New year, new flower

Created this flower weeks ago, but only had the chance to post it today..

Now I present to you..The "Zig zag" flower..

I myself don't know whether we have a real flower that looks like this..But when I went to Miyyah's house and browsed through Jane Jenkins's book, I was inspired by some of her awesome techniques..I combined it with some of my ideas and that's how I came out with this flower..

The petals are made with layers of single strips to create the zig zag effect..Then, I use the tear drop coils to fill in all the gaps..

Sweet Leaves Blog Hop

I was extremely busy this week that I only realised the blog hop was two days to go when one of the Malaysian quillers, (Kak) Lin asked me about it. I love the theme - LEAVES! This theme fits the "2011 Environment Week" that will be held in our university in two weeks time.

For this project, I just used simple leaf techniques. My attention was to make the leaves as the main attraction and to spread the message - Love our greenery. Making cards require us to use a lot of papers, so I'll ensure that I make full use of everything. I keep all unwanted papers and send them to the recycling centre (Thanks to my mom for this habit)..It's the least I can do to help the mother earth..

Anyway, back to the real deal..There are 22 quillers from 6 different continents that participate in this blog hop..You can see all quillers in the list provided at the bottom of this entry..Then you can start hopping from one blog to another..This is what I came out with for this blog hop..

I made some modification to the picture frame and add some cardboards to create the effect..My apology for the reflection of myself on the mirror (Couldn't avoid that)..

The flower that I have here was made prior to the one that I had before..

I just had nothing for the background as I wanted the colour to pop out..

There are many layers involved..

Notice the stand for the small leaf? There's another one under the flower..That's the trick..

These two make good companions to the leaves..

Hope they look like leaves to you (>__<)

Thank you for hopping by here and also million thanks to Sandra for hosting this blog hop..Your next stop for this blog hop is "Daydreams" by Suganthi..She has shared a lot of information and techniques on quilling..What's best about her is she shares some techniques that only require you to use the things that you have around you (If you don't have the specific tools)..

Below is the full blog hop list..If you get lost along the way, or if someone doesn't have his or her project ready yet, you can always return here and get back on track:

THE HOSTESS

Sandy - http://sweetspotcards.blogspot.com/

AFRICAN QUILLER

Jacquline - http://cutekipepeo.blogspot.com

ASIAN QUILLERS

YOU ARE HERE! Syaz - http://syazcards.blogspot.com/

Suganthi - http://papercraftss.blogspot.com/

Anastasia - http://anastasiaw.blogspot.com/

Lin - http://azlina-lin.blogspot.com/

Thusitha - http://craftsimagery.blogspot.com/

Miez - http://miezam.blogspot.com/

Amna - http://alfardh.blogspot.com/

EUROPEAN QUILLERS

Cristina - http://cristina-funquilling.blogspot.com/

Suzana - http://quillingwithfun.blogspot.com/

Finnuala - http://quillingowo.blox.pl/html

Pritesh - http://quillingmesoftlee.blogspot.com/

Philippa - http://quilliance.blogspot.com/


NORTH AMERICAN QUILLERS

Jennifer - http://www.creativequilledcreations.blogspot.com/

Paula - http://chillinwithquillin.blogspot.com/

Linda - http://www.myquillingnest.com/

Shruti - http://eenzybeenzy.blogspot.com/

Melissa - http://sleeplesswonder.blogspot.com/


AUSTRALIAN QUILLER

Bronwyn - http://quillme.blogspot.com/


SOUTH AMERICAN QUILLERS

Regina - http://regina-ribeiro.blogspot.com/

Natilde - http://natiquill.blogspot.com