Lord of the Jungle (paper quilled Lion)

           

              In keeping with my promise to do at lest, two projects for the month, I just completed my 2nd quilling for the month of  February. It was my idea to do a lion with a landscape background but had to do with only the head as I ran short of red brown paper. You quillers may know how difficult it is to find shades of brown. But I think this would do as hanging on to a particular quilling for long gets bored and you feel like dumping it off. Now I may stop quilling for a while for a break & consider another hobby. Some times I wonder if it is a waste of time, as all my quillings are piling up in a box. May be I should start a business :)
 

Meet My Sweet Little Valantine (Quilled)

First of all I would like to wish all of you followers,visitors and friends who never fail to visit my Blog and leave all those lovely comments, a very happy Valentines Day. Hope you have a romantic day with your valentine :)
Valentine's day is special for all who love one another. So why not Kitty and Doggy ? They are so in love. The inspiration for this quilling is from an embroidery design I found on the web. I never like to do cards cause all my valuable time and effort would end in some dust bin. I do wall hangings as it may end up on a wall or in a place of respect ( lol) at least for a while.
Read a lot on blogs and facebook of quillers steeling other quillers designs and pretending, it to be their brain wave. Creating a quilled picture is nerve racking and only the original designer goes through all of it. Doing a copy is easy as the picture is there for an idea. So please make use of the idea but don't duplicate. Try doing your own pictures. You may fail at first but keep on practising and you would be a master of it.
Happy quilling friends, till I think of something new :) 

Butterflies and flowers (Quilled)

 This would be my first quilling for 2013. It has been a busy season with Christmas and all the  functions that come along with it. Just found some time in between to do this picture. Butterfly was an idea that I had for some time but did not really get down to quilling it. Hope you like my creation. Happy quilling till I get back with another one :)

Welcome 2013 (Quilld)

A quick quilled card to end the year and to wish all my dear followers and visitors to my blog, A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!. Thank you for all the visits you made, and for all the lovely comments you gave my creations. I hope I would be able to do better creations in the future. December is always hectic and there is no time for hobbies. But I had to finish the year  with a " thank you quilling"  to all of you who visit my blog from all over the world. Hope you would come back in 2013 too, cause I would try to bring you new designs in quilling.

                                                                                          

WINTER WONDER (Quilled)

Posting my Christmas quilling for 2012 of mummy bear and baby out on a joy ride on snow. The trees are done in beehive method (originally by Susan ). Did a close up of the bear, so you would understand the way I did it. You could call it paper embroidery cause I think it would be the most appropriate name for the method. In machine embroidery we use long and short stitch and I have used this method in paper to fill up the bears. I have used 1/8" strips for the project. Hope you like it. Wish all my followers friends who never fail to leave a comment and all the visitors who drop by from around the world a very happy CHRISTMAS
                                                   
                                                        May this Christmas
                                   be filled with goodness and sharing
                                                 and may your home glow
                                         with the warm delight of this
                                                     beautiful festival

DEAR FRIENDS THANKS FOR ALL THE LOVELY COMMENTS ON ALL MY  POSTINGS. I APPRECIATE AND  VALUE ALL OF IT. I WOULD NOT QUILL IF NOT OF YOU                                                  

My Pet Dog (Quilled)

While surfing the net for an idea to quill, I came a cross  this picture in embroidery designs. I liked it and thought I would give it a go in quilling. There were some strips of shaded brown, left over after I quilled the leopard. decided I would make use of it to quill this picture. I have made a lot of changes from the embroidery design to suit my quilling but I give full credit to the embroidery site, where I found the idea . I wouldn't want to get into trouble of copying someones design. Hope you like it.

The Leopard of Sri Lanka in paper quilling (Quilled)

Many of my friends have qilled the tiger. Some have done the full tiger and some have done the face only. My ambition was to quill a lion but my friend Paula (ON FB) had done two very beautiful quillings of the tiger's face. This inspired me to do a leopard. I usually try not to quill what someone has already done. So this seems to be a good idea. It wasn't an easy task. The picture is only 8"x12". The quilled pieces are extremely small. So many bits to be quilled but I think it was worth all my trouble. I would not quill for a while as Christmas is round the corner and it means extra work and preparations but not for long. Will be back with a Christmas creation. Have fun and add a comment if you have time :)

Basket of Fruits (Quilled)

Sorry for keeping my visitors and followers for nearly a month with no posts. But you have not kept away from visiting my blog cause my visitors count has only increased and so has the followers. Thank you so much. I did not have my PC and it was difficult to get on the Internet.

A basket of fruits was on my mind for some time, but there was no motivation to quill it. With no PC, it gave me plenty of free time to quill. Hope you like it as much as my other quillings. I am on to the next project and a posting will be done soon. Thanks for all your support and comments on my work :)

The Lovers (Quilled)

Been some time since I did a posting on my blog. Did a few greeting cards and could not do a wall hanging for September after the Red Rooster.  This is a combination of graphic quilling and husking. The only tool I used was my doggy comb. The picture is 12'' by 10" and I have used 1/16" and 1/8" strips, cut out of A4 coloured paper. Hope you like it. No idea for my next quilling, but will be back soon :)

Quilled Red Rooster

Been a bit bored with quilling and went on to some of my other hobbies, but could not keep away from quilling for long. On a visit to China I was fascinated with the art of Chinese paper cuttings . many times I wanted to try it, but their was no motivation for it. so I decided I would quill it instead. I choose to do it in red on white background. I have not surfed the net, to find out why they do it in red and white, but I think they may have a reason for it .I had no reason what so ever but did it in these to colours cause I liked the colour combination : ). The design is what came into my head as I was quilling it. The idea came from a design of a rooster, in paper art. But I made changes to suite my quilling. Hope you like it

A Quilling tribute to the London Olympics 2012

     GODDESS ATHENA       

It is the all  important day that not only the athltes but  the entire sporting world and sporting fans were waiting for, London Olympics 2012. This is my entry to the sports theme competition in a quilling group on face book. I wanted to do something different. I love reading history and enjoy all the mythical stories and tales of all countries. Since olympics and Athens are closely connected I wanted to do a quilling  in remembrance of the past and present.
 Athena is the name of an important goddess for the Greeks. She is the patron goddess of Athens the goddess of wisdom, a goddess of arts and crafts (agriculture, navigation, spinning, weaving, and needlework), the favorite daughter of her father Zeus, and, as a war goddess with a focus on strategy more than bloodshed, an active participant in the Trojan War. She gave Athens the gift of the olive tree, providing oil, food, and wood. (article from the web)
Since the first Olympic torch is lit by the high priestess in Greece and given out to the world before any olympic games, I wanted to quill something to symbolise this. So hear is my imagination and tribute to all athletes of London olympics 2012. Good luck to all the participants

Kandy Esala Perehera in graphic quilling

Kandy Esala Perahera in graphic quilling, a photo by Anastasia Annie Wahalatantiri on Flickr.

Esala Perahera (the festival of the tooth) is a religious festival held in Sri Lanka and is a very colourful pageant, that takes place in the hill capitol, in July or August. It is a unique symbol of Sri Lanka.  and a Buddhist festival. The colourful pageant consists of dances and decorated elephants with the Majestic tasker(only elephants with tasks are taken) in his full glory, carrying the casket of the sacred tooth relic on his back. The pocession which takes about six or seven hours round the streets of Kandy, takes place daily, starting from the temple around 8pm, for about two weeks before the full moon and ends on the day of full moon.More than 150 elephants and over 500 dancers participate in the procession. There are fire-dances, whip-dances, Kandian dances and various other cultural dances. The elephants are usually adorned with lavish garments. The festival ends with the traditional 'diya-kepeema'.

The Dalada Perahera is believed to have begun when the Sacred Tooth Relic of the Buddha was brought to Sri Lanka from India during the 4th century.

The perahera theme has been done by many artists in paintings. This is my version in quilling




Via Flickr:
http://www.anastasiaw.blogspot.com/

Lady in the garden (Quilled)

To day I am posting once again my very first quilling project that I did in  2007 and posted in May 2009 cause that is the time I started my blog. If you look closely all the quilled bits are  not in the usual way that you may have seen in books or tutorials or even from classes you may have gone to. It is because I had never heard or seen quilling before 2009. My love and hobby from very young age was hand craft. I only had to see something and I would never rest till I did it at least once. My flickr page http://www.flickr.com/photos/laktile has pictures of all my craft since 2009. My Facebook craft album which is public  has all my craft pictures too.

One day as I was going through some books in the Arts/Craft section in a book store, I came across a little magazine with a picture of a rat. It looked like paper circles but  it did not interest me much,so I put it aside. I spend all my free time creating something and one day I had run out of all my ideas and I remembered the paper rat. I knew it was done with strips of paper, so I started twisting and rolling paper for many days till I was satisfied with the result. And the first result is the leafs on the right hand corner which I created with the comb (My tutorial on this leaf is on the blog). Now there are many who do this leaf. Some give credit to me but most don't :)

This picture is my imagination and not from any book or copied from anyone. My visitors to the blog has now increased so much, but I know many of you would not have seen this,cause this was one of my first postings three years ago. I have had many offers for this but I could never make up my mind to part with it. Hope you all would like it :)

Graphic Quilling of a Gerbera flower

A try at graphic quilling of a Gerbera flower. Not in a mood for a serious design. I will just keep on with some flowers till I make up my mind for something creative. So don't stop visiting my blog. Will be back with something you would like . May be a kids stuff :)

Quilled Sunflower Card

I am into experimenting some flowers in quilling, till I get a new idea for a quilling project. Sunflower is something I had in mind for a long time for quilling. I have not seen a natural sunflower. So not very sure if it looks like this. Seen some pictures on line to get an idea of how it looks. Had this lovely card with me for some time and it was a very beautiful background for the sunflower. Wish I had a better idea for the leaf as I am not very satisfied with it. Hope you like it. Next is an Orchid :)

Decoretive Elephant in Quilling

Quilling with black strips gives a rich look to the picture. Specially for graphic quilling. A decorated elephant,  carries the sacred relic at religious pageants in Sri Lanka. They are very well trained to walk, like a model on a catwalk. The temple elephants even offers flowers at the temple. My picture is that of a elephant offering flowers before he joins the parade. Hope you like it.

Blog head

A picture for my  blog head

Quilled in Black and white

I could never put my quilling tools and strips aside and take time off my quilling. I try putting them aside when ever I complete a large project, but it never works that way. So hear I am again with a quick card. which was effortless and quick. Hope you like it :)

Two Gentle Souls (Quilled)

Beeing away from my hobbies for some time but I am back with another quilling of Lord Buddha. It is my immagination of Lord Buddha meditating near the river bank, with lots of flowers and beauty that can only  be found in a forest.  The little deer brings some berries as offering to the lord.

The bits of quilling I used for the body of the Buddha and deer is extreamly small and is made of 1/8" strips. The tree, the robes and the flowers too are of 1/8" strips. The back ground was painted useing oil paint but the trees are quilled with 1/16 " strips useing Susans honey comb method. Will be back soon :D

Rosary made by me

This is nothing to do with quilling, but it is very precious to me cause I made it myself. Lost my rosary while I was on a tour in UK this month. I treasured it,  as it was given to me by a relative who brought it from the Vatican city and is not living now. She died of cancer a few years back. I try reciting the rosary at least once a day and not having it, was a great loss to me. What ever rosary I tried buying, did not satisfy me, so I decided to make my own rosary.

My brother gifted me a chain of ivory beads about 30 years back. I never used it as I do not where bead chains, but kept it. The beads are carved like little round roses. This was ideal for my rosary. All the loops and rings are designed with copper wire, so it would match the ivory colour of the beads.

So hear I add another new item to my craft collection. But look out a new quilling is on the way. Till then happy crafting friends