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Ganesha And Quilling Decoration - Year 2013

     In my previous post I had shown my quilling project made for Ganesha Festival. Finally I decided to make a frame of my quilling decoration instead of applying sealent on it, because I wanted my work to remain unharmed for many years without any colour change in it.

     After pasting up all quillwork it became quite heavy and it was framed. It was a memorable experience doing all that.

     For the decoration saries are draped behind quilled frame and the Kundan Rangoli pieces are kept in front of Ganesha idol. While taking photographs I was unable to avoid reflection of camera flash in the glass of frame. I am not expert in photoshop, so I don't know how to remove that reflection. So I am just putting my photos here from different angles. Hope you like it!

  

     Wish you all who celebrates Ganesha Festival!

Finally completed the Project!

     Last year one of my neighbour introduced me with the art of quilling just one and half month before Ganesha Festival. I was eager to learn quilling. I searched on the internet and got information. Then I decided to do the quilling patterned decoration behind Ganesha idol for Ganesha Festival.

     But in the nearby store only multicoloured quilling strips were available in a pack and those different colours were not sufficient for my decoration. So I decided to buy paper and cut the strips. But the papers in specific colour shades were not available in any store that time to whom I visited. So me and my family members searched in lot of stores and every time returned with some other colour's paper. In this way I got Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet papers, so I decided to do the decoration in 7 colours of VIBGYOR. (Later on I got the shades which I wanted and I also used them in my decoration.)

     Cutting paper strips was tiresome work and my father helped me for that. While cutting papers I put those papers on newspaper and kept it on pad, so my pad got scratches of blade. Later on I found out about paper cutting mat and purchased it. My work was about to complete but due to some unfortunate events I had to stop my work suddenly.

     So after the last Ganesha festival I again started my work. This time I got some new shades, so I added them in my decoration and made some new flowers. But again due to the dust problem I stopped my work. Now in Rainy season  I started it again and finally completed the quilling part of it.

     Now I have two options, first is apply some waterproof coating on quill work and then paste it on thick cardboard with white background, and the second option is paste the quill work on some white backgronud paper and make a box frame of that design and use it as background.

     Now I have arranged these quilled flowers roughly on a blue cloth just to give an idea about the entire decoration. All this work is done by using 5 mm strips. Have a look on it.

  

     Thanks for viewing!

  

Kundan Rangoli

     After a long break the problem of dust is now over due to rainy season and I decided to start with something else. In Indian festivals Ragoli decoration is must and now the season of festivals will begin soon. So I decided to make kundan rangoli.

     I would have preferred multicoloured kundan stones of medium size, but what I got in store was small sized, only pink coloured kundan stones and gold runner (golden beads) and star shaped decoration items. Though I was not happy about the material, I started my work and cut the OHP sheet in desired shape.

     Pasting kundans on OHP sheet was quite tiresome work as the glue was spreading outside the kundan stones. After pasting kundans on the border of first piece, I suddenly remembered that there are leftover pearl beads in my home which I had bought and used for making jewellery few years ago. So I decided to use those pearl beads. The pearl beads added their own effect and now the Rangoli looks like this...

  

     The advantage of Kundan Rangoli is that we can arrange the pieces in different way. If there is sufficint place to put big sized rangoli then we can use all the pieces. If the place is littile then we can arrange only some of the pieces as this...

  

     Or we can just keep the central piece as Rangoli...

   

     Or we can just keep one smallest piece as Rangoli. Also it looks quite attractive. This rangoli is a good option for those who are not very good in making powdered rangoli.

   

A pair of earrings, a flower, petal and leaf

     There is no post on my blog recently. There are two reasons, first there are loads of dust everyday at my place because of some construction work going on which stopped my quilling work and second I am not feeling well. So I hardly made some quilled things. Here are these things now. All these things are made up of 5 mm strips.

     First I made this pair of varnished earrings in shades of violet / purple. I was teaching the quilling technique to my aunt and I used the things she had made, in these simple looking earrings.

  

     Then I made this quilled Malaysian flower in shades of pink and violet. I wanted to use it for making brooch, but unfortunately brooch backs / pin backs / flat pads are not available in nearby store. So I just kept it as it is to use for some other thing.

     Here in this image I used a comb petal with this Malaysian flower. This comb petal is made by my aunt in shades of pink, violet and indigo.

  

     Then I used this shaded green leaf in combination with this Malaysian flower.

  

     This leaf is made using comb in two shades of green. This simple leaf is ideal for filling up large framework.

  

     That's all!

Quilled Miniature - The Girl with flower bucket at Valentine Day!

     This is my first experiment of Quilled miniature making. As I had no idea about number of strips required for it, I guessed and took the strips and completed this miniature.

     I started quilling with 5 mm strips, so in this miniature doll I also used 5 mm strips. The total number of strips are as follows -

1) For the face and hairs - 8 + 8 = 16 strips

2) For the front hairs and bun and eyes = 1 strip 

3) For the upper part of the dress - 5 + 5 + 1 = 11 strips

4) For the lower part of the dress = 10 strips

5) For the hands of the dress - 4 + 4 = 8 strips

6) For the wrist and palms of doll - 3 + 3 = 6 strips

7) For the hat = 3 + 5 = 8 strips

8) For the heart = 1 strip

9) For the flower bucket - 2 + 1 = 3 strips

10) For the flowers = 3 strips

11) For the decoration in bucket, brooch on hat, Kumkum and lips etc. - leftover pieces of used strips

Total 67 strips + some leftover pieces are used and this girl in pink and pinkish purple outfit is made. Have a look on it in different angles!

   

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Paper Quilling Jewellery - My first try

     As I am new in paper quilling field, I am doing my experiments in paper quilling and learning the techniques. In last few days I made some Paper Quilling Jewellery.

     Some people apply a coat of varnish on paper quilling jewellery and some prefer to make it without applying varnish. I decided to make it by both the ways. I made 4 sets of earrings.

1. The first set is in shades of blue, done by comb technique with a strip in the middle and a coat of varnish applied on it.

   

2. The second set is also in shades of blue, done by comb technique but without any strip in the middle and a coat of varnish applied on it.

  

3. The third set is in shades of blue, bluish green and pale olive green, made using quilling tool rescembling an eye of peacock and a coat of varnish applied on it.

  

4. The fourth set is also in shades of blue, bluish green and pale olive green, made using quilling tool rescembling an eye of peacock, but without any varnish.

  

And here is a photo of all 4 sets together.

  

     Though paper quilled jewellery can be made in many colour shades, these items are quite delicate as compared to metal or plastic jewellery; Hence must be handled and ware carefully, to increase it's life.