Double coloured garland

After learning the boondongling technique, which calls for no quilling tools, I tried making garlands. The first garland I tried was single colour but after I gained confidence I made a double coloured garland which I used to decorate the Ganesha during Navarathri.

Kumkuma Chimizh made for order

One of my friends asked me to make a few kumkuma chimizh. She asked me to design it as per my wish and I did it. 

My first kumkuma chimizh

I never thought that Kumkuma chimizh can be made in quilling. But when I saw images in net, I decided to give it a try and my first try was not too good a one. Though it was not clumsy I was not happy with the outcome.

Ganesha fridge magenet for an order.

When one of my quilling friends asked me whether I could take up the order which she have got for Ganesha Quilling magnets, as she is having other orders to be completed, I agreed to do it and the client ordered 60 Ganeshas and as they had a forest theme she wanted the Ganeshas to be in Green. And thanks to my kids who helped me in completing them and packing them in green gift wrapper too.

Wind Chime in quilling cone shaped

When there was a competition in one of the quilling groups in FB, I tried out my hands on traditional cone shaped wind chime in quilling. Though it did not win a prize, I got a few orders to make the same pattern to be gifted. The colours I used were vibrant orange, yellow and brown. The five layered cones made a perfect dangler with sounds.

Enthralling multi colour set

When you try something out of single shade strips it always ends up enthralling. And that set I gifted it for the winner of the contest in my Face Book page. The set became even more elegant after it is studded with multi colour green stone.

Angry bird set made by my daughter

Whenever she gets into her mood to create something (that mood comes when she had to gift something for her friends) she is on her mark and is set into action. The she is my daughter. I have to proudly say that she has the capacity to recreate whatever she sees without seeing any tutorial. And this is what she created for her friend. An angry bird set. When I asked her why this in particular, her reply was that her friend is like this red bird when she is angry.

The set might seem simple. But the way she painted the eyes I was impressed as she never does a good level of painting. 

After seeing my fridge magnet collections and my Ganesha collections one of our relative asked me to make two Ganesha fridge magnets. And the colour specification was red and gold and it definitely turned out amazing.

Rose danglers.

One of my friend turned customer wanted to gift something for her customers. She ordered 50 pairs of quilled rose hangings. As ever making roses was a fun and making danglers out of them was even more. Tried different arrangements. All the danglers had 7 roses.

Quilled Rakhis

Time to celebrate and cherish the bond of brothers and sisters and my daughter decided to make rakhis for her brothers by herself. She loved doing it and her brothers loved it. Anything done with love even though it is small and simple is definitely cherished by the receiver.

Mice pencil topper for kids

Kids love small embellishments to be attached to their pencil back or pens. These make a wonderful return gifts too. The first one that I tried was mice toppers. they were so cute and my son grabbed them immediately one for him and and for two of his friends.

Trial of curtain holder

When there is flexibility for creativity, you can do anything in quilling is what I learnt after doing it for almost an year. A simple but useful piece of work in quilling is the curtain holder. But it also looks grand and elegant when it is matched aptly with the curtains.

Made two for my parent's home one with a flower and the other with a butterfly. To make the ring I used the biggest available size bangle and 10mm strips was wrapped around the bangle to make the curtain ring.

Quilled envelopes

Though I have not done a lot of quilled envelopes I did try a few designs and have gifted them too. The ones that I was able to capture a picture are the ones below. I am waiting to try my hands on ornate quilling on envelopes. Hope I get a chance to do soon.

One inch Ganesha

Ganesha is one of my favourite and making Ganesha image in any size comes quite easily for me. When I got an order to make 50 Ganeshas in green colour, I just made one small Ganesha in 1 inch which I named Bal Ganesha.

I made it using 3mm green colour strips.

Triple layer jhumka

The normal trend is making a two layer jhumka, but a triple layer jhumka is even more elegant with certain dresses. Though I am particularly not happy with the trial, the little girl who wanted me to make one for her grabbed it happily.

Green and gold quilled jhumka

Certain colour combinations always attract us very much. One such combination is green and gold. Be it in dress or in any other accessory this definitely is attractive and the wearer gets a second look too.

Infact when you are making jhumkas with two different coloured strips you need to be careful with the right and wrong side else there will be ups and downs. Rub your finger gently over both the sides the right side of the strip will be smooth and the wrong side will have a slight curve. Unless this is followed the jhumka will not be a perfect dome.

A perfect dome shaped red cherry jhumka

Making a perfect dome shape in quilling is always a challenge and if you are able to achieve it, it definitely gives immense pleasure. Yes I was able to achieve it and I did name that jhumka red cherry and it became one of the possessions of my sister-in-law. After varnishing and after adding the wonderful red crystal bead, it gave a majestic look to the whole piece. For a change I added the bead on top of the cone shaped bead cap and that gave even more elegant look according to me. Don't you too feel so?

Quilled Angry Bird 3D

I am sharing a few of the older projects that I have made last year. There were some items that I made for order and a few were made for gifting purpose. When a customer ordered a lot of rose ear rings I thought of gifting her something which she can either have it in her counter top or use in her car as a dangler or stick to the dash board of her car. But she did a great gesture of gifting the same to a special child who was very happy in having it. That very thing gave me even more happiness than she using it personally. A 1000 and more thanks to her. And that really made my day when she shared it.

Used 5mm strips for the entire piece. There are 25 strips of red and 25 stips of white. The ears were made of 2 and 1 strips each. The nose were made of 1 yellow strip each. The white part of the eye is a 1 strip of 5 mm and the black part is 1 strip of 3 mm.

Quilled Ganesha for Dangler

#Project366, Day12

After making the crimped dangler, I felt it looked very simple and plain. So wanted to add something to both the sides.  A small and cute Ganesha is ready to be struck to one side of the dangler. Thinking of what to do for the other side. Before doing it, here is my cute Ganesha. For the reference of size, I have added both the original picture and the zoomed one. Making of Ganeshas always are fun and give me peace too.

Quilled flowery magnet

#Project366, Day11

A small flowery magnet to stick the essentials to the fridge. The 10 mm woody colour strips which were just a few left came in handy to make this flower. Simple but useful.