Baby Girl Pink Teddy Bear Pop Up Card with Quilled Heart

It's the middle of the week and still a while more to the weekend. But this treasury I was featured in, Dream in Color by Mary Louise is so bright and colorful it cheered me up for the rest of the day. The quilled heart gift tags in rainbow colours are especially cute!

I'm on holiday now and have been on a bit of a card-making craze. That, and going to the gym are what make up the bulk of my life now. There are 2 cards that I cannot show because the recipient hasn't gotten them and 3 completed cards that are sitting on my desk right now.

Here's one of them!

I tried the same teddy bear pop up again (by Rich of Creative Pop Up Cards), but in pastel pink this time for a baby girl card.

This is so versatile : it can be used as a baby announcement card, congratulations on a new baby, invitations to a baby shower, a little girl's birthday - the list is endless!

 

The little sweetie in her favorite red hair bow and clutching a pacifier in her left paw. 

She was supposed to be holding a milk bottle too, but I kept cutting it wrongly and in the end, exasperated, I decided that she probably wouldn't be holding so many things anyway! 

I also added punched red hearts to the corners.

 

Can't go for long without a teensy bit of quilling!

 

Front view.

And finally Little Pink Teddy says :

Happy Chinese New Year everybody! 

新年快乐，祝你们身体健康，年年有余，万事如意！

*yuenie.

p.s. Submitting this for a Crafty Challenge (the first I'm participating in)! The theme is Something New, and I'm submitting under New Baby. Fingers are crossed!

Quilled Totoro Garden Fence Teacher Card

 

This is another Totoro card I quilled recently as a custom request.  She wanted a birthday card for her daughter's teacher, who decorated her classroom with Totoro. 

 

Here's the rough sketch I started out with.

 

Close up of the quilled sun. If you look carefully you can see that the flowers on the bush are dimensional.

 

Little girl and her teacher sitting by the fence - those are their names written on the fence, and above the fence is the classroom name (Totoro Class). My customer was very cheery and encouraging, and her daughter was the most adorable little darling! Such a pleasure making this card for them.

And googly eyes are such fun to play with.

 

Totoro dust balls bounce about inside the card.  I think they're rather adorable!

My Love Spiral Pop Up Card was featured in two Etsy treasuries lately, do hop along and take a look at these lovelies!

The Good Wife

Heart ! ...or hurt?

Have a good week everyone!

Quilled Miniature Tea Set

This is a tea set I quilled in September for a birthday and includes a teapot, a cup with saucer, a cake with cherry on top, a plate for it, and a teeny tiny spoon.

I made it based on Inna's little blue tea set, but made mine green because it was the recipient's favorite colour. Come to think of it, lime green might've been a livelier shade than forest green.

I forgot to take measurements, but you can get an idea of how small the spoon is! =)

Maybe about 1.5 cm in length?

The spoon was one of the trickiest parts to make (because of its size), along with the cream on the cake and the teapot spout. Made me want to pull my hair out by the roots sometimes, but it was all worth it!

Packaging was a bit of a doozy since I was afraid of detachable parts getting lost, like the teapot lid and the spoon. 

But a sponge and tissue did the trick ;)

Rose patterned cardstock.

The whole thing took me all of one week to finish. I wonder how long it takes other crafters to make miniatures? I simply cannot imagine how it is possible to make a living from something so time-consuming!

On another note, I was featured in another Etsy treasury recently :

The Reason for the Season by Paulette Ross gives a timely reminder on why we celebrate Christmas.

The nativities are simply adorable, it's amazing how one scene can be portrayed in so many different ways! 

More Quilled Flowers

Hello! I'm back!

My friend recently asked me to remake the card with quilled flowers that I made a while ago. I changed the designs of the flowers a little and the lining inside was decorated with hand drawn balloons, a bow and a birthday cake.

I've started using a paper shredder instead of hand cutting the strips, so you can see some detailing along the paper edges =)

The drawing was all done with glitter pens, but the shine doesn't show in the photo.

This card was super fun to make! But also extremely time consuming. I suppose beauty has a price ; )

Quilled Flowers and Pop Up Card

I think this is the most elaborate quilling project I have made so far. The whole card took me all of 11 hours to finish, and I still hadn't done my college homework. Slept at 4 a.m. that night, but it was worth it! 

My little fringed pretty =) she reminds me of the pom poms I used to wave around when I was involved in high school Sports Day cheerleading.

Techniques used were : Basic quilling, fringing, double fringing and alternate side looping. Oh, and punching, if that counts. I punched out little pink butterflies to flutter around the sides =)

The inside of the card is my Love Spiral Pop Up Card - with a twist.

Instead of L-O-V-E, my customer/friend requested for the recipient's name to be the pop up. The spiral heart would take the place of an "A".

oh it's so pretty, my heart just broke to part with it. I do hope the person likes it! =D

p.s. I did this with inspiration from Inna, once again!

Quilled Totoro and Sun with Singing Cow

 

This was a really really tricky card to do. My friend asked for a Totoro and a cow singing "happy birthday" inside. 

When I first heard I was like, "oh no! no grey quilling strips! AND I've never watched totoro." 

Google to the rescue!

and here's the little tyke. I'm having so much fun adding googly eyes to everything! First the boxing gloves and now Totoro =)

Ironically, I never used any of the pictures I got from Google Image Search. I modelled my little darling on a Totoro plushie that belongs to my cousin sister. 

"MOOOO..."

p.s. if you look really carefully, that's not exactly grey paper I used. *guilty grin* It's silver paper! 

So the edges actually gleam in the light, though it just looks grey when it's quilled on edge. I used the same trick (substituting silver paper for grey) on this card. 

Quilled Boxing Gloves Card

I got a request for a birthday card with boxing gloves and a punching bag some time ago, and this is it!

I just stocked up on a few pairs of googly eyes and simply couldn't resist =D the little gloves are so cute!

the inside of the card has a scottish terrier in the corner (because I was also asked to include "a little dog somewhere".)

teehee. a silver collar with a glittery flower. I love adding the teensy details. 

p.s. To enter my ongoing giveaway, hop along here!

Flowerpot Accordion Card

 

I've been very busy ever since college started, but quilling is starting to become a bit of an obsession with me.

Can you guess what I've been busy with today? In shades of mint green, lime green and forest green =) I'll tell you in my next post, when I'm done with it!

That teeny little quilled rose among all the greens is my sad attempt at quilling a rose. Many times I've tried, using different methods and various tutorials, but still the perfect rose evades me. It's so frustrating! The coils are always loose so the petals are too far from one another. Any tips, anyone? 

One thing to add to the List of Things to Do Before I Die : Quill a nice rose.

And just so you don't link away, annoyed at the lack of update =) here's something I worked on quite a while ago :

This is a 3-fold flowerpot accordion card. 

The flowers glitter in the light, but as usual the details don't show in the photo.

Have a lovely flowery week!

Quilled flowers and coffee cups

Here are some cards I made over the festive season but didn't have the time to share :

This was a birthday card for a friend. SO glad her name had 2 "I"s, otherwise the letters wouldn't have been able to fit in one card!

Complete with quilled steam and handles, these dear little coffee cups were requested as a Christmas greeting from a loyal daughter to her parents.

The flowers are all dimensional - one of my favourite techniques.

This card can be used as a Valentine's Day or wedding anniversary card as well. Or maybe wedding invitations? 

College starts tomorrow. I can feel the dread sinking in already. Goodbye, holidays.