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!

Really Reasonable Ribbon Giveaway

So there's this really generous giveaway by Really Reasonable Ribbon which is really far more than reasonable. Ah, if only! The Scor-Buddy looks so yummy. New stuff for a new year..? I've got my fingers crossed!

If you're interested in all these goodies, do hop along here and check out the other stuff on their website as well! 

Christmas/Valentine's Quilled Heart Cards

 

Here's what I've been busy with - Christmas mini cards!

 

First I quilled the hearts.

 

Then I made the backing with space for a message. Wanted to decorate the back a little more but I had less than a week to finish 40 of these sweeties.

 

Glued on the quilled hearts, personalized it with a message from me as well as the recipients' names, and voila!

 

Arranged neatly in my Christmas box, all ready to be Miss Santa =)

 

Close-up of a card. 

I'd actually thought making these would be a breeze (the heart is the easiest thing to quill, after all!) - but making 40 was NO joke. Even so, I'm not done; there are plenty more people I need to make cards for and am super late! 

I hope they won't mind <3 Maybe it'll be a Valentine!

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! 

Blog Candy

Hello everyone! 

My blog has been rather inactive because of exams, but as soon as they end in November I'll be right back! Since May, all the projects I've been crafting have been personal and not for sale. 

Here's a little candy to make your morning, though!

A thousand sheets of paper, how rad is that? ;)

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 ; )

Handmade lovelies

I've been buying on Etsy more than I've been selling lately, and that's due to my AS finals which are looming nearer and nearer. 

So here's a post about my favorite purchases. As a handmade artist, I feel it my duty and pleasure to increase awareness and support for handmade artists everywhere, and these sellers really have amazing handiwork!

I bought this bracelet and another pair of earrings from naturaler. Beautifully handcrafted flowers and great prices too! Well, for those of you who deal in USD, she offers the cheapest bargains on Etsy, including shipping. If you're converting to Malaysian Ringgit (like I am), it can get a little pricier, but it's well worth it nonetheless!

These elegant violin earrings are from The Queen's Dowry whose prices are on the high side =( but these violins were classic! I really wanted something to represent my love of music : singing, piano and the violin. One down, 2 more to go! I was a little disappointed that they weren't exactly as 3D as I imagined them to be though, but the intricate detail really made up for it : check out the shoulder rest!

This is a non-Etsy seller, Chatterbeads, and the owner actually attends a church not too far from mine. These birdy earrings are now one of my personal favorites and I wear them every few days. The jewelry she makes all show good taste and elegant design, reflected quite accurately in the price. 

Long live handmade! =)