Manifold meanderings into making
I have been blogging for awhile now. My posts are few and far between, as I labour over each of them. They are always marked by my latest work, big or small. Yesterday, I felt quite ebullient having moved my entire blog and web space here at WordPress. The work above hopefully encapsulates how I’m…
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My impromptu fantasy of an orchid today – this is definitely a “folly” flower as I’ve not seen these colours on a wild orchid before.Just quilled some shapes, put them together and hoped for the best.
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This is the other variation on the ‘oval’. This one was for a baby shower; hence, the blue story.
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I made this first card as the first theme and varied it for another. I shall be posting the next one. I seem to be loving ovals at the moment. It is a naturally aesthetic shape – formal, symmetrical. But I couldn’t help putting asymmetry inside the oval.The background is scrapbooking paper. I thought it…
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The weather seems to herald spring already. This year I wanted the folly flowers to be nocturnal. In Asia, there are flower species which bloom at night and are specially fragrant.So I thought why not use what’s left of my black linen-pressed-effect paper as the background for this tableau. For some reason, in the…
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This week has certainly been mad-card-making-week. I’ve created several cards for all the events crammed into one week. I’ve left my job last Friday and I thought I’d make a nice card for all the folks at work. I had such a laugh with all of them and I loved working there. But life has…
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It was my friend’s birthday last Friday. I made this card thinking about the colour green (she goes gaga over green) and the fact that she is a wonderful home-maker. I got quite a reaction. She says she’ll have it framed! I love it when the person likes my card. It creates a warm, gooey…
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This little creation was a birthday card. I had a few of these black thick paper (probably 300 gsm) with a linen press effect. I thought why not compose an Ikebana arrangement of flowers and make them pop out against the textured paper? Man, Heaven and Earth with a bit of poetic license.
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What’s in a name? A lot can be said about someone’s name. New parents sometimes will take aeons to decide, simply because a lot is at stake in naming one’s child. For this one particular girl, though, her name is synonymous to wisdom – such a wonderful choice for a name. SOPHIA. So for her,…
Read MoreI have long admired the craftsmanship that went into a Fabergé Egg. They are objets d’art loaded with contradiction. They epitomise a by-gone age that may never be repeated (and the world is all the better for it, if I may say so). At the same time, they are sublimely beautiful. They are the source…
Read MoreThese little baubles were made this year and were given as presents. They have a certain simplicity that I like. Sometimes, a minimalist approach can be effective.I wish I had more gold paint this year (I ran out). So this gold bauble is really special!
Read MoreIt’s Boxing Day and I am posting again! Apologies to my dear readers for such a long hiatus. To make up for it, here are my card designs this year. For the last three months or so, I have been busy with a new job (livelihood bit) and an heirloom quilt for a friend of…
Read MoreI have been a bit hooked into making these daisies lately after my previous big work. I decided to make some more for Johanna’s Hawaiian-themed birthday surprise. I also made a red lei for her, which she wore all night (I am proud to report)! The lei was a coup as I have not used…
Read MoreI thought I’d share this cute girlie card to greet mum and dad to be a big Congratulations on their little bundle of joy. I drew a bear on the reverse of this card and used a cutter knife to do the cut-out. I glued a purple bow, finished with a tightly quilled red coil.
Read MoreA small A5 size card for a girl called ‘Johanna’. I quilled a flower for her that best described her personality (I think) and the letters spelling out her name were made as ‘near-precise’ as I could. She is a very meticulous person so everything had to be right. When she saw this card, she…
Read MoreMy latest project is simply called “Sweet”, the name of a girl who turned 18 this month. This piece was commissioned as a birthday present for her by her aunt and uncle. The brief was to make a scene capturing flowers in a riot of colour. There are eighteen main flowers in this work, some…
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The Art of Jeff Ting 