A castle and some sand

Hello All,

One never really knows when a challenge will come one's way! When this frame order came, the deadline was highly inflexible - ONE WEEK (including courier) and there was no concept whatsoever. Starting from scratch becomes a little hard when you don't even know what to scratch! :D

The starting point finally became the initials of the family this frame goes out to. Their initials make the word SAND. So, sand castles, yay! Since the family is moving and will mostly likely be furnishing a new house soon, sand castle was all the more relevant :) The criterion was that the entire frame be colourful!

When time is short and order complex, beehive always comes to save the day! And since the last time we made a frame, we have acquired this additional expertise of polymer clay. Polymer clay saved the day by being both quick and 3-dimensional. The alphabets were sliced out of black clay and jazzed up with orange. While they baked, a simple castle was outlined using quillography and filled with beehiving. I was extremely lucky with the background paper as I had bought this beach themed paper almost 10 years ago and never did anything with it (talk about hoarding!!!)......

A work in progress photo (the only one that I took, unfortunately!). The alphabets aren't stuck there yet.....

And here it is (after a burnt night!)......

The extra shaded touch is acrylic paints 'rubbed' onto the beehive pattern :)

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........:-)

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........:-)

Happy Valentine's Day - Two times over

Hello All,

A quick post to finally announce the two Valentine's Day frames, made to order by Aadyaa Originals.......hope you like 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........:-)

A quilled picture frame - worth a million words

Hello All,

After a big gap, I am back. It has been a manic busy time! And a GOOD manic busy time. After a spurt of illnesses (yet again!), I am back full throttle and making a comeback with  this project that has kept me sleepless for more than a few days :D

The sheer size of the project was a challenge! At 16 inches by 20, it was a "task" to fill this up without clutter or without glaring open spaces, and yet retain the "completeness" look. I pulled it off, or rather, so I think!

Here it goes, a picture frame, made memorable with quilling and punch-craft. I'd like thank the client for having such a clear idea about what she exactly wanted. It makes my life much easier :)

And some close-ups, for details of the amount of work that went in to 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........:-)

Beehive in a Beehive :)

Hello All,

And and and, FINALLY, all that beehiving is over! :) At times, I felt I was punishing myself with this much beehiving but all is well that ends well :)

There was no order for this piece but somehow, my heart was into it and so, here it goes :) The sentiment on the piece is not yet added (I've done some image editing to add that sentiment from top, the space is otherwise available for customization)......an apt gift for Wedding/Anniversary/Engagement :)

Here goes my Beehive in a Beehive project (Susan, I can never thank you enough for introducing us to beehiving) :)

This piece deserves three credits, first one to Susan :) Second one to Miyyah for inspiring me with her rendition of vanilla orchids. And thirdly, Namizam Muda, for planting the beehive idea :) I had been groping in the dark about how to start this and then came his piece, with which things just went on falling in place :)

Since its colourfulness made ME cheerful, I thought it only apt to enter it in Craty JC challenge #15 :)

Hope you all like it..............Adieu till the next piece :)

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 newly wed couple.....

Hello All,

A quick post for my new (and the only complete) project after coming to India.........a gift for a newly wed couple :) I finally get to vent my obsession with the Cheshire Cat, on my own terms..... :)

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........:-)

Bid Adieu

Hello All,

A quick post again...............my last order in Sweden. The person wanted a more filled up look compared to what Aadyaa offered, so I had to work out a scheme so that the monogram was well surrounded by colour :) The background is not black, it's a beautiful rich brown but then...........I am not lucky enough to get daylight!

I hope this leads to customer satisfaction and I leave Sweden on a happy and satisfied note! I will pack my quilling stuff away today (no more excuses Pritesh!) and take a good one month break from quilling now!!!!!!!! Bidding Adieu to Sweden :)

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 Fractal

Hello All,

This is a REAL quick post as I am off to Aractic Circle and Ice Hotel tomorrow.........I will spend my New Year in the northernmost part of the globe I can access :D

I have been obsessing about what to make for the Homyachok challenge theme. And with the limited time I had, I came up with this: Fractals (everyone was making snowflakes so I could not and did not want to make yet another snowflake)........for those who are not very familiar, fractals are geometric shapes, which on zooming will resemble the overall structure. So, no matter how much you zoom in, the shape remains the same. Frost is well known to form in fractal structures (phew, there goes the chemist in me!) :D


Here is my (extremely simple) version of a fractal.....I wish I had some more time to do justice to the pattern.........but somehow, Homyachok challenge means a lot to me and I am off to a place with no Internet, so I won't be able to make much there :)

Submitting this to Homyachok challenge with theme: Winter Patterns



Wishing you all a very happy, prosperous and creative 2012.............may we see more and more of fantastic quilling in the coming year


Take loads of care and stay warm :)


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........:-)

White Pink Flower Frame - Tutorial

Hello All,

After a long silence (yes, I do hit mental blocks many times!), I am back, with a simple tutorial. Nothing ground breaking :) I just felt like posting a tutorial......the flowers have been used in this Frame :)




The flower tutorial is here and the leaves are something I have posted about before........

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 best, I think

Hello All,

After one sleepless night and 7 hours straight of only quilling, this is what I created. I am not particularly proud of the creation but I am, of the patience I displayed! Hehehehe! It's a very Larissa inspired creation (thanks Kate for the link). She is, of course, a class apart! I can never claim to be half as good but try, I will :) But I will always be fond of this project because there was nothing I HAD TO conform to, to make this one. I made it truly for my own pleasure (and I have a track record of doing my best when I am not under pressure!).....a creation just to please myself :) At the end, however, I decided that I want to gift it to a little girl, who turns 1 in some time. I know she won't even know what it is but maybe, some day, she will remember her Aunt who made this for her and appreciate it :)

I've used silver glitter pen to make the swirls as I think, swirls is my strong point. And my hands had been itching to use these lovely glitter pens I bought long long ago :) [Sorry for so many pictures, I couldn't stop clicking!]

Here is my creation and linking it to Crafty JC challenge # 12, Crafty Boots' "Anything Goes" challenge,

Sorry, no tutorials for this one as there is nothing difficult really that I have done. Just simple 3D petals involved (tutorial here) with a gradation of colour and some beehive quilling to fill the monogram :)

Hope y'all will like 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........:-)

Mirror Mirror on the Wall

Hello All,

Mirror mirror on the wall,
Who's the prettiest of them all..............

And the mirror answered - It's me! :)

I have had this Ikea mirror with me for quite a long time. And I just didn't know how to put it to use. Just at that time, Kavitha gets in touch with me and I am the Guest Designer for her next challenge! When you truly want something, the Universe conspires to get it for you! :)

I have used an Ikea framed mirror, painted it with gold acrylic paint and lifted some paint off using a tissue paper. The main flower is a noodle petal flower I invented and the smaller flowers are semi-quilled, using a daisy punch. I am posting this on Crafty JC challenge # 12 (Holiday Favours) as well. :)

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........:-)

Yay! Kathy's challenge results OUT!

Yay!!!!!!!!!!! I am so glad I featured in the Top 3 of Kathy's Challenge on Priyadarshini's blog. What an honour!!!!! :-) The theme was "Congratulations" and here is my winning entry :-)

Congratulations to the other winners as well! :-) And Kavya is ONE talented girl! She's going to go a LONG way! :-)

Happy Quilling

PS: Too bad that this project got lost in postage and never reached where it was supposed to :(

Pink dahlias in a shadow box

A sort of quick tutorial to the dahlias

I didn't take pictures after this but you just need to stick the stem behind the dahlia whorls and you're good to go. Just assemble some other types of flowers and some leaves, and you can make your own bunch :-)

This is my entry to the Flowers Challenge on Create me Pink :-)

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........:-)

Quilled Frame Art

Hi! Multilayered scrolls has been an eternal fascination and I saw Miyyahat's blog which take multi-layered scrolling to a totally new level! I wished to try it as well and Nelika's blog provided the last shred of motivation to get GOING! :-) Here is the result........

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........:-)

Berries and Flowers

I have always loved to blend elements, an experiment I started with my Dhonuk logo work. This time, I tried blending printing and quilling. The result is here :-)

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 :)

Quilled Orchids

Now that I am equipped with the quilling tools I bought from Artystree, it is so much easier to make shapes in regular sizes. I wanted to try my hand at something like that and orchids always come in hand. Equipped with how Inna Dorman had quilled orchids once, I decided to give it a try. I have done it slightly differently compared to hers but I am satisfied with the result :-)

The flowers have been made using the 1.5 cm circle in the quilling designer board (top left circle). For the bigger petals, I made the whorl and pressed two together. The darker pink are single whorls. The leaves have been folded by hand. I don't particularly like husking, so I fold them by hand. But looks like, I will need to husk leaves more often! :D

Base: 500 gsm white carton paper covered with beige (80 gsm) printing paper
Flowers: 120 gsm pink (two shades) and 80 gsm red paper
Leaves: 80 gsm dark green printing paper
Frame: 500 gsm carton paper readymade frame from Gallerix.

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........:-)