A quick quilled A

Hello All,

I have always admired how effectively people use crimped paper as an outline. I'd been eying a chance to try the same and here I had it :) I have outlined the golden leaves with crimped black paper. A really quick quilled "A" (do I always quill A monograms???) for a really close friend :) The font ia a modified version of Sapphire Sativa :)

Happy Quilling

Pritesh

PS: If my posts inspire you to create something on similar lines, I feel highly flattered. But please, do respect the effort I take in conceptualizing and executing, please give a direct link to my work when you are inspired by mine. Thanks for understanding........:-)

Spring and summer :)

Hello All,

After hours and hours of donkey work, I finally managed to finish this project! :) And if you're wondering why I am hell bent on the term donkey work, consider this. Each fringed bunch in the bottlebrush flower (red bunch) has a paper strip 10.5 cm long and within that much, it has been fringed more than 250 times!!!!! I felt like I'll have grandchildren by the time I finish this project! Hehehe, but no worries, my son is still 1.5 yrs old! :D The font I've used is called Emporium Capitals :)

In this post, I have to give a HUGE thanks to Baloo Uncle, for the Fiskars fringing scissors which FINALLY made me overcome my fear of fringing! I used to dread it so much but fringing is a song now and I am revelling in the feeling :) The bottlebrush wouldn't have been possible without you.......I hope my client approves of what I have made for her :)

Another big thanks to my client, who is one of my dearest friends, for all the good times together, the whale, whalee and whaloo times! :D :D Those were the craziest moments of my life! :) A thanks to Meg Crawford whose fringing helped me try fringing or else, I'd have just kept away from it. Her suggestion of spring loaded scissors finally worked and I am not averse to fringing anymore :)

Am submitting this for "For the Love of Crafting" Spring challenge , using spring colours and 2 butterflies :) :)

Happy Quilling

Pritesh

PS: If my posts inspire you to create something on similar lines, I feel highly flattered. But please, do respect the effort I take in conceptualizing and executing, please give a direct link to my work when you are inspired by mine. Thanks for understanding........:-)

Donkey work to fruition :)

Hello All,

I have had indigestion hiding this project but I wanted to finish it and only then, display it :) There was so much donkey work involved in it, the leaves, the flowers, the fringing in the feathers!!!! Phew!!!!!

But I am positively proud of this one because of all the designing that went into it! I have a huge thanks to give to my husband, whose inputs were always very helpful :)

I hope the lady who ordered it likes it :)

Happy Quilling

Pritesh

PS: If my posts inspire you to create something on similar lines, I feel highly flattered. But please, do respect the effort I take in conceptualizing and executing, please give a direct link to my work when you are inspired by mine. Thanks for understanding........:-)

Contrast Veined Combed Leaf Tutorial

Dear All,

I got so many questions regarding the leaf I quilled (which is a small part of a much bigger project) that I decided to sit down and make a video of the same. I apologize for all the background noise :) [Sonia, I will upload the snapshots very soon] :) The original of this leaf was conceptualized by Anastasia, I am merely posting a tutorial for a variation of that :)

The leaf looks like this:

And here is the video for the leaf :)

Do try it out, I found it so much fun :)

Happy Quilling  

Pritesh

PS: If my posts inspire you to create something on similar lines, I feel highly flattered. But please, do respect the effort I take in conceptualizing and executing, please give a direct link to my work when you are inspired by mine. Thanks for understanding........:-)

Spot the difference

It rarely happens that I get angry..............but this is one of those days that really get to me! Someone decides not only to post a ditto copy of my creation online (right under my nose!!!!!) but also insists that "I" downloaded the picture from Google and uploaded it calling it mine. God, forgive me for sounding condescending, but I am blessed enough to have designing capability AND lack of gall to post a design someone else came up with! For anyone who ever wishes to copy my designs and not give credit, the post-script in my posts will be in bold font here on!!!!!!!

To the left is my design (supposed to have been downloaded from Google and called my own) and to the right is the dear pilferer's design............

Happy Quilling

Pritesh

PS: If my posts inspire you to create something on similar lines, I feel highly flattered. But please, do respect the effort I take in conceptualizing and executing, please give a direct link to my work when you are inspired by mine. Thanks for understanding........:-)

A post full of news

Hello All,

I have been away for a while now, thanks to all the illnesses that seem to haunt my family. But it's all ok now. Everyone is on the path to recovery and I hope I will be more active in quilling now. There is a Shhhh project on my hand and it'll take a week or so to take it to completion. There are classes to be planned and there are orders to be cleared! There never seem enough hours in a day! :)

I have good tidings................and lots of them. :) [Sorry for the point-wise post but I am a compulsive organizer :D]

1. I was fortunate enough to be voted the winner of the March Challenge of Emirates Quilling Guild , the theme bring "Love". I am honoured and thankful, to all the people who voted for me and all those too, who cared to drop by to look :) My entry for the challenge was the fastest ever order I completed.....in the middle of packing for relocating from Stockholm! This piece is very close to me, because it weathered such conditions for its creation and because it is made for a very very dear friend :)

And, of course, thank you Amna for giving me the opportunity and Shaikha for the prize :) I am so eagerly looking forward to receiving it....

2. Szalonaisa was sweet enough to award me the "Versatile Blogger Award"! Szalo, you've no idea how much it means to me! :) I will need to write a separate post to do justice to the rules, just give me some time dear!

3. I was fortunate to be picked by Deepthi Udupa for an interview for "Creating Success Around the World" world-wide blog-hop. I can't deny that recognition of one's work doesn't feel good :) It was both a pleasure and an honour! :)

I hope I will soon have some 'quilling' to share with you all............in the mean time, keep smiling :)

Happy Quilling

Pritesh

PS: If my posts inspire you to create something on similar lines, I feel highly flattered. But please, do respect the effort I take in conceptualizing and executing, please give a direct link to my work when you are inspired by mine. Thanks for understanding........:-)