Dr APJ Abdul Kalam

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This month at Indian Quilling Challenge we have Frame it up as challenge. You need to decorate a frame or make a frame.

My inspiration is quilled photo frame. Photo of a great leader Dr APJ Abdul Kalam and his famous quote printed on it. His smiling face has been fixed in my mind. Luckily I got the same. This photo frame will be in my living room. His smiling face will remind me the unconditional love towards mankind.

Have decorated the glass photo frame with quilled flowers. Hope you all might have kept some photos to be framed, Just do it now and add quilling to it and link it to our challenge at IQCG this month.


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Quilled giraffe

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My today's post is on a quilled giraffe frame. A handmade wall frame for kids room.

Customised it for a friend for her kids room. I didn't have the green colour to paint the background. Remembered that I had kept some colour bottles in the waste basket of my little daughter(she is a 3yr old and naughty enough to mix all the colours and would imprint it on a notebook, wall, dress, floor), got a poster colour bottle, in which she had mixed  - white, black and green and it was in dried condition. Managed to use it here.

Linking this to Lessology #37 - Animal Kingdom

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Quilled Blue Ganesha

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Here's my post on another Quilled Ganesha with handmade frame. The background was created using cotton balls & water colours - sponging technique. The Ganesha is hand drawn and filled it with beehived quilling. The art work was fixed to a mount sheet and made a handmade frame by using OHP sheet and cello tape. Gifted this to my friend on her house warming cermony. Everyone in India would love to have Ganesha and it would a perfect house warming gift.

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Quilled Ganesha frame

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I am here today to share with you a Quilled Ganesha frame which was made to order by my friend. Many of us would be in doubt on which paper to be used as a base for quilled frames. I would suggest to use Mount board sheet. You can increase the height up to our quilled work by fixing the mount board one on one. So that if you give to a frame shop, your quilled artwork won't be disturbed.

Painted the background with orange & yellow water colours and varnished it with Camelin paper varnish. It would be perfect gift idea for housing warming ceremony.

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Easy Shadow Box / Paper frame Tutorial

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This post is on Shadow box with out using a scoreboard. I was inspired to make this on seeing my blogger friend Deepti's post on Lulupu blog. She is a wonderful crafter. You can visit her blog here. Thanks Deepti.

While reading her post, a thought came to my mind to make it without a scoreboard.

Have tried this and made a standlone Paper photo frame with my family photo in it. Decorated it with Quilled malaysian flowers, Leaf diecuts, Crystals, pearls,Handmade rose buds(from Pooja), some Glitter butterflies, Doll was made by me uusing my son's toy clay and painted it with Golden paint.This photo was taken in a hill in my hometown. There is a Goddess Ranganayaki temple in the middle,there is no proper road to it. I have went to this place during my childhood. This was my second visit and I really enjoyed trekking after a long time.

Here is the step by step tutorial for your quilled paper photo frame and I doubt whether to call it as a shadow box tutorial or Paper photo frame tutorial

Materials required: 

• Cardstock / chart paper / recycled greeting cards – A4 size
• Fevicol / double sided tape / tacky glue
•  Transparent sheet / OHP sheet – 9.5cm x 9.5cm

 Procedure:

• Cut the cardstock - 10cm by 10cm. One No. This would be the base.

• Cut the cardstock - 10cm by 3cm – 4 Nos. This is for the panels on the sides

• Now make a mountain fold at 1cm and 2cm, you will get the panel as in the picture below.

• For the folded edges to be perfect , just press the edges by using a highlighter pen(like you score you a scoring tool)

• Now stick the double sided tape to all the edges or use fevicol to fix it as shown below.

• Enclose the OHP sheet to the inner side of the panel.  Your shadow box is ready.                                                                                                                                                                     

                                         

• Take the base and decorate as like and stick it to the panel.
• Cut the cardstock like trapezium as below and fix it to the base of the card. Your stand is ready.

• You can decorate the outer and inner side as you want. If you want to do a bigger one just double the sizes.
• This paper photo frame will be a best fit for your quilled projects.

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Quilled Photo frame

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Today my post is on a simple quilled photo frame.The photo is decorated with Quilled flower, swirls, glitter strips, pearls and rhinestones. It was made to order for a Japanese client to gift his boss on retirement.  Based on the request from the client, have masked the photo.

After framing

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New Year Greeting frame

Hi friends,

7 days to go, a fresh and welcoming New year to arrive. I have created a quilled border for the New year greeting at office.

Let this New Year blossom with Happiness & Good health in all your life.

Here is the image.

Materials Used;
Quilling Strips - Aadyaa originals
Beads - Local purchase


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Photo Frame decor

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I have decorated a wedding frame for a couple who is celebrating their 40th anniversary with quilled flowers. It was given to me by my boss today at 10.30am and i had to finish it before noon. Managed with the papers which i had and did this. Hope they will like this.

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