Madness creative week - making cards

Here are some cards I've done lately for swapbot and following 365Cards challenges.

There was a film theme that week on 365 Cards. That means every day the designer put up a movie poster and we had to make a card related to that specific poster.

For Day 106 they had this poster.

I used a little girl stamp on my card to match the girls on the poster and then I used a multicolour background specially concentrating on green. I am quite happy with the outcome.

This card also participated in:
Stamping With Dragon
Craftyhoschallange
Paper Sundaes

For Day 110 we had to make a card inspired from this poster.

My idea was to make something simple and childish so that's why the cute turtle.

On Day 108 we had this poster to work with:

And I came up with...

100/365 - Get well soon

I'm bursting with desire to make cards at the moment. I singed up for 10 swaps on swap-bot. A real mad period of creation after a looooong brake.

I made this card for Super Sketchy Sunday Day 104 on 365Cards and I'll send it to a swap-bot member for an handmade card exchange.

85/365 - Bamboo

When I was in Vietnam for my honeymoon I saw bamboo for the first time in real life. It was growing everywhere, from woods to peoples gardens and road side.
They are using it in constructions.

It so was exciting to be there. There were so many flowers, trees, plants that I haven't seen them before (that was my first time in Asia). My whole month in there was an adventure discovering new plants everyday and being amazed by everything.

The two most unexpected trees that I discovered were the banana and the coffee tree.

Banana tree had the most unusual flower. It was totally unexpected and hard for me to imagine the bananas coming out from that dark red flower.

The coffee tree.... well.... if someone wouldn't have told me that was a coffee tree I would have never guessed. The flowers had an amazing strong smell and the coffee beans tasted nothing like coffee. Apparently the beans get the yummy taste after being dried and roasted.

95/365 - Paris

This is another vintage card that I made for a swap-bot swap.

For this swap I had to send a postcard with a flower on it. The person I had to send to stated on her profile that she totally adores stuff with Eiffel Tower so I made this specially for her. I hope she'll like it.

93/365 - Vintage

I made this card for a swap-bot. The person I had to send it stated that she likes vintage looks. So I made this using some paper that came with a wicked craft magazine that I bought few weeks ago from Manchester.

The rose was inspired my from DayDreams blog.

You can see a tutorial of the rose here.

Another card for 365Cards - a Happy Birthday one...

I made this card for a swap-bot exchange. I love flowers and this was really fun to make and it's one of my favourite.

After I made I was wondering on one of the sites that I regularly check, 365 cards, and saw that my card it's perfect for one of their challenge Lucky 13.

For this challenge we had to have exactly 13 of the same item on our card. I looked at my card and realised that "Happy Birthday" has exactly 13 letters.

Upgrading my blog....to accommodate more paper crafts

When I discovered quilling last year I made this blog to keep a log of my creations so this blog was dedicated to only quilling (hence the URL "www.quillingprojects.com". Slowly after that I started to play with paper and learn to create much more like cards, paper cutting, drawing and even watercolours.

After I got better at doing other paper crafts I wanted to blog about them but I didn't wanted to put it up here as this was a quilling blog. So I created another blog to be able to share my other paper crafts with everyone. But then I realised that it's difficult to maintain 2 blogs specially with a full time job and commuting for 3 hours a day. I ended up neglecting this blog because I needed to develop the other one. I wasn't happy about that.

So today I decided to upgrade this blog to accommodate my other paper crafts projects. It will still have quilling as a main subject because rolling paper strips is still my great passion but there will be other crafty creation scattered around.

I hope my fans will not be to disappointed and my other projects will inspire people as much as quilling (and maybe more).

Here are some cards I've done for some Swap-bots exchanges.

While I was visiting Vietnam I saw some amazing paper cut pop-up cards. There is where I fell in love with this type of paper craft.
This is my first attempt.

I made this for a swap-bot called quick flower postcard swap. So I just made a quick one.

105/365 - Quilled Happy Birthday card

I love quilling. I specially like the 3D texture, the feeling on my finger tips when I press down to stick the shapes it's feels me with great pleasure. Quilling helps me relax and wind down form a long day at work.

Quilling it's a wonderful craft.

I made this card for a swap bot again. (I'm really into swapping at the moment). The person I had to send it to makes beautiful cards using 3D cuttings. I made this card specially for her so she can experience another type of crafting using 3D shapes . Who knows maybe she will take up quilling. He he I love converting crafters into quillers.

Weeeeeee're having fun

This is a card that I did for the second challenge of the week on 365 Cards Day 105 - Mega movie Monday

The shapes that I used in this card were inspired from the "Quilling design-a-day Calendar".

Recycled flower card

Oh it's been so long since my last quilling.

I had been having such a busy period with getting married, going for a long honeymoon, starting a new job, commuting 3 hours a day, looking for a new house, going to the gym regularly....oh I need more hours in the day.

Well... I guess I have good excuses, anyway.... :-)

This flower is another piece made from recycled shredded paper. I'm really into recycling and using free materials for my cards.