Pink Picture Frame Card Quilling Flowers Pink/Periwinkle

Hello from upstate NY--long overdue post!

We're only halfway through moving...and by that I mean that our stuff is in storage and we live in temporary housing. Hopefully for not more than another 2 weeks! I'm getting a little cabin fever here. :O

Below is a picture frame card that I made 2 days ago. I had a hard time finding a place to photograph in this small room, but there you have it...a window ledge!

This picture is about 3 years old of Dimma and I. We were much skinnier in those days. :D 

I have some pink in there to match the background and I'd like to call the other color periwinkle, but I'm not sure if that's correctly identified. :P There's some glitter on the leaves as well. 

Hope you're all having a wonderful Thursday!

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Quilling Purple Flowers Farewell Card for Raena

Who's playing Powerball this weekend? $600 mil?! We can dream, right? :D

Today another work study has left us. We're always sad to see each and every one of them go, but let's face it...this was only the beginning and there are a lot of places for career growth elsewhere.

I made her a farewell card. It's one of the more delicate looking cards that I've made recently. I don't know why I feel that way. It may be the lace fabric ribbon! It's on a pretty shimmery pinkish-colored cardstock base by Bazzill. There's a lot of chalking for the background, but the 2D flowers and pot were stamped. Flower centers were dotted with liquid pearls. It may be a bit hard to see, but the rim of the pot is made from 2 cut strips of paper using edger scissors. The petals of the quilled flowers were shaped into an arrow-like shape. Then finished off with rhinestones.

I really like this one. I hope you do too!

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Silver Quilled Star Snowflake Tree Ornament

Only a day away from the new year. Do you have any plans? I'll tell you the truth...I just want to sleep! The energy here is too exhausting. I don't know if any of you have been to Times Square for the ball drop, but it was far from fun the only time that I decided to go 6 years ago. Unless you're totally committed to listening to deafening levels of music, being without toilet breaks, cold, hungry, and crammed to stake out for hours upon hours, I would say to avoid the craziness there. Much of Manhattan is closed off to traffic and even certain train stations are closed to accommodate for the massive crowd gathering which causes even slower than normal commute times. Go figure...I wouldn't say to not try it if you are into the experience itself, but being the party pooper that I am I would strongly advise against it. :) How does your local area celebrate?

Here is a two-tier star ornament. The top layer is more of a standard layout of a flower. 16 strips of paper go into the making of this one.

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Happy Wedding: Framed Wedding Quilling Art

It's a new week at Tuesday Alchemy and we're all talking about weddings! Now is a great time of year to get things ready for summer weddings. Enter any wedding related project that you make into this week's challenge for a chance to win digital stamps from Karen's Scraps And Graphics!

This is what I made for this week:

It is a framed quilling piece that can be given to a couple as a gift or displayed to celebrate your love everyday of the year!

It sits inside of a shadow frame that holds up to a 5x7 inch piece.

This is how it looks outside of the frame.

The words were wet embossed with silver. They are from a Fiskars wedding set. The patterned paper is from American Crafts and appropriately named, "I Do." The white frame is by Sizzix.


The 2 roses and leaves, below, flourishes and light blue flower, above, were quilled. You can see that I added a bit of glitter at the end. The white flower is from Prima and I dotted the center with Liquid Pearls.

It's a rainy day here. I hope you're seeing sunny skies wherever you live!

Pink Cat Studio Stamp and Quilled Flower Card

Hi everyone!

I want to wish you all a Happy May Day (or May 1st)! For those of you who may not know, this is a celebration of spring or for others...protests. lol Let's not talk about that part though. :) This topic leads me to the new Tuesday Alchemy challenge this week which is to create something inspired by May Day! It is a really beautiful day here in NYC to draw inspiration for this theme that is sponsored by Pink Cat Studios. The winner of this week will receive 3 digital stamps!

This is what I have made for May Day:

I used the Lily Holding Flowers digi stamp--chalked it and colored parts of it in with colored pencils. The hem of her dress, eyes, and the centers of most of the flowers are dabbed with liquid pearls. The grass and flower are quilled to simulate her standing in a field/garden.