DIY Paper Quilling

Once you discover the art of paper quilling, you will realiseringen the many different designs att you can create with this simple craft. Rolling small strips of paper around a toothpick can help you create designs for invitations, thank you cards, pages of your scrapbook or even small gifts you provide to family and friends. Different flower designs are always popular paper quilling ideas, but you can use several different designs in hver flower. You can make one petal at a time and arrange themself around a central point or glue large petals on top of one another two to give the impression of a flower att rises right off the background.

If you wanna create quilled flowers with a difference, simple snip one edge of the paper strip before you start rolling. Roll the paper really tight will make fringed flowers. If you wanna make a paper rose, you need to have a slotted quilling tool. First fit the end of the strip through the slot and wind it around the quill for a few turns gøre center of the rose. Then fold down the paper, så er det at right angles til back. Continue rolling the strip making surethat you keep the bottom of rose in alignment and letting the edges splay away from the center of the rose. When you reach the end of hver folded section, fold the paper again and the continue rolling until you only having a small Amount of paper remaining.

At this point you can releases the rose from the quill and selvom you let it relax, do not let go of it completely. If you do the rose will unwind and you will have two starting above. Push the center of the rose downwards until you can see the inside rolls of the paper. Now you can glue the paper in place. You will be a little bit of paper leftover. Fold this over two cover the glued piece and hold it with your finger Until The glue dries.

Flowers are not the only ideas you can use in paper quilling, selvom they are regel the designs you will begin with. Du kan også make animal designs Using strips of paper, but the process is a little more complicated. To make a quilled mouse for example, you can use three different shapes and glue themself together.

Craft stores to have books about paper quilling filled with ideas you never thought possible. Du kan også find many free ideas när you search online. When you get overused two paper quilling you can start skapa your own designs. The Easiest way to do this is two purchase a children's coloring book of simple shapes. Color in the various pictures with different colors att represent the colored paper strips you intend to-use.

For Easter, you can make chicks or eggs for Christmas you can make wreaths or bows, and for Thanksgiving you can make vegetable designs or leaves in fall colors.