Hobby - Quilling

I guess it was before Xmas of 2008, there were stalls placed of hand made and quilled cards in front of our office cafeteria. I was in hurry, still managed to gave a quick glance on those cards. I am always fascinated by hand made stuff and loved the quilled cards. It was for the first time I had seen them and I loved them so much. But to my disappointment I was not carrying my wallet that day, luckily I got one of those card as new year card from my roomie and I loved it.

I didnot know the name of this type of craft as quilling nor did had an idea of how they are made. While reading through one of the blogs, I found that they are very easy to make and one just needs correct material. I am very bad with the scissors and hence wanted to go with the ready made strips which I was not able to find in US stores. So, when I came back to India, I ordered them online and tried my hand on quilling. It was super easy and the first card I made came out very nice. I gave it to my brother-in-law as his bday card.

My next project on quilling was pen/comb holder which I made using surf excel box and used quilled flowers and shells for decorating it. I followed the instructions on busyhands.craftgully.com/from-wash-to-wow/  to create the pen stand.

I also made a quilled wall art. It was copy of quilled art I saw on someone's facebook page. I liked it so much that I wanted to make one for myself. 

My last project till now on quilling was quilled earrings. I made 3 pairs and had given it to friends and cousins. 

It's very difficult for me to be a creatives self  , so except for the earrings and my first card design, everything I tried was from following others steps.

PS - I don't have pics at this time on my mobile and hence will upload them from my laptop some other time.