I’ve been quilling……

Hi!

      I hope all is well with my crafty friends. My 14yr old son, returned sick from school yesterday, unable to retain anything in his stomach and was all drained out. So, I was kept busy trying to get him up and about as he had to go back to school in the evening for the dress rehearsal of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ the school is staging for the next two days and he is the cast member. The headmistress was kind to permit him to be there just in time for his act and leave soon after and he just managed. He’s much better today and should be fine tomorrow. 

      I’m here today, to share my fourth quilled card. Although I’d purchased a quilling tool and strips from India 5 yrs ago, I never bothered to give it a try. I was inspired to quill after I came across the first quilling blog DAYDREAMS. And came up with this butterfly, then spiral quilled roses and a flower. I had trouble with the Indian quilling tool, so I asked my SIL in UK to send me one and she sent me the set by 'Quilled Creations'. These are great to work with and I now enjoy quilling. To try my new tool, I simply quilled a flower, then a butterfly and many more flowers. After I found the challenge at “Take a Quill Pill”, I quilled the second butterfly and made this card.

I used handmade flower petal paper for the base and added paper strips around the border. The computer generated sentiment was dabbed with a moistened tea bag to match the colors on the background, then, hand embossed the two hearts on it with my improvised tools (heart shaped paper clip and pen) and colored with a felt tip pen. I’ll be back here very soon with another quilled card.   Till then, take care.

I’m entering this card into the following challenges:

Take a Quill Pill – Valentine

..Wee Memories..- Source of Inspiration (DAYDREAMS blog) 

 Challenge up your life – Monochrome

Scrappy Frogs Challenge Blog – Love

Color Throwdown – saffron/ tangerine tango/ chocolate chip 

Tuesday Throwdown – 3D

Creative Cowgirls Challenge Blog – Hearts on Card

Crafty Creations Challenges - In my garden lives…(butterflies in love)

Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Coffee & Cream

Paper Crafting Journey – Anything Goes

Party Time Tuesdays - Anything Goes
Prairie Fairy Fridays - Inspired by a song (By Lionel Ritchie & Diana Ross)