Just recently, my kids have started getting into cloud-watching. It took them a little while to understand what in the world I was talking about. But now, they can lie in the grass and stare up at the clouds for quite a while. Even when they’re riding in the car, they’ll look out the window and ask if I can see the dragon, eggplant, bicycle-riding elephant, or whatever it is that they’re seeing in the sky. All this cloud stuff got…
This weeks project is a doozy! For something so small, these sure took a long time and loads of paper! Now, I hope I’m not turning anyone away already. Bear with me! I think the result is pretty adorable. This week, follow me as I make a quilling paper hydrangea topiary! This post contains affiliate links. If you click on the links below and make a purchase I may receive a small compensation to help me finance this site and keep coming up with…
Sometimes, my quilling tutorials come together in a few days. Others can be a long time in the making. This week’s project falls into the second category. Today, I’m sharing a red, white, and blue quilling comb star wreath that has been on my radar for a few months. This post contains affiliate links. If you click on the links below and make a purchase I may receive a small compensation to help me finance this site and keep coming up with awesome tutorials…
After Mr. Craftery and I got married in 2009, we moved into a large townhouse in our town. It was a perfectly nice home and we stayed for a number of years until we had our children and started running out of room. One of my favorite things about that house was that every summer, dragonflies would appear from nowhere and buzz all around. I guess it was because our house backed up to a small forest. But the sight of…
You never know when inspiration is going to strike. I had a lightning moment a few weeks ago while watching HGTV. Whatever show it was had a quick scene where it panned across a revamped room, and Bam! For a split second, I caught a glimpse of an abstracted leaf print and I immediately had an idea of something similar I could make out of quilling paper. I’ve been trying to figure out some sort of artwork for our powder room since we moved into…
Quilling paper can do some pretty amazing things. It can be rolled and pinched and molded and squeezed into shape. But, thin tubes aren’t the most obvious shapes to make out of something so long and flat. This is where the lesser seen practice of making spirals can come in handy. So, this week I’m sharing a quick tutorial on how to make quilling paper spirals. This post contains affiliate links. If you click on the links below and make a purchase,…
If you read my blog last week, you heard that life has been a little crazy-town lately. The good news is that things have settled down a hair, and the family and I are starting to get back to our regular routines. I still have a little catching up to do, but I couldn’t let another week go by without a new quilling tutorial, no matter how small it is. I’m sharing my tutorial for a fun way to make…
It has been one very wet spring so far, here in Delaware. Our backyard is so soggy, it reminds me of a swamp. And swamps remind me of frogs. And frogs remind me of the lily pad and water lily post I’ve been wanting to work on. So, while I was waiting for our backyard to dry out, I got busy rolling paper. And now I’m sharing a tutorial all about quilling paper water lilies! This post contains affiliate links. If you…
My mom began one of my favorite family traditions about 14 years ago. One Saturday afternoon in March, we all gather together at her house to enjoy what she’s dubbed the “Green Dinner”. To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, everyone wears green clothes and eat corned beef, shepherd’s pie, and turnips. The house is decorated and we all get Irish party favors. The kicker is that my sister and I contribute some green food or recipe to the meal. This seems simple enough.…
Right now, from where I’m sitting, I can see buds on the tree outside my window. Spring has (almost) sprung everyone! One of the most iconic spring celebrations on the East Coast is the cherry blossom festival in Washington, D.C. Even though D.C. is just a short drive for us, I’ve never actually made it there to see the trees in bloom. But this year, I’m bringing the festival to me and sharing some quilling paper cherry blossoms! This…