Monday 15 August 2011

Now you see it ... now you don't!

Last time I re-stocked on my quilling strips, I was tempted to include some graduated strips in my order. I've never used these before, but I wanted to give them a try. The strips I got are coloured darkest in the centre, gradually fading out to white at either end. This produces quite a gentle colour effect when you roll the strips, much more delicate than the bold solid colours that I normally use.

For this design, I decided to go back to a technique I began using quite a while ago:  mounting quilling on to a photographic background of quilling to achieve a layered effect. The background is a digital image of a quilled motif made using different shapes, printed in grey.  I did not want this to dominate the finished design, so I printed it on to my card at just 50% opacity, before adding my 'real' quilling on top. I think this balances the delicate shades of the graduated strips quite well - in fact, the effect is quite mysterious and almost ghostly!!

I used quite a few different techniques here, too: large, open 'P' coils, a 'royal' wheatear husking, and two pinched vortex coils with open centres - all made using the graduated strips.

I guess that's the most wonderful thing about quilling - there's ALWAYS something new to try!!




15 comments:

  1. Oh, Philippa, your work looks indeed mysterious! And I agree, there is always something new to try in this quilling field...

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  2. wow you really out did yourself on this one, really love this one!!!
    Paula

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  3. You always come out with something new and beautiful. I like it very much :)

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  4. your work always looks fantastic and you make such beautiful creations!
    Greetings Baukje

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  5. Philippa.
    I love the shadow effect of the background.
    Very nice!
    Hugs.

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  6. I love the effect you've achieved with this!

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  7. Very cool! I was thinking ghostly apparition before I even reached the part where you mentioned ghostly. There does seem to be a face lurking in the design!

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  8. Wow, it looks fabulous. I looked at the picture first and thought it was all quilling. I didn't realize it was a photo background until you mentioned it. It looks great

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  9. awe.................there's a feeling of misty, and a bit of fantasy...

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  10. I remember your older post too. This one is really eye catching and beautiful.

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  11. I love graduated coils especially for making eccentric coils. Your creation is striking
    Cheers
    Sonia
    http://cardsandschoolprojects.blogspot.com

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  12. Fascinating --and absolutely stunning!

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  13. inovative way to use quilling.Excellent work.Congratulations.

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  14. Thanks everyone for your very kind comments!

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