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Quilled Ballerina

Quilled Ballet,  Dancer I wanted to try something challenging and I saw a picture of a ballerina that I thought might be the one. Well, here it is....I used a combination of beehive and regular quilling. This is in honor of my daughter turning 13 today! Happy Birthday!!! Quilled Ballerina Quilled Ballerina

Birthday Card with Blue Flowers...

Last night I put together a birthday card for my mother-in-law.  I wasn't really sure what I was intending until I actually put a few different flowers together. Quilled flowers Quilled flowers Here is the final product...  Birthday card with quilled flowers

Miss You Card...

Quilled spiral roses A very special co-worker of mine will be moving forward in her life next year, so I wanted to make a special card for her.  I used heavy scrapbook paper for the card itself (which is what I've used for all my other cards) and then I used spiral paper roses on the front and the side of the inside.  The roses are made from thin scrapbook paper with varied pink designs. I cut the front of the card so that the right inside of the card peeks out.  I then used 1/8 width quilling paper for the border around the words, the leaves, and the vines.

A Personalized Card for My Dad

 Quilled arrowhead. The glue was still wet when I took the picture! I was a little late with this, but I was trying to send something handmade from me to my Dad for his birthday. He is an interesting person and if you follow me on Pinterest, you can see some of his handywork that he does knapping arrowheads and creating handmade knives. I couldn't quite decide what to make because I wanted something manly, so then I thought about making an arrowhead. VOILA! Not sure if it looks good enough, but I think he'll get the idea...lol! Then on the inside, I put a goofy quote..."Make it a point to have a great one!"  I know, I know..... Anyway, I think it turned out macho enough and hopefully he will like it!

Dance Teacher and Staff Appreciation Card

Quilled ballet shoe with quilled flowers Since being home with my son who is sick, I took a few minutes to put together the card for the dance studio.    I used 1/8th width quilling paper for the pointe shoe, rose, leaves, borders, and flower.  The words I just printed out using Microsoft Works and for the polka dot paper, I used some scrapbook paper and scalloped edge scissors. Dancer Teacher poem on quilled card     On the inside of the card, I used a poem called "Eyes Upon A Dance Teacher" from this website http://www.angelfire.com/oh2/chezsarah/bpoems.html  .  It is a site that has a lot of dance teacher poems.  I changed it by taking out the reference to a "little girl" to make it less "little girl" since my daughter has gotten older.  There are some great poems on this site.

Hunter's Assessment on Obama....and my reaction to the medias stance.

Today my son is home sick and as some of you know, he has an interesting perspective on just about everything.  Well, on the news was a brief about Romney's campaign ad gone wrong. I could tell by looking at my son that he was thinking...HARD!  He turned to me and said, "Mom...I don't like Obama."  I responded, " You don't like him or his actions as the President?"  We also try to be correct with our words and polite.  He replies," Well, his actions.... you remember he spent 2 billion dollars on international projects and they all went wrong!"  What was I supposed to say?  He remembered an ad against Obama's campaign that came on well over 3 monthes ago listing money that he had wasted in foreign projects. I of course had forgotten this ad and don't really rely on campaign ads.... I replied that as Americans we have to not believe everything we see on television and that you have to investigate and dig to find out the real facts.  Muc

Viva La Musica!

 Viva La Musica!!!    So today I decided to put my treble clef along with some notes onto a staff to make a complete picture.  They all have the beehive technique which I found easy to do for the skinnier parts of the notes.

Quilled Treble Clef

Here again I drew out the outline for a treble clef, but this time I did the beehive technique inside the space.  I almost didn't leave enough room in some places for the scroll work!  Still learning.  :) Quilled Treble Clef on Staff Quilled Treble Clef

Quilled Pointe Shoe

My daughter took Pointe this year at dance and being the end of the year, I wanted to make a special thank you card for the staff.  I drew the outline for the shoe and then filled the spaces with 1/8 width quilling paper.

Framed Quilled Art

This is my picture I made for my daughters room.  This weekend we are painting and will hopefully get it finished... Quilled flowers using comb and beehive techniques.

A Quilled Card for Teacher Appreciation

I wanted to try making a special card for my sons teacher for teacher appreciation week and this is what I came up with ...  Front of card... Inside of card...  

How to make a quilled fringed flower.

In the following pictures I will try to show you how to make a quilled fringed flower.     First I cut a wide piece of scrapbook paper and then a thinner piece of paper. Taking the wider piece, I cut small cuts to make the fringe careful not to cut all the way to the end. I then start the flower by wrapping the smaller strip of paper on my slotted tool (or toothpick) and when I get to the end I glue the wider, fringed piece to the end of the narrow strip and proceed to roll it evenly and tightly until I get to the end.  I add a small amount of glue to hold it in place.  I then take the flower off of the tool and after it dries, I gently take my thumb and push the fringe away from the center thus completing the flower!  Quilled Flower; fringed flower; mum

Quilling with a few new colors....

My daughter is redecorating her room for her birthday. She is wanting something a little more mature than her room that she has now. We have decided to go with a bed comforter set that is black and white with yellow pillows for accent. So, I started thinking about what I could make her with the quilling that I've been doing and so far I have made these to get some ideas...I'm excited to see what I can come up with!