Perfect fringed flower

I have to say I like my little fringing machine. It took me a while to get used to it but I like the perfect fringing that comes out on the other side. It was a bit pricey but a good investment in the end.

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.

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.

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.

Quilled flowers for swap-bot

I sign up on Swap Bot for a greeting cards kit. We had only one partner to swap with as it required a little bit of work to do. We had to include 10 cards, 10 envelopes for the cards, 10 embellishments and a box to go with it.

It was fun to make it all, but the most fun I had was making these little quilled flowers to go inside. I hope the receiver will like it.