Card Designs

As I mentioned before, my designs are original, and made entirely from scratch, and by hand. I do use some cutting tools, but they aren’t automated. I do not have machines that can take a sheet of paper and output the design I want, nor would I want to. I enjoy making my cards slowly, carefully, measuring and cutting the paper, then molding it and gluing it in place to yield the three-dimensional textures you will see if you buy my cards.

Here are a few samples of the the design textures on my greeting cards. What you see below is a macro photograph of one of the red flowers on Card #40. As you can see, the petals are made of thin strips of paper laid vertically on the card and molded and bent by hand. Same with the central tiny pistils. They are cut by hand out of little strips and glued into a stem-like shape.

Card 40: Detail of red flower

The same attention to detail can be seen in a similarly-designed flower from Card #44.

Card 44: Detail of yellow flower

One of my cards (#45) is made to announce the birth of a baby boy. I designed a teddy bear and embossed a little square patch of paper with the words “It’s a boy”. Both can be seen below.

Card 45: Teddy bear detail

Card 45: Embossing detail

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7 comentarii pe “Card Designs”

  1. iulia
    iunie 1, 2010 la 15:31 #

    mi-au placut ffffffffffffffffffffffff mult pozele .

    • fruja oana alexandra
      aprilie 6, 2012 la 18:02 #

      super tare

  2. afrodita
    iulie 30, 2011 la 00:10 #

    felicitari sunt frumoase si interesante.

  3. cami
    februarie 5, 2012 la 15:55 #

    Ligia, cand ai timp sa faci toate acestea: sa cresti vlastari, sa incerci tot felul de retete, sa ni le spui si nou, carduri si multe altele. Cred ca iti ia mult timp sa mananci sanatos. Eu de doua zile ma plimb pe blogul tau .Imi place.

    • februarie 5, 2012 la 16:00 #

      Cami, am renuntat de mult la quilling fiindca nu mai am timp deloc. Organizarea celor doua editii anuale ale targului Raw Generation de la Bucuresti imi ia tot timpul liber si printre mai scriu o postare, mai inventez o reteta noua. Ma bucur ca ti-a fost pe plac continutul acestui site si te mai astept.

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  1. Seems quiet, but it's not « Raoul Pop - ianuarie 29, 2010

    [...] Ligia has been working on her own line of greeting cards since January. She makes them by hand, from scratch, using only sheets and strips of paper and glue as her materials. Having seen her do the work, right here beside me, I can tell you it’s painstaking, slow and hard. I fear for her eyes if she keeps going like this. All that meticulous work is bound to have an effect. It takes her about a half hour to 45 minutes to craft a single card. It’s hard to understand why it takes that long until you sit there and watch her at work. You can’t argue with the results though. They’re beautiful. [...]

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