Valentine Gift Tags ~ White

~ hello everyone
just a quick post to show you another version of the valentine gift tag from a few days ago but this time in white.

Instead of embossing the end I thought it was about time I started using some of the washi tape my brother brought me back from Japan.  It was very quick and easy to use....just tape the end of the tag and trim the tape. To finish up the tag all I had to do was glue on the quilled heart and add ribbon. Voila~

~ hope your day is a good one
Cheryl

Valentine Gift Tags

~ good morning

thanks for stopping by my little corner of the blogging world. Today I am showing you a few simple tags I made using the quilled heart from this card. We sell the undecorated tags at work and I have been wanted to dress some up since we got them...so today is the day. I used my cuttllebug to emboss the ends, glued on the heart and added a bit of single face satin ribbon.

It is a bit harder to photograph tags than cards because they don't stand up but I think they turned out ok in the end {I did have a lot of duds in the camera though}
Have a great day....
Cheryl

Angels...Blue and Green

Good morning peeps.....I am knee deep in making the nativities that are flying out my etsy door so not much new to share with you but here are a couple of Angels I made a few years back (you also may have seen them in my etsy store).

 

 

I still love these cute little angels so you might see them in a new card for this year....if I ever get the time. Over the next few post I will share some of my past quilled Christmas cards until I have new goodies to share.
have a great day
cheryl

Happy Birthday Lori...Memory Card Tutorial

Hello everyone
I am in Ottawa right now for my sisters birthday trip and have just given her the card I made so now I can share it with you. I had this post ready to go so I just had to publish it so here it goes.

The process I go through when making a memory card is usually the same for each one I make and it goes kind of like this:

• Choose the picture - I always start with the picture and rarely (if ever) make the card first. If I have access to lots of pictures of my subject...like my sister (since she was first born there are OODLES of her), I search through my stash for just the right one. It has to be clear and I like the picture to be closer into the face rather than a long distance shot. I like to be able to see the person's face clearly but that is not always possible. I love to use old pictures like with my sister's card but not everyone has them. With Anna's card it was a recent picture but I changed it to black and white which I think works really well.

• Photoshop -  next I digitally edit the picture and decide on if I will print it in black and white or colour. I more often then not choose black and white but for this card I chose to keep the colour of the original since I  had an idea of a colour scheme from the picture. I crop the picture and play around with brushes and borders until I have the picture the way  I want it. Sometimes I put words on the picture like this one. I then print the picture out on hp satin photo paper....for some reason I do not like glossy. It just doesn't look how I want it to and you can sometimes see streaks.

  

• Choose colour scheme - I dig through my stash of paper to find just the right ones to use. Then I hunt through my piles of ribbon and embellishments for ones that will work with my idea. With this card I was thinking shabby chic meets french provincial and this is what I came up with. Probably nothing like either one of those styles but still works in the end.

• Assemble -  then I start to assemble and play around with composition etc. and work out any printing I need to do on my computer. When I am putting it together I often change the material and or paper used. If you look at the finished card and the picture of materials used there are a few changes....I didn't use the wider, pinker ribbon and replaced the thin off white satin ribbon with a hemp string. Also the paper is from the same series but the flowers are smaller. These ones were too big so they took away from the picture. In the end the look is what I was going for.

• Take pictures - I take lots of them as you may have noticed from reading my blog. My favourite place to take them is on my mantle. I have a cute little wooden bird house there and the mantle is white so it is a good neutral for the shots.  I always take a straight on shot then sideways and close ups....it has been working for me so far I think.

and the process is all worth it when you  give a special, handmade card and especially so if it has their picture on it. Thanks for checking out my post today
Cheryl

Thinking of you...quilled dragonfly

Good morning
...this quilled dragonfly really wasn't one of my favourites when I made him...in fact I didn't like him at all. I wasn't too sure what it was about him that I didn't like but his wings were big. He sat on my desk being neglected then I decided to take his wings off and make them smaller and you know what....he looked a lot cuter.

So I  took him to the honeybee festival with all of the quilling pieces and thought if I got around to it I might package him for sale to use as embellishments for scrapbooks and everyone loved him. I didn't even have him packaged when the first person spotted him.

Then I put him on a card and he came to life for me....now I really love the little critter (even if his eyes are a bit wonky).

The moral of the story is don't give up on something or someone that "isn't perfect".
Enjoy your day
Cheryl

Just a note to say thanks

Hello again

and I need to say thank you to you. I really appreciate you stopping by each day. I now have 10 followers and have over 800 hits (since I added the hit counter) . My biggest post hit so far is the quilled ice cream cone at 61...wow.

I hope you are enjoying your summer
Cheryl

happy birthday quilled cake

Good morning everyone...

...who doesn't like cake even if it is made of paper. I have a few more cards in the wings so check back tomorrow.


Thanks for stopping by for this quick little post.
See you next time
Cheryl

Ribbon Flowers

Hello blog readers
I know I am supposed to be working on Father's Day cards but I took a little diversion...they will be coming soon.

So here are my diversions....ribbon flowers. I have been wanting to make these to sell in my Etsy Shop for a while and have just gotten around to doing them AND since I work in ribbon heaven I have oooodles of yummy ribbon at my fingertips. Enjoy the ribbon candy....

 Supplies

• ribbon
• buttons
• thread

 I have more in the works and will show them when they are finished.
Have a great weekend
Cheryl