Flying Fish…

This is my 1st craft mobile(quilled or otherwise)

For this project, I experimented with two contrasting colours - fluorescent green and dark orange.

 I crimped the orange strip and pasted it over the fluorescent one and then started to quill. 

The small fish is made of 2 tight coils (mouth and triangular body), the fins are quilled tears and the tail is made of 4 swirls(half loose coils) pasted on both side of the fish's body.

The big fish is made of 2 loose coils, the fins with rounded triangles and tail with 4 swirls of different lengths pasted on upper side of the body.

The 3rd piece isn't a fish(obviously you can see that), but i wanted to balance out my craft mobile(and I had run out of paper to quill another fish), hence I quilled a marquise(eye).
{the way I look at it is - its dad, mom and their egg.. ;-) }


Once all the 3 pieces were ready, I coated them with silver glitter.

Finally I made a loop in the golden ribbon and pasted the 3 pieces on it. AND we are DONE..

                                                                                                                             -May ART be with you©

Its all about being safe ;-)

As I have learnt IRIS and quilling, I wanted to combine the two and make a card (I am so inspired by beautiful cards made my fellow crafters). I love funny and quirky cards and that's what I wanted to make.


In an endeavor do to so, I came up with this card idea. 

Its made of quilled sperms yelling 'ATTACK!" and raging towards IRIS condom who is protecting against 'INTRUDERS!' (I'll tell you, what occasion is the card for, later)

The sperms are made of 3mm white and grey quilling strips. I glued them together and then quilled half of the strips and curled the remaining half.

The IRIS condom is made of dark and light pink metallic paper to give it realistic look. {striped condom ;-) }

The card opens and reads: Dear Andy, In life you'll be faced with many outside intruders, I wish you protection from internal ones (at least).. Wish you and Cindy, a very happy and stress free married life..Lots of Love, Dan.

YES, its a card wishing well for married life. 

-May ART be with you©

'Oh so tiny' got a LEG!

I made this stand after I had made the flower pot(shown in my post dated 9th March 2012), hence the delayed post about it..

Its around 1.5 inches in height made in  3 shades of yellow - light, lemon and mustard. 

3 sizes of tight coil (small,smaller and smallest) and a tube.

The base is a tight coil in lemon yellow in small size, followed by light yellow smallest tight coil and then light yellow tight coil in smaller size. In the centre is the mustard yellow tube.

Once all the pieces of the stand were assembled and dried, I pasted the flower pot on it.

-May ART be with you©

Oh so tiny...

This is my first 3D quilling project..

Its less than an inch in height and diameter.

It has 7 flowers & 6 leaves of varied type:
-2 pink carnations
-1 pink rose
-2 yellow bell flowers
-1 yellow big flower(its my imagination, not a real flower)
-6 green leaves with different swirls

The flowers are mounted on brown rubber coated copper wire(available in hardware stores).
I first stuck the leaves on the inner wall of the pot and then I placed the flowers between the leaves. Finally the finished pot with flowers and leaves was stuck on the base.

 I thoroughly enjoyed making this, my love affair with Quilling has begun!!!

                                                                 -May ART be with you©