Charmayne's Quilling and Curly Cues: pictures

Charmayne's Quilling and Curly Cues

Pictures

Most of my quilling is 3D, snowflakes, angels, cards. Smaller projects. I also do more time-consuming things, bigger things like pictures. You will find more details about some of them in other sections of my web page, such as Arden's Beetle picture. Some are only shown here. Links will be given if another webpage is available. Most of those will have lots of explanations and construction tips.

Most of the small photos below link to larger ones, just click the photos.

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2024	A picture for my Granddaughter, Riley. The original design is by Daydreams (papercraftss.blogspot.com) with my small changes.
I made 2 fish pictures this year. One for my dear sister-in-law and her husband as they are avid fishermen. The second was for me as I LOVE this fish as he ponders safety over a tasty worm.	Hmmm Number 2	hook and worm
Hmmm Number 1	gold paint for his body and head	spacers painted to match canvas
close-up... look at the scales!!!	Below is an old kit from Artistry in Wood. It is called Quill-O-ett. I found it on eBay. I used my own paper in shades of blue and cardstock overlays, keeping the kit intact. The frame is 7 x 7. It is deep and made for the picture by Bob.	There are literally hundreds of tiny loose coils in different blues. Evening after evening I rolled them on a corsage pin. When my fingers got sore, I switched to a fine slotted tool which leaves a crimp but my fingers were SO sore! I used the tiny holes Bob drilled into scraps of plexi-glass to size the rolls for each layer.


2023	A sugar skull! Finished just in time for the Day of the Dead. As with most of my pictures, it is 11 x 14 inches.
	A poppy flower using Karen-Marie's easy technique. I stamped the leaves onto my canvas with green acrylic paint and a stamper. I quilled on top of the dried paint.
Ms. Rabbit was was a fun Easter project. I painted a canvas background VERY pink.		Her eye is quite dimensional being a domed tight oval.
Bob made the frame. It is deep as her tail is a very fluffy fringed flower. (The tail is made from printer paper.) The spacers inside the frame are about 1/2 high. I painted them to match the background to minimize the depth	.	My bunny was inspired by Vicki Chastain's rabbit. Thank you, Vicki.
2022	I made a picture for my grandson, Rhys for his 10th birthday, although it became a Christmas present when I did not get it finished in time. I had made Arno a "year of the rat" picture and I had my "year of the snake" picture. Rhys gets his "year of the dragon". I took a little artist license with the dragon, giving him wings which the Chinese dragon usually doesn't have.
		His dragon is in an 11 x 14" frame. This photo is without glass but Bob made the frame deep so I could add glass to keep the picture free of dust.

This was the year I made the Little Circle's 2021 Quill-A-Long. To the right is Erin's project the Quill-A-Long was based on. I am including some of my progress pictures and finally my finished picture. Her title for this project: Sunflowers 3 Ways	As so many quillers do, we miss Erin and her Quill-A-Longs. Best wishes in her new adventures.
It is a start. Painted canvas, outline frame, and lots of tight rolls.	Made on my needle tool.	2 very short strips are glued together and then rolled.
The centers have all their petals. And on to the next sunflower.	This is the second of the sunflowers. I need to have things evenly spaced so I used a polar grid. This one has 15 spokes plus rings to keep my spacing correct.
	Left: This photo shows all three types of my sunflowers. Right: The background has been filled in. Solid in the yellow area and airy blue scrolls in the sky.
	All done and ready to hang on the wall in one of Bob's custom frames. Thank you, Erin, for another great project. Mine is to the left, Erin's to the right. Correct, not the same at all. That is the intention of the projects she presents... My canvas is 11" x 14".

2020	I made a lot of framed pictures this year!	This was made as a replica of an antique quilled picture.
Flame Girl, 11 x 14 inches	flowers on a chalked canvas	link leads to a butterfly closeup
	This is my "Medallion Mandala" from Alli Bartkowski's book Quilled Mandalas. I followed her pattern quite exactly (not usual for me) except for the center dome. I used a recycled clock for my frame and there was not quite enough room vertically for the dome. I popped it back off and replaced it with a flat punched circle.	The background is a piece of thick handmade paper.
	This picture will require a deep frame as the flower centers stand quite high. The background is watercolor. I used watercolor paper and put it onto a backerboard for stiffness.
A butterfly added. Much better!	Baby picture for Jamie and Brian's little girl, Finley Grace.	I painted the inside of the shadow box frame. What a difference.
	When I was a child, my mother taught me to embroider and sew. She was a fantastic needlewoman, a master at counted cross stitch, needlepoint, quickpoint, candlewick, pure embroidery, all things with a needle, thread and canvas or fabric.	My first embroidery project was a little blue elephant hot pad. Yes, I still have it. This Home Sweet Home picture was my second project which we worked on together. Mom had it framed and it hangs in our home. I decided I could quill the picture using the original pattern.
in a 11x14" deep frame with glass	painted canvas-wrapped hardboard	1/4" wide strips

The 2020 Quill-A-Long project from Little Circles (Erin Curet).	A mosaic picture of 2 styles of fantasy flowers. It is an 8x10 picture.	Now filled in with quills and ready to frame. There are 2 widths of paper.

I worked on this picture for my accreditation for the North American Quilling Guild in 2019. The one I sent in, the sea turtle, is below. My little Russian doll was a labor of love as part of it is 1/16th wide paper, part is shiny paper (hard to glue), and swirls are hard. I figured out how to make a half fringed flower. Just a lot of hard techniques for me. And I could NOT figure out how to make her eyes look right. So I set it aside and started anew with the turtle. And now she is finished in 2020.		Below are close-ups of her. One is upside down so you can see the half fringed flower. After I got the eyes to work for me, I was still not happy and she sat in a corner where I could look at her. Months later, I figured out what was wrong. The green swirls at the top were added and so now she is framed in a shadow box.


2019
	This heart was made to try a technique of crimping and gluing a heart shape on top of a line. A video tutorial by The Paper Craftery is available on You Tube. I added the interior design. This is a big frame, about 16" square.
I enjoy my Year of the Snake picture and my Arden's Beetle and I have wanted a Gecko, too. This is a pretty common coloring page subject. To the right you can see part of the original picture I found and my painted board. I also took a photo when my gecko was nearly done plus two when the quilling was done. One is in the unpainted frame Bob made for me, plus the final photo with the frame painted a dark green and under glass.

The Sea Turtle	I achieved accreditation in 2019 from the North American Quilling Guild. This entails an original picture and a shape grid. Yea to me! I did it! The sea turtle, left, is my original picture. Click on him for a larger view.	These are shredded copy paper flowers. Look here for information.

2018
My sunbeams. (sorry for a horrible photo)	FaceBook brought me this picture. Jennifer Mercer Stacey (Quilling Fun) posted it and I thought it would brighten a wall on our gloomy winter days. I contacted her for permission, to put it on my webpage. I had made mine, just for my own enjoyment but then wanted to put it here. Permission needed. Jennifer told me it wasn't her picture. She had gotten permission from the original artist, Trisha Larson. I don't know how closely Jennifer followed the original coloring page. Trisha Larson's book, Abstract Doodles Book 1 was published in 2012. I need to find this book and quill a few more of her pictures.	Jennifer's sunshine picture
"My" cat, looking out a dark window at the snow falling. He is sitting on a window-seat watching the snow pile up on the ledge. The frame is 8 x 10". I used narrow strips for the snowflakes. The stars are paper painted with a silver Sharpie. The cat himself is done with paper cut from a child's storybook. The window mullions are multiple layers of 1/8" strips glued together.	in his frame	unframed
2017
		My granddaughters were born on the same day in 2010. We call them the twin cousins. This year I made both girls quilled pictures for their 8th birthday. Riley has a big stylized flower and Gwennie's is a sea life theme. I loved the sealife picture Arno had made. Gwen is our little Florida girl, living near the ocean and learning to surf in PE class. I used a pattern by Gunter Stave for the seahorse. The background is painted in a myriad of ocean colors, the rest is the magical, mysterious and marvelous under-the-sea environment where the seahorse plays.
Framing is a total mystery to me. Bob is constantly re-doing the frame, the mats, or my picture itself. Even after I tell him what size I want my backer boards cut to! I can't seem to get it right. This time, with Gwen's picture, he whacked off the edges of the hardboard. Yes, the quilling was all done. He now waits for me to hand him my finished piece before he starts the frame.	Smooth off the rough edges.	One of the edges that was removed.
Arno made a wonderful sealife picture one weekend while visiting us. He used a pre-printed background from a kit Gail sent me.
		Easter picture A little information on my Easter web page.
The "Year Of the ..." projects
First was my Year of the Snake. That is my Chinese Zodiac symbol. Arno liked it when he saw it and asked me for it. I suggested we find his Chinese Zodiac sign and when we discovered his is the rat, I made that for him. His sign has a wonderful set of attributes so he was OK with the switch.
Framed, ready for Arno.	unframed	side view, 1/8th inch paper

Embroidery Mandala For my framed entry in the North American Quilling Guild's 2017 convention, I made a Mandala. What is a Mandala? It is a geometric figure representing the universe in Hindu and Buddhist symbolism. Mandalas are a pretty popluar quilling theme. Alli Bartkowski has a nice book titled "Quilled Mandalas". I constructed mine on a polar grid to keep everything even. After I completed the quilling, I covered an embroidery hoop with Aida cloth and glued the Mandala to it. My entry took second place.
		Don't forget to put a label on the back!

The Heart Tree mosaic project was one I really enjoyed. Read about it here. I made two for my daughter-in-laws.

2016
	Arden's Beetle. One for my grandson Arden and one for me. The link to the project.

2015
Kite Flying	I happened across a strange frame while cleaning out closets a couple weeks ago. It is a scuffed up wood frame with several glass inserts. The glass plate in the back has white lines on it but is otherwise clear. Light comes through the frame. I also found an old roll of party streamers. One can only do so much closet cleaning at any given time, and I took a break to quill a kite picture. Each plate has quilling on it. The boy is standing on a hill on the rear plate with the little girl flying a diamond kite in the foreground. It was impossible to get a good photo of it, but perhaps you can get some perspective from my best two pictures. The streamers are bi-colored, 1/4 inch wide and not a bit archival! Update: in 2025, they are still looking good.

	Jamie and Brian got married! I thought they would like their invitation put into a frame with some quilling highlighting it. The results:


This was my entry for the North American Quilling Guild Convention 2016, framed category, intermediate level. No, I did not place but I learned so much. This was my first attempt at a framed picture. And my first NAQGCON.

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