Nature's Beauty Challenge - Dazzling Delight

Dazzling Delight delights us with her quilled designs! Dazzling's designs are often dainty and graceful. She does especially well with 3D figures - all twirled with paper! Her entry to the Papertwirlies' Team Challenge, "Nature's Beauty" is along the graceful lines:

This is an amazing way to create a lasting treasure for the new couple! Dazzling Delight says, "I love flowers! They cheer me up and just make me so happy!" Weddings are happy occasions so this tribute to nature suits this kind of event perfectly!

About Dazzling Delight:
I am obsessed with paper! It might be an unhealthy obsession....but it just makes me happy! I think the best gifts I ever receive are giant packets of paper! The possibilities are endless. Tis the season for weddings....I just celebrated my 7th wedding anniversary with my hubby! I love quilling wedding invitations...I think it's my favorite quilling to do (although I never quilled my own wedding invitation!!) It's my go-to gift whenever I get invited to a wedding. It's completely one-of-a-kind!!

Dazzling Delight has a Bachelors degree in Studio Art and her very favorite medium to work with is paper. She was introduced to paper quilling around the age of 13 and has been fascinated ever since!

To get some of her quilled wonders for your own, visit Dazzling Delight on Etsy!

The Etsy Paper Twirlies Team enjoyed being inspired by nature for this challenge. We hope we have shown you how well nature can be reproduced on paper - twirled paper, that is!

Nature's Beauty Challenge: Quilly Nilly

Quilly Nilly designs fun and fresh quilled treasures. All her handcrafted quilled items have a light and whimsical feel. Here is her entry to the Papertwirlies' Team Challenge, "Nature's Beauty":


This quilled container proudly displays Nature's Beauty in the form of a paper quilled bee pollenating a flower so that many more flowers will grow one day! The little box took a total of 44 (!!) strips and the bee is a Quilly Nilly first.

About Quilly Nilly:
I concept, sketch, quill and create every item in my shop, so you are guaranteed to find unique, creative, intricate, one of a kind quilled delights.

Here's how you can see more of Quilly Nilly's fantastic paper art:
Shop Quilly Nilly on Etsy
Follow Quilly Nilly's Blog

I hope you enjoyed this challenge entry! I know the Papertwirlies did!

Nature's Beauty Challenge - Ensorcelled Minds

May Papertwirlies Team Challenge - Ensorcelled Minds

Over the next few weeks we will be featuring the creative solutions from the Paper Twirlies team for our "Nature's Beauty" challenge. This week please take a look at Ensorcelled Minds' clever note pad holder.

Tell us how your item fits the theme: "Nature's Beauty"

Doggies are part of the animal kingdom, which is all natural! Plus I used earthy browns with the main colour being a dark, java bean brown.

I make greeting cards because I think keeping in touch in a physical form has greater sentiment than the digital form. People are tactile and a message they can hold in their hands is innately more memorable.

I decided to make these note pad holders because I am the Sticky Note Queen! I leave them in plain sight to ensure I remember things. You'll find them stuck to: the range over the stove, the computer monitor, my pillow... you name it! For all the people like me who are "note-to-self memory challenged", this is for you!

To view her shop and other lovely and original quilled goodies please follow the link below

http://www.etsy.com/shop/EnsorcelledMinds

March Papertwirlies Team Challenge - Cocos Creations

Throughout the month of March we will be featuring the creative solutions from the Paper Twirlies team for our "Best Dressed" challenge. This week please take a look at Cocos Creations' fabulous cupcake toppers.

Tell us how your item fits the theme: Best "Dressed"

Dress up those summer cupcakes with these "summer beach" themed cupcake toppers!

I have been quilling for maybe 3 years now. I love custom orders. I have two kids and this is my relax time. It may not seem to be a relaxing "hobby", but it gets my mind going into a different mindset.

To view her shop and other fabulous quilled goodies please follow the link below

http://www.etsy.com/shop/cocoscreations

March Papertwirlies Team Challenge - Quilly Nilly

Throughout the month of March we will be featuring the creative solutions from the Paper Twirlies team for our "Best Dressed" challenge. This week please take a look at Quilly Nilly's pretty floral name cards.

Tell us how your item fits the theme: Best "Dressed"

Recently I created a list of items I'd like to create and get up in my shop, name cards just happened to on my list - I had created one set for the fall awhile back and really enjoyed working on them. I love the idea of walking into a party/dinner and looking to see where I'm seated, like a game or surprise. This months PaperTwirlies Team challenge was perfect - it gave me an excuse to get working on some name cards. Who wouldn't love to see their name on these pretties!

I have always been artistic, drawing on whatever paper I could get my hands on - as I got older I still loved being creative; especially with paper. My biggest project as a pre-teen was a bunny house made completely out of paper. I made the bunny family of four and from that I just kept going till I had a house made out of a large box and all their accessories completely out of paper. I went to college for graphic design, worked for a company designing kids Valentine's, gift bags, gift wrap and other paper items and I now work for a company involved with paper. It's an obsession.

I started quilling almost 6 years ago and would love to be able to do it full time. I sell my stuff on the web a at www.quillynilly.etsy.com and here in town at a shop called Handmade Creativity (Bartlett, Tn). I love looking at something and trying to solve it by creating it in paper. I'm whimsical and fun and that tends to follow through in my creations.

To view or purchase these pretty floral name cards please visit the link below

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=41691112

March Papertwirlies Team Challenge - Dazzling Delight

Throughout the month of March we will be featuring the creative solutions from the Paper Twirlies team for our "Best Dressed" challenge. This week please take a look at Dazzling Delight's very pretty Quilled Flower Cupcake Toppers.

Tell us how your item fits the theme: Best "Dressed"

I've been up to my eyeballs in cake and cupcakes lately. I've been thinking, dreaming and brainstorming in cupcakes (mostly Batman theme for my boys birthdays last month). I LOVE CUPCAKES and I love to make them as pretty as possible. Unfortunately you can't make a Batman cupcake look "pretty". That's "just not cool, Mom." So, for Paper Twirlies, I set forth to make Quilled Flower Cupcake Toppers! The perfect little addition to give your cupcake a little something extra (just please don't put it on a Batman cupcake!)

My favorite medium to work with is paper! I love paper! I go crazy over paper! I discovered paper quilling (aka paper fillagre) when I was about 13 years old and my great-aunt (who is a nun) paper quilled my brother's high school graduation announcement. I was fascinated, so I ran to the library (no internet back then people!) and got out every book I could about paper quilling and I have been obsessed ever since!

To view or purchase this lovely floral cupcake topper set please visit the link below

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=40651391

March Papertwirlies Team Challenge

The latest Paper Twirlies team challenge is to make something that dresses up something else or that adds a finishing touch. Any kind of decorative container or wrapper fits the bill, like boxes, lollipop covers, bag toppers, muffin picks, book or journal covers, picture frames, anything!

Throughout the month of March we will be featuring the creative solutions from the Paper Twirlies team for this challenge. This week please take a look at EnsorcelledMinds lovely card case with quilled embellishment.

1. Tell us how your item fits the theme: Best "Dressed"

I put my quilling on a card case to package up a set of cards. This way, the case can be refilled as cards are used and the quilling can be enjoyed for longer!

To be ensorcelled means to be hypnotized by means of sorcery. That's exactly what I am when I'm in my studio creating! I make greeting cards because I think keeping in touch in a physical form has greater sentiment than the digital form. People are tactile and a message they can hold in their hands is innately more memorable.

Our cards use clean lines and minimal frou fou! They offer dimension without mailing bulk by the techniques we use. We use only archival quality papers because, when you want to stand out, only the best will do.

To view or purchase this beautiful card set with quilled embellished case please visit the link below

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=40221709

Welcome 2010!

It's a new year and while the holiday's were definitely busy for all of us, we're back and excited to be quilling again. As the weeks go by please check back to see what new ideas and projects we have in the works; I think this will be an exciting year for us as a team, we're still trying to stay connected and learn what works and what doesn't and while we may still be a fairly new team we're a very talented bunch and I look forward to 2010 and all we have to create.