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Wednesday 22 May 2013

Quilled Earrings

Hello girls,
Here I am with my Quilled Earrings project for Adhiraa Creations, I have always experimented a lot with quilling but this is my first time playing with jewellery. I have hoarded those metal earring loops and a lot of designs since quite some time and I finally got some courage to put them to use for Use it Tuesday !!



Here i have used purple and blue tinted papers to cut the strips. I was pleasantly surprised that it dint take more thn 4 purple and 2 blue strips per earring.The earrings are about 4.5"-2" in size.

Few steps to it:


What I noticed is, initially the outer shape can be tricky to maintain, but once the filling is done it does retain the desired shape.I wanted to give it a traditional look, hence the spiral filigree!!

I want to thank Adiraa Creations for my attempt in Quilled jewellery !!
Trying my talent at-


18 comments:

  1. Beautiful colours and lovely earring nehal. You not linked to my inlinkz button in my blog. pls do link and good luck and thanks
    Adhiraacreations

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    1. Hey I can see my link,,god knows whats wrong.Can u try it again and let me know? If the problem persists I will do it again.

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  3. Lovely Nehal...liked ur tecnik as well as the way they turned out to be....Superb dear:)

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    1. Thanx so much for ur appreciation Kunda !!

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  4. These are so lovely, has a delicate filigree look
    http://www.kalasirjana.blogspot.in/

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  5. Wow ! very beautiful earrings Nehal ,loved the colors n design a lot .All the best for challenges !

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  6. lovely nehal, my earrings are also of purple but as i used white the whole colors got dull, love your intricate design

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    1. Hey no I feel the white colour adds elegance to ur earrings,,they don't look dull. And Thanx for visiting !!

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  7. wow, these are very cute..

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  8. Wowzers, those are amazing, I've never seen quilled earrings before. Bravo! Thanks for using up your hoarded stash and linking up with us at Use It Tuesday, I bet you're glad you finally used those up, the result is just gorgeous.

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    1. Thanx so much Sherri for ur appreciation.It was my pleasure to showcase them on Use it Tuesday.

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  9. They do look beautifully delicate.Great filigree work.
    http://ajourneyintoquilling.blogspot.com/
    CHris

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