How to Say I Love You

Today is all about Love. I went to the AltaVista Babel Fish site and looked up how to say "I love you" in various languages. This is a nifty little site that will translate words or phrases from one language to another.

I then selected a neat font called Acadian and created the front of a Valentines card. I experimented a bit and ended with the following cards.

If you are interested in a copy of the "I Love You" template, just let me know.

Enjoy!

Quilling Calendar - A Project for Every Day

Now that the New Year is here have you thought about how you are going to find time to pick out patterns for all those cards you want to make for everyone this year? I have just the thing for you, why not buy the Quilling Pattern-A-Day 2007 calendar?



It is jam packed with free patterns for every day of the year. You don't have to worry about what kind of card to make for the holidays, there are season appropriate crafts throughout the year to help you with this process. If you are a scrapbooker looking for those neat embellishments to spruce up your page, this is for you. You can make your own and it will match your layout. This is perfect for anyone (you or friend of yours) who loves to make cards, scrapbooks, or has become addicted to any of the paper crafts. The possibilities you can find inside are endless.

Best of all, for one price you get the basic slotted quilling tool and all the paper strips you need to make every project in the calendar. If you are a teacher looking for ideas you have an entire years worth of ideas. Looking for something to do with the kids, quilling is an easy craft that everyone can do together.

Enjoy!
Copyright Antonella DeFalco

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Free Quilling Pattern - Flowers of Love

This beautiful quilled "Flowers of Love" Valentine heart is the perfect thing to add to your Valentines Day Card to your special someone.

All paper is 1/8 inch (.3 cm) wide unless otherwise noted.

Look for this pattern in the 2008 Accord Quilling-A-Day Calendar.






To make the heart shape do the following (please use the picture for placement):

• 14 - 3 in (7.62 cm) S-Scrolls – Arrange in heart shape.Tip: Draw, cut, or punch out heart shape and use as a pattern to get the heart shape.

Flowers:

• 7- 3 in (7.62 cm) Heart shaped coils – Arrange as shown

• 4 - 1 in (2.54 cm) Spirals – I have cut the 1/8 inch (.3cm) quilling strip in half, for a more delicate look.

Enjoy!
Copyright Antonella DeFalco

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Free Quilling Pattern - Lovey Dovey Birdhouse

Our free quilling pattern today is our "Lovey Dovey Birdhouse"

This is done in a very perky Spring-like design and is done in a style that I like to call "adornment quilling". Adornment quilling on this project refers to the fact that I have added quilling to my paper pieced birdhouse embellishment.

If you are new to quilling, please click to learn the basics of quilling and to learn to make the basic quilled shapes that are assumed you know how to do in creating many of these designs.

I simply cut a 1.5 inch x 2 inch yellow rectangle and added a pretty pink roof. For added design, I added a strip of pink in the center to make this a 2 story birdhouse. I glued these elements in place before I added the quilling.

Starting at the roof-top and working our way down, this is what I've done.

Roof:

• 3 - 3 inch (7.62 cm) teardrops
• 1 - 3 inch (7.62 cm) tight coil
• 2 - 3 inch (7.62 cm) loose coil (like a quotation mark)

Second Floor:

• 2 - 3 inch (7.62 cm) open hearts
• 1 - 3 inch (7.62 cm) tight coil
  

Middle Level:

• 2 - 3 inch (7.62 cm) S-Scrolls
  

First Floor:

• 2 - 3 inch (7.62 cm) open hearts
• 1 - 3 inch (7.62 cm) tight coil
  

Add this to your Valentines Day card for a special child or loved one. If you are a scrapbooker, this is a perfect embellishment for your page. The great part about all of this is that it isn't too bulky so it won't make your page too lumpy.

Enjoy!
Copyright Antonella DeFalco

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