Quilled Wool Christmas Wreath

I went to a class last night at A Stitch in Time in Howell taught by Annette Shaffer from Annie's Wool Works and created this beautiful quilled wool Christmas wreath.  It was a lot of fun to make, despite all the hot glue burns, lol.  The wreath is 6 inches round.  You roll the wool quills by hand then hot glue them down on your base.  My friend Amy also took the class but she made a stand up Christmas tree.  The great thing about the class is Annette has already cut all the quilling strips so you just grab them and start rolling.  A fun holiday project that was a hit with everyone in the class.

Quilled Poinsettia

Have you seen the new Expandable Quilling Strip Die from Cheery Lynn Designs?  I dug out my quilling tools and started cutting strips.  I only wanted to use the largest size of strips from the die, so I cut my paper 1/2 x 11 inches.  Positioned it over the larger strips and die cut it.

I trimmed the outer bits off and then repositioned the paper to finish cutting the strips.  It is really easy to line the original strips back up in the die and then run it through your machine.  Not knowing exactly what I was making I cut a large amount of red and green strips and quilled up the following.....

For my larger flower, I used size 2 on the Quilling Circle template; 3 for the smaller.  I was originally going to add quilled leaves but when I started assembling my card, I decided I wanted leaf die cuts.

Using my Scalloped Square Stackers and the coordinating Silver Square Stackers I created my card base and the DP background.  Next I added a Nautical Wheeler Doily and started assembling my poinsettias.  I used my Holly Leaves die around the petals and then added two Holly Corner embellishments.  I die cut the center medallion from the Nautical Wheeler Doily and added it below my sentiment which I die cut with my Scalloped Circle Stackers and matching Silver Circle Stackers.  Finished size is 6" square. 

Be sure to visit the Cheery Lynn Designs challenge blog for more inspiration and to join in on this week's Texture challenge for a chance to win $20 to the store

Kitty Witch and Cheery Lynn

I will be so sad to see October leave as I love making Halloween cards.  I started my card with a green panel cut from my Cheery Lynn Designs Kaleidoscope Lace French Flair die.  This is 6 1/8" square.  Using spray adhesive, I glued it down to a piece of black card stock and then hand trimmed around the edge of the die cut.  Using my Cheery Lynn Designs French Flair Classic dies, I cut the dotted black panel.  This adorable Kitty Witch is a new image from Karen's Doodles.  I hand trimmed the image around the circle of the moon and then fussy cut around the cat and broom.  I used my Cheery Lynn Designs Spiderweb behind the image to give it kind of a moon glow. 

I finished the inside of the card with the same dies.  Then using the new Cheery Lynn Designs Expandable Quilling Strip die, I created the flower using text weight paper and a quilling tool.  I created 5 orange petals, 3 green leaves and then 3 yellow coils for the center of the flower.  The great thing about this kind of flower is how well it will go through the mail.  Because it has such a low profile, it won't lose it's shape.  This card will fit in a 6.5 inch envelope. 

Be sure to visit the Cheery Lynn Designs challenge blog for more inspiration and to join in on this week's Corner Adorners challenge for a chance to win $20 to the store

Quilling Eccentric Coils

The third week of my Quilling class at My Creative Classroom has taught us how to make eccentric coils.  Here is my first class project............

An eccentric coil means you pin the inner coil against one side of the circle.  See how the coils spiral out?  Pretty cool.  I also learned to make hand looped leaves as well as husking; using a cork board, pins and a pattern.  This is a fabulous class and if you are at all interested in Quilling, you should check it out.

My card base was created using my Cheery Lynn Designs Scalloped Oval Stackers die.  Then I cut an oval panel using the coordinating Silver Oval Stackers die which I embossed with Cheery Lynn Designs XL Black Eyed Susans embossing plate.  The last step was to add the dragonfly, also from Cheery Lynn.  This will fit a 5 x 7 envelope.. 

Paper Quilling Grapes

Additional homework from my online Quilling lesson at My Creative Classroom this week was to make Grapes! 

You make the grapes from quilled coils that you shape using a Quilling Mini Mold.  Sonya Appel, my instructor, showed us how to make this beautiful tag.  It measures 3.5 x 6.25 inches.  The grape leaves are a punch from Punch Bunch, I added veins with an embossing tool.  The sentiment is from Sweet Stamps. 

Fringed Flowers

My second online Quilling lesson at My Creative Classroom was this week and we learned to make fringed flowers and scrolls and lots of fun things.  Now being the anal person that I am, I don't cut the fringes by hand, I have a cool little 90 degree Fringer.  Have had it for quite some time but did not know what to do with it.  As you can see, I had a lot of fun.  I included a ruler in the pic to give you an idea of the size of these flowers.  They sit up about 3/8 - 1/2 inch high.  Now on to my project.

I have wanted to use my new Cheery Lynn Designs Mega Tea Party die, it is a whopping 7 5/8" in diameter and was just the right size for the top of this cookie tin.  I used my new Tiffany Border around the base of the tin and my Inverted Scallop Circle Stackers Nesting die for the dotted center panel.  

Since I am making this a dog cookie tin, of course I had to use my Karen's Doodles Basset Girl, I just love this digi image.  On a side note, Karen is having a blog hop to showcase her new Christmas images, check it out for a chance to win the digis.  Back to my tin, I colored up the sweet basset with Copics, trimmed her out and then added my beautiful flowers in an arc.  As you can see I also added some quilled leaves and scrolls.  This was such a fun project and I love making these flowers.  I can't wait to incorporate them into my other creations. 

Quilled Sunflowers and Cheery Lynn Designs

I played again with my Quilling supplies and decided if I turned the teardrop around, it looks like a sunflower petal so that lead to this card.............

Using my Cheery Lynn Designs Japanese Lace and Flourish Frame I die cut the frame out of brown card stock and the flourishes out of green card stock.  I replaced the leaves on the flourish with my quilled leaves.  I had to cut the paper strips for the leaves myself so they are not quite the same size but not bad for a first try.  I added a border die cut using my Cheery Lynn Designs Eyelet Border with Piercings, threading a piece of ribbon through the border.   The sentiment is from Hero Arts stamped onto a circle cut with my new Scalloped Window Stackers.  Some Viva Decor Pearl pen accents and I was done.  Finished size is 5 x 7 inches. 

Quilling Class at My Creative Classroom

I have always wanted to learn Quilling so I was very happy to see that My Creative Classroom is offering an online class.  Our first lesson was yesterday and here is my homework.

We were to create a card and add flowers made from teardrops and leaves from marquise.  The background DP is from the Basic Grey Kioshi paper pad.  I used my Cheery Lynn Designs Canadian Kaleidoscope doily die along with the matching Wing Ding for the flower base.  Then I added Cheery Lynn Designs Tiffany Border down the left side. 

Here you can see the great dimension of the card, I popped up the doily and then the flowers were made with 1/8" quilling paper so they are raised as well.  Finished size is 6" square.