School friends are the best friends...

Hello Everyone and welcome to the new theme - School Memories

Every time I think of school, all the fun and amazing memories of the time spent with my friends come rushing to me. I so wish I could turn the time backwards and relive every single moment again. Hence, to celebrate my best friends from school I came up with this little card.

Challenge Rules:

1. Must follow this blog
2.  Maximum of 3 Projects can be linked
3.Must be a new one made after this announcement
4.International entries are welcome
5. Use hashtag - #iqcg59 and tag us at Instagram and mention that you are playing with us
6. You can also add your work to our album in our Fb group

We will be sticking to the the below rating system.

1. Sticking to the theme - 1.5
2. Good presentation - 0.5
3. Creativity & Innovation - 1.5
4. Complexity - 1.5


We award three badges:

1. Winner" (as voted by DTs)
 2. Best of Innovation
3. DT favourite.

IQCG team are waiting to see the amazing creations you all can come up with. Winner will receive this amazing prize from Shylaa.

Waiting to see all the amazing entries.

Thank You!!

Butterfly card - DT Cathy

We're all a flutter this month creating beautiful butterflies for our challenge.

I was super excited for this challenge as butterflies are one of the first things I created years ago. I still love making them and trying out new designs. For this card I chose a simple two colour butterfly using crimped paper strips.

Come play along and remember to link your entry to the first post this month.

Till next time.

ATC Cards with buzzing bees

Our theme this month is all about ATC Cards. As I have never made these before it was a challenge to figure out how and what... but once I understood the basics it was fairly simple. Don't over think this one.. just make some small cards and embellish.

Speaking of embellishing...I choose a buzzy bee theme for all three of my cards:

I quilled the bees to fly in various positions and then added them on top of some diecut honeycomb. I also diecut the words to add an extra smile.

Come join in the challenge and remember to link your entry to the first post this month.

Till next time,
CathyS

ATC Cards - DT Ramya

Hello everyone,

It's Ramya here and I'm sharing the post for our Current Challenge "Artist Trading Cards (ATC)". I made a Quilled dragonfly for the ATC cards.

Hopefully I have inspired you to create an ATC.

Now it's your turn.  Are you up for the challenge?  We can't wait to see your projects!

Challenge Rules:

1. Must follow this blog

2.  Maximum of 3 Projects can be linked

3.Must be a new one made after this announcement

4.International entries are welcome

We will be sticking to the the below rating system.

1. Sticking to the theme - 1.5

2. Good presentation - 0.5

3. Creativity & Innovation - 1.5

4. Complexity - 1.5

We award three badges:

1. Winner" (as voted by DTs)

2. Best of Innovation

3. DT favourite.

Winner will receive below prize from me.

10mm Quilling strips, Expressions craft butterfly chipboard, Papericious gears chipboard and Prima background stamp.

Spring Blessings

Spring means all sorts to all people. For me it's about new beginnings... especially in the form of butterflies. I've created a simply card to celebrate these blessings.

So come and be inspired by our  "Welcoming Spring" theme this month. 

Winner will receive this amazing prize from Shylaa.

Remember to link your entry to the challenge post.

Till next time.

Quilled Miniature Rose - DT Ramya

Hello friends,

Our Quilling Challenge for this month is Welcoming Spring. Spring season is the pleasing season for everyone. Nature looks beautiful with tress loaded with leaves and flowers.I fond of flowers especially Rose. So I decided to make a miniature flower baskets with quilled bunch of rose.

I made a video tutorial for this creation. Please subscribe to my channel Artconquers for more videos.

Tutorial:

• Create the miniature flower baskets and the stand with ice cream stick,later color them with brown acrylic.
• Make the rose bunch with the help of cardstock. Cut the cardstock 1cm width and 20cm length.
• Use crimper for designing the leaves. For stem, use floral wire
• Atlast arrange the flowers into the basket.

Materials Used:

• Ice cream stick
• Acrylic
• Glue
• Cardstock
• Quilling paper
• Floral wire
• Crimper
• Quilling needle
  

Winner will receive this amazing prize from Shylaa

Quilled Valentine Decor - DT Ramya

Hello everyone,

I am Ramya from Artconquers. I am happy and delighted to be the part of IQCG Design team. Theme for this month is My passion, My love. I have designed a Quilled wall décor to show my love and passion towards art and photography. Though I am a Software engineer by profession however art and photography has always been my passion which makes me happy from stressful IT job.

I created a heart shaped wall décor so that I can use it as a backdrop for my “Princess” Valentine photo shoot.

I made a video tutorial for this Quilled wall décor and subscribe to my Channel Artconquers for more videos.

Winner will receive the framed bubble die from Shylaa.

Click here to add your projects.

Thanks for stopping by and we’re looking forward to see your quilled creations.

Music and Guitar - DT Ishani

Hello dear friends,

I am Ishani from Quillish and I would want to know if you've played at the Indian Quilling challenge yet?  Or may be you are planning something? The theme this month is my passion my love. 

I have a clean and simple take on this challenge with my passion and love - Music & guitar! Not many in the crafting community know that I sing and play guitar and thanks to the challenge I made something for myself.

For this I stamped the treble from a stamp by CAS-ual fridays - Big Treble. For the treble and I did selective stamping as I needed the loop on the top of the treble to be straight. I did some free hand strokes to give a definition of a guitar and used a dark brown 5 mm strip for the edge work quilling.

The stamp has a heart, so I die cut a heart and mounted it on double layer of foam tape

 to finish my piece. 

Thank you for stopping by, I hope you like my work and will play along with your passion and love. 

The challenge rules have changed this year :

1. Must follow this blog.

2.  Maximum of 3 Projects can be linked.

3.Must be a new one made after the announcement of the challenge.

4.International entries are welcome.

We will be sticking to the the below rating system.

1. Sticking to the theme - 1.5
2. Good presentation - 0.5
3. Creativity & Innovation - 1.5
4. Complexity - 1.5

We award three badges:
1. Winner" (as voted by DTs)
 2. Best of Innovation

3. DT favourite.

Winner will receive the Framed Bubble die from Shylaa Shree.

Link in your projects here .

The eARTh without ART is just 'Eh'

Hello Crafty Friends,

I really had a looong break from blogging, but back again as a DT member of my favourite challenge yet again.

This month at IQCG we are playing with the theme My Passion, My Love. What a wonderful way to start the crafting year. Although I started my crafting journey with Quilling, I have absolutely fallen in love with art journaling and mixed media over the past few months. So, for this theme I decided to combine the two and create a mini canvas.

Its a beautiful theme to work on and I am sure we are going to see a lot of amazing projects. Click here to link your creations.

Winner will receive this awesome Bubbles Frame Die from Shylaa.

Thanks and Happy Crafting!!

Chocolate is my passion by CathyS

Hi all,

I am cathy here, I am super excited to be able to share my quilling with you as part of the Design Team. My friends all know that I am a certified chocoholic so when this challenge came up I knew immediately what I was going to make... my very own box of chocolates.

I quilled the different chocolate shapes in light and dark browns and added touches of white as well. The background is made with stamping the sentiment and then heat embossing it in clear. I inked all the squares around the edge in various shades of blue - my favourite colour.

This whole piece fits inside a chocolate box that I kept from the while stash of chocolates I received last year for my birthday.

They definitely look good enough to eat.

Winner will receive the Framed Bubble die from Shylaa.

Click here to add your project links

Till next time, happy quilling.

IQCG DT Reveal

Dear Quillers,

I would like to personally thank everyone who took your personal time to apply for our DT call.

Here  we have the new team of IQCG from Feb-July 2019.

My returning DTs

 
I am Geetanjali Agrawal, a Commerce Graduate based in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, specializing in paper art. As a kid, I always had a passion to draw and paint.I have never had professional training for Quilling. Internet tutorials and my own will to make something unique made me what I am today. I still remember when I made my first card. I couldn’t even get quilling strips, yet I managed by cutting colored sheets of paper into thin strips.In the first few months, I focused on quilling jewelry and other small trinkets but then, my sister gave me an idea to try my hand on paintings. The first painting I made received a lot of accolades, which gave me the confidence to open my studio. After that, there was no stopping me.


My FB page - https://www.facebook.com/geetcraftstudio

I am Ishani, an Air Force Officer by profession and a mom to a two year old son. We live in a small place near Jamnagar, Gujarat. My crafting journey started around three years back with quilling, when a friend gifted me a quilling set. Since then, crafting has become meditation for me. I am more of a card maker and love to incorporate the humble paper strips on my cards. I love trying new techniques but I bend towards Clean and Simple style. I believe quilling is an evolving art and the versatility of paper strips give us a lot of options to explore.

My blog - https://quillish.blogspot.in/
My FB page - https://www.facebook.com/Quillish-1854341908184563/

 

My name is Cathy Sanders. I live in South Africa and have been quilling for over 17 years. I took a break from quilling in 2010 as scrapbooking was more my craft of choice, but picked it up again two years ago and now the bug has bitten again.

My Blog - http://whatsupwithcathy.blogspot.com/

This is Gouri,a stay-at-home Mum to 2 amazing boys.

Being 7 years as a full time IT professional and a mum , did not leave me enough time to sit back and think about what else could I be doing if I was not crunching the keyboard and attending occasional late meetings.

After migrating to Australia with my husband and my son, I turned into full time home maker and a stay-at-home mum. Things were not easy at first and it was difficult getting used to be without work. 

I had dabbled in quilling before and with the all the time I had now, I started doing it more often. One thing led to another and I got interested in card  making until recently I became extremely passionate about mixed media and art journaling. My craft area is my happiest and relaxing place. 

I am extremely honored to be  a part of the IQCG Design team yet again. Thanks Shylaa for the opportunity.

My Blog - https://emotivepatterns.blogspot.com/

I am Ramya from India, currently lives in Michigan,US with hubby and my beautiful daughter. I love to travel and capture those beautiful memories through my lens.From childhood days was interested in art & craft .Started blogging in 2016 to share my passion towards art and photography what I always wanted to do apart from monotonous stressful work. I don't do any particular style of art or photography but like to experiment new and different techniques.I have done quilling, jewelry making,paintings,card making,clay miniatures and crafts from waste materials. I’m happy and honored to be on IQCG design team with so many talented and inspiring ladies.

You can find more about me here:

YouTube: youtube.com/artconquers

Blog: artconquers.blogspot.com

FB: facebook.com/artconquers

Pinterest: pinterest.com/artconquers

Instagram: instagram.com/artconquers

I am a self taught quilling artist who is into other forms of mixed media art also. My facebook page Krafteemee showcases my art.

FB Page - https://www.facebook.com/Shwetasonu76/

I am Subha based in Toronto, Canada.  Crafting is not just my profession but my passion right from childhood. My strengths are working on customized designs, taking up challenging work, willingness to experiment new/out of the box ideas, eye for perfection in conceptual design process.
My expertise includes Quilling, Thread and gemstone Jewellery, handmade gifts,home decor and paper crafts.  Love crafting forever❤️

http://svhandmades.blogspot.com
https://www.facebook.com/YesVeeHandmades/


Hearty Welcome teammates and excited to travel along with you all in 2019.

Make sure to click through to their blogs /FB page and tell them congrats and see their amazing work.

 Join our Challenges beginning from February 1st.

Thank you for spending your time with us today!