3 ATC's and a Tag

Show Us Your Pussies (which is a cats only challenge blog) and its artistic director Ike have published their theme for the month - Floral Kitties. ATC's Mit Herz came up with Blumen (Flowers).
So here is my response to these two challenges:

The Male Room also have a floral theme with a twist - Make Flowers Masculine. In addition, ATC Around the world have published Anything Goes with Option use Newspaper.

And this is my response to these challenges:

Quilling newspaper is not much fun :)

The gorgeous Wicked Wednesday ATC's challenge this week is Rock & Roll! I have a couple doing the Lindy Hop.

And this is the tag I made for my Tag Tuesday blog, where this week's theme is At the Seaside.

Happy New Financial Year!

Our new financial year started on July 1st. That's when we do our tax returns. So let's raise a glass to a good refund and party on. Thanks to Wicked Wednesday's timely topic Christmas in July, I made this celebratory ATC. It's raining $100 notes, fah lah, lah, lah...

Moo Mania & More came up with Paris as this fortnight's topic. A while back, I won a prize and received this handmade tag along with the main prize. I wish I could remember which blog and which gorgeous crafter this came from. So no, I did not make this, just added the red-white-blue ribbons. Thank you, anonymous crafter, you're gorgeous and I am showing off your tag.

Seahorse

How beautiful is the seahorse! I was rapt when the Sea Creatures theme came up on Wicked Wednesday - a chance to quill a seahorse in yet another format. This ATC is the largest quilled seahorse I've done so far.
And just in time, the gorgeous Moo Mania & More have published their latest challenge - Water.
So I am linking this ATC to Moo Mania as well.

Done with gilt-edged strips

This is the seahorse I did for Moo Mania last year:

Smallest seahorse on Moo

And this is a seahorse tag I made earlier this year for TagTuesday:

Next size up on a tag. Done using gilt-edged strips - same as the ATC.

It's looking like I have a whole family now.

Birthday Girl

My mum was a birthday girl recently, so I am showing off the present I made for her - a single quilled rose inside a Jack Daniel's box:

For Wicked Wednesday Birthday Girl, I found this image on the internet.

And here is my tag for this week's Tag Tuesday theme Shabby Chic. My mum would like this one as well - she likes all this pink stuff (for me, making a tag in this style was torture).

I would also like to link up the rose and the tag to Moo Mania & More Floral challenge. I hope either one is suitable for the theme.

ATC and Tag

Found this image of the pink ribbon butterfly. Did a quilled version on a background of butterfly paper (don't know whether you can see them) for this week's theme on Wicked Wednesday - Ribbon Tags.

Also entering this piece into ATC's mit Herz Alles mit Flügeln (Things with Wings) challenge.


And for a change of topic, here is a tag I made for my Tag Tuesday blog, where this week's topic is Medieval.

Yoda and an Egg

What an ace theme - Star Wars, on Wicked Wednesday! My husband is a fan and he told me he wants to see Yoda.

And this is an iris folded tag I made for Tag Tuesday, where the theme is Eggs:

A Tag and an ATC

Here is the tag I made for my other blog - Tag Tuesday, where this week's theme is Shakespeare. I quilled a quill. As a nod to Shakespeare's talent with words, here is some word trivia for you:
Supposedly, back in the middle ages, French nuns ripped gilded edges off old prayer book pages and rolled them on a quill to create various shapes, emulating decorative ironwork. With these scrolls and shapes, they decorated covers of new prayer books. Hence we get the word "quilling" for this craft. Have a look here at some antique quilling.

Also have this ATC for:

• Wicked Wednesday  -  Baby, It's Cold Outside
• ATC Around the World  -  Anything Goes with Option Colourchallenge

This is how I wish it was outside here down under. Air conditioners rule!

Headshots & My Birthday!

An unusual topic on Wicked Wednesday this week  -  Head Shots.

Firstly, the most important "head shot" is mine, as today, February 3 is my birthday, and I take the cake (ha, ha, ha).

For Wicked Wednesday is coloured-in detail from Magritte's Son of Man painting. If you want some fun, check out this colouring-in site. I used Prismacolors on mine (my first time with these pencils).

And here is a tag I did for my other blog - Tag Tuesday, where this week's theme is Shadows/Reflections.