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Showing posts with label glitter. Show all posts

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Amore {quilled love birds}

~good morning everyone

as some of you know I have been lucky enough to receive 3 of Lin's cards and they are even more impressive in person. I especially like the love birds card so I thought since I had her card to look at, that I would make my own version. After seeing her cards I started to think that I should make my quilling a bit bigger and tried to do just that with quilled love birds.

I have to tell you that I wasted a lot of paper and it is not easy to 'copy' someone else's work even if you have it right in front of you. Her quilling paper seems more pliable and lighter in weight than what I have so she could get the shapes with a bit of a curve but mine were just points and very stiff on the ends. So I ended up making mine smaller {still larger than I normally do} but smaller than Lin's. And I made them all white....I like the monochromatic look if you haven't noticed.

Mine still aren't as curvy as Lin's so I added a bit of glitter....they are OK but are missing Lin's touch.
Enjoy your day


Cheryl

Monday, December 13, 2010

Glittered Nativity

Coloured Nativity, All White Nativity, Larger Nativity....and now there is GLITTERED Nativity....and you guys are probably saying 'enough of the navitvities' already...well I have just one more to share. A co-worker asked me to make a larger Nativity for her and asked if I could put a bit of glitter on it. I am a sucker for glitter so how could I pass that up!!

And here is how they turned out...you will have to look close to see the glitter in the picture but trust me it is there (my craft table is covered in glitter now)




I really do like the hint of glitter but am not sure if I will do it again, or if I do I will have to adjust how I did it . I smoothed glue on the glittered areas with my fingers and it doubled the time it took to make each piece and I had glitter EVERYWHERE....

oh well...we all need a little extra sparkle now and then
Cheryl