Stamp of your choice from My Creative Time ( Winner of Stamp will be announced Tomorrow Wed. Feb. 16) or The Kich N Bleus February Collection. (Winner for the Kich N Bleus will be announced on her U-Stream)

Thinking of You

Wow, I've been busy and still have a few custom orders to finish this week for Valentine's Day. As promised, here are the Thinking of You cards; part of the 25 cards custom order which will be shipping out in the next day or so. I've surprised myself with how many cards I can actually get done if I put my mind to it; and I think I'd like to duplicate some of these cards and put in my shop eventually. This was a nice change from snowflakes and I haven't worked on cards in quite awhile so it has been fun to work on something different.

Sophie Earrings

I have more images of cards to show but I thought I'd quickly get in my newest creation for one of my coworkers (second image). Quilled earrings, "Sophie" in red, pink and white - ordered for Valentine's Day, I made an extra set to sell in my shop. I love them, and think they'd look great in other color combinations as well. Once I finish all my custom orders for Valentine's Day I'm going to try these earrings in various colors. Card images coming soon, my 25 card custom order is almost finished and will be shipping out within the next couple days, can't wait to hear what she thinks of all her cards. •• For my fabulous blog readers, purchase these ever so pretty Sophie earrings and at check out use coupon code BlogSophie2011 and receive 10% off ••

Frog Thank You card

Quilling is not the most masculine embellishment, at least not to me; the swirls just lend themselves fabulously to cute and pretty elements; so when I was asked to create a thank you card with a frog for a guy I tried really hard to not have it look feminine; I think I did alright with it; we'll see what my coworker thinks. What do you think?

Happy Birthday Cards, only 15 cards to go

I'm working steady trying to finish up my custom order of 25 cards, I'm currently working on the "thinking of you" cards and thought I'd post the "happy birthday" cards; don't want to fall too behind on posting. I have a crop I'm attending this weekend, which will probably give me 8 hours of creating time but I didn't want to save all of these for then, I've got Valentine card ideas swimming around in my head but I'm not sure I'll have time to get them all finished; and I took a smidge of time to work on some heart earrings as well - so I'm hoping I'll have a chance to finish all those this weekend, we'll see.

Hello Cards to start 2011

Wow, it's January 10th and this is my first post of the year; 2011 is flying by. Of course I would like to be able to get on here at least once a week, thankfully that wasn't an official resolution or I'd have already failed at it. This year I do want to try and be more active on my blog and my facebook page and continue to fill my Etsy shop with new items, that's not a lot to wish for is it? I'll do my best, that's all I can promise. Currently I'm working on and trying to finish a custom order for 25 cards, I've posted the first 2 "hello" cards in an earlier post; here are the remaining 3 "hello cards". I'm almost done with the "happy birthday" cards and will post those very soon.