Card Making and Quilling

I've spent the past couple of days making cards -- one for a friend who injured her ankle, and one for a friend whose birthday is at the end of the month. I sent the get well card without getting a picture of it. I haven't sent the birthday card, but I'm not sure it's finished. I keep looking at it to determine if I want to add anything more to it. I don't think I will, but I never know when it's done. I will take a picture when I'm sure I am finished.

The birthday card has quilled flowers on it. I have been doing a lot of quilling during my recovery. I'm just learning. I had some quilling supplies in my craft stash, but I hadn't done much of it. It is a craft that lends itself to be done by people who are recovering from surgery.It's also a very, very quiet craft, and that's majorly important to me now. I can sit on the sofa in my slug-like state and quill my little heart out. I've made dozens of flowers, leaves, hearts, and other shapes. I compare my first attempts with the ones I'm doing now, and there's definite improvement. It's a fun craft. It's very time consuming, but it's a craft, so what the heck! There are people who do some really intricate pictures using quilled shapes. I will probably never get to that level, but they look beautiful on handmade cards. I'll probably use them on scrapbook pages, too.

Okay, so back to quilling it is.