Thank You...For Being Patient With My Absence!

I know, I know, I've been missing for a long time now, but I have been on my Easter holiday for a week and the week that just ended was a rough one for me so...all in all I haven't been very communicative lately.
But enough with the talking, let's see some craft project! One of my dream craft items I truly wish to own one day are The Nestabilities from Spellbinders. One of the most helpful items for a crafter, from my point of view, and as I may guess, not only mine. But, if you lack what you wish for, you are liable to improvise. So, if you are in the same situation as me, with a pair of compasses and a pair of hobby scissors try to re-create one of the scallops from Spellbinders, like I did here.

The sentiment is written in Romanian and it means "Thank you a lot!" or "Thank you very much!" (you get the idea... :)   ) and it is made using glitter powder over my handwriting.
I hope that you'll like the card I'm showing you today and I promise I'll show you soon what I have been up to during my holiday. I am in a new phase of my crafting discoveries and experiments of which I am delighted. I don't intend to tell more now, but, because you are my friends, I will give you a hint: pencils! 
Well, hoping to see you soon,

Until next time,
Behave And Quill!

You're Sweet. Candy Sweet.

Tonight I share with you a delicious treat. No, it's not chocolate, muffin and not even sherbet, for it to be said. It's sweeter. And cuter :) At least so I think.
I've made this baby-blue - candy-pink combo almost by accident, but when I put them aside and said the names of the colors I realized how well they would work together.

And, of course, what would a nice treat like this be without a little sugary sparkle? So I sprinkled as much sparkling accents as I could...

As far as I know, the also sweet recipient of this card hasn't received it yet, but I was promised to be told I would get the feed-back as soon as possible. Until then, I'll be expecting yours, along with your comments and opinions! So, what do you think?

Bye for now,
Until next time,
Behave And Quill!

2 Cards Out Of My Comfort Zone

I know I haven't said much lately but I haven't worked much on my cards, as I've been ill and all, but yesterday I had my perfect Sunday, quilling 2 cards. Not these ones I am going to show you, but these I had in my folders for a while and only today did I manage to watermark them.

I hope you'll like them, although I must confess they are both not my style specifically. One because of the model ( the butterfly) and the other because of the colors. Anyway, I like the way they turned out and I'll be waiting for your sincere opinions.
As about posting new stuff, I promise I'll try to stay around more.

But,
Until next time,
Behave And Quill!

Lil' Gothic Inspiration

Last week I was asked to create a card in which at least one of the predominant color would be black. Not as unusual as you would expect from a card, but anyway a first-timer for me. As for the friend who asked me doing this, I think she was happy with it. What about you? What do you think? :)

I like the color combo and how all the violet shades blend together with the ultramarin narrow ribbon and bow. I think I'll keep in mind this pattern for future gothic-inspired cards.

Until next time,
Behave And Quill!

Little Floral Fantasy

It's very late ( or very early - depending on how you want to see the watch :)) ), but I didn't want to go to sleep without posting this card for you. As I already told you, I started to love ribbons more and more and I also like the contrasting colors layering. I am also so comfortable making these flowers, different sizes and shapes, but somehow all being able to blend it together. I feel that soon I'll want to quill something different, but until then...let's see this:)

Also, as you can see, I experimented a little with the idea of making a watermark on all of my cards, with the initials of the blog: "Happy Quilling". Any thoughts about it?
I'll wait for your opinions and also suggestions for what should I quill further. I have some ideas of my own, but I would always love to hear fresh ideas from you!
But, as you know by now,
Until next time,
Behave And Quill!

My Custom Agenda

Because last time I showed you a project that implied a little more work than what I had posted before, I wanted to stay in this "hard-labour" area and show you my 2011 agenda which I sooo love :D
When I bought it, I knew it was very beautiful already, but I knew in that very moment that I wanted to add some quilling on/in it. I got drawn by the beautiful silver pattern and also by the deep-ocean-inspired blue cover. Because it was more of a notebook and less an agenda, I decided it needed a "glowy" 2011 on the first page, so I made one.
The quilling itself is essentially nothing complicated, just basic coils shaped to create sort of a swirly pattern.
Here's what came out:

Because I told you I wanted the numbers to be glowy, I filled them up with navy blue glitter, using the best technique I've seen so far, on Cathe Holden's blog - JSIM (one of the first blogs I've discovered when I started enjoying crafting and one of my favourites - although Cathe doesn't do quilling, but graphics - and she's GREAT at it!) and which you can find HERE.
Before discovering her post, I was quite afraid of the glitter - or better said of using it -  (don't laugh, I really was, because I never knew how to put it, how much, when, why and, most important how can I not disperse it all over the place).
What I basically learnt when I saw her glitter paperworks is that you better use bottled glitter, like that you can see in the pictures there, and NOT those glue pens containing glitter, because this way you can apply a nice even coat of glitter on the pre-applied adhesive you use, let it dry and take out the excess. I can assure you the results are exactly as you can see them in Cathe's post (I obtained a comparable result starting the first time I used bottled dry glitter). The pens, which I don't recomend, contain too much adhesive and little glitter, dry very slow (at least those I tried did) and the final results aren't satisfactory at all.
Well, hope this was both nice and helpful to you and I'll be waiting for your comments and impressions.
But,
Until next time,
Behave And Quill!