Week Sixteen: Autumn!

It's officially Autumn, yay!

I love this time of year. In fact I love the whole time of year that isn't summer. I wish my birthday was some time in autumn, I think it's the perfect party weather in this part of the world.

So to celebrate saying goodbye to the hell that is Australian summer, I have made this week's project a lovely autumny tree. This is not new to my reportoire, but I've done it differently to previous trees and you can tell me what you think either way.

The leaves are different to my usual style, I really like this look for leaves at the moment.

We actually don't get a lot of deciduous trees around here, but it is a classic symbol of autumn and reminds me of some of my favourite towns in Australia that are populated with many deciduous trees.

Looking at it before I added the leaves, it was like the pins were drops of snow, and it was really sweet to me.

I'm thinking of doing more of this by making a four seasons art piece version. My main concern is where to get a big enough deep set frame to fit what I'm thinking...

I hope you enjoy this time of year as much as I do!


xnata

Week Fifteen: Goddess

Years ago, when I had only been quilling for a few months I made a card with a girls face in profile. I did it on a black card, and she just had simple curly hair that was rainbow coloured using two tone quilling paper (side note, two tone quilling paper is hard to find these days!). I thought I'd reprise this sort of design but update it with my new skills and add in a bit of a theme.

For some reason, we'll call it inspiration, I decided she should be entirely made of shades of purple and teal, and the whole 'Goddess' idea just came to me as I went. I put all sorts of fun shapes through her hair; my favourite is the feather.

I love her little grin and her cute nose - it reminds me of Samantha from Bewitched. I imagine this goddess could twitch her nose and make a cool breeze blow or the moon shine brighter.

..maybe she's my muse...

As we're headed for Autumn, next week's project is going to celebrate that!

xnata

Week Fourteen: Blog Header

I was looking over my blog last week, and it occured to me that my blog header is a drawing. And I mainly quill on here. Something doesn't make sense there...

So I quilled it!

Well...I quilled what it is in my head, which is apparently slightly wrong, but it's close enough that I'm sure as heck not going to start over. We'll call it artistic expression and move on.

I haven't put it up as the header yet (the thought of trying to fiddle with it to make it fit the space is not one that takes me to a happy place), but here are several photos of it for you to enjoy.

The finished product!

 



 

I might tweak  the colouring before I put it up also, to work with the background (I didn't have just the right shades at my disposal - though I will add that the turquoise edge is a shade of scrapbooking paper called 'rain', which amused me and I had to find some way to include it).

Now, one last thing. It's about to get pretty quiet around here. I start back at uni next week, and due to some confusion between me, the program coordinator and a lecturer, I'm doing 3 courses instead of only two, so I'm going to be crazy busy. I'll still be posting weekly, but don't be surprised if there are very few words to some posts.

xnata