chrysanthemum -- Claire style

Quilling Tutorials

This post is dedicated for all the quilling craft learners who like me are trying to learn through net guru .I have been thinking of  gathering the quilling tutorials at one place so that it is easy  for me to point  for all the queries I get about learning this craft.   Let me do a humble try as it is such a huge list. .

Basic shapes and simple projects 

http://www.quilledcreations.com/QuillingBasics-Shapes.asp
http://www.handmade-craft-ideas.com/paper-quilling-instructions.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_KvqSWiiPg&feature=relmfu
http://www.allthingspaper.net/2011/11/quilled-snowflake-patterns.html

Flower making techniques

Fringed flowers 

http://quilling.blogspot.in/2007/01/quilling-and-fringed-flower-design.html

http://layersofink.blogspot.in/2012/02/quilling-fringed-flowers-tutorial.html

double fringed flowers 

http://increations.blogspot.in/2009/02/fringed-flowers-ii.html

Flowers with eccentric coils
http://papercraftss.blogspot.in/2010/05/dragon-fly.html
http://increations.blogspot.in/2011/03/cherry-blossom-framed-paper-quilling.html


Flowers with tight coils
http://stranamasterov.ru/node/87689
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsK9SLir7v0&list=UUJjuQ-XoO_8zFQ28ZBo_B2g&index=10&feature=plcp


Malasian flower

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzqhRaC3G1k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn2NAgbg8fM

Royal flower

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q5fNMzAL0Y

Beehive technique invented by Susan and illustrated by Pretesh
http://susanquilling.blogspot.in/2012/07/beehive-brooch-purple-and-white-2.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2141r4G-WM

flowers with  husking technique
http://clairespapercraft.blogspot.in/2010/06/white-husking-flower-tutorial.html

flowers using  quilling comb
http://azlina-lin.blogspot.in/2012/02/cascading-loops-tutorial.html
http://azlina-lin.blogspot.in/2012/02/tiny-loops-flower.html

Leaves  making

Circular leaves
http://quillingmesoftlee.blogspot.in/2011/11/circular-leaf-tutorial.html

leaves with combing technique
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK7M7sGDi48
http://ajourneyintoquilling.blogspot.in/2012/08/quilled-leaf-sprig-tutorial-new.html
http://ajourneyintoquilling.blogspot.in/2013/04/new-quilling-technique-tutorial-looped.html


Simple leaves
http://www.amytree.com/quilling/quilled-leaves.html

Maple leaf
http://kasia-wroblewska.blogspot.in/2011/11/m.html

Many different leaves ... amazing techniques
http://anastasiaw.blogspot.in/2013/03/quilling-ideas-for-sprig-of-leaves.html

Quilling  Typography

http://www.craftastical.com/2010/05/tutorial-quilled-monogram-letter.html

Graphic Quilling

This technique is almost similar to typography . Some well known  quilling artists have used this technique to bring out unbelievable accuracy and elegance in the projects.Check out these mind blowing ones
http://anastasiaw.blogspot.in/2012/11/winter-wonder.html

http://anastasiaw.blogspot.in/2012/06/two-gentle-souls.html


Looks like I have covered most of the basic techniques references. This post is in Draft from many days and let it breath fresh air.....

Happy Quilling and keep sharing...
-Geetha

Quilled flowers

Finally  finished the target of  a dozen of  quilled large flowers . They can be fixed on pins, magnets, on cards and can be used as  quilled potpourri .
















 The open petals flower is  quilled based on the instructions from  blog http://clairespapercraft.blogspot.com/ She has amazing collection.

This  single flower below  is designed using two leaf structures in inverted style.I am happy the way it turned out.

Quilling on Ceramic

An  unused V shaped plate stand was lying  which I had to  reuse .My husband follows a simple formula, any object which is not used for a year should be donated or thrown . I had to save this :)
I have displayed this piece at the entrance of my lobby next to a vase.

Plate is  10 " , white ceramic colour. Central design is inspired from  a quilling book by Malinda Johnston.
Central flower : 3mm  width and  9" length  paper strips. There are 24 tear drop shapes of each colour.  As always I have assembled the flower on a transparent sheet before gluing it to the plate.

Inner Circle: I had tough time in making  eight pieces of exact size  half ovals to maintain the symmetry of the design.
Each unit is made of  5 strips of 6 cm length. The ends of all strips are glued first and then each strip is pulled to bring in the curves and glued.See the pic for details.

Outer Circle : same technique as inner circle but length of each half oval unit is longer than previous ones.
Petals attached at the junction of these units is a single strip husked petal covered by a black strip.
Assembly: Clean the plate with a tissue dabbed with nail polish remover :) .Mark the center of the plate and start gluing the pieces one by one. Tada....... it is ready .

** I had to visit multiple shops to get this plate as I needed a light weight, shiny and with a proper white shade.. I finally found in one of the shops near Russel market .

Linking to Crafty JC for this month entry.

Happy New Year 2012

Here is a quilled wreath I created to welcome guests for the new year get together at my new home. I can now use it as home decor too :) I dedicate this to gifted quillers Amna and Claire whose techniques I have used .

Wreath has small pom poms, malasian flowers, quilled roses, flowers with concentric circles and a center flower created with loops.

The hole project started with my urge to quill a butterfly. I had to find a neat place for this and ended up with a flower wreath :)

For the butterfly , quilled each part separately and fixed on the sketch kept under a transparent sheet to obtain the correct measurements for wings and similarity in both wings.

Made my first ever entry to CraftyJC , Kalalayaa .

I am becoming a dedicated student of Mary Bond :) ...

Trying out one more frame with flowers. This I am planning for my dear friend Jyothi who is my neighbor for her birthday . Tell me how it looks.