IQCG DT Inspiration # 46

Hello Quillers,

Here is another post for the DT inspiration for month of April. And this month's colour palette is as below.

For this month's theme, I decided to do something for the first time which I have been meaning to do for a long, long time. It  is Spiral Quilling. I saw it for the 1st time on some blog and fell in love with it instantly.  Got to know Ritu Gera is the the artist who made that artwork which I saw and I just checked out her entire blog. Do go to he page (click here) to see some of the most amazing things she does with paper.  

Oh, coming back to this month's theme, I chose both shades of green and yellow from the challenge palette and combined it with neutral colour black to make an abstract artwork. I chose a canvas board of size 4" x 6". I drew some random overlapping circles. I colored the rest of the BG with black acrylic paint to have a contrast which will bring the focus on the light coloured circles. Here are some pictures. 

Please do enter the challenge and get a chance to win lovely prizes. For rules and guidelines regarding the challenge and to enter your new creation (related to the current theme) please visit the IQCG page, click here. Please make sure you are NOT submitting  entry made prior to the challenge announcement.

Also check out fabulous inspirational work by my fellow DT members on the IQCG blog. 

Looking forward to see your creativity. Happy quilling!

Cheers!

IQCG # 45 - DT Inspiration

Dear Quillers,

This entire year we are going with different colour combinations as our challenge themes. This month's theme are these colour combinations. 

And this is my take on this challenge theme. I have made an artwork on a canvas board. I have coloured the background with teal and pink acrylic colours. I have first stenciled the two butterflies with texture paste. After that I added two quilling braids, one blue and pink other teal and pink. After that I added pink, purple and white flowers to make a bunch surrounded by green quilled scrolls. 

Just few more glimpses of my work while it was completed.

It was still looking like it's missing something and didn't quite looked finished. After thinking for long time what to do with it, I came up with a very simple idea. Wasn't sure how it will turn out to be, I took a chance and implemented that idea. Thank goodness it worked and the final product looks something like this.

You are most welcome to participate in our challenge. Click here to know more about the rules and to link your project to our challenge. It must have quilling in it. Please follow these guideline/challenge rules. You have to choose minimum of three colours from the given palette, any one neutral colour like black or white and one colour of your choice.   No back links to your projects will be allowed. 

Do check out the prizes for the winners too!

I would love to know your thoughts about my artwork. Please leave some love.

Cheers!

IQCG DT Inspiration # 43 - Flowers and Stitching

Hello Quillers,

This month's challenge theme on IQCG is Flowers and Stitching! 

Here is my take on it. I made a Christmas wishes card with the wreath stitched on it. I made the scrolling, quilled leaves and cherry red decorations and adorned it with quilled flowers.

Here is my take on it. 

Please do enter the challenge and get a chance to win fabulous prizes. For rules and guidelines regarding the challenge and to enter your new creation (related to the current theme) please visit the IQCG page, click here. 

Here are some more looks at the card.

The size of the card is 5.8" x 8.3 ". 

Cheers!

IQCG DT Inspiration # 40 - Fall

Dear Quillers,

It's that time of the year when our deciduous trees display a beautiful array of ambers, reds, burnt brown colours! IQCG challenge # 40 is - Fall!

For this theme, have made a photo-frame after a long time. I have used orange handmade paper as background and used quilling strips of red and yellow to make small flowers and buds. I have made bigger flowers with two-toned graduated quilling strips in orange and light brown colours.

If you are inspired by it, click here to link your own creations to enter our challenge. You still have ample of time. So let those creative juices flowing and make anything which has quilling in it and is related to our theme for this month! Please make sure you read the rules of the challenge beforehand. Do check out amazing inspirations from other DT members too on our page!

Winners will get badges and exciting prizes from our sponsors DIMENSIONS, LET'S CRAFT and a handmade gift by our DT Aparna! Top 3 entries will get a badge and a gift voucher from RAINBOW CRAFTKARI!

Waiting to see your entries in the challenge!

Cheers

IQCG DT Inspiration # 39 - Anything about India

Dear Quillers,

This month's theme is dedicated to our motherland, beautiful and diverse India! so IQCG challenge # 39 is - Anything about India!

For this theme, I combined my love for quilling and delicate art of paper cutting. It is my first try at the same.

I have papercut a PEACOCK - national bird of India! and beneath it I have layared tight coils with colours of our tricoloured national flag!

Here is another look.

If you are inspired by it, click here to link your own creations to enter our challenge. You still have ample of time. So let those creative juices flowing and make anything which has quilling in it and is related to our theme for this month! Please make sure you read the rules of the challenge beforehand. Do check out amazing inspirations from other DT members too on our page!

Winners will get badges and exciting prizes from our sponsors DIMENSIONS, LET'S CRAFT and a handmade gift by our DT Aparna! Top 3 entries will get a badge and a gift voucher from RAINBOW CRAFTKARI!

Waiting to see your entries in the challenge!

Cheers

IQCG # 38 : DT Inspiration

Dear Quillers,

This month it is all about  textures and shine. So IQCG Challenge # 38 - Mixed Media. Create a mixed media project with essential part as quilling and an optional twist to add something shiny like glitter, sequins, pearl mist and so on!

For this challenge I have tried my hands on canvas board for the first time and I absolutely loved it. For the bling twist for the challenge, I took it a notch up by painting the background itself with acrylic pearl colours (silver, pearl blue and peach pearl) and then used pearl 3D liner for the embossed stencil effect.

With some excellent suggestions for my friends, I have coloured the center embellishment with silver acrylic paint too! Pearls on butterflies and the rhinestones in the flowers are adding to the shine quotient too! And of course, I have crimped quilled flowers and lovely vortex coils in this piece!

A closer look at the shiny background

It is time for you to show us what you come with working on this theme with a shiny twist. Don't forget to check challenge rules before submitting your entry here. Check your creation in the challenge for some lovely prizes for a winner and top creation. Please make sure you are NOT submitting  entry made prior to the challenge announcement.

Looking forward to see your creativity. Happy quilling!

Cheers!

IQCG DT Inspiration # 37 - Blue with a splash

Hello Quillers,

Here comes June bringing with it a little relief from sweltering heat....June brings monsoon with it.....lots of rain....splashes of blue!. So this month's theme is the same! Theme for challenge # 36 at IQGC this month is:

I made a birthday card using lots and lots of blue. The BG is blue, quilling is blue. Moreover, I tried to bring the spray effect on the BG to suit this month's theme.

A birthday card for a very special person with lots of splashes of blue.

On the outer border, I have made splashes of blue on white BG.

In the inner stencil, spray effect is done with white ink on blue areas

It's time for you to join us at IQCG to participate in this month's challenge. Create anything according to the theme with any media and add quilling to your project. 

Please make sure you follow the guidelines/challenge rules. One winner and best topper will be awarded by our sponsors!

Reena Dhairyawan

 Jovita Serrao D'Souza

Maninder Kaur

Please click here to see the details about the challenge and to have a look at other wonderful DT inspirations from IQCG.

Cheers!!

IQCG DT Inspiration # 36 - Rainbow Colours

Hello Quillers,

It is the summer season with sweltering weather all around. So this month's theme is something which can perk up the mood with a beautiful view of array of rainbow colours! Theme for challenge # 36 at IQGC this month is:

 

In this month of May, we also celebrate Mother's Day on 14th. So for this month's theme I thought of making something as a tribute to all the mothers out there. It does not matter if you are mother of your own children, of others' children which I meant as a teacher (teachers are just like mothers at school) or even if you are a mother of your pets. It doesn't matter whether you are married mother or unmarried, whether you are a single mother or you have your partner with you. It is all about the bond between you and your child(ren). So here is my creation. 

A mom who fills a child's life with colours of happiness or some may even interpret it as when a baby is born and makes a woman a mom, it fills the life of the woman with rainbow colours.

It's time for you to join us at IQCG to participate in this month's challenge. Create anything according to the theme with any media and add quilling to your project. For ex: you may colour the background of your project with rainbow colours and add quilling elements to it.

Please make sure you follow the guidelines/challenge rules. One winner and best topper will be awarded from our sponsors!

Reena Dhairyawan

 Jovita Serrao D'Souza

Maninder Kaur

Please click here to see the details about the challenge and to have a look at other wonderful DT inspirations from IQCG.

Cheers!!

IQCG BIRTHDAY BLOG HOP

Hello Quillers,

Indian Quilling Challenge Group turns 3 this month and we are celebrating with a Birthday Blog Hop!🎂🎂🎂

This month there will be no quilling contest!!!! Our team will showcase birthday inspiration throughout the month on the below scheduled dates.

Starts from IQCG - 1st April
5th April - Aparna
9th April - Daniela
12th April - Gouri
15th April - Priya
19th April - Priyanka
22nd April - Shweta
26th April - Sriranjini
28th April - shylaashree

This is what I have made. A box pop-up birthday card.

 

Exciting prizes from our sponsors will be given to one winner selected from the comments across all the blogs in the hop.One random winner will be chosen by our DTs and they will get a special goodie bag from us.

All you have to do is

- Follow IQCG blog if you are not a follower
- Copy & paste the following birthday hop picture on your blog and spread the news on social media
- Join our Indian quilling Challenge Facebook group
- Visit all our DTs blog and leave some love
- Anyone with Indian Postal address can join 

Winners will be announced on 30th April

For more details click here to go to IQCG blogpost.

So be ready to join us in this birthday fun blog hop and make sure you leave oodles of love on our DT member's blog posts!

Cheers!!!!

DT Inspiration 35 # Celebrating Womenhood

Hello Quillers,

Welcome to my blog yet again. This month's challenge theme on IQCG is #35 - Celebrating Womanhood.

"The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears,
the figure she carries, or the way she combs her hair.
The beauty of a woman must be seen from her eyes,
because that is the doorway to her heart,
the place where love resides.
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole,
but true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.
It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows.
The beauty of a woman with time only grows."

I am taking opportunity of this month's theme to draw attention to one of the symbols of womanhood and a deadly disease which plagues women everywhere on this Earth. "Breasts- the one that marks the rise of a young girl to womanhood, the one which is fundamental to our collective understanding of female sexuality, the one which nurtures the new generation with their nectar". Breasts are one of the basics of our thinking of female anatomy.

But this very basic body part which distinguishes us females from the other half of the population is also target of second largest cancer issues in women. I am referring to Breast Cancer. It scars a woman physically, emotionally, mentally and financially.

For this month's challenge theme, I have quilled a winged PINK RIBBON, symbol for breast cancer awareness. I have made this in honor of the breast cancer survivors. Those amazing women who fought their battle with this deathly disease, conquered their demons and came out winning survivors with scars to remind them, and everyone else, of their battle. I dedicate this creation to my Buaji, an amazing woman of grit and a winning breast-cancer survivor!

Month of March also witnesses celebration of Women's Day! I would ask all the women reading this post (and the men for the women in their lives) to go and get a regular check-up for breast cancer symptoms. you know prevention is always better than cure and it's better to nip the problem in the bud. Woman may also do monthly breast self-exam for symptoms easily. check out various website which will tell you how to do it.  Take care of yourself and enjoy womanhood!

The challenge is open to all. Come let's celebrate womanhood through quilling. Create anything which corresponds to our theme and has quilling in it. Do check out the inspirations for you from my fellow design team members here. You will find other details regarding the challenge on this page.

Cheers!

DT Inspiration Post # 34 - Love is...

Hello Quillers,

Here I am again after a hiatus of almost 2 months on my blog (although I have been not away from my quilling challenge IQCG). This time I am going to start on yet another journey around the Sun with a lot of love in my heart, just like the theme for February month's challenge in IQCG # 34 - Love is...

For this I have made a quilled heart. It symbolizes everything that we love. For me, the love is all encompassing, all around. We love our parents, our family, our friends, our pets, our jobs, our hobbies and what nots!

Now it's your turn to show what love means to you through your creative quilling. Make anything which corresponds to our theme and has quilling in it. Do check out other amazing inspirations from my fellow Design Team members here. This page will also tell you other fine details of the challenge. Don't forget we have prizes too!

One Winner and one best Topper will be awarded.

Winner will get gifts from from our below sponsors
1. Rs.500 gifts from Dimension of Crafts
2. Rs.250 worth gift from Letzcreate,
3. A handmade gift worth Rs.300 from our DT Aparna

Best Topper will get:
Rs.250 gift voucher from Rainbow Craftykari Store

So what are you waiting for?

Cheers!

DT Inspiration post for IQCG # 32

Hello Quillers!

The theme for this month's challenge at IQCG is dedicated to the flora community of our mother nature. Now, don't be alarmed! It simply means that November's theme for IQCG challenge # 32 is PLANTS!!!

When I was faced with challenge of which part of a plant to choose, I couldn't think of anything except flowers. Who doesn't like them? Who doesn't appreciate them? The presence of flowers triggers happy emotions, heightens feeling of life satisfaction and affects our emotions positively. Let it be any occasion, as simple as a romantic dinner for two or a huge gala celebration, we find flowers as most basic means of decorations in various walks of life. In fact, of all the parts of a plant, only flowers are the one which have their own language. Yes, that's true! Don't believe me? Google it yourself!

There is a language, little known,
Lovers claim it as their own.
Its symbols smile upon the land,
Wrought by nature's wondrous hand;
And in their silent beauty speaks,
Of life and joy, to those who seek
For Love Divine and sunny hours
In the language of the flowers.
-- The Language of Flowers, London, 1875

Since of all flowers, roses have most enticing and mystic beauty so for this month's theme's inspiration post I decided to make quilled roses of pink and white. Now here is the thing, I made the quilled roses and I was thinking about how to arrange them into a layout where I chanced upon what does the Language of Flowers say about pink and white roses. Pink combines the innocence of white and the passion of red with flair of femininity. White is associated almost exclusively with purity and new beginnings. So I thought why not make the layout for my quilled roses which will encompass elements of passion/romance, innocence, purity and new beginnings.

Recently I tried my hand at something new again - a Dream-catcher. All thanks to my friend who liked the concept so much that I made my first dream-catcher for him. In fact, he is the real motivating force for me to do this and so many other new things. Take a look at it.

          

So I thought a pink and white dream-catcher will catch the innocence, purity and romance of good dreams and the beauty of the concept behind a dream-catcher. The element of new beginning was symbolized by using a new layout, a Dreamcatcher, for my quilled pink and white roses. So here is my layout for the DT post for IQCG challenge # 32

 

In process of weaving the web The completed web

And finally here it is hanging over my bed for good, beautiful dreams.

Looking forward to see your entries for this challenge. You can create anything and everything but it should have the element of plants in it. Just make sure quilling is mandatory for your entry to be valid.

Click HERE to enter your creation in the challenge. Please make sure you follow the IQCG rules and individual challenge rules to make your entry valid. Looking forward for your participation.

Happy crafting!!

Cheers!