IMAGINE- Typographical quilling project- 7th International order...

I have been doing name plaques for over 2 yrs now...But when I got this call from New Jersey I was in  for a surprise as this was not a order for a name plaque but an order for a personalized quilled plaque with the word IMAGINE to be quilled...
I knew I could do it, but figuring out how to do it was the actual challenge. IMAGINE- the word has wide array of possibilities, so I started jotting down random ideas that came to my mind in my book. After a lot of thought I narrowed it down to a single idea, then started the making of the quilled Imagine :)


This will be a picture loaded post showing you the various steps of the quilled piece in the making...

1)The first step was selecting the font, printing it on thick paper and cutting the letters out using a cutter and then sticking the cut letters onto the base sheet I chose. I deliberately chose grey as the base.

2)The second step was to do the outlining of the letters. I chose to do it with white. This took me 45 mins to finish.

3) Then I started to fill each letter Up..This is beehive technique but a bit modified version...

As the customer while ordering clearly mentioned that he wanted it to be colourful... I chose do it this way... Went from dark Violet to red colour... Not the Rainbow colours exactly but somewhat similar....thus this is the finished Imagine... Now it was time to work around the piece.

So I added felt clouds and stars and the quilled moon which I again used modified beehive to fill up.

after adding the felt clouds I again went around them using white paper strips to give a raised effect. This was the first project where I tried to integrate felt into the project and I am happy with the way it has turned out. As they say you can't be sure of something till you have tried it. So here goes a trial that turned out to be a good one. :) 

Here's the close up for the moon and stars :)

Then I decided to add a few flowers, so used basic shapes in quilling to make the flowers and added 

co-ordinated rhinestones to the flowers and the leaf scrolls.

Another angle of the flowers!!!

 The completed product. i really like how all the elements fell into place.

 Angled shots of the completed products

I comepleted this project in 30hrs!!!

This was my 7th international order. It went all the way to New Jersey. The customer is really happy with the results!!! Will post what the customer had to say about the plaques that were delivered in the next post as he ordered 2 plaques. :)

Entering this into 

Colour conceptions challenge- Anything but cards

BCG #49- Grown with love- used almost all the colours and for the garden elements used flowers and leaves!!

Pinque peacock chanllenges- #4 flowers- used quilling flowers