Quilled Dedication to Dear Granny!

Have been in MIA for past 3 weeks and missing many fellow bloggers' updates too :(

My little one has started his KG1 and so he was keeping me very busy...Atlast i could find sometime to do what i wished for past few months....

Yes....Its a Quilled Dedication to "my dearmost" sweet granny who passed away few months back. She was 94 yrs then and her absence, still gives us pain.

"Grandmother"

Her wisdom is an art

     She shares so generously --- 

Her words are golden thread

     That bind our family.

We're covered by a quilt of love ---

     It warms us like no other

God used the hands of one so dear...

     The one we call "Grandmother"

Happened to see these verses in net about Grandmother and felt would be so very apt for my dear granny.

Took print out in a watercolor paper and distressed with spun sugar and fayered burlap distress inks. And added generoulsy pink pearls for the border and white pearls for the flower centres. Tried different quilled flowers to make the arrangement around the verses. Its yet to be framed.

Closer view:

Hope you like it!!!

Entering the following challenge:

Lulupu - My mom,My world
H2H- U color my world

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Window shaped card

Yet another shaped card this time - Window shaped card.

The window is hand cut from sand color cardstock . Few handmade flowers are made from blue cardstock. And punched leaves are made from sage green cardstock. Butterflies are punched from Blue polka cardstock.

Close views:

Color inspiration is drawn from IBSIC color pad

Hope you like it!

Challenges entered:

IBSIC - color inspiration

Flutter by wednesdays - Flowers and butterflies

Simon says show - Anything goes

Simon says stamp challenge - Happy birthday

Happy campers - Flowers

Simple Tags :)

Am now in experimenting the distressing inks, Stamping techniques and using Masks.

Crafters corner Blog gave a lot of inputs regarding the Stamping and of course this post, in particular made me to come out of my comfort zone, and try out my hand in Stamping and Distressing especially..

For the first tag,i distressed the tag with Shabby shutters distress ink. Then Tim holtz flourishes Mini mask is placed on it and distressed again with Tumbled glass. Few flowers are stamped and colored using Spun sugar and Barn door distress inks. Sentiment is added.

For second tag, i made a tag from a embossed card. On de-embossed side, Frayed Burlap, Spun sugar and Tumbled glass are distressed and blended so as to highlight the embossed effect. Medallion stamp is randomly stamped on the tag and Stamped flowers are colored using Barndoor and Tumbled glass and did fuzzy cut and popped up on the Tag using adhesive. Sentiment is added on a banner.

Hope you all like my Stamping and Distressing experiments :)

Entering the challenge:

Crafters corner - Stamping

ICR 27 - Second tag is made for this challenge (Medallion stamp  is distressed repeatedly on a single layer tag. Hope this is eligible for challenge)

Simon says Stamp - Anything goes

Craft room challenge - In garden - anything but card 

Scallop Circle Shaped Card

Yet another card in pastel shades...This time a spring card in soft colors.

Made this scallop using the template from Sudha's crazy crafter blog. Scalloped kraft cardstock is matted with Yellow gingham PP and distressed edges with Rich cocoa.

First time, i tried a flower using leaf punch. And quilled flowers, few fillers flowers are then added.  Quilled flowers are slightly sponged with Spun sugar. Few pink pearls, punched leaves are added .

Supplies:

Papermamia -Yellow Gingham PP - Priyanka Datta
Quilling strips - Crafters corner
Banner Diecut - Priya
Sentiment - Fiskars - Jovi
Rich cocoa-  Momento ink- Khusboo Banka
Punches,pearls - Stash


Hope you like it.

Entering following challenges

Lulupu's  Lets Celebrate

Ujjwal's Shabby Chic Shaped card - I took inspiration from her pastel shapes, shaped card and Took "Spring here" as my celebration theme for this challenge.

Love of crafting- Spring season
Incy Wincy - Use Pastels
Love to create challenge - Pastel colors
Jellypark Challenge - Pretty pastels
Less is more- Scallops
Brown Sugar Challenge - Flowers
Simon says stamp - Anything goes
Pinspired challenge  Inspired by soft tones

Quilled Bird-Cage 2

Exactly an year ago, i did similar bird and cage quilling, as my first post from India after my relocation from Taiwan.

This time, happen to see a design from net and wish to quill it. Here is the quilled version.

Now a days,i wish to add some distressing and love to use punches along with quilled piece. The cage is quilled on a beige PP and a kraft diecut is added at the centre and on it 2 quilled birds are added with few designs at corners. Sentiment "Love" is stamped below the birds.

Likewise few designs are added at the bottom of cage. And Ms decoshell punch borders are added on the PP. This beige PP is distressed with rich cocoa momento ink around the edges and just leaving portions around the cage just to highlight it, hope you can see it. The real is much more better than pictures here actually!

Hope you all like it!!

Supplies:

Beige PP - Sudha
Metallic Brown PP,Black cardstock (cage) - Taiwan
Quilling Strips (birds) - Crafters corner
MS deco shell punch - US
Kraft diecut- Kavitha
Sentiment - Itsy Bitsy
Rich cocoa - Jovi

This enters challenge :

Unstampabelles - Quilling
Papercraft star - Birds