Another quilled card

The other day when I posted the Christmas cards that I made I told you that I was saving one for another post because I was going to enter this one in the Take a quill pill challenge.
Well here it is

I know that I've got a lot of practicing to do with my quilling, but that's half the fun.
I'm scheduling this post so that I don't have to rush home and put one together after my day of shopping but I'm sure I will have lots to tell about the days events.

Greetings

I'm not a fan of seeing Christmas in the stores before the Halloween candy has been passed out but when it comes to crafting it's never to early to get started. Especially if you are as slow as I am sometimes at finishing projects.
With that being said, I started working on Christmas cards. Between the quilling and the cricut there are just so many possibilities, it's hard to decide what to do. Then of course picking the paper is another hard decision for me. I like this one, but that one's nice, oh and look at that one. I think I do better when my choices are limited. Maybe buying that big paper stack on sale wasn't such a good idea but I couldn't resist.
Enough of the chatter, on to the cards. I'm going to show you two today and save the third for another day because I'm also going to enter these in the Take a quill pill  challenge. If anyone else does quilling, the challenge is open until November 20th so there's still plenty of time to get your entries in.

This is the first one that I'm entering in the challenge. 

 This one is pretty simple. Just cut some letters out with the cricut and made some squiggly lines with a metallic marker. Hopefully no one will notice the marker smudge smack dab in the middle of the card. It's highly unlikely that it will go unnoticed though since it sticks out like a sore thumb. That's what happens when you aren't paying attention to where your hand is.

A quilling challenge

I found a blog called Take a Quill Pill that is doing a monthly challenge. Now I know I'm pretty new at this but what the heck I thought I would join in just for the fun of it.
This month's challenge is to make a card with at least on quilled flower and one butterfly. I really wasn't entirely happy with this card. I think the papers that I used are just a little too busy. The butterfly may not be exactly what they were looking for either but it is a butterfly, or it was meant to be anyway :)
Well enough yacking, here's my card