Sunday, April 15, 2012

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........:-)

24 comments:

Crafterkhush said...

Absolutely gorgeous.. I think I need to start quilling again after seeing all the gorgeous work you keep posting...!!

Unknown said...

Absolutely gorgeous.And belive you me that all the hardwork has paid off.this is awesome.and thats what counts.

Unknown said...

Beautiful Pritesh.Especially love the lettering

Ann Martin said...

Such a pretty design and special lettering!

Shalaka said...

Great work..how did u do the alphabets?Thumbs up!

quilled paper paradise said...

Beautiful work. Red group of flowers is incredible. A lot of fringes but is worth it. They are unique!

Unknown said...

The flowers look real! Love your work!

Anastasiaw2008@gmail.com said...

Oh! pritesh this is wonderful. Every leaf, flower,letterings are so perfect and the design is beautiful. Your client must be very satisfied with it :)

chillin with Quillin said...

you can see you really worked hard on this, love all the details put into it, it's awesome !!!
Paula

MEGHA said...

lovely work,absolute beauty
megha
http://www.meghanuj01.blogspot.in/

Anonymous said...

Pritesh, all the beautiful words have been used up that could describe how I feel about your piece, so I'm left speechless, but am left to just echo what they've already said! Helen

Soraya said...

the flowers are gorgeous and the fringed flowers look amazing! I have never hear of Fiskars fringing scissors. Now I have to google it and find out.

dorine said...

a beautiful pc and I believe the long hrs really pay off when you completed it. Can i pin it to Pinterest to show your beautiful work?

Indira Tanwar said...

Wow! This looks so pretty Pritesh!! Love the font. How did you manage the yellow color inside it. The bottle brush flowers look so gorgeous. I have seen them in childhood, but they are hard to spot here in Mumbai.

Swathi said...

Hey Pritesh this is so pretty !! I have a query on gluing the quilled parts..Do u spray any adhesive after the whole piece is fished??? I heard the spraying hair spray is good so that it fixes all the elements. Is it advisable to do so .... will it effect the color or life of the paper... at present I am using only ordinary fevicol...any suggestions..

PMT~ Meg said...

Pritesh, I'm declaring you an honorary Australian, because your bottlebrushes are so realistic (and so finely fringed) that any Aussie quiller would be proud to claim them! Meg Crawford

Szalonaisa said...

I don't want to be boring... But this is GORGEOUS!!

Anita Kejriwal said...

Simply stunning! Thanks for playing along the spring challenge.

P.S-I,m a huge fan of your quilling!

Juhi said...

OMG this is super gorgeous......well worth all the effort...thanks so much for playing along at "For the love of crafting" spring colors challenge!

kavitha said...

This is absolutely stunning,you have a hell of patience,haha.
Thanks for playing along with us at"For the love of crafting"this month:)

Priya said...

OMG! Its extremely b'ful.. how much hard work must gone making this b'ful scenery.. its all worth it!

Thanks for joining us at "For the love of crafting - Spring challenge"!

Mallika said...

oh my god! you have done total justice to ur new fringe sciccors , the card looks awesome
thanx for playing along with us at ' for the love of crafting '

Hussena said...

Your Work is as Always just Gorgeous !! You are a Wizard of Quilling :) the Way You Use The Paper Strips To Create These beautiful Works Leaves me In Awe Every-time I see Your Work !!

Thanks For Playing along " For The Love Of Crafting " # 5

Best of Luck !!

Ioana , Germany said...

Hi ,

your work is wonderfull , really wonderfull :)