Quilling

Have you ever tried quilling? It's super simple and I don't think embellishments could be any cheaper to make! I'm not talking about making big peacocks or anything. The quilling I have tried is on a very basic level. Like these flowers here;

You can use cardstock or double sided patterned paper, but I think solid colors look best. You can also buy precut quilling strips, but that's totally a waste of money in my opinion.
Dig up your cardstock scraps and cut thin strips, no more than 1/8" wide. The length is up to you. I usually use strips between 6" and 8" long.

I have quilled without a quilling tool. I think I used my paper piercer, but it's so much easier when you have the right tool. It costs about 3-4 dollars.


Put the very end of your strip into the opening of the quilling tool and start rolling the paper in between your thumb and index finger. Actually when I think about it, you are just holding the paper still while you roll the handle.

Put a tiny bit of glue at the end of your strip when you are done and squeeze to your circle. Before you do this - decide how tight you want the circle to be rolled.

If you wanna make one of those simple flowers I made, you will need one circle in the middle and 5-7 around.

Use fast drying glue and glue the circles to the middle one. And don't forget to put glue in between them as well.

To make a leaf, you do the same thing, but don't have the rolls so tight. Then you just pinch one end of the circle to make it look like a leaf.

Easy enough huh?

Look what I bought from Martha Stewart. Doesn't it look super simple to make yourself?

Here is a layout from last year where I used some quilling in the middle of the flowers.

(Click to enlarge!)

I have bought a book about quilling and I thought I should move on to the more complicated stuff. Give this a try, so that you can move on with me!

PS. Come back on Tuesday..I have had my blog for a month then and will celebrate with a nice giveaway!