Vrrroooom vrrroooom...........

Hello All,

A very quick post (while I nurse myself back to health) about a very interesting and different frame I got around to doing :)

Profile: A car lover's B'day, and he has a long name :D

So, I got to work. When I got this order, I had a very different idea in my mind. But when I aligned that idea on the frame, it just wouldn't work out properly. So, I had to abandon that and start afresh. And this is where I landed up! :)

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........:-)

For a photography and Social Media Buff

Hello All,

When a social media buff celebrates his birthday and the order for a gift frame comes to me, an instant kinship is felt ;)

So, here goes the 'design' I made for the frame:

And this is how the frame looked eventually :)

 In a typical style, I've altered the colour scheme slightly to make it look less monotonous.......

Something rare is happening with this frame though, I am entering this in the Pratvam Progs 1000 likes challenge.

Feedback is very welcome :)

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........:-)

Off-beat...........bead soutache again :)

Hello All,

When I saw Lulupu Craft Lounge's second B'day challenge notification, I so knew I had to participate. Not being a card-maker, I am more or less away from challenges as most involve cards. Add to that the inability to meet deadlines due to personal commitments and we have a recipe for non-participation in time-bound challenges! BUt this time, Lulupu has made it easier for us all. The challenge was to create something with the alphabets L, U, P, T, C. A minimum of three had to be incorporated. So, here is my take on it:

L - Layers (layers of paper used to make the 'base' for the soutache jewellery)
P - Paper (use for making the backing according to this method) and Pearl (flat back pearls used in the centre)
T - Thread (used to hold the beads together while arranging the beads)
C - Concentric circles (of beads in the jewellery)

I hope I qualify with this piece in Category 3 (everything else) :)

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........:-)

Happy B'day Radio One :)

Hello All,

If you ever visit the Radio One office in Pune, you'll come back impressed, happy and more than willing to go back, just to meet the people :) Such is the energy and charm of the place. Having been there twice, I am perennially looking for reasons to meet up with the most amazing people - Shubhra (with her incessant mother Hen pecking :D), Tarun (with his never ending curiosity), Kaustubh (with his sheer cuteness), Regge (forever fighting with Kaustubh about one thing or the other), Tia (with her spontaneous bursts of singing)!!!!!!! I could go on and on but then, I think, you got to be there to know what the hell I am rambling about! ;)

So, here is my REALLY quick number 5, for the 5th B'day of Radio One and wishing them many more years of Music, Masti and Fun! :) The whole monogram was finished in 1.5 hrs (I am heading to a vacation tomorrow, so wanted to do something with a bit of free time today :D) and measures about 20 cm by 12.......I loved making this for the sheer pace of it! :D

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........:-)

Quilled K - Challenge Results

Hello All,

The BIG day is here, here are the entries for the Quilled K challenge!

Smita's entry

Cool work Smita, such a 'citrus' look! :)

Megha Jain's entry

I am sure Kutkut loved this Megha! :)

Aditi Sawhney Vohra's entry

Aditi, this took my breath away! Quill me a 'N' too, for my lil sister, who is moving to Hyderabad soon (and I will surely come to meet her AND we shall meet too!!!!!!)

Swarna Manoj's entry

Swarna, this is some wonderful quilling!

Philippa Reid's entry (or should I say 5 entries!)

Philippa, I needn't say anything! Your quilling says it all! I loved this kavalkade! :)

Curly hair or a twirly affair's entry (I am sorry, I couldn't find your name!)

And the winner of this K challenge, whose creation is dedicated to ONE year old Kriyena (my little princess) is:

The last entry by Curly Hair and a Twirly Affair!!!!!!! 

Her entry made me smile the moment I looked at it! Those tiny details.......the little butterfly, the sun, the small pink flower.........it instantly reminded me of Kriyena's smile :)

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please email me with your snail-mail address and the letter you wish to have monogrammed! :)

I don't know HOW to thank all of you for making such sincere attempts for my extremely humble challenge! May God bestow happiness on Kriyena always and may she grow up to be a fine woman, setting examples for all the others around her.......love you child :)

Happy Quilling

Pritesh

CAS Edition 2 :)

Hello All,

Clean and simple CAN BE a seriously addictive theme and I am addicted! Hehehe. Here comes my second card for ICR challenge 14. I had once seen Suzana Ilic's Ikebana card and I loved it. I was such a novice at that time that I left it there, never even considered attempting it. Now that I think I could pull it off, here is my version of an (imaginary, of course) Ikebana florals :) [the right side image is a close-up of the Ikebana pot]

I filled the 3D quilled pot with beehived bronze strip and glued it randomly. The central support is a toothpick and 300 gsm green strips work as stems (cut with a tapered end). The tiny quilled roses are made of 80 gsm lemon and sunset yellow 3 mm strips. The 'leaves' are made from 80 gsm sap green and viridian green strips :)

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........:-)

Quilled K - Challenge

Hello All,

And here comes Pritesh's second challenge. What you need to do is to make a quilled "K". Feel free to experiment, the "K" can be embellished, surrounded by flowers, characters, creepers, chocolates............let your imagination run amok!

I recently made a quilled "K" to celebrate the B'day of a very very special girl! This is my tribute to her and her lovely lovely mother, who is a dear dear friend!

And what am I giving away?

An exotic quilled frame with a monogram letter chosen by the winner of the challenge! :)

Rules:

1. No backlinking please, it has to be a new project.
2. Leave the link in the comments to this post, if you have a blog. If not, send them by e-mail to pritzd@gmail.com.
3. You can combine it with any number of challenges you want.
4. Link back to my challenge-post here.
5. Innovation will hold 34% weightage, skill in quilling 33% and 33% to neatness and over all harmony in the piece. I will select the winner based on these 3 criteria.
6. The challenge closes on January 5, 2012 at 17:00 (CET) (You have 24 days! That's a long long time folks!)
7. It can be ANY thing, a card, a frame, a tag, practically anything! :)

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........:-)

One in a million :)

Hello All,

I have been kinda silent on the tutorials, and I apologize. Largely to myself because I love writing tutorials and spreading the joy of creation :) But I have been terribly busy. One of my closest friends' B'day is SO close, I am afraid my gift won't make it in time and I must knock myself on the head for almost having forgotten that her b'day was approaching! Duh! But I remembered and I hope she likes it, she is after all, the ONE IN A MILLION people you get to meet. I want her to know that SHE has been a great inspiration for me and that I look up to her, as a guiding light :)

A jewellery box for a gem I have come across in my life :)

I can't seem to stop photographing it! Thanks to Honey for her photography tips :) The quality of photographs is suddenly so much better! :)

Addition: The box IS hand-made, from the back support of a sketch book. I have finished using up the pages and the cardboard at the back was lying around. I cut it up (after some involved calculations as the box has been sent to my friend with a personalized poem written on a scroll inside, the scroll had to fit in the box) and made the box. The black paper used is 130 gsm black card paper. The red is ordinary 80 gsm printing paper and the red lining inside the box is 300 gsm red carton paper.

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........:-)

Ah! Card No. 5 for my giveaway

Hello All,

I don't know if I ever will be able to catch up on my list of Giveaway goodies! :D But well, I am trying, ain't I?

Here is the card no. 5 of the Giveaway :)

For the nth time, the colours DO NOT look like this in the original! And I can't do anything about these bad photos! :(

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........:-)

My Giveaway - Yet another card for it

Hello All,

I am working on the Giveaway cards and well, here is 'another' card ;)

I am entering this for the Pick Your Palette challenge for Crafty JC Challenge and November Sketch challenge

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........:-)

Pritesh's Giveaway

Hello All,

And and and! I am hosting my first giveaway! The giveaway opens today and lasts until Nov. 30 21:30 (CET). I'll announce the receiver (as opposed to the winner!) on Dec 1st, the day I came to this planet :)

Rules: Just make anything with quilling that catches your fancy, using RED (my favourite colour) as the majority colour...........just leave a comment (in the comments section below) with the link to your creation (or e-mail me a photo of the creation at pritzd@gmail.com if you don't have a blog). Please do not back-link, anything new is fine.........

What do you get?: 6 quilled cards (A5 size), 6 quilled bookmarks and 6 pairs of earrings - all made by me :)

The receiver will be chosen by a good old paper chit system :D (I am such a sucker for old world charm!)

My humble giveaway is a tribute to my quiller friends from whom I have learnt SO MUCH! The ones who have brought so much fun to my life :)

Love and hugs - Pritesh

PS: Mixed media art is absolutely ok, but there should be quilling involved in the creation :)

Quilly Nilly Lily!

Hello All,

When I got this order for a simple card, I thought ok, let me try something new. I hadn't made lilies ever before and trying my hand at them was exciting. It's actually much more fun when the people who order state their 'flexible' and 'inflexible' requirements. I knew I had to quill white lilies but otherwise, I had the freedom to weave a pattern around it.

I wanted to try the lilies Nelika had made in her post. I didn't want the white to remain utterly white, so I sketched little yellow and green at the base of the petals. I promise, I will post a tutorial to this one soon, it is SO simple, everyone ought to try it!!!!! I made a few leaves and multi-colour scrolls (nothing like the ones Suganthi and Nelika make though, hehe) to complete the ensemble.

And here goes!

Details:

Base: 250 gsm off white card paper
Oval: 80 gsm printing paper with the greenish oval and wish printed on it
Lily: 200 gsm white scrapbooking paper
Leaves: 80 and 120 gsm green shades paper
Scrolls: 120 gsm quilling paper from www.skapamer.se

Happy Quilling :-)

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........:-)

Anthuriums - an eternal obsession

One flower that never stops amazing me is Anthurium. The simple structure of the flower, it's snake like shape (snakes are my favourite animals, anyway!)......everything about it begs to be quilled. So, here I am, with anthuriums (though the anthuriums themselves are not quilled, the over all card is) and quilling. A birthday greeting for a special elder person I know :) I hope he likes it when he gets it

Base: 250 gsm brown metallic paper
White: 200 gsm sketching paper
Yellow and Green: 80 gsm printing paper
Writing: Gold glitter gel pen
Wish: Printed on 80 gsm printing paper

Happy Quilling :)

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........:-)

Quilled birthday greeting

This particular card (result of about 5 hours' worth work) is for a very very special friend and ex-colleague, someone I could so be myself with. Hope the friend likes the card :-) [Please excuse the ugly deletion of the name]

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........:-)