No Hearts, No Pinks, No Reds :)

Hello All,

A quick post, an inspiration to everyone wishing to participate in my Valentine's Day challenge, you don't need hearts, reds or pinks to make a Valentine's Day Card! :D (I have a thing against the heart shape, too cliche, I guess!)............

The golden swirls are hand-drawn, I really enjoy that kind of drawing (and I don't do it often enough). The colours (yet AGAIN!) look a little skewed. It's a very pretty cobalt blue and bright orange combination......the embossed lines on the background are also hand-made, along with the golden dots. I don't think I take much to stamps etc, and hence, nearly completely hand-made card :)

After this, I may be going on a break because relocation blues are approaching......my husband will be a PhD in 18 days' time (boy, I am SO thrilled!)..........I will try posting as and when I can :)

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........:-)

Addiction Clean and Simple

Hello All,

Here I go, with yet another one :) I have so wanted to make a flower like this for so long but things just never fell in place..........I bought these beautiful BIG half pearls and thought I should put these to use :) So, here I am with an embellishment I have used for the first time - large half pearls :)

I chose the colours according to the challenge theme at Colour Throwdown challenge no. 173, so am obviously entering it for that. Other challenges:

Dutch Dare Card Challenges (New Beginnings)
The Pink ElephantChallenge  #129 (Anything Goes)
Crafts and Me Challenge (# 66, Anything Goes)
Paper Play Challenge (New Year)

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........:-)

Distressed

Hello All,

Something new from me today! :) On Susan's insistence, I tried distress ink! I can't even say I can pull it off! :D It IS difficult, particularly in the absence of proper tools. I just used a utensil scrub for dabbing and made this extremely simple card, with a very simple quilled flower in the middle :) My husband loved it and I am glad for THAT! :)

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........:-)

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........:-)

Purple Donkey

Hi! All,

I have been so terribly busy so here is a quick post - wishing my husband a quick recovery from a nasty cold that has made him so miserable for past 2 days! This donkey is a reproduction of a purple donkey I was once gifted (from a friend whose father worked in Uzbekistan), that never ceased to make me smile! :)

This one's specially for my husband Ananth, my best friend, my soul-mate........

A close-up look of the donkey :)

And well, it so happens that this fits the theme of ICR challenge 14 (clean and simple)........so submitting it there too :)



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 wreath and angel (tutorial) - my beehive obsession on :)

Hello All,

I will not bug you again with how much I like the beehive technique! :D So, here is my creation using the technique. When my husband looked at it and said Wow, I knew I was in the business! :D He rarely praises me. And, of course, the tutorials follow. I have split them into two, because one single file would be too long.....

I am particularly proud of this one because I drew the stars myself and I like the effect! :)

I am entering this for the following challenges:

1. Christmas Fun Challenge at Pollycraft Challenge
2. Challenge # 34 - Christmas, at Pattie's Creations
3. Colour Challenge at Lollipop Crafts
4. Colour of Christmas Challenge at Kaboodle Doodles
5. Holiday Greetings challenge at Party Time Tuesdays
6. Make it Mondays Christmas Challenge

Tutorial for wreath:

Tutorial for the angel (quite long, I must say!)

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........:-)

Just spending time :-)

Hello All,

I didn't particularly have anything on my mind, so came this card..............just wanted to use this beautiful scrapbook paper I had :)

Entering this for B is for.........challenge (B is for Blue) at Lollipop Crafts and Create your own flower challenge at Craft Room Challenges :)

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........:-)

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 :)

A quick Thank You card

Hello All,

A quick Thank You card for a friend who requested one today. This has got to be the fastest execution of an order I have ever done! Thanks to Nati and Manu for the inspiration for the petals. This is my first attempt at depth petals :-)

Happy Quilling

Pritesh (I am afraid I won't be posting tutorials for quite a while now, I have two BIG orders to clear up!)

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........:-)

Some cards

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........:-)

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........:-)

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........:-)

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........:-)

Happy Anniversary

This Anniversary card is for a friend, the first one I am doing some personalized gifts work for. I can never be thankful enough to her for getting me started into it.......

Base: 250 gsm black chart paper
Beige: 120 gsm coloured paper
Writing: Gold glitter pen (poem from The Best is Yet to Be)

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........:-)

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........:-)