Beaute Naturelle - Part 2

Hello All,

A quick post (darned Internet decided to conk off today, and I spent half the day out of sync really). The mission statement for Beaute Naturelle (www.naturelle.in) is here! This was the toughest one to make as I was working on targeting women who have an eye for beauty and will be impressed by the beauty of THE statement the first thing into the shop :) I really like the way it turned out to be.

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........:-)

Inky Pinky Winky - Giveaway cards set complete

Hello All,

I have finally finished my Giveaway cards set (pls don't even mention the earrings and bookmarks yet! :D). Here is my last card, a colour I am never sure about how to use - Pink!

And if you pay attention, you will see a smaller version of Manu's little butterfly somewhere! :D I hope I have done justice to the beauty of the butterfly! And also, I have used Mihaela's little tutorial for making leaves at the bottom :) What a small little world! :) The idea for the card (the embroidery card, as Suzana calls it) comes from her lovely card :-) The right side of the card is hand-textured using a gold 3D outliner :)

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 roses

Hello All,

I made my first attempt at Spiral Roses and well, the result is here :-)

The frame is available for sale (either in present form or customized on order) at Aadyaa Originals Page

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........:-)

A congratulations Frame

Curls and swirls were always my forte but never ever did I imagine that I will be able to make money out of Art I did (much to the chagrin of my mother) at the back of my school notebooks. I so vividly remember waiting to have mehendi/henna times so that I could further practice these curls and swirls :-) Here is my first completed (and dispatched) order :-)

I am particularly happy about this one because it was my concept from the beginning till the end. I wrote to poem myself (something I intend to continue, writing!) and then, quilled the surroundings. As always, here are the details:

Base: 80 gsm beige printing paper, 130 gsm black paper, cut and pasted on right side
Black 'stems': 300 gsm black chart paper
Black 'leaves': 130 gsm black paper
Flower: 80 gsm beige printing paper + 130 gsm black paper
Beige details: 80 gsm printing paper

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........:-)

I hope the person who ordered it receives it in good shape and likes it too :)

This is my entry to Kathy's challenge for September 2011:

Happy Quilling :)

Wedding Congratulations Card

Hello All,

I am sorry that I haven't been really able to post a tutorial for any of my works as of now. I just haven't had the time, with a small child in the house and a full time job on my hand. I have, though, tried to put together a sort of step by step image explaining how to make the petals (that is the only tricky part here) in

I used 80 gsm beige printing paper strips (~ 3 mm width, they are hand-cut hence not a very constant width) for the petals. One strip was 12 inches long. I used a technique called Husking (Inna explains it much better than I do, she has great photos to accompany the instructions) for making the petals. My own amateurish attempt at explaining husking is here

After making the petals, I used a gold glitter pen to do gilding (basically, I followed the paper edge with pen tip). It gave a beautiful rich effect. I pasted 5 petals on a rectangle I drew in the upper half a 200 gsm (A4 folded into half) off-white paper. The leaves has been made using a bright green 80 gsm printing paper (which was about to be thrown away for being 'discoloured'). The leaves were shaped using the quilling board I bought from Artystree :-)  On the lower half of the card, I pasted a ribbon piece (which came off a box of sweets from Doha! I am a GREAT fan of recycling), made a bow and pasted on top of it.

The gold swirls on the rectangle were an afterthought really. The card looked barren without them. The core of the flower is a 5 mm width,10 inch long yellow paper strip, tight coiled and gilded with gold pen (on the side though, not on top, I wanted the yellow colour to show). In the centre, I have stuck a pearl. Between each petal, I stuck 1 pearl each to give richness to the look. The buds are again made of the beige paper, 3D coiled to make a cone. The "Congrats Bikash and Ivy" is my own hand-writing (hence the unevenness). I wish I had printed it but then, there was no time.

So, here goes a sort of tutorial. I will post better tutorials once I have the time!

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 Garden

Now that I am reasonably well versed with quilling, I wanted to try to makw fringed flowers, double fringed flowers and so on. I meant this to be a gift for a friend but changed my mind later as this looked a little ad-hoc. I made her something that will come in later posts. She so humble agreed to re-post my quilling supplies. For some reason, the best quilling supplies are available only in US or UK. I wish they start sourcing them to India soon......:-)

Base: 500 gsm carton paper - covered with 200 gsm Orange scrapbooking paper
Bronze base: Lined bronze scrapbook paper
Dark Green: 250 gsm chart paper
Light Green: 120 gsm A4 paper
White: 250 gsm chart paper
Red and Yellow: 80 gsm printing paper


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........:-)

3D quilling - blue bell flowers

When I looked at the beautiful examples of 3D quilling by various people on the Net, I was tempted to try it. Actually trying it was another thing though! Quilling needs very less money for doing but truck loads of patience! One can have time but patience is a different story altogether! Needless to say, skill too. Patiently putting together paper strips, rolling them to give them the angle you want....everything takes a lot of skill and patience. I was more than happy to be doing that as Art is such a creative satisfaction to me. I tried a card for the very lady who got me started with quilling.......they say aptly, age is no bar to wisdom. She was right! I took to it and am loving doing it......here's to her :-)

Details (as usual):
Base: 250 gsm white pearl paper (Panduro Hobby AB)
Blue: 120 gsm printing paper (A3)
Light Green: 80 gsm printing paper (leaves were made using the idea from Inna's tutorial)
Dark Green: 250 gsm chart paper (from Akademiebokhandeln)
Flower cores: Teardrop pearls on strings (from Pipoos Hobby, Gent)

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........:-)