Hello Swit chums,

How was your weekend. Mine was super fantastic. Just for info, I was out of town to celebrate my First Marriage Anniversary. I could actually get my IPL crazy hubby for a weekend away... It was simply superb. And hence my absence from my blog and also visiting others blog. I am sure I have missed many things but will catch up soon...

Meanwhile, I wanna share this card I made for Yumz on our First Anniversary. They say Paper and Clock are the traditional gifts for First Anniversary. What better that a hand-made card.

To begin with, this is not a high fundu card. It's a simple card made with whatever I had hand. Also it was a surprise for him and hence, made this card when he was not around. I initially thought of making a simple card. But then these wonderful Fold card styles at Lulupu helped me to think something different and hence I made a plus sign '+' card.

Without me being more wordy, please find below my card with additional remarks.

This is the first snapshot. If you see, it's a copper color cardstock I have used. It has a metallic finish to it which looks quite good for this occasion. I made a band of a copper color lace with a quilled flower stuck to it. This band keeps the card folds in place.

Once we move the band, the card looks as above. Since I don't own a Scallop punch yet :(... I hand cut the circles in different color papers with designer scissors. Surely You can see the circles are not to the mark but still acceptable. Moving on, I used a White pen for simply writing down 'Happy Anniversary'. White looks good on this metallic finish. And a simple 'YD'....

Moving on to my first flap,

I simply stick a Pink color paper on the cardstock. Then I randomly selected some color quilling strips and stuck them in different angles and wrote down one liners in different color pens. As you can read here, 'Loving - Always and Forever'; 'Smiling and Happily ever after'; 'Having a Pillow fight in the bed'; 'Awesome Badminton Challenge won (By D)' and so on.... Please don't mind my finger holding down the card....

My second flap is,

I stuck a blue cardstock and then I used a cardstock I ordered from LULUPU... It's a cute cardstock.. Just cut out a sentiment which says "Life is".. and then I added words in my calligraphic style as With you, Life is.... 'Beautiful', 'Wonderful', 'Darling', 'Shona', 'Smiling', 'Happy', 'Classy', 'Sexy'... and so on as you read here....

My next flap is

The center CS is again from LULUPU. I cut out a square and stuck it in a diamond shape. I then added these embellishments I bought from a local store.. They look cute here....

My last flap,

I had seen this technique when I was a kid and my sister's friend was doing this. She simply moved her paper over a candle and what you get is Black prints like smoke. Here, I even moved my finger over the entire smoky look else it would have left marks on my copper CS and hence you see a greyish white look. Accidentally, a dot of wax fell on my smoke print and I liked it. Hence, I did it on purpose for other wax dots. It just gives a simple yet different look than my other flaps.

And now the center card look,

I had this Heart shape punch outs with me. I colored the heart in different colors to add some colors on this center card as I have used only white mostly here. I thought to add it in the center and then stuck some white color velvet flowers I got locally. They just add uniqueness to the already cute heart. Also, I gave this 'White Stitch' look border to this center CS. It's cute, infact according to me, the best part of the center card.

And here's the look of the overall card,

The band in the corner, the four flaps out and the center Heart. A plus '+' sign card.

Some more pics here,

The pink flap with the random one liners..... I have purposefully used a pink because I love pink and Yumz just loathes it.... heheheheh... Just to tease him!!!

The calligraphy style I used is 'self learning'. Yumz love my handwriting. So thought of adding it here.

The center Colored heart.....

The cross look of my quilled flower. I made these flowers just to try a technique and it looks good I think. I am not sure if any quiller out there has tried this technique. If so, I would love to see it... Cause I loved this style.. Just cute. I made it in Pink and Blue shade as well..

I hope you liked this card. As I said, It's a simple card. What matters is the emotions and love put in it while making... And about Yumz, he is bowled over with this card and then, CSK winning the First Eliminator match on the 23rd May, 2012. Oh BTW, we celebrated our First Marriage Anniversary on the 21st May, 2012. It was a fun weekend...

Cya dolls.. Keep coming back!!!

Hi Dolls,

How is you all?
Hope you had a great sunday. Mine was simply superb...
Since it was a second saturday, I had the weekend to myself. I had already booked the saturday for shopping for some good cardstock and some punches. (and thankfully, my hubby was all the more excited than me)
Anyways, once I got my shopping done to my heart's (and wallet) content, I started to make some greetings. This sunday I had thought of making some simple cards and here they are. This idea was an inspiration drawn from Dr. Sonia and her simple card making style.

This is card no. 1

The flower was not actually meant to be a flower. I had made these seprately for a different project but couldn't use it there. When I was done with the background cardstock for my greeting, I thought of checking my stash for some readymade shapes and found these five colorfull of them. I placed them like a flower and showed to my hubby (Yumz). He liked the idea and asked me to place a dark red color ribbon in the bottom part as you can see on the card. The puches are made by my new punch I got for myself.

A closer look of the flower from sideways. (please don't mind the picture quality. I didn't had my Sony with me and had to work with Yumz's BB)
Next one is a simple yet cute one.



 Courtsey: Yumz for the Red-Black flowers. Myself for the Cream-Black flowers. I am sure both make a lovely combination.  For the flowers I thought of making a beehive. But don't know what got into my mind (surely something good only) and I just rolled the strip and placed it in the black casing I made. And voila, it looked very preety.

Yumz asked me to keep the centre as it is cause it creates a cute star and I definately (now) agree with him. The hearts are punched out from my new punch got on Saturday. Lovely na?

A closeup look of the flower....

I am linking this card to Mishelfloschallenge - Celebration.

Next one is a special one:

I always wanted to try a window card, though I was not so sure how do you make them. But still wanted to try one with my own measurements. I am not good with maths and drawing straight lines but here comes Yumz in the picture and helps me out.... As always I guess....
Once the frame was ready, I made the metallic maroon curls and pasted them as above. My mother-in-law (PR) was observing me. I then was thinking what to do next. Suddenly she suggested me to make small curls of blue and place them on the bigger curve. Mind it, she is also from Arts (Lucky me)...
I thought it surely would look classy. I made the tiny curls and placed them. She also then suggested to segregate and place a few on the bigger curls curve. And then the pearls was again her idea.

I think I just did execution in this card. The design-head behind this is my mom-in-law PR. She deserved it after all Sunday was Mothers' Day.......

Another pic.....


So here it all goes girlies....

Hope you all had fun art and quilling time this sunday.
Would love to hear suggestions, improvements or any appreciation from you all. Also leave your blog address so I can visit and see your masterpeices too....

Chow!!!

Hi everyone,

It's been a wonderful Sunday today. Could make two greeting cards but obviously with my share of mistake and learning's. Wanted to make one thing but it turned into something else. But Thank God, my hubby and my parents (in-laws) loved it. I think even I liked the end result though I was upset with the way I goofed up with the actual design.

Anyways, before I post the greetings I made today, (and since this is my first post in my Quilling blog) I would first like to place photos of my early quilling. You shall see the difference (Thankfully it gets better, they say it right "Practice makes man perfect"). Though I know I seek perfection like many other master quillers all there (who have already reached the zenith), I know it shall take time.
Alright, without me being more wordy, please find my early quilling designs below:

 This is my very first first project of all (Yes every girl tries out flowers first). Please ignore the background, (it's a newspaper, couldn't find anything better)

 Coming up next,

 This design I saw from the basic quilling book I got for myself. Obviously, I changed the colors and design a bit. But it turned out very well.. Even I couldn't believe it could be good after just the basic shapes and quills.

Next is a special one,

This Ganesha photo I saw on the net and really loved the design. So I thought to give it a try (Yes, in the initial days of quilling itself). I definitely learned much while making the turns and curves...(hehehe)

This project was suppose to be something else (flowers over flowers) but turned out as above. I know it should and could have been better than this but somehow got different. I even used crayons on the background black cardstock I used (I guess it looks better that way). Also I wanted to try the crimped border. So here it is.Anyways, a  good learning from early mistakes.

This is a cute one. I made the green quills to be used as leaves for some other project, but couldn't use them as thought. And so, as advised by my hubby, I made it into a flower and look how cute it looks. I just gave it a art cut from one side....

This's ones purely belongs to me; I mean my design. Not copied from anywhere. Actually I got the inspiration for this design by my father-in-law. Our family business is also in to art and designs. Recently, he started this Black-White concept and it caught my eye (or better quills)... And I gave it a try... Sure it looks good... (Trying to make better ones!!!!)

This is my first Beehive technique creation. All thanks to the simple tutorial posted by Pritesh(

http://quillingmesoftlee.blogspot.in/).

I simply love her work which is already liked by many quillers and non-quillers.

And now the two greeting cards I made for my Mother-in-law (she wants to gift it) today.

As usual, I wanted to make something else.But it turned out something else. I think I shouldn't think what my final result should look like in the beginning of the project because it NEVER turns out that way (hope I didn't confuse you). But anyways, i am happy at least it doesn't turn out bad (my hubby and parents and friends say so!!!)

Hope you liked it too...

And the second card I made. I know, i know it's definitely not so good (Specially seeing the above ones) but surely learned from mistakes....

Hope you liked some... I am enjoying my quilling ans love sharing it.

P.S. - Many thanks to my friend Nupur Parmar who introduced this wonderful art to me...

Happy Quilling!!!