Quilled wedding card

Well, it has been awhile! Won't bore you with details of why I haven't been able to find time to blog recently. I'm hoping to be able to post a bit more now that the school hols are here - watch this space. I do have lots of new cards to show you. I've had lots of requests from customers this year for wedding cards in more unusual colour schemes. This one was for my niece to give to her boss. The colour scheme for the wedding was teal and white. This is not a new design, but it looks quite different in this bolder version, I think.

The patterned paper I've used at the bottom is long retired from Stampin' Up - I wish they would bring it back, it is so beautiful and just right for wedding cards.

 Hope you like it! Will be back soon,

Jill

Another quilled wedding card

As promised, here is the other wedding card ordered by the same customer as yesterday's card. For this couple she requested a candy apple red base with flowers in fall (autumn) colours. Hope this fits the brief!

Short and sweet from me today. Have a great week,

Jill

Exotic flowers - quilled, of course!

Hello everyone,

Just popping in here quickly to show you a card I made recently for a customer. She liked this card:

but wanted the card matched to the colours of the wedding. Apparently the wedding is to be in Jamaica and the bridesmaids and groomsmen are wearing cornflower blue. The bride will be carrying  'exotic' Caribbean flowers! 

This is what I came up with:

I thought this was a good opportunity to experiment with a new technique for me - "beehive" flowers (the large orange and yellow flower). There are lots of videos about this technique on You Tube, if you want to have a go. 

The same customer (a regular!!) also ordered another wedding card, in a different colour scheme - I'll be back soon to show you that one.

Jill

Quilled wedding cards

Hello again,

Today I thought I'd share with you another wedding card design.

This card design has become my number one bestseller and resulted from a request from a customer for a wedding congratulations in a "more sophisticated" colour scheme. Up to this point most of my wedding card designs had been variations of cream, white, gold and silver - just goes to show how you can get stuck in a rut! Once I'd made this one and it began to sell well, I decided to try it in other colourways:

This one was again for a customer, for a couple who were being married in the Carribean.

In pinks....

And autumnal shades.

Which one is your favourite? Are there any other colour combinations you think I should try?

Til next time,

Jill xx

I'm back!!

Hello everyone,

Well so much for me thinking that I'd be posting loads during the summer holidays. I'm so sorry for my delayed absence - I've been having a fantastic time doing all sorts of lovely things but as a result my card-making and quilling have taken a bit of a back seat.

However I'm back today to show you a card I made for my husband's niece and her new husband for their wedding yesterday. This is really just an update of a design I've been making for ages, but it was in need of a little something and this is what I came up with.

Sorry, the photo quality is not great. I took them very early in the morning so the light was all wrong.

For those of you who like to know, the heart was die cut from pearl cream card with an X-cut nesting heart die - the secong largest one. The scallop border is cut from the same card using Stampin' Up's Dotted Ribbon Scallop Punch, but I've cut it in half. And the font I've used for the greeting is "Hayseed" - currently one of my favourites!

And here is a photo of the recipients on their big day:

And one of me, my husband and two of our offspring (the youngest wasn't able to attend as she is away at a West End Theatre summer school):

That's it for today but I'll try to be back soon with another quilled card.

Jill xx