Tuesday, May 25, 2010

dragon fly




      The flowers I made with eccentric loops .I realize there is so much more that I need to learn about quilling. I see so many different styles of quilling on the internet and I want to try them all.
      Tomorrow I am going to Bangalore to visit my mom . I am going to miss all the wonderful blogs I am so used to visiting every day .
       Here's a  tutorial on eccentric loops.

     Roll a strip of required length and make a loose coil.



       Use a circle sizer to get the right size of the coil.




         with the help of  a needle gather all the curls in the loops to one side and place a drop of glue . Wait until the loops are glued together.
       


        We get a coil which looks like this.This is called an eccentric circle.



       pinching  on the side opposite to the glued side we get a petal.

Friday, May 21, 2010

little birdie



      More than flowers I like to quill birds , animals and bugs somehow it surprises people much more.





Tuesday, May 18, 2010

punched hearts


       I have always liked  hand made paper. Its flexible and so very apt for making flowers. Recently I found some hand made paper  .I punched out a whole lot of heart shapes out of it meaning to use it on one of my cards . I have used those hearts to make these flowers and butterflies. 
     I have added the quilled elements mostly to fill the gaps. I have touched them up with acrylic bronze colour to match the flowers.
     Tomorrow is the last day of my summer classes and I hope to teach my students some basics of quilling. I use lot of colour paper for quilling and therefore I want to show my students too how to make their own strips and make their own quilling tool so that they can start off at once.

Friday, May 14, 2010

more flowers



      I tried some more flowers. The paper was  a bit stiff therefore I found it a bit difficult to loop. The flowers look much better than it looks in this picture . 



Thursday, May 6, 2010

Flowers



      Quilling flowers is  easy and I find it very relaxing . It looks beautiful and makes a wonderful gift. I also love to quill bugs and want to quill more of these cute creatures.




   These flowers I quilled with thick paper , difficult to quill with needle .
The flowers look very bright .Thick paper can be rolled by hand .