Bookmarks and flowers

I am very happy! The card I made for  the 10th challenge on Take a Quill Pill is the winner of the month, together with Nimisha's card! It was a great surprise for me! You should check the new challenge, it's a very good one. For me will be for sure a challenge :) And the Design Team made great projects for inspiration!

This weekend I planned to make a few cards, but finally I ended up making bookmarks for my dear ones :) I used for inspiration Lin's bookmarks.

And I wanted to show you a beautiful cactus about a few weeks ago, but I forgot about it. Ooops :) A few details about this kind of cactus you can find on Ileana's blog.

And a Pelargonium Peltatum. 

 Wish you all a wonderful and very creative week!

Fluturi

Câte o rază de soare din când în când, puţin mai cald, fără ploaie, dar tot cu cer nehotărât între albastru cu nori sau fără. Vreme numai bună pentru fluturi! Şi gărgăriţe!

 Tutorial pentru fluturele cu aripi inimioară găsiţi pe Take a Quill Pill

Toţi au fost prinşi pe beţişoare pentru a fi puşi la flori, doar că nu am mai avut timp să îi imortalizez şi în varianta finală.

Lumină, soare şi flori

Cam asta  mi-aş dori eu azi, într-o zi rece şi întunecată, care nu pare deloc o zi de vară!

Dacă şi pe acolo pe unde sunteţi e la fel, aş dori să va aduc o rază de soare cu următorul proiect quilling.

Modelul pentru florile galben cu alb este luat din cartea Art of Paper Quilling: Designing Handcrafted Gifts and Cards, autoare Claire Sun-Ok Choi, carte pe care am cumpărat-o  de curând de  pe www.bookdepository.co.uk.
Aranjamentul floral este făcut pe un CD vechi, pe care am lipit un carton mai deosebit. Am şi o schiţă în creion pe care am făcut-o înainte de a lipi florile. Da, încep şi eu să fac schiţe dacă tot am trecut la ceva mai  "elaborat" :) Încă nu mă simt suficient de sigură pe mine pentru a suprapune florile. Poate data viitoare.

Hana no kusudama

Un model origami Hana no kusudama, autor Mariko Kubo. Fotodiagramă pentru flori, iar pentru frunze, respectiv crin găsiţi un tutorial aici. Eu am folosit ca bază de prindere o Electra, autor David Mitchell pentru că nu mă prea împac cu acul şi aţa :)

Pentru acest model am folosit pătrate cu latura de 7,5 cm; 7 cm; 6,5 cm pentru flori, iar pentru crin pătrate cu latura de 8,5 cm. Mijlocul florii l-am obţinut dintr-un pătrat cu latura de 2,5 cm. Pentru Electra pătratele au avut latura de 5cm.

Me, happy!!!

I had such beautiful surprises these days from my dear blogger friends! I received two awards! It was a big surprise for me and I received them with a lot of emotion! Mean a lot to me to know that what I fold or roll from paper brings special feelings in the souls of those who visit my blog and that they like what they see here!

I would like to thank Dr. Sonya and Helen for The Irresistibly Sweet Blog Award!

The rules for the Irresistibly Sweet Blog Award :

1. Send a thank you to the person who nominated you and include their link.

2. To accept this award, answer 7 random facts about yourself.

3. Pass the award to at least 8 other blog buddies.

 I will pass this award with love and pleasure to:

 Carmen: http://carmens-handmade.blogspot.com/

Isa: http://diagramascia.blogspot.com/

Elena: http://quillingprojects.blogspot.com/

Marcelo: http://mhkono.blogspot.com/

Marchie: http://thecraftybutton.blogspot.com/

Carla:http://entrevalesemontanhas-origami.blogspot.com/

Danielle: http://origamiartequedobravida.blogspot.com/

Mandy: http://craftyfoxcards.blogspot.com/

 And many thanks to Mihaela for A thing of Beauty Award!

The rules for the A Thing of Beauty Award: 

1. You must share 5 things about yourself  (1 of the listed items must be something about crafting)

2.  Pass the award to 5 other blogs.

Cheryl: http://cardsbycheryl.blogspot.com/
Paula: http://chillinwithquillin.blogspot.com/
Philippa: http://quilliance.blogspot.com/
Helen: http://helenmade.blogspot.com/
Nagela: http://artesdenagela.blogspot.com/
Asma' Ahmad Bahari: http://simplerhyme.blogspot.com/ 
Larisa Ana: http://quillingskazka.blogspot.com/
Sughanti: http://papercraftss.blogspot.com/
Manuk: http://manuk.ro/en/

One of the rules for these awards is to say something about yourself. But I will change it a little and I will tell you how my blogger journey started :)

Because I like a lot to read I thought that would be a good idea to have a blog where to write a few words about the books I read and especially about those I loved reading. In the same time a quote from one of them or a poem. So this was the start!

But I loved origami models as well, though never had the courrage to try to fold one. Until the fall of 2009  when I discovered the Romanian Origami Forum with so nice people, so willing to help, to give advises. Since then all my spare time, when I wasn't reading :), I spent folding paper. 

In January this year I wanted a special gift for my mother and my cousin Alina proposed me a quilled daisy. It turned out so beautiful that I thought "Why not try more quilled models?" In this way I entered another beautiful art of using paper, quilling!

I want to say that I am very happy that I started to post my models on the blog, to share with others! In this way I became part of another magic world. This time not through the printed words, but using the hands and paper. I had the occasion to find so amazing projects and so beautiful souls all over the world!

Thank you my dear blog friends for your visit, comments and encouragement! Means a lot for me!

Wish you beautiful days and time for your favourite craft projects!