"R"oyal and "M"erry

The final two typography on 6/8 inches cardstocks completed the series.
Presenting the "royale initialen" calligraphic font which indeed looks very artistic and royal as a font itself.

Here comes "R" with a Royal touch and "M" for merry, keeping in mind the upcoming "Merry Christmas". May the festive season fulfills our heart with all positivity and happiness and the royal celebration starts soon.

The snapshots are as follows.

Hope to start with the new series of paper quilling and craft works soon.
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"A"ffection and "P"rayer

The next two monogram in the quilled typography series is completed with the letters "A" and "P".
This time, a simpler Adine Kirnberg calligraphic font is used for the text. Beehive pattern for filling and distressing ink is used to create the colorful background with a contrasting effect.

Here comes "A" with affection and "P" with prayers.

The Outline

Side View

The Outline

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Love and Joy

Typography is my most favorite in quilling. Be it a single letter or word(s), I have created 25 projects so far in typography related to gifts and customized orders for sale.

With a limited set of paper strips in hand, my plan is to create a series of 6 quilled monograms in Royale Initialen calligraphic font on 6/8 inches softly textured cardstocks.

The festive season has commenced. I wish this season brings us a lot of joy and smile and keep us bonded with love with our near and dear ones. This is a homecoming season as well, however, this year I am really going to miss my home and especially the festival of "Durgapuja".

Here's presenting the first two letters of this series. "L" for Love and "J" for Joy.

The snapshots and close views are also provided in the pictures below. The Royal Initialen fonts are available in www.dafont.com and can be downloaded and installed to use them further in your projects.

The font printed on a plain paper

The impression is taken on the cardstock

The font printed on plain paper

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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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"K" for Krishna

Well, completed my first monogram quillography after coming to France :)

Quillography is a combination of Quilling + Calligraphy and so can be more or less described as writing in calligraphic fonts using paper strips instead of a pen! Different techniques of bending the paper and filling up the letters give the different finish. Choice of color and font style are also contributing factors. I first came to know about this term and eventually learned this technique from Art'Zire from my friend Pritesh Ananth Krishnan :)

This one is quilling the monogram in "Royale Initialen" font (freely downloadable from www.dafont.com)

The background effect is created with Tim Holtz distress ink pad (Mahogany red) and a border using simple punch craft with small daisy flower as a pattern. The complementary colors red and green are used as outline and beehived filling respectively, also keeping in mind the "green" shades in peacock feather which also symbolizes none other than my favorite Krishna :) 

Here comes the final picture:

The snapshots are as follows:

(1) Getting the impression on the colored background

 (2) Completion of the outline by Brick-Red text-quilling strips (available online at A1craftsupply)

 (3) Adding some distressing shades in complimentary green to add some extra finish before starting the beehive work inside the letter.

This brings me back with a memory of creating my first quilled typography word "Krishna". It was created on a patterned photo paper and using Adine Kirnberg Calligraphic font. The peacock feather is a real one. It is one of my favorite typography work so far and is gifted to a close friend of mine.

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Merry Christmas

My second quilled typography project is now completed. Although Christmas is not too near, I have created this project keeping the red and white theme of "Merry Christmas".

Like the Eiffel tower project, this is also done on 8/10 inches canvas. The background is created with red and white artist grade acrylic colors from Camel and using a cracking medium which I had bought from Fevicryl Hobby Ideas store. Before the typography is done, the individual letters are cut out from paper and pasted on the canvas. After that outlining with 2 mm wide white text-strips and beehive with 3 mm wide red paper strips were completed.

Here are some snapshots while working on the canvas.

Outlining with white text strips

Texting is completed with inside beehive pattern

The patterns and shapes that are mostly seen in these assemblies:

(1) Malaysian petals
(2) Combed petals
(3) Composite flowers
(4) Leaves in sets of 3,5 or 7 in numbers
(5) Husking
(6) Multi color husking
(7) 2D and 3D tear drops
(8) Marquise

Embellishments that are used in these assemblies are:
(1) Half pearls
(2) Pollens

The assemblies are snapshots and finally they all became part of this project. The overall process of making the flowers involves the following steps:

(1) Choosing the background color and color of the strips used to create the shapes
(2) Plan a count of the total number of shapes
(3) Measure length and cut strips based on individual shape counts
(4) Create individual assemblies like the flowers and leaves (for flower assembly the Silicone Glue is used as shown in the snapshot below)

The individual flowers are assembled beforehand on small plastic sheets using a sealant (Anabond RTV 666, available in any craft or hardware stores). After 6-8 hours when the glue is complete dried it can be cut out from the plastic sheets and this is how the flowers look like as shown in the picture below which can be further decorated with leaves and swirls using the same glue.

This is an edited form of the picture by me with a Christmas Theme :)

The assembly can be customized in different ways and can be used to create different projects.

I have used a lot of Malaysian flowers in most of this assemblies. One reason for which is that it is one of my favorite patterns. For a quick tutorial on how to make a Malaysian flower petal shape please watch out this video.

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Eiffel Tower (la tour Eiffel)

The biggest attraction of city of love, Paris

The Eiffel Tower is an iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It was named after the engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and build the tower.

I have been staying near the city of love, Paris, since last three months. Orsay-ville, a beautiful hill station of the Paris region, is my new residence and certainly the new nest to nurture my creative ideas :)

With time, I had realized that Paper Quilling art is not just something I like to do, but it is something which gives me enormous happiness and a passion to live with for long. So I created my very first quillography and 3D assembly project with the theme of EIFFEL TOWER or la tour Eiffel as the French would say.

Here comes the picture of the completed project.

The center is a hand drawn Eiffel Tower (created from an impression) and then outlining it with 3 mm width black text-quilling strips from A-one craft supply, Bangalore. The rest of the quilling is done with 3 mm light green text-quilling strips. The beehive pattern to fill up the texts (Adine Kirnberg Calligraphic font) is done with light blue and orange color strips, each of 3 mm width.

Canvas background: The complete project is created on an A4 size (8 X 10 inches) canvas. The canvas background is created by the distressing effect with Tim Holtz distress inks (purchased from the craft shop, Bangalore).

The 3D assembly is a technique by which the flowers, leaves and swirls are incorporated on the project and customized accordingly.

Following are snapshots of the project on the go:

Outlining text with text-quilling strips and also the Eiffel tower impression (high gsm, 3 mm wide)

 Completed outlining the text

Completed beehive pattern inside the outline of text

For the floral assembly, all the flowers, leaves and swirls etc are assembled separately and finally they are arranged on the final project. 

 Preparing the 3D flowers on silicone sealant

Below I have shown another assembly idea which can be used in any other project and can be arranged in a customized way.

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