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.

 

2023 Ms. Rabbit Ms. Rabbit was was a fun Easter project. I painted a canvas background VERY pink.
Ms. Rabbit's head
Her eye is very dimenstional being a domed tight oval.
Bob's frame and her tail
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.
Vicki Chastain
inspired by Vicki Chastain's rabbit 
     
2022 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 Erin Perkins Curet
The start
It is a start. Painted canvas, outline frame, and lots of tight rolls.
tight rolls
Made on my needle tool.
short strips
2 very short strips are glued together and then rolled.
progress
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. sunflower
more sunflowers Left:  This photo shows all three types of my sunflowers.

Right:  The background has been filled in. Solid in the yellow area and airy in the sky.

all done
finished 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. Right, not the same.

My canvas is 11" x 14".
Erin Perkins Curet
     
2020 flowers
flowers on a chalked canvas
closeup
link leads to a butterfly closeup
quilled mandala 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 backing is a piece of thick handmade paper.
quilled flowers 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.  
Easter picture
A butterfly added.
Much better!
Finley's dolphin
Baby picture for Jamie and Brian's little girl, Finley Grace.
inside of frame 
I painted the inside of the shadow box frame. What a difference.
Home Sweet Home 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.
home sweet home pattern
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.
Quilled Home Sweet Home
in a 11x14" deep frame with glass
Quilled Home Sweet Home close-up
painted canvas-wrapped hardboard
Quilled Home Sweet Home close-up
1/4" wide strips
     
Fantasy flower picture
The 2020 Quill-A-Long project from Little Circles (Erin Curet).
Fantasy flowers
A mosaic picture of 2 styles of fantasy flowers. It is an 8x10 picture.
fantasy flowers
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. quilled Russian doll 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.
quilled Russian doll closeup  quilled Russian doll closeup  quilled Russian doll closeup
     
2019    
heart heart picture closeup
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.
heart picture
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 in the unpainted frame Bob made for me, plus the final photo with the frame painted a dark green and under glass. gecko painted background
quilling in progress unfinished frame finished gecko
Quilled sea turtle I achieved accreditation this year from the North American Quilling Guild. This has been a goal for several years. I am in the process of adding a web page with an explanation of what this means and entails. I will add a link when that page is finished. To the left is the second part of my work, an original piece containing the required shapes. Yea to me! I did it!  
     
2018    
Sunbeams
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 Mercer Stacey's sunshine
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.
Mr. Cat
in his frame
Mr. Cat sans frame
unframed
2017 
   
Quilled sealife picture quilled sea life picture 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.
quilled picture being worked on!
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.
quilled picture being worked on!

Smooth off the rough edges.
success

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. Arno and his sealife   Arno's sealife
  Quilled Easter bunnies 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. quilled Year of the Snake  
quilled Year of the Rat
Framed, ready for Arno.
quilled Year of the Rat
unframed
quilled Year of the Rat
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.

quilled Mandala. Work in Progress quilled Mandala close-up
quilled Mandala finished
label  
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.  start of a Heart Tree  Heart Tree
     
2016    
Arden's quilled beetle Arden's Beetle. One for my grandson Arden and one for me. The link to the project. quilled beetle
     
2015    
Quilled kite fliers
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!  quilled kite picture 
     

Jamie and Brian got married! I thought they would like their invitation put into a frame with some quilling highlighting it. The results: Quilled wedding invitation
Jamie and Brian's wedding invitation with quilling quilled wedding invitation quilled details
     
This was my entry for the North American Quilling Guild Convention 2016, framed category, intermediate level. No, I did not place. Competition is stiff and this was my first convention. I learned so much. This was my first attempt at a framed picture. I was very happy with the orange flowers. quilled orange flowers quilled orange flowers close-up

 

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