Paper and Other Fine Arts
This Paper Quilled Scrollwork Hearse was commissioned as a gift for a Mortician-in-Training. I was really excited to create this; my only regret being that I didn’t have more time to enhance the design. I could definitely see how lovely this would have been with …
I might be wrong, but I don’t think I’ve ever made an actual Christmas themed quilling before. Maybe that’s why when my customer changed her mind from a Scrollwork Red Fox to a Quilled Snowman Scene, I was actually kind of glad! Not only did …
This Quilled TMNT Tribute Collage started out as a monogram request, but once I started brainstorming for design ideas, I realized that it would be better as a tribute collage than monogram. In case you’re not as old as I am, TMNT stands for “Teenage …
I don’t recall ever crying about the death of any other public figure. But, when I saw the news on Twitter this past weekend, I was absolutely crushed. I shed more than a few tears for this remarkable woman and when I was feeling empty …
Have you ever quilled something so large that you can barely get a single photo of the entire thing? In July of 2017 I did. And I can honestly say that it was one of the most momentous projects in my entire life. The Quilled …
This was actually the second paper quilled heart stethoscope I made at the end of 2016. I guess it was graduation time for nurses and two people reached out to me to make the favorite nurse in their life a piece of artwork commemorating it. …
This paper quilled nursing collage was the first time I’d really attempted to incorporate multiple design pieces into a single “collage” piece. In this case it’s three different components: a heart stethoscope, an EKG graph, and a nursing cap. Techniques The three different design elements …