Card making is an old hobby for me. I wanted to get back to this passion since a long time! Valentine day provided an excellent opportunity and a flood of ideas! Quilling has always been my favorite paper technique. It gives a wonderful effect to the card. I used the combination of quilling, pearls and punched
hearts' pattern in this set of cards.
When I started this first card, I did not have any particular design in mind. I am inspired by interleaved flower and heart pattern.So there it comes.. I have used ivory card stock, Putting yellow flower,green arrow and red heart adds more color to the end result. Lettering and borders are done using the brush markers.
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Material: Recollections Ivory Card stock A2
Red,green, yellow quilling paper, quilling tool
Brush markers
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Allthings paper has a good site with quilling tutorials and projects. I tried cursive lettering with quilling in this card along with quilled heart and punched tiny heart pattern
http://www.allthingspaper.net/2012/02/quilled-valentine-cursive-lettering.html
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Material: Recollections Ivory card stock
Red quilling paper
Red card stock for borders and punched hearts
Brush markers and pink card stock for the lettering area |
Getting married on Valentine's day... definitely a great idea!! That way you make sure hubby forgets neither marriage anniversary nor valentine's day! ;) This card is for vday wedding inspired from lot of quilled hearts designs from pintrest. When I put the quilled heart as the centerpiece, it did not leave any space for lettering..
That triggered the idea of double heart pattern on bottom left. This heart opens. There is text both outside and inside although I feel a bit bigger lettering would have helped.
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Material : Card stock - Red , DCVW patterned red, silver for quilling
Pearls,-black and white
Red, Black brush Markers |
This is first card made by cutting card stock into the desired shape n size, I did not have a right colored envelope for it. With this reference
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Greeting-Card-Envelope I ended up quickly making a red envelope. The design of all the cards is satisfactory but I feel I am lagging in the lettering part. Calligraphy does not look very professional, I have my handwriting popping up everywhere. I am working on a better way of calligraphy.
With that the first set of cards is complete but I am not done yet... Will be back soon with a new set, again for vday; but this time with cards for little kids.
