Yellow Warbler: Handmade Quilled Bird Greeting Card
"They hear the bird before anyone else looks up."
Every coil placed by hand
Ships flat in a rigid box
Replaced if damaged
For the one who stops mid-sentence when something lands outside. Yellow Warbler is a handmade quilled bird greeting card, a small bird in three yellows with brown and black wing markings and a cream belly, perched on a green branch with orange berries. Nothing is printed on the cover, so it carries a birthday, Mother's Day, or a note sent for no reason.
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.
Yellow Warbler: Handmade Quilled Bird Greeting Card
Specs
The card in detail.
Story
The design and the moment.
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The design
The head and breast are one continuous run of strips, each shaped and set on edge, shifting from deep gold at the crown through lime to cream at the belly with no break between tones. The wing is the opposite: short dark strips packed tight in brown and black. Three orange berries sit along the branch, each a single coil.
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The moment
For the birdwatcher, the gardener, the mother who keeps the feeder stocked through the cold months. Send it in spring, when the real ones come back, or any time of year when the yellow is the point. It is the brightest card in the catalog without being loud, which is a narrow thing to get right.
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.
What makes the Yellow Warbler card different from a printed bird card?
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.
