Customized nameplate for the family"Kushary"

My third quilled typography project got initiated with the request from my best friend (in USA now) Ranja. She was wishing to have a customized nameplate to decorate their newly bought home in New Jersey. After a real long discussion on the customizations, I went ahead with the following background created on an 8/12 inches photo paper (Fuji) with a crushed paper background in blue color, so that it goes with the theme of white door and light blue wall of her house. The writing font used for "KUSHARY" is Algerian and the design is created by me using windows powerpoint software.

Step 1: Design of project and the print

I had thought of a yellow and creme shaded beehive pattern to fill up the text and for that I have used paper strips of 3 mm width. Higher gsm text strips from A1 craft supply in blue color of width 3 mm is used for the outlines along with the light green text strips of same dimensions and weight to give some additional effect with the inner lines of this particular font.

The closed view of the outline with text strips

 Please note that the glue when dries up give a shining effect when light falls on it, because of the translucent nature of the glue. So use of glue has to be appropriate and to pour as much as close to the printed lines to achieve a neat finish, as much as possible within handmade precisions.

Now that the text outline is completed, the next step will be to fill up the inside region with tight beehive patterns so that the white area gets covered as much as possible. This is again to create a neat and clean finish. If you are planning to do the same project on a plain cardstock paper then taking an impression of the text will work, or if you working with canvas or wooden surface carbon tracing can be applied. Depending on which surface the project has to be created the initial step of background design and printing will differ accordingly.

As I mentioned before I have used shades of yellow and cream for the beehive mostly, with a trace of blue lines here and there to accentuate the overall effect.

Typography work is now completed

Typography work is now completed. The decoration of the nameplate can be done in ways as versatile as your imagination can go. As each project has an emphasis point, which, in this case, is definitely the family name types by quilling, I have planned a simple floral decoration.

Keeping the color contrast in mind a set of Malaysian flowers with a couple of composite flowers in yellow and cream are created, with a pink center, again accentuating the overall look and also breaking the monotony.

The final step is to assemble these flowers on the project. Adding a couple of white and pink swirls and lots of composite leaves in light green with a dark green border as base patterns definitely gives it a homely touch :) What you say??

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