Monday 3 October 2011

A gilded butterfly

I've been experimenting with metallic-edged quilling strips again. The wings of this new butterfly are made from 3mm black strips edged with gold - the effect reminds me a little of gilded wrought iron work. To be honest, these wings evolved 'by accident' as I played around with making asymmetric huskings between my fingers and twisted the end loops (still one of my all-time favourite current techniques!)  I put two of the huskings together, added a few extra marquises and swirls - and my mind just said "butterfly"!! So here's my latest butterfly on a card for the market ... who knows what new ideas tomorrow may bring?



12 comments:

  1. Нещата ,които правиш са много оригинални и ми харесват!Поздрави!

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  2. You have a beautiful butterfly and the metallic is so nicely!
    Greetings Baukje

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  3. its gorgeous, love the type of paper you used!!!
    Paula

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  4. that is one beautiful accident.

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  5. Cool butterfly! Love the experiments with color!

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  6. Very pretty,I like the paper too!

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  7. Lovely....metallic strips add much more beauty to the butterfly..

    Sathya
    (sathyapapercrafts.blogspot.com)

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  8. Lovely butterfly! Love the curls and the paper! A magic butterfly, I would say:)

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