Blue Jay: Handmade Quilled Bird Greeting Card
"They keep the binoculars on the kitchen windowsill."
Every coil placed by hand
Ships flat in a rigid box
Replaced if damaged
Someone in your life notices the birds. Blue Jay is a handmade quilled bird greeting card, a bird in three blues with a white breast and a black beak, perched on a brown branch among green leaves. Nothing is printed on the cover, so it carries a birthday, a get-well note, or a card sent for no reason at all.
How this card is made
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Ships from Sri Lanka in three options, available at checkout:
- Sri Lanka Post (standard): 3 to 4 weeks. Free Shipping.
- EMS Speed Post: 10 to 14 working days. Limited tracking.
- DHL Express: 5 to 7 working days. Fully tracked from dispatch to delivery.
Every card ships flat in a rigid-backed kraft gift box, fully protected for international transit. Every card is inspected before it leaves our studio. If yours arrives damaged, we replace it without question.
To keep: away from direct sunlight and moisture to preserve the paper art over time.
To display: fits standard 5x5 inch frames. This card is designed to live on a wall, not in a drawer.
To store: keep flat. Do not fold or roll.
Blue Jay: Handmade Quilled Bird Greeting Card
Specs
The card in detail.
Story
The design and the moment.
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The design
The breast is where the hours went. Seven tones of blue and white are layered strip beside strip, each one shaped separately and set on edge so the feathers catch light at different angles as the card moves. The tail is four long teardrops laid over one another, and the leaves are pinched to a point with a darker green rolled inside.
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The moment
Bird people are easy to buy for and hard to buy well for, because the generic version is everywhere and they can see it. This is the opposite problem solved: a bird made slowly, by hand, that stays on the shelf long after the occasion. Send it for a birthday, or when someone needs cheering and flowers would be too much.
The studioand the hands
Inside the Jaffna studio.
Primary specialist on this card
Every Vonderly card is built by 2 to 3 specialists working in sequence. The artisan below led the work on this one.
I work on the figures and characters. My style is shape-based, so the posture has to carry the character. Getting a small figure to read correctly is harder than it looks, and I redo them often.
Priyanka K.
Figure and character specialist
Coil by coil
Paper strips · The hands · Finished card
Good to know
Questions, answered.
How does the Blue Jay card differ from the Yellow Warbler?
What is paper quilling?
Paper quilling is the art of rolling, shaping and arranging narrow strips of paper to create raised designs. On Vonderly cards, each visible quilled element is shaped and placed by hand rather than printed.
How long does it take to make a Vonderly card?
A Vonderly card typically takes around 90 minutes of handwork. Different parts may pass through specialist hands for shaping, detailing and assembly before the finished card is checked and packed.
What comes with each card?
Each card measures 5 × 5 inches, is blank inside for your own message, and comes with a 5.25 × 5.25-inch kraft envelope.
What if my card arrives damaged?
We replace it at no cost, and you keep the original. Email hello@vonderly.com within 30 days of delivery with a photo, and we ship a replacement or issue a refund. There is nothing to send back.
