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Custom Quilling Supplies is celebrating an anniversary! The online store opened on March 15, 2004 with the idea of offering my unique selection of supplies to my students. The word has spread... now there are over 3700 customers! CQ prides itself in presenting the latest in supplies, ideas, and techniques; helping you to fulfill all your quilling dreams and desires. The newest feature added is the affiliate program, helping you earn credits for your supplies. To thank our customers and friends for their ongoing support each week during the month a $10.00 gift certificate will be given to a randomly picked customer with a paid order. Additionally, a free one on one online class, the winners choice and a filled will goodies will be given to a lucky customer with a paid order the end of March. Loads of new inventory will be added over the month, so make sure to check back often. We invite you to come celebrate with us!!

Sue’s French Fry Box: First I used a blue stamp pad to add color to the box. Then I added the heart punch out, layered flowers and quilled words. Next I added the ribbon to each side for a handle with little blue brads. Last fill up with lots of goodies! Custom Quilling March Kit With FREE Online Class

This kit is a little bit blue! con’t on pg3 Now with the purchase of the kit you will have the option to take the online tutorial for shadowbox framing FREE! Many of the items included in this kit will only be available in Inside this issue: New Items... Reviews... kit format. pg2 pg5 The kit will also include a pattern for a French Fry Box from Design Team... pg3 Updates... pg5 Sue, which will be emailed. Meet.... pg4 Original Patterns pg5

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Flower Soft March Kit $17.99 Verse & Stitched Stickers In stock soon1 Fry

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All material and images are copyrighted to original creators. © www.CustomQuilling.com 2009 Page 3 Quill News March 2009 Design Team con’t from pg1 Sympathy or Easter Cross Card: Once again I Butterfly and Flower Card : For this crimped the light card I used a wavy grey marbled crimper on the but with a straight yellow marbled crimper. I used a cardstock included piece of light blue with the kit. For the card that I had on flower I used a strip hand for the base, of the printed blue layered my crimped paper for the first oval placing this background layer. onto the grey The butterfly was marbled card. The made from Jane cross is a husked Jenkins’s mixed Azure Blues. The wings are design inspired from a paper pattern looped teardrops, filled in with teardrops. done in light blue. Punched Flowers and Vase Card : I used the pearl blue and yellow sheets from the kit for this card. The flowers are made from the Carl Kikyou punch and the leaves are the McGill pine branch punch. The vase, I got from a friend, who had the coolest vase punches!

Woven Spring Card: Using the light blue strips from the shades of blue pack, I wove them over a piece Square Box: This box was fun to make up, it of the dark cardstock evolved as I went along. I added grape roll feet for the to the bottom. Then a little two piece ribbon background. pull was added to the lid and front of box; sort Next, I of a knob or handle. I used decorative scissors added a on the light blue and added it punched circle with flowers and a stamped to the corners of the lid and along the bottom spring greeting to top it off. Don’t forget to of the box. Of course some mulberry paper use your pop dots to make your designs with a funky flower that I made on my onion stand out. holder.

All material and images are copyrighted to original creators. © Page 4 Quill News March 2009 Meet Sonya Appel, from Houston Texas USA I have been crafting since I was a little girl and have never stopped. Paper, paint, glue, shiny stuff, beads and any other thing that could be made into an arts and craft project would fascinate me with the possibilities it could become. I have three grown girls, 3 grandchildren and have been married for 30 years to my wonderfully indulgent husband who only mildly complains when my all my creative chaos spreads over every level surface in the house! Decorative , , china making, jewelry making, ceramics, are a sampling of my art endeavors through the years. The kaleidoscope of multi-colors the supplies would come in always draw me in to them. I love color, intricacy and detail, and of course anything shiny and sparkly! But about two years ago, while I was searching through my local art and craft store to get some inspiration I needed for a project that was due, I came across the very small quilling section. I looked at the project and was in awe of the beautiful things that could be made out of these colorful thin strips of paper! After making that first project, a framed Bible verse with a quilled border of grape vines, I was hooked, or should I say twirled! Quilling spoke to my creativity in a way that my other crafts didn’t, I had found my perfect match in the delicate and detailed shapes! I dove in headfirst with more quilling books and strips and much practice followed as I recreated the designs in the books. Addicted to quilling, I would search the Internet in amazement at the work and of other talented quillers and be amazed at the versatility of the art. I started branching out from the patterns and designs in the books and finding my own “style” consisting of flowers of any kind and color with a dash of sparkle! Desiring to improve the quality of my quilling I found great advice on technique and ideas thru the online quilling forums and from the great wealth of experienced quiller’s found there. I would like to thank them here for all their invaluable help, generous support and sincere encouragement, my friends I have yet to meet in person. One of my favorite things in other quillers galleries were the invitations and announcements that have a quilled border around them making them cherished keepsakes. I have been fortunate to do several of these for friends, family and even have been asked to do some for sale. Photo mats with quilled borders, cards, are another of my favorites and I look for anything I can embellish with quilling. I love quilling and hardly a day goes by without me quilling something, even if it is just a little shaped coil or fringe flower. If you are ever in Houston, drop by, I’ll have some goodies to eat and we can quill to our hearts content!

All material and images are copyrighted to original creators. © www.CustomQuilling.com 2009 Page 5 Quill News March 2009 Reviews Sue If blue is your color then this is your kit! There is every color of blue imaginable, even some parchment and gold too. There are really neat boxes for this month that would be just great for those little Easter treats.

Doreen I have been using Jane Jenkins for a long time now, they are such great quality. I especially love her mixed packs. The colors are very rich and they roll so nicely. The papers in the kit all coordinated well, which gave endless ideas. Another great kit Denise!

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