~ happy happy birthday...quilled flower ~

 ~ good morning ~

thanks for stopping by

this was a quick card I made

using paper from an old book

clean and uncluttered

just the way I like it.....

have a good day

 Cheryl

Pumpkin...quilled with recycled paper

Hello everyone...thanks for dropping by my blog again. As promised...here is the pumpkin I quilled with recycled paper. I think of the three, this one is my favourite. I also added a bit of copper glitter as an accent.

I don't have anything else in the works using the recycled paper but it is something I will definitely use again in the future. I might even try a Nativity when things die down a bit or even for next year.

...and thanks for all of the comments, I really enjoy reading them.

enjoy your day
Cheryl

Fringed flower with recycled paper

Hello everyone
here is the second item I made using recycled paper.....fringed flowers. For the center of the flower I used orange for a fall look but the recycled paper goes with any colour.

My next post will be the pumpkin...
Cheryl

Quilling with recycle paper - tutorial

Hello everyone
I have always like the look of using old printed material (books, magazines, newspapers) in craft projects but don't use them often enough so after reading a post on the blog Simple Rhyme I was inspired to try it again. In the post,which you can read here, Asma talks about cutting your own quilling paper. We are spoiled in North America to be able to walk into our local craft stores and purchase what we need but a lot of quillers from around the world don't have the same luxury. Sooooo I thought I would try cutting my own strips and, at the same time, use recycle material.

• I started out by finding a book with nice white pages....I didn't want one that was faded and brittle
• next I tore some pages out of the book trying to keep as close to the spine as I could so none was wasted. 
• then I trimmed around the edge of the pages to get rid of the margins
• lastly cut the paper into strips.

 The first batch I cut (and shown in the picture above) were for fringing so they were about 1/2" wide. I also cut strips 1/8" wide for quilling. I made a pumpkin, fringed flower and a daisy like flower.

Here is the quilled flower but check back again and I will show the fringed flower and the pumpkin in posts to come.

Thanks for stopping by
Cheryl