This week a friend asked me to do a nice Wedding Acceptance Card for her. I haven't done one of these before! I decided to quill a large white butterfly with a couple of hearts. I added a little glitter gel on the butterfly.
Whilst we were catching up she also asked me if I would like to have a card stall at her school's PTA Ladies Night on February 27th - just in time for Mothers' Day. I always have some card stock at home but I'll need to make more! I'll let you know how I get on.
I needed an idea for last minute Christmas cards for the kids and my Mum. Origami was a new way to go. I did end up spending some time practising before I settled on a couple of designs which I thought I could make with small squares of paper. I used 9cm squares of paper for the santas and a 12cm square of paper for the dove. I used Christmas printed paper - looks nice but hard to fold especially when small.
The kids thought they were really cute! There are lots of websites for Christmas origami but the ones I eventually used were:
I also wanted an idea for an attractive way to give my eldest daughter some money. Again lots of websites filled with plenty of original ideas but we used this one because you can make them using any notes (so long they are all the same).
Also, many of the ideas use dollar bills - so use lots of notes! We made an origami star out of our British banknotes and presented in a CD case.
To top off our origami Christmas, we folded cloth napkins to make Christmas trees for our Christmas lunch.
Well, it's been forever since I posted anything........summer holidays. However, one thing I've really enjoyed doing yesterday was to make one of my personalised quilled cards.
The brief was 80th birthday for an auntie who was a teacher, plays piano and lovers her cats.
Ta-dah!
In case you're wondering the music on the piano should play Happy Birthday to You (right hand only) and each page is about one and a half centimetre square.
