Quilling Horses

Yay for horses! I live out in horse country in Florida. I have always loved their beauty and strength, and knew it would be a perfect model for a quilled project.

I started with an outline. I didn't want a perfect replication. So I picked a pretty teal 12x12 paper and only used white strips. I just defines the face and added some wisps of mane.

The mouth was looking a little funny, so I redefined it and started marking where I would end the mane.

I wanted a nice full mane, and had to set the major lines of the hair.

I just had to add a little flower behind the ear, I really couldn't resist!

Here it is complete! She is going to look perfect in a nice white shadowbox!

Quilled Cup of Love

I was accepted into the August themed auction over at Auction Junkies. The theme this month is Eat, Drink and Bid. I knew that a cup of coffee, or tea would be perfect!!

I had a couple shades of cream, and brown to choose from, so I started with 2 to see which looked better. I ended up liking the left one better.

I didn't want a literal cup and saucer, so I just used my papers to give an outline.

Once I started adding the little details I fell in love. I really need to make another for myself!

Here it is all glued down and in a pretty white shadow box frame. The white really offsets the cream background and makes the cup pop.

This piece will only be available in the Eat Drink and Bid Auction. It will be held on facebook from August 22 through August 25.

Happy Quilling!!

Shooting Star

It really is funny how ideas come to be. I wanted to join in an anniversary giveaway to help get my name out there. I decided to do something small, and with a popular color combo, it also has to be one of my favortite combo's too. So I found a 4x6 frame I had sitting around for a little while and got out my colors. I started cutting all the strips into 2 inch pieces and coiling them.

And there is where I sat. For a good hour I had no idea what to do. All I knew was I wanted to use those colors, in that frame. So, my daughter sat down with me and decided to quill something herself, and I asked if she wanted me to teach her how to make a star. That is when the light-bulb went off. Why couldn't I use those colors to make a shooting star? So, as I was teaching her to make a star I made one for my self. Everything else was easy peasy since I already had everything made up.

 

Laid it all out, then started gluing. 

 

 This piece will be apart of a giveaway later this month. I will be posting the details over on my face page, click here.

Rustic Romance Crafts

I was approached by Kristen from Rustic Romance Crafts to see if I could quill her logo. She recently had this logo designed for her and I fell in love with it at first glance!

Isn't it gorgeous? It is so flowing and whimsical, perfect for quilling. The only issue I had with it is all the black. It is hard to quill with black. Since the paper stands up it casts a small shadow. If you have black paper with the shadow in tight coils, you can't really see the coils. So I decided to flip the colors. I chose a grey background, put the tree as white, and alternated between white, grey, and black hearts. 

As with my other tree, I started with just the basic outlines.

The hearts were not glued down. They were just there for reference. Also I have not glued at this point. I like to lay out the papers first to see if I need any adjustments

This is when I started filling in branches. I glued down the basic outline, and then laid out the fillers.

Once I had all the branches complete and glued, I started adding the hearts. 

I used some waves to fill in the trunk and voila:

One gorgeous recreated logo! It really was fun having the freedom to change certain items and I can not be happier with how this came out.

What do you think? Please leave your thoughts in the comments!

Also, check out Rustic Romance Crafts shop on Storenvy! She makes charming burlap home decor and I can't wait to get one of her wreaths!

Quilled Surfboad

I really had a fun time putting together this surfboard. I requested to join an online auction and the theme was Fun in the Sun. There were so many ideas for to me to choose from, but I am glad I chose the surfboard.

To make the shape I started making an outline with pins on a styrofoam board. I was afraid if I just placed the paper down freehand it would end up to uneven. After I placed the pins I wrapped the paper strips around it.

The next step was to put some glue onto the top of the strips and then carefully place the canvas tile on top. I let the glue set for an hour, then flipped the whole piece and took off the styrofoam board.

Now comes the designs. I chose grey, coral, blue, and white with a little touch of yellow. I knew I wanted a flower shaped like this and thought it would look great toward the top.

I wanted the surfboard broken up into three sections. Each section would get a flower. Once I added the middle flower I knew that top flower had to be moved up more.

Here is the lower flower.

I filled in the top flower with some honeycombs.

A lot of times I will lay out my strips and see how it looks before I glue it down. After seeing this I decided it needed to be filled in a lot more.

I think it looked much better with more coils.

I did the top and bottom greys, then started the blues.

 I had a really hard time deciding on the middle section. I originally wanted to have it fully white. After I laid it out you couldn't see the flower well. In order to break up all the white I threw in some coral S's.

Here is middle filled in.

The waves turned out so much prettier than I planned. They have to be my favortie part of this piece.

Here it is all framed and ready for auction!

This is my only surfboard and I may not make another. If I do it will be a completely different design. It can only be bought in this weekend's auction June 27-30 at Auction Junkies Facebook page.

What do you think of this Surfboard?

Quilled Tree

I thought I would take a minute to show you the progression of my quilled tree. I loved making this project, and love it even more now it is complete!

I started out with just an outline.

I started gluing down the leaves first. I had to make sure I had the larger outer branches done first, before I moved onto the smaller leaves.

Once I finished with the larger branches, I started filling in the leaves from bottom to top.

I was using 2 shades of green to give it a little bit of dimension.

Here it is with all the leaves, and I added a small heart to give it a little pop of color.

Then I worked on the trunk. Again I started with a basic outline first. I also used 2 shades of brown.

Here it is all finished and framed! This really would be a great addition to anyone's living room.

Final product photo:

I hope you enjoy seeing this piece being put together as much as I enjoyed putting it together! I can not wait to start my next project!