Saint Patrick's Day

I recently got a shamrock paper punch from Daiso and with Saint Patrick’s Day around the corner, it was a good time to put it to use. The shamrock leaf was used by Saint Patrick to explain the Holy Trinity to the Irish. Nowadays the shamrock leaf and color green have become synonymous to St. Patrick’s Day.

So I also thought of going green by recycling, reusing stuff from my craft room.

I found:

• Scraps of Card Stock paper.  ( approx. 5.5x4.5)
• Leftover embroidery floss from an old project.
• Some old and read magazines for punching the green leaves.

The countdown has begun …so go GREEN !! 

-Smriti

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Love is in the air

I am not such a fan of Valentine’s day..but because I see so much ‘love’ around me I thought of making something for my hubby dear!

Since I am such a hoarder when it comes to craft supplies, I have a moderate collection of designer paper punches. So I decided to put those in use. 

Here's what I did : 

• Sketched a bare tree
• Punched out a bunch of hearts
• Stuck them randomly on the tree
• Got Shamoni to help me with the tag line
• Voila ! V-day card done! 

My V-day obsession didn't stop at the card, I got myself to do some more work. I got my box of quilling strips and ended up making this 3d cake ! 

This was my first time at 3d quilling. I used the curling coach to make the cake. It helped me a lot, since I was able to manage working with a lot of strips together. The strips I used for the cake were dark yellow and red color which were 3mm wide and 17 inches long. The number of stripes I glued for each layer, starting from the bottom are as follows : 

• 12
• 9 
• 6 
• 3

I worked on each color separately, then glued them all together to make a 4- tier cake! It didn't really look like a cake, especially not a Valentine's day type of cake! So I decided ..what better to add than little hearts all over! :-) I took dark magenta color strip, cut them to get 1.5mm width and made inward facing V scrolls ( basically heart shaped ).  I look forward to making more 3d quilling projects and I will post them soon! 

-Smriti

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