... And we are back!

Rêves En Papier / PaperCreationsByMe will be back open this week!  It has been quite a hiatus.  Being a teacher is my current career and while my dream is that my art becomes my business, I must educate the youth 😉. Combine the fact that my husband and I are expecting (woo hoo!) and things have been nuts!  But we will be back and up and running by the end of this week!

The Shop is Open!

Hello NY!   It's great to be back home!

Nothing like returning back to business and seeing that Rêves En Papier / Paper Creations By Me has hit 100+ likes on FB!  Thank you so much for all of your support!  I'm working on a couple of orders now but am happy to answer questions or give you a quote for a special occasion! 

Happy Summer to all!

ANNOUNCEMENT

NOTE: Rêves En Papier / PaperCreationsByMe will be AWAY on vacation from Thursday, June 26 - Wednesday, July 9 and will be unable to process orders during that time.  

A new idea for monogram letters...

A recent buyer wanted a monogrammed letter "W".  The recipient loves Tord Boontje and so I did a little googling and incorporated some leafy nature-esque vines and the teardrop shaped flowers he uses.  It definitely gave the monogrammed letter a new look which I like!  

Yay for Apps!

I had this brilliant idea that maybe, just maybe, there should be an app for blogging on the go.  I googled to check if there was... Lo and behold, an app for Blogger!  Exactly what I needed to make updating my blog much easier!  😜😊

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I cannot believe how much fun I am having getting my business up and running.  I've had several orders come in and have been pumping them out as quickly as possible but giving piece of art the time and effort it deserves.  

I've had a couple of monogram orders.  Here are some pictures of the final pieces:

 

(I created this one first but didn't like it enough to give to the buyer so I kept this one for myself, for my craft fair booth one day and re-did the letter "N".)

I loved this one way better!

Great color choices on the letter "J" for a high school graduate to hang in her college dorm this Fall!

I've also worked on a end-of-the-year teacher's gift:

And a pregnancy announcement that a woman from Georgia ordered to announce her pregnancy to her boyfriend.  She even used her own spanish poem to tell him the exciting news:

I've also just finished a small order of 10 baby shower invites.  This project is my latest favorite.  It took my ideas to a new level.  I hand-cut and created the chevron look, along with punching out tons of letters and banner pennants to then glue the letters one-by-one on  the pennant and then gluing the pennant onto beading string.  And then there was the quilled piglet and duckling.  Endless task but soooo worth it!  Here are some photos:

I have some other new ideas up my sleeve that I'm looking forward to creating now that the orders are completed.  I have 2 pending orders that I'll work over the next week (they aren't time sensitive) and I have a great idea for a new project.  We shall see!!  =)

Thanks for checking in and come back again soon!

Big Dreams Here... =)

On April 19, 2014 I finally opened my very own Etsy shop.  It was an idea I had played with in my head multiple times but couldn't find the courage to back myself up.  In the past year, I've learned new techniques, created new designs, and have been making my dream come true one paper creation at a time.  

My latest project is the exploding box.  I created one because I thought it might be a cute pregnancy announcement and soon it became much more than just an announcement!  I received my first bulk order for invitations to a 60th Wedding Anniversary celebration!  I played with patterns and colors after speaking with the buyer to get an idea of what she was looking for.  

In the end, I created this exploding box:

I love it and am so excited to show it to the buyer tomorrow.  

I've also worked on quilled monograms and created this beautiful letter "M" for my good friend's new arrival, Mackenzie.  She is a cutie and I wanted to give her a special little gift for her room.

  



 Anyhoo, I have some more exciting projects I'm working on and can't wait to share them with all of you!  Stay tuned!  And in the meantime check out my Etsy shop: papercreationsbyme.etsy.com! 

My Very First Pieces...

My quilling began so long ago, all because I wanted to create 3D looking cards like Target sells.  I happened to stumble across a quilling kit while I bought hundreds of dollars in pop-up stickers.  I took the quilling kit home only to find out that I didn't have the correct tools TO quill. 

A year later, I actually bought the tools and here is where I began.  I can assure you though- if you look through my cards and paper creations, my quilling's improving... hehehe!

This was a non-quilled card... cute girls night out mini-invites.

Another non-quilled card... I use them as teacher thank you notes.

This is a Housewarming simple invite... and below is a simple invite I created for a party at our home. In the greeting cards section, I created a more elaborate invitation that I LOVE!!!  It has such elegant detail compared to these.

For the "You're Invited" card above, I used a label for party details on the back of the card.  While the card on the top had a tag shaped cut-out glued with the party info.

The cards above I created when my sister-in-law found out she was pregnant with twin boys!

I created these cards when my sister-in-law's twins (girl and boy) were getting baptized.

My husband (then boyfriend) loves to play the guitar.  I made a card like this guitar card above and wrote "You Rock My World" as part of a gift! 

And these were my very, very, very first cards I created... teardrop shapes were easiest to create and so I played around with these ideas. 

And now... I love expanding my horizons to make bigger, more beautiful, elaborate ideas that mean something to people!   From your imagination... to my paper creation...

Birthday Balloons

I teach 3 quilling classes after school nowadays.  Two classes at the Y nearby and one class at my school.  The kids love it and it's finally given me time and a renewed passion to quill more often.  With that said, I'm creating birthday cards.  I spent about a couple of hours making 70 balloons.  Here are some pics.  By Friday, I should be done and working on something else.   I have so many ideas... so many possibilities that I want to create!

The parts of all my balloons:

Whew... done... for now.

Long overdue...

I started a new job and it has been such a great, positive change in my life.  I teach 3rd grade gifted & talented in a new school.  The teachers are awesome, parent support is incredible, but of course, it's a lot of work.  As a result, this school year was VERY busy, and it's not over just yet.  With one month left, my students and I are working on learning how to research a topic, cite resources, create a bibliography, and so on.  We are also finishing up our Philharmonic partnership program, getting ready for Springfest and Dancefest (two really cute events- one fundraiser and one for the students). And so much more!!

I took quite a long hiatus to focus on my new job and plan our wedding in Clearwater, Florida.  The year is coming to an end soon, and there's a little more down time.  I took on an online class to continue my plus 30, and have decided that if I want to truly make Reves En Papier what I envision it to be, it needs to become a higher priority than it is.  Sooo, here I've been since Monday, creating the sketch and design for a 1966 Pontiac GTO.  A former colleague of mine (and one of Mike's current colleagues) wanted a GTO for her husband and it was such an enormous difficult looking project.  It really intimidated me.  To capture such detail and form seemed like a task far beyond my reach.  Well, Monday I woke up and realized NOTHING is far beyond my reach.  That night I began sketching and cutting out.  Tuesday and Wednesday I continue sketching all the pieces.  Thursday  and tonight I finished all the detailing and coloring.  And as I write this blog entry, pieces are slowly being glued together to create the actual structure!  Here are some before and after pictures once I sketched the main pieces.  All that is missing is the top of the car but I need to have a structure to lay it on and bend.

Not Forgotten...

My dream is still heavy on my mind... making Reves En Papier, truly what I envision. Unfortunately, time is not readily available and in large quantities at that so it has been VERY difficult to quill and work on Reves En Papier's name.

BUT I never forget its progress, my dream, the possibilities, and all I CAN and WILL eventually do to build REVES EN PAPIER!!!

In the meantime, I am engaged, happy, and EXTREMELY busy. With 2 jobs (working 7 days a week) and planning my wedding - it has been quite hectic. This year teaching is going better than expected and certainly WITHOUT A DOUBT better than my past experiences so I look forward to each day at work... for new experiences.

With that said, I have not forgotten and look forward to orders that will bring me back to another happy place of mine. Or maybe even me coming up with a unique project idea...

We'll see and PLEASE don't forget about me and Reves En Papier.

Feel free to drop me a line, send me some suggestions, put in a request.

With love,
Jenni

Wow! Summer has flown by...

I cannot believe it's September already! It's been a fantastic summer and I'm looking forward to a good year. Let's catch up!

The end of summer camp in New Rochelle went really well! My students really LOVED quilling and everyone finished their awesome projects! It's always a bonus when the students go above and beyond expectations! They were excellent all summer long and their artwork displayed their creativity, their new knowledge of quilling, and their freedom to express their interests!! Check out some of the photos of the kids working hard and the GREAT finished pieces of work the students created:


Working Photos:






Adding details!


For those that needed guidance on their final paper, they resketched their idea as an outline for their quilled pieces! Differentiation! =) (It's the teacher in me!)


Coming along!


Example of the sketching.





Notice the sketch before the gluing. I like my students to sketch their idea out onto paper BEFORE making and gluing all of their quilled circles. By doing this, they know what they need for their project and when they do start gluing on the final pieces, there are less opportunities for accidents or mistakes. The students seemed much more confident when doing their final pieces since they had their sketch to guide them!


Practicing using the tool and the glue pens (Day 1)


Yay! Quilling!




Finished Works of Art:
WARNING: PREPARE TO BE WOW-ED!!!!!!!


Check out the sting ray in this ocean scene!


Grass, flowers, and a sun... wow, a cloud too!!


Awesome creativity on this one! Celebrating the New York Yankees.


Rain and butterflies!!


Under Sea Adventure!! It's a shark!!! Ahh!!


Check out the swimmer in the middle!
Great details added too!


Pink jellyfish, blue octopus, bubbles... Wow!


Great design/pattern on this Yankee symbol!!




This student incorporated their favorite cartoon too: Spongebob!
Check out the fish and the eyes of the fish!


What a great sun! I love when the kids do their own thing and don't follow models or their friends!


The Yankees were popular!



This student went for the pinstripe effect! Great work!


Tropical sea!




Some students did their names. Ashley was very organized and neat!
Love it!


Teaching the summer program students how to quill was a great experience and so much fun! They learned quickly and LOVED EVERY SECOND OF CLASS!!
They asked questions, explore different ideas, and in the end, IMPRESSED ME with their great work and positive attitudes! Every child was pleased with their finished project and practically BEGGED me not to keep them for the display in school this September. I promised they'd get it back from the summer program coordinator in September! I bet they'll be excited!