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Showing posts with label love birds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label love birds. Show all posts

Friday, February 11, 2011

~ mr. & mrs. {quilled birds}



Well it looks like I am on a roll this week....making cards and posting them too. This is the last one I have ready so I better get back at it soon. These long legged birds were inspired from a quilled wall hanging I saw online on an etsy shop called It's Lorraine. I loved the long legs on the birds and knew they would be perfect as a bride and groom.




I saw her shop a long time ago and just ended up making my card recently {but she does still have the wall hanging up on her site if you want to check it out}. Mrs. Bird is very cute but I love the hat and tails on Mr.Bird. I used photo shop to add the swirl and text to my card. I think the polka-dot ribbon is adorable. 


Thanks again
Cheryl

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Amore {quilled love birds}

~good morning everyone

as some of you know I have been lucky enough to receive 3 of Lin's cards and they are even more impressive in person. I especially like the love birds card so I thought since I had her card to look at, that I would make my own version. After seeing her cards I started to think that I should make my quilling a bit bigger and tried to do just that with quilled love birds.

I have to tell you that I wasted a lot of paper and it is not easy to 'copy' someone else's work even if you have it right in front of you. Her quilling paper seems more pliable and lighter in weight than what I have so she could get the shapes with a bit of a curve but mine were just points and very stiff on the ends. So I ended up making mine smaller {still larger than I normally do} but smaller than Lin's. And I made them all white....I like the monochromatic look if you haven't noticed.

Mine still aren't as curvy as Lin's so I added a bit of glitter....they are OK but are missing Lin's touch.
Enjoy your day


Cheryl