My Copyright Information

I have created this blog to share the wonderful art of Quilling, otherwise known as Paper Filligree, with all of you. I will also be sharing with you my acrylic artwork, and anything else that is related to quilling or paintings. I will share my ideas, free patterns that I want you to use and modify to create your own personal works of art! I will also be giving instructions on some of my work I will be posting here. I'll be sharing as much as possible. There is no charge. If you are only making a few items, then you should also feel free to use what you find here. I only ask that you credit me with the following information: Created by Marianne Ryan, http://www.23rdchild.blogspot.com/. 


If you have a website or a blog and you would like to use some of this information please let me know and I can add a link back to you. We can do a banner exchange. If you wish to share this information, I ask that you please give me credit for the hard work that I have done by including the following information: Created by Marianne Ryan, http://www.23rdchild.blogspot.com/. 


If you wish to use the instructions or patterns and include them in a book, or compile them and include them in something that people must pay for, then you must contact me directly by sending me an email. I may periodically update this copyright information. Thank you so much for all your support! Marianne Ryan © Copyright 2010, © Ryan's Fine Designs, 2010, © Designs by Ryan, 2010, © 23rd Child Blogspot, © Ryan's Rants Blogspot.

My Acrylic Paintings

Please visit my Acrylic Paintings Page. Most of them are painting I have done using acrylics, but there is some with watercolor too. Although I like acrylic medium better to work with. Let me know what you think!

My love for Quilling

I've discovered a new love. Quilling. It is a beautiful art form. I am an artist, so when I discovered this recently, I just fell in love with it and had to have it for my own. I've already created a number of greeting cards that I plan to sell. I'm creating my own designs already. There are so many beautiful things you can do with this craft. It's amazing. I hope to one day soon make quilled jewlery. Earrings to be precise. I was at the store yesterday and almost picked up all the elements I needed to dive into this new adventure. But, I'm not quite ready yet. I have to read up on it a little more, and maybe talk to others who do this. One thing I love about quilling is that there aren't many quilling artists out there. At least I haven't seen many on the internet. This art form isn't so submerged with artists that it's hard to be distinct. It's a time consuming craft. It sometimes takes days for me to create just one greeting card. To make it just perfect. Not like with scrapbooking. I could do a page in an hour or so. With quilling you need patience. And I think you need a real love for the art to have that patience. I don't think I'll ever be able to sell my greeting cards for what they are really worth. I believe I'll move into doing quilled artwork soon. As I mentioned, I'm an artist. So that will be my natural progression. These will be expensive pieces. And most beautiful of course. But because quilling is so beautiful in itself, you can't help but doing a beautiful piece of work.