Quilled Owl

It's been awhile since last post,have been busy with Family reunions, Farmers Markets, and First time Art Fair. The Art Fair turned out great, loved it, so many people from miles around showed up and so many were pleased with my work, and could remember the Art from way back, but noticed mine being more detailed. It made me feel really good inside, although I still have a ways to go in improving my work, as I take as a challenge, and I love challenges!. Well dont want to bore you so here is the Owl, hope you like it!!!! You can click on the picture for closer look.

I used Markers to do some shading in the leaves, and feathers around the eyes.

Quilled Raccoon

Just finished this Raccoon, dont know what to think about it,picture doesnt do it justice as for the color on the backgrounds. I was hoping the leaves would show better, I made them with onion holder, love the design it makes. Let me know what you think!!!!

Click on picture for it to become larger.

quilled flowers

I've been in a flower mood, so I made these, I find it hard to arrange flowers, or maybe I'm just picky, what do you think?

Quilled wooden boxes

Your probably getting tired of seeing Quilled boxes, but I thought I'd show some more, I've made the total of 35 in the last month, wow. I need to come up with some new designs. Well here they are.

On the left is my yellow cake with white icing, the right one I painted with wood stain, with simple flowers, I think its sharp with the wood stain!!.

These, I really like how they turned out, I used onion holder to make the petals, and s scrolls all around the edge.Hope you like!!!

Busy, Busy, Busy!!!

Sorry I havent posted in awhile, but been very busy with orders the last 2 weeks. Today had a little time before Farmers Market to post, so I thought I'd share with you on some of the things I have made by requests, and other to keep up on stock as I've been selling them so fast lately!.
                      Here is a picture that was requested, she wanted a beach scene with poem of foot prints in the sand, and wanted me to use real sand and shells, I included quilling of a butterfly and flowers, she loved it!!!

                                   13x13 frames run between $25.00- $40.00 very reasonable

                               I also printed the poem on velum, and added footprints in the sand.

Here are 2 pictures done for 2 Daughters, the poems are printed on vellum, and colored card stock behind it. Then I added flowers and butterflies, only thing about glueing on the vellum is it tends to bubble alittle, havent found away around that, but it still turnes out pretty good. These were done in a 8x10 frame, which I charge $12.oo-$15.00, which I think is very affordable.I had suggestion from a customer, that I should put price range on my blog, since I do hand out cards with blog, that way if there interested, they would know  around what it will cost them.

Here are some more quilled wooden boxes, they have been a big seller here.I came across some shaped like purses, there really cute!. It depends on what they have at the time and when I can get them as to what I quill on and charge, its been running anywhere from $5.00 -$8.00, depending on the size of box and how much quilling and painting involved.

And last but least, another good seller is paper beaded necklaces, made out of Scrapbooking paper, love how the designs come out, it took me 4 days to make 20 of them, get finger cramps every time,lol

So there you have it, this is what I've been busy with, for the last 2 weeks, hopefully I'll have some time soon to do a picture or 2. Hope you enjoyed what I've shared with you today, thanks for checking my work out!Have a good day!!!

More Jewelry boxes

Been trying out new flower petals and colors, love adding pearl beads I think it adds a nice touch.These are wooden trinket or jewelry boxes that I painted most of them, theyv'e been a nice seller!.

These boxes are of cardboard that I got from my Daughter, she saves everything, she learned it from me,lol
I decided to decorate them with quilling, nice way to recycle!.
I quilled these boxes , and made 20 paper beaded necklaces with Scrapbooking paper and magazines in one week, there both good sellers here. But boy did I get finger cramps from making the beads,lol, I'm ready to do another framed picture, just dont know what it's going to be yet,lol
Well hope everyone is having a great day!!!!!!!!

Farmers Market

Heres where I spend My Thursdays. Not very many vendors, because the heat has really been bad, it's been in the 90's, with heat index it's been 114 degrees. My hubby took pictures when I wasn't paying attention,lol
it's supposed to be hot this weekend to,and I'll be going to 3 farmers Market's, whew.
I did get a call from a lady that runs an Art show in small town near us, she had seen my work here on my blog and loves my work and wanted to know if I'd be interested in show ing my work at the Art show, I was so excited and said yes. There wont be any judges as this is there first time, but say that next year there will be, and my art will be up for sale. It's so nice that it's reconized as Art and not craft, Sept. 4th is the day!.

Tweety Bird

Here's my favorite Cartoon character, Tweety busy painting a flower

Been busy setting up at Farmers Markets at 3 different towns, on 3 different days, thats including our town. Will be setting up for Party in the park in July and then hopefully art show in September. It's been good except the 95 degree weather, it was 106 with index yesturday wow it was rough,well got to get making projects for next weekend. happy 4th of July!!!!!

Happy

Last couple of weeks have been good for me, as I already mentioned, that I've been selling my quilling, which has been great, I've had some requests.I also recieved 2 blog awards, and won some beads,charmes,chains and bling from  http://www.blog.robertscrafts.com/, also won a note book with quilling on it from Bronwyn , http://www.quillme.blogspot.com/ . Thank you all very much made my days!!!
Here's a picture of a request I made, she wanted something simple and small with bird and flowers, so I decided on a humming bird and flowers, I hope she likes it!

Bambi and MOM

Well I think the quillers block has gone for now!. I had a great weekend, I sold some pictures and quilled gift boxes, gift tags, book marks, and paper bead necklaces.THere was a lady that I told and showed that there was an artical and picure of my quilling  in Quill America magazine, and that I won a ribbon on one of my pieces. She was so excited and asked me to sign my name to the pictures she bought, I was shocked and gladly signed them. She said she had heard of quilling but never knew what it really was, so I explained a little, next thing she asked if I'd sell her the quilling tool that I had displayed with picture of shapes and explanation about quilling, I ended up giving it to her, then she asked me if I would send her some simple patterns, as she lives out of town, so I will do that and give her some quilling sights to check out along with on line quilling stores. It was all exciting for me to share something I love and enjoy, who knows we may keep intouch never know. Well anyway here is my recent project of Bambi and MOM, hope you like!!
Click on picture to see larger image.

Nature

These pictures are not quilling but wanted to share them, Gods creatures, gotta love them!

Now the second picture, Hubby came in with the camera and said he had taken a picture of a type of bird he's never seen, he really had me going!!

funny HA HA, love sitting in our yard just watching nature!!

Gift tags

Here are some gift tags, I used a teplate and traced the tags, then cut them out and punched a hole in top of tag.I could of made them fancy, but wanted to keep it simple, because I have other orders to fullfil, so I just did quilling on them. Ever hear of writing block?, we'll I have quilling block,lol hope it dont last to long. Well here's my tags, hope you like!!

Gift boxes

Thought I'd take a break from framed pictures, and quill on some little gift boxes, some are card board and some wood. I have sold a few and thought I'd better make some more. I also sold some gift tags, so I guess my next project will be making some more tags, then maybe get back to my frames. Here are the gift boxes.

White Tiger

After my Daughter saw the orange tiger I made, she thought it would be cool if I made a white Tiger, so I did.I also had someone suggest that I take pictures at different stages of my next project,I also did that. Let me know what you think!

THe first Tiger took me a week to make, this 3 days, I really cramed in the hours on this one, was excited to see the out come with it being white.Hope you like!

Another blog award

I feel popular,lol. Another award from teddy-bear-princess.blogspot.com
Thank you so much, I am honored!, please check out her blog!!!!
 1-How long have you been blogging? A little over 4 months, it seems a lot longer.
2- when did the first time you blogged? I started this blog, which is first and only, in January.
3-  What is your purpose to making this blog?  Wanted to share my quilling with others and get there opinions, and wanting to check out others creations.
4-  Who inspired you, so that your blog becoming like now?  Other craft bloggers.

Here are 4 Bloggers I'd like to share this award with,Antonella, Karuna, Bronwyn, Hussena.

Stylish Blog Award

I recieved this Blog Award from 4 Bloggers, Divya-art-room.blogspot.com,  (Monica) giddygreetings.com,mihaela-creativeart.blogspot.com, eenzybeenzy.blogspot, Thank you all so much!!!

I'm supposed to name 8 things about me , which I have already done so on the other award, as you can see if you scroll down.

Since I got this award from 4 people I'm sharing the award with 21 people, yes 21, I know thats alot of people, normally it would be 8.

1  creaties-baukje.blogspot.com (Baukje)

2  sunflowerytale.blogspot.com (Kre)

3  artcsdenagela.blogspot.com

4  carmencune.blogspot.com (Carmen)

5  baynaturals.blogspot.com

6  happyquilling.blogspot.com (Cluj-Napoca)

7  alfardh.blogspot.com (Mannayah)

8  itsmollysmith.blogspot.com (Molly)

9  quillingprojects.blogspot.com (Elena)

10  krazyquilling.com (Linda)

11  maoscriadoras.blogspot.com (Luclecia)

12  nimmuscreations.blogspot.com (Nimmu's)

13  quillcentre.blogspot.com

14  quillingpapercraft.blogspot.com

15  cherubcrafts.blogspot.com

16  papercraftwithaditi.blogspot.com (Aditi)

17  quillandpunchworks.blogspot.com (Hussena)

18  quillme.blogspot.com (Bronwyn)

19  katrin-hobby.blogspot.com (Katrin)

20  ineskowa.blogspot.com

21  teddbear-princess.blogspot.com

WHEW alot of people to type, it was worth it to share the award!

Please check out all these wonderful bloggers!!!!

Tiger

Just finished this one, it was a challenge, with the markings, I think it turned out ok. What do you think?

Panda with flowers, and butterflies

I made this cute Panda, last year, my Daughter fell in love with it. I got the pattern from (Decorative Quilling book,by Trees Tra and Malinda Jonston). Malinda has some really nice quilling books and patterns. I added a flower to the panda since I thought it would be cute as a girl, enjoying the simple butterflies, and the flowers that I just made up, some fringed others punched with the petals curled. never can find paper that is long enough to fit the whole frame, so I made 3 sections, and took chop sticks and glued them to the seams where the papers met. Hope you like!!!!

Flowers in the planter

For those who were wondering what I used for the planter, I used chocolate foil wrappers, I rolled them aound a chop stick, then glued them together, and placed pearl white paper strips across the rolls. THought it was a good idea at the time,lol

flowers in a vase

I did this vase and flowers last year and entered it in arts and craft show in a small town near us,it won 3RD prize. The vase is quilled and used punches for the flowers

I just finished this one, Flowers are all quilled, still working on how to arrange flowers, as you can see there all formed into a circle. Real arrangements aren't, atleast I dont think so. Bet you cant guess what the planter is made with?, I'll let you know later on, for now you'll have to guess,lol
Happy Quilling!!!

Dedicated to Paula, because she is a nice person, because her comments to my post motivated me, because she loves blue color. Thank you Paula

I just had to share this with all of you, not to brag, but to share the inspiration that one can give to another!.

I am honored that Mihaela made this card for me, it is Beautiful!

Check out her bloghttp;//www.quilling-creativeart.blogspot.com

She does lovely work!.



Name with flowers

This was another request, they wanted there last name with a lot of flowers and Dragon flies. I used colors that will match her living room decor. I also used color chalk lightly on the Dragon flies so they would stand out a little more, since they kinda blend with the back ground. The letters were done on a cricket, 2 sets were made 1 brown and 1 off white,to create a shadow. I'm getting the hang of it ,making flowers, just got to practice on arranging them to look good. I hope she likes it!

Under water scene

A friend had requested for a under water scene, here are the items that she wanted me to use,A under water picture that goes on back side of a fish tank, Little plastic plants, and scrapbooking shells. I of course added my quilled fish and little critters, and added sand across the bottom. She is hanging it in her bathroom along with other under water decorations. It is different, but was fun to make!
Happy Quilling!!!!

I have recieved another Award by Khushboo, I am honored ,two in the same day!

Check her blog out at http;//crafterkhush.blogspot.com

Thank you so much! Wont be writing things about me since I just did in the last award,but here are some more creative crafters I am sharing this award with!

Zuneta   http;//zmal-handmadecard.blogspot.com

Miss Vintage   http;//kasia-wroblewska.blogspot.com

Alexandrue   alexandrue-gabriel-quilling.blogspot.com

Anastasia  http;// anastasiaw.blogspot.com

Green Earth   http;//baynaturals.blogspot.com

Cluj-napoca   http;//happyquilling.blogspot.com

Karthika sen   http;//coolcrafting.blogspot.com

 Thank you again to all my folloers and those who stop in and check out my blog, it's greatly appreciated.

Happy crafting!

PS check out the other blogs I have on mine they are all so creative!.



I recieved this Award from Angelin, please check out her blog

http;//cherubcrafts.blogspot.com Thankyou so much Angelin!.

Now 7 things about me

1. Happily married for 23 yrs.

2.I enjoy all sorts of crafts.

3. Am hooked on Quilling.

4. Enjoy making things for others.

5. Spending time with family.

6.love to check out other crafting blogs, very inspirational.

7. Have a great Husband that supports me in my crafts, and even helps somtimes,lol.

     I'd like to thank all my followers and those who leave lovely comments, it's a great inspiration!.

I am sharing this Award with the following creative crafters.

Jocelyneliza   http;//jocelyneliza.blogspot.com

Malaysia      http;//azlina-lin.blogspot.com

http;//littleatticart.blogspot.com

http;//lovingquilling.blogspot.com

Martinaquill  http;// martinaquill.blogspot.com

Philippa   http;//quilliance.blogspot.com

Rachelle  http;//rachellescraftingzone.blogspot.com

 Happy crafting to all!



Flowers in a basket

I thought I'd try my luck at flowers as I'm not to good at making them or placing them right to look good like others, but thought if I practice more at it I just might get good at it,lol.

THe Basket is made with strips of magazine woven, and chop sticks for around the edges, also wooden shaped hearts, with quilled shape hearts in the center of them. Hope you like it!

Any tips are greatly appreciated!.

Awards

Thank you to all who have shared an  award, with me I am honored. I have tried the copy and paste thing, and I dont know what I'm doing wrong ,so I'm letting you know here that I appreciate your kindnes and I wish I could pass them on to others.I have several peoples blogs on my page, there are some great Artists, and  would love for you to check them out!

HAPPY QUILLING! Paula