Seasons greetings with simple quilled post cards

Plain cardstocks, some distressing technique, and paper quilling to design season's greetings with customizable quotation was on today's creative fun-list.

Quilling the stars with 2D and 3D assembly technique, which I had shared in one of my recent posts, can be used to create these greeting cards or post cards with customizable writing options according the occasion or theme of your own choice. For example, the cards with stars can be used as season's greetings for Merry Christmas or Birthdays.

Instead of putting them inside envelopes, these postcards can be enclosed inside shadow box frames of appropriate size not only for better storage purpose but with some creative gifting ideas.

Here come the three different cards which I made today :). Express your feeling by you own words on these quilled postcards.

6/8 inches postcard with old paper look and a star

3/4 inches postcard with star, lacework and quote box

4/6 inches quotation stand with quilled flower and leaves assembly

These are quick and simple gift card ideas and I really enjoyed making them all. Hope to make some more with different colored themes.

Sospeso Quotation stands

"Sospeso Transparente" is a 3D volume decoupage craft invented and patented by Monica Allegro (an Italian Artist). The procedure involves the following steps:
(1) Preparation of the Sospeso sheets
(2) Cutting and sorting
(3) Heat embossing and sharing
(4) The assembly of the shapes in flat designs to create some gorgeous three-dimensional finishing.

Materials are available online and can be purchased from the craft shop (Owner: Ms. Priya Shivraj)

I have attended the workshop in 2013 by Ms. Kosha Shah from, who is a paper artist from Mumbai. Shabana had organized this at her place and like always I was one of the participants to learn this beautiful paper art. I have made the tissue box and one frame in the workshop. The rest are made by me in the recent past.

Quotation stands (Sospeso on MDF covered with black chart paper)

Quotation stand (Sospeso on wooden plaque)

The wooden products or laser cut MDF are available online at The Crafts Lane.

Quilled Quotation stands

Here comes a set of quotation stands

The wooden plaques are small ready-made MDF cut-outs which are available in any stationary store or can be ordered online from Nupurcreatives.
The quotes are written using Bo-Bunny clear stamps and Tim Holtz distress ink (better to use Memento Stamping ink) all of which are available from The crafts shop.
The background coloring effect is created by using distress ink pads.

The rest of the craft is a 3D quilled assembly of different floral and leaves patterns using different rolling and bending techniques of Paper Quilling.

The overall project is created on simple A4 card-stocks which are again available in colored sets in any stationary stores like Itsy Bitsy (available also online) and also can be ordered from Nupurcreatives.

The quilling strips are bought from different sources which are from Shilpi brand (http://www.craftuniverse.com/ ), and Dimensionscrafts (http://www.dimensionscrafts.co.in/store_quilling.htm ).

With a nice wooden box framing the quotation stands can be a nice gift for friends and can be customized as well depending on occasion and different themes,

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One more idea with creating quotation stand with quilling work can be working with mini canvases. These mini canvases are available in stationery stores like Itsy Bitsy and Hobby Ideas or any local store. I have bought them from Hobby Ideas, Bangalore. This work is a couple of years old and was made upon order from a client. The quotations can be customized in the black space provided with acrylic colors, stamping ink or can just be simply hand-written with colored inks.

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Punch craft and embossed flowers

I was feeling absolutely accomplished to finish another quillography project. It was a Sunday afternoon at our residence in Orsay, France. I was just planning my next quilling project and was looking for some nice background papers. There were some embossed felt sheets kept inside the carton boxes which came from India a few months back when we had moved from Bangalore :)

While just creating some design in my mind I suddenly got reminded of my punch craft tools! Bingo! I just took out all the punch craft and embossing tools and started with some paper cutting, sorting, embossing and shaping. 

Sometimes even without much of planning when you get something nice the happiness goes to an additional level. I could not resist to take out some money envelopes, which I brought long back from Nupur (Nupur Creatives, Pune) and just started decorating them. Here are the results! 

My Sunday fun was completed :)

A greeting card

Set of money envelopes

Some more ideas to create handmade customized photo frames using cardstocks, acrylic colors, embossed flowers and punch craft flowers and swirls. Distressing technique (Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pads) is used to create the shading effect on the swirls and paper doilies

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Customized photo frame (1)

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Customized photo frame (2)

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