Quilling Krishna silhouette

Quilled Baby Krishna.

This is my first attempt in quilling after making just a couple quilled flowers. Quite trying for a beginner in quilling I would say. I tried to search for quilled krishna on google but could not find many quilled baby ones there. I saw a few Radha-krishna ones which were quite complicated( or rather too much work!).

A vectorStock google image for krishna.

I wanted just a single coloured quilling on a card for my mom and loved this pic. I am no artsy person- but wanted to create this huge task with just a few basic quilling techniques.

I hand cut the krishna image and put a plastic wrap( I reused a plastic sheet you get for flower bouquets!!) on it and taped it to a old cardboard piece.

I saw this technique on youtube by Kativilaga. Its a great tutorial on quilling a bird- for beginners. I used pins to put the outline in place and then filled the inside body.It was my first and only trial and I wish I used just teardrop shape to fill the whole thing.

As I said, I am no art person and probably did not water color more than a dozen times during my schooling! But I wanted to gift this to my mom for Krishnashtami completely handmade by me! Tried water coloring- with my 3 year old putting his hand on my paper continuously. Was checking which one looked better as a background ( I obviously cant get the same look as the vector image!).

Finally went with the yellow background. I initially wanted to glue it to a acetate card ( transparency sheet) and hence took a lot of pain in first doing the outline and then filling the body. If I just glued the pieces on to the cutout directly, it would have been a lot easier for a beginner like me. But in the end, the transparency sheet wasnt strong enough to hold the quilled krishna( just about the size of my palm).So glued it onto the watercolor card.

I covered it with the transparency sheet instead. I learnt a lot while quilling this as it was my first trial in quilling. I wish I had more tips- the quilling teardrops have glue from my hands and it showed up in the final work, after drying,the work is smaller than the image.So the hands and the flute didnt show up quite well after drying. My critic dad comments- why is krishna having a tail?! is he holding a snake or a flute?! But my ever encouraging hubby and mom say it was great! In my ninth month of pregnancy-quilling this was back breaking but I wish to redo the same krishna in a year from now with lots of swirls and curls and some loose teardrop coils and better learnt techniques in quilling ( If I get to eat, sleep,have time to take a decent shower, manage my two kids and still have time for quilling that is!).
Thanks for dropping by and reading the post this far!

This was quilled long before the ganesha but could not get time to post it and also the vaishnava Krishnashtami which my mom follows is on 16th Sep. So Happy Krishnashtami. Maybe I will add a butterpot or something to it later.
Till then keep learning and keep trying!

Happy Teacher's Day!!

A blackboard card for teacher's day! I got the inspiration from a youtube tutorial. I added little classroom elements like chalk piece, duster, date, section and a 5 star for the teacher! I was searching for teachers day cards for inspiration and found apples on every card! I wondered how its related to teacher's day and found out that in olden times apples were given as a token of appreciation to teachers and also apple symbolizes knowledge ( as someone mentioned it-no wonder Newton was under an apple tree!).

A ruler and pencil inside the card.

A Pencil card for Teachers day.
There are a lot of pencil shaped cards for teacher on google, I made 2 cards as my 3 year old has two class teachers in his nursery!

Colorful pencils inside the card with letters T E A C H E R !!

Back view of the card- this time its a purple board!!

Happy Teacher's Day!!

Quilled Ganesha- happy Ganesh chaturdi

Ganesha outline from the google images

Just started quilling a month ago and tried quilling Indian gods for the first time.

A little off the original pic...but was happy with the outcome

Tried different handmade paper backgrounds for the ganesha

Finally liked the purple handmade paper background as the card base

Added a small mouse for the little ganesha

Final finished quilled ganesha card with mouse and ladoos at the bottom

A peek inside..
Happy Ganesh Chaturdi to all of you!

Brighter skies are on their way!!

A hats off card. There are a lot of tutorials to make this graduation card but I gave it to a young one for being the topper in the high school.

 A congratulation card with a small pocket to add a gift card or notes.

I did not have the stamp, but made a card using the inspiration with hand cut circles.

Forgot where I saw this stamp and its make- probably hero arts or inkadinkado. Used this image to create the above card.

Happy Independence Day!!

Made my 3 yr old sort the 3 colors of the National flag..a fun thing for the little  hands !

He glued the tri coloured thermocol balls on to the adhesive backed acetate/OHP sheet.

I was told by a kindergarten teacher that picking up, holding  bit size grains, pebbles or  any thing of that size with their fingers will improve their ability to hold the pencil and their handwriting skills.

So we started it with making a National Flag! My 3 yr old did it all by himself and was very happy as it had ice cream sticks too!

My son had a health week going on  and so we made a healthy-green-flag. The top row had Masoor dal- orange, centre- Sabudana/sago/tapioca, last row had green gram/moong dal- green.

Happy Independence Day!!

A couple Birthday cards

Weaved window card with a maroon burlap/jute frame.

Tried embossing for the first time. I just had clear embossing powder and a small flower stamp. Embossed it on vellum and added a vellum butterfly and pearl bling.

Happy Fathers Day

A rainbow pattern card front- Inspiration from Kristina Werner's inspired series.

The card centre-Oragami  Letters- D A D-Inspiration from ohsoverpretty.com for a great idea!

Card Back- a conical Flask conversation-completely original idea- for a science DAD. the periodic elements idea is from the google images