Saturday 7 January 2012

Swirls and twirls

Having sorted out a couple of new card designs for men in my last post, I've now returned to my 'feminine side' once again!

This design begins with a simple grey background square (bordered with green), on to which I have glued two red cut-outs which I created using one of my newly-acquired Cuttlebug dies. (I love the way these swirly patterns seem to complement quilled shapes and coils so well.)

The centre piece is a thick diamond-shaped ring coil which I have filled up with a random two-tone 'beehive' pattern. Still thinking diamonds, I then decided to add a pair of tiny purple vortex coils to the edges of the cut-out shape above, before putting in a couple of extra pieces of quilled filigree just to balance the design.

This card features my all-time favourite colour combination: purple, red and bright lime green. I don't know why these colours work so well together, but they do!




10 comments:

  1. Great design, I like the shapes!

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  2. love the diamoned shape ring coil and the colors do go well together, very nice design,I have troubles figuring what colors go well together, thanks to Hubby he helps me on that ,he's pretty good at it, I think anyway!
    Paula

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  3. What a neat design - I love the way you curled the center! I agree, not my first choice for color combination, but they look so pretty together!
    Hugs,
    Antonella :-)

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  4. Love the backround....Its just a perfect take....

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  5. I always come here for words. I'm so special that makes you beautiful! again!
    Greetings Baukje

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  6. Very pretty. Are you going to try this technique with a wall hanging?

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  7. Another lovely and unusual design, Philippa! Meg Crawford ~ Polly & Meg's Treasures

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  8. great design. You never fail to impress with your creativity

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  9. A very lovely and elegant card! And indeed feels that those swirls were specially designed for quilled shapes! Love the colors combination!

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  10. wonderful I love your work!
    Greetings Baukje

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