Typography Quilling Workshop

Finally! After so many delays!

Miyyah@Kertas will be conducting a Typography Quilling Workshop, co-organised with the amazing LittleSyam. Participants will be making typography quilling artwork and you'll be guided on tips and techniques of typography quilling, how to select your materials, colour choices etc. Registration opens now. For RSVP, please email miyyah@gmail.com or pm any of the social media account stated in the poster.

p/s: Yes, I have finally joined the Instagram bandwagon! Look me up at IG miyyahatkertas.

Of Whimsical Colours.

It was hard to let go of this one.

...simply because I'm in love with the colours. It took a while to choose colours that could complement each other - but I was pretty satisfied with the outcome.

The colour tones reminded me so much of Irau Mountain, which I had the chance to climb a few months back. The gorgeous and whimsical sceneries on our journey to the top were breathtaking, and they inspired me so much when I designed this.

 

I'm glad that Anuar & Hani love the signage as much as I do, and may both of them have a wonderful journey going forward in life. Happy ever after! ;-)

Who's thinking about you now?

Who's thinking about you now?
If you were building a wall, who would tear it all down and pull you through?
Who's thinking about you?

Who'd care enough to send you flowers, that you could call at all hours,
And give your love to?



Somebody must believe if they could see what I see
If they haven't, well they will
Baby they all will

Just when you suspect that life couldn't get no harder, something comes
Along and makes your dark day darker
The weight of it all falls on you

Who will be the one to listen when it's time to listen?
Who will be the one to miss you when you've gone missing?
Well, I do.

 (J-Mraz)

Saying yes to forever

Thank you for being patient. I'm not going anywhere, and I'm still trying to bend the time-space continuum to be able to do everything that I love to do. I'm not sure whether it would happen soon, but I'm still trying hehe.

To Hafeez and Umainah, thank you for trusting me with this signage for your big day. It was fun to be able to meet the bride to be (despite only at a hotel lobby on a rainy night haha), and it made my day to see her beaming with smile and looking happy.

I love making the swirls (they're my favourite kind!) and it was fun experimenting with the flowers! And the colours! And filling the letters with shades of purple and blue!

Definition of Happiness

I found happiness in collecting smiles and making people happy. How do you find your happiness?

In true words of Alice Walker, "don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get, you've got to make yourself."

So dear friends, do more of what makes YOU happy.

Love, meet hearts.

How do I love thee, let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight 

For the ends of being and ideal grace. 

 

I love thee to the level of every day's

Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. 

I love thee freely, as men strive for right.

I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.

I love thee with the passion put to use

In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.

I love thee with a love I seemed to lose 

With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath, 

Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose, 

I shall but love thee better after death.

(Elizabeth Barret Browning, Sonnet 43) 

Soon.

Soon. Very soon.

Wait for me.

It's all because two people fell in love.

The story started when two people fell in love.

And decided they should spend the rest of their lives tormenting with each other.

Come rain and shine.

For better or worse.

May you both love each other every step of the way, Insya Allah. ;-)

Classic Wedding (Part 3: The Withered Roses)

(Please be warned that this entry is laden with pictures)

The withered roses - it started off as an experiment, as I love withered flowers so much. Then it became an obsession that was hard to let go, and the next thing I know, I had made aplenty of them. In variety of colours too. +__+

 So, we had the withered roses everywhere during the wedding hehe. I put them on some boxes for the bride’s family...

 

… and made some of the flowers as the corsages & buttonnaires…

 

.. . and some, on the wedding guestbook (one of those rare cases where I made one)

And plastered them on the wedding signage too…

The signage, bearing the groom and the bride’s names, was quilled in Jawi writing (Arabic alphabets being used to spell Malay words and pronounced as such). All quilling strips were hand-painted and hand-cut. Tedious job, but I’m loving the outcome so much I might do it again. ;-)

Tips: Quilling Typography

Typography quilling using old magazine

I've received so many requests for typography tutorial. I couldn’t find time to do the exact tutorial, but I hope this entry will help a lot.

You can do your typography using one of these tutorials:

Craftastical Monograpm Quilling

Mezcraft for Instructables

Pritesh’s Quilled Lettering Tutorial

Typography on old mag using simple quilling designs

 However, there are also few crucial points I would like to add in keeping your typography neat and tidy:

• I like to use PVA white glue for all my typography works. It dries faster and hold your paper pretty nicely. A quick tip: I usually put a dash of pva glue on a paper plate and leave it for a while. By the time I started quilling, the glue would be sticky enough to hold the quilling shapes and dries faster. It would also be easier for you to clean if you mess up.

•  If you’re just starting typography, use thicker paper for the typography outline.

• The bigger the letters, the easier it is to quill. So start with big-sized letters. Once you’re familiar with it, you can give smaller-sized letters a try.

• Practice makes perfect. With lots of practices, and researches, I’m pretty sure that you’ll find your own favourite style :)

• Typography quilling is one art that requires lots of patience, and sometimes it took me days, or even weeks to finish (and few papercuts here and there). Don’t easily give up. The above tutorials are THEIR ways of doing it, but you can always bend the ways, and create your own. :)

Give it a try, and  good luck!

Purplelistic

A special request for a special day.

The book.

 

The signage.

Lara

For one lucky girl. Happy Birthday!