http://quillarina.com Quilling and Only Quilling - plus a little more ... Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:19:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Since I started quilling organizing has been a major problem. I, like many other newbie quillers, bought lots of different colored papers and had them hanging, put into boxes etc. I would put off starting a new project because to start I had to go searching for the ... http://quillarina.com/2008/05/09/organizing-quilling-paper-strips/ While at the AGM 2008, I met Molly Smith Christensen who wrote the book "The New Paper Quilling".  One of my competition pieces used a pattern from that book which led her and I into a discussion.  I promised her that I would post another piece that I completed from ... http://quillarina.com/2008/05/07/dressed-in-yellow/ What happens when you get nearly a hundred paper twirling artists together in one place? This question was answered at the North American Quilling Guild Annual Guild Meeting (AGM 2008) held at the Radisson Hotel in Warwick, Rhode Island May 2nd thru May 4th, 2008. First, all ... http://quillarina.com/2008/05/05/north-american-quillers-guild-annual-guild-meeting-agm-2008/ What fun these little gems were to make. I sat down last week and created over 40 of these for my show last weekend in Sayville. Continue to read and I will show you a sampling of the dominos I created and tell you how I altered them. The ... http://quillarina.com/2008/04/28/creative-dominoes/ This card was created layering two different decorative papers and then quilling the flowers. The entire card has an antique-y type of look. The quilling was done with tight rolls. http://quillarina.com/2008/04/12/green-antique-whey-quilled-greeting-card/ This beautiful card celebrates all those who love to garden. The beautiful vellum paper is embellished with glitter that makes the flowers glitter and shine. http://quillarina.com/2008/04/10/glitter-garden-greeting-card/ In this quilled framed piece I tried to re-create the beauty and calmness invoked by ikebana flower arranaging. Ikebana, one of the traditional arts of Japan, has been practiced for more than 600 years. It developed from the Buddhist ritual of offering flowers to the spirits of the dead. By the ... http://quillarina.com/2008/03/21/icabana-bowl/ I do not think that it would surprise anyone that I love birds. So I had to try my hand at quilling a bird. Making it a fanciful, abstract-y bird just further intrigued me. The blues and greens found in this lovely feathered friend compliment the colors ... http://quillarina.com/2008/03/19/flight-of-fancy/ I have a fascination with music - all music. When you walk in my house or ride in my car there is no telling what music you will be listening to. You could be treated to the soothing strands of some classical piece, the heart breaking keening of ... http://quillarina.com/2008/03/17/quartet-poetry/ This card started with the blue textured paper and a tiny scrap of silk paper.  I absolutely love both paper types and never want to waste a tiny piece of it. I quilled the wheat stalks and they seemed to go perfect with the blue textured paper.   The blue accentuates ... http://quillarina.com/2008/03/11/the-wheat-blues/