Quilling for Mother's day..

Yeah, Yeah, I know it's a little late for Mother's day, but I created this piece as a gift for a client's mother and I didn't want to give away what it looked like until after I knew she had received her gift.  I based some of this piece on some 1920's floral patterns I had from an old book that I have had for a long time. I happened to be looking through the book when this order came up, so this is what I created. 

I chose a nice soft pastel colour palette as I thought it would look nice for this spring weather and her mother had minty green walls so I thought pastel tones would go nicely with that.

Sweet Cherry Blossom Love

 This is another custom piece I created for to celebrate a couple's first year anniversary. ( Which is the paper anniversary by the way, if you are thinking that this is cool and your first year anniversary is coming up...just so you know...)

 All of the elements including the japanese character for "love" have special meaning to my client so this was a lot of fun to create because it had so much meaning for them.

If you like this and you want a custom piece like it for your anniversary or other occasion check out my etsy site!

Looking for some ornate quiller love?

 This is a custom piece I built which I am really pleased with the way it came it out. I think it's kind of groovy.

 The floral pattern was great fun to work on and it is super colourful which I really enjoyed.

If you want something like this let me know! Check out my etsy site and I can create a custom piece for you too!

Quiller Earth Flow...

 I have been feeling lately that sometimes life takes you places you could never possibly expect.  I started to think about the flow of life and how it can take you on an interesting current. So I decided to make a piece kind of feeling out the ebb and flow of life a bit.. I like my focus on the great lakes, clearly they are the only body of water on the land side of all of North America and South America that warrant being drawn. I might be bias.

Hey look a different angle~!

This is also for sale on my etsy site...

Chivo - Quilling inspired by my El Salvadorean Amigos

Hey Folks,

 I was inspired by my friends Carlos and Koky in El Salvador because they both wore a stellar pair of glasses. Also I feel that they were totally chivo. Spanish Lesson for the day : "Chivo" means "cool" in English.

 I used a combination of watercolour and paper quilling to make this one.

For sale on my etsy page... if you are feeling cool enough...

The Trees that find root : Quiller Trees!

 Well, I was feeling inspired by photos from our summer trip to falcon Lake. Paul and I were out on the canoe, and we saw this island covered in trees, that was really just rocks.  Somehow the trees had taken root and were surviving even though they were barely holding on by the tiny crevices in the rocks.  There was evidence that quite a few had already fallen over, but the image really stuck with me, so I created this piece.

 I used my scrunching technique which I am learning works really well for organic shapes. Hope you like it!

Hearty Quilling : Sharing a little love...

 Can you feel the love tonight? That's right, I just went a little Lion King on you... Some things from a person's childhood never leave... Here is my latest piece. A little Valentine special...

 "Hearty quilling" is the title and I am really happy with how it turned out. I picked a lot of salmon tones and experimented with different filling techniques. I tried a fill with no swirlies ( That's a technical term...)  inside and I really like it. So don't be surprised if more of my quilled pieces have that effect from here on out! 

Happy Valentine's Day in a couple of weeks!