Quilled Picture Graphic Quilling- Blue Bird in A Bower

I quilled this scene or picture of a Bluebird sitting among plum blossoms as long  back as in Oct 2012, but did not get down to blogging it till today.This was my first attempt at quilling a bird using folded basic shapes that resembled feathers, unlike the parrot and humming bird which I quilled using loose coils.

 I have used a photograph of the sky as a background. The Bluebird is quilled with folded 3mm strips to match the feathers. I quilled  Little Robin Red Breast after practicing on this one which came out quite well for a first attempt. I have inserted a white strip to get the shine on the beak. My objective was to get it to look as lifelike as possible.

I have done the leaves slightly differently as I have crushed the strip to get a wrinkled effect. Here's a closer look at the elements.

Would love to know what you think.

New Quilling Technique For Assembling 3d Flowers

This is a new technique for assembling quilled flowers, that I adopted when I made Orange Blossoms  and the red quilled flowers in Flower Shower. This method makes it easier to incorporate the stems into the flower and is suitable for flowers with very small centers , for tubular flowers and for flowers you want to stand in vases.

Step 1.
Make the petals like the leafy grass in the tutorial here. Make sure all the loops are of the same size and make a maximum of 5 loops per petal for the above flowers.

Step 2
Make 4 such petals.

Step 3

 Now take a 3mm strip and tear it to make 4, 1' length strips.

Step 4
Score a line in the middle of each strip with an empty ball point pen or similar instrument.

 

 
Step 5
Now fold the 4 strips using the score marks. Use the valley side of the score mark  to form the valley of the fold.

Step 6

Now glue each strip to the petal so that the bottom tip of the petal is aligned to the valley of the fold as shown below. At this point you could get a few yellow strip pieces and glue it to the sides of the petals to form part of the center coloration. Alternatively, you could  glue the petal diagonally on the strip, aligned in the same way, to get a deep slant or cup.

Step 7
Now apply glue to the stems as shown and glue to another petal and make 2 half flowers. Now flatten the stems so that that stems of the two halves can be glued, and glue them together to make the flower.

Step 8
Apply a tad of glue to the center of the flower and make your hand into a fist and place the flower into the hole made by your index finger and thumb so the head of the flower with the glue faces up and sits on your fist. Take the blunt end of your quilling tool or a stylus and apply pressure downwards so that the head of the flower shapes into a cup and allow the glue to dry or you can shape it with your fingers as shown.The important thing is to allow the center glue to dry in a cupped position. Once this is done you can glue a center on top and a few pieces of yellow strips in between the petals to form the center.

 Step 9
Now apply some clear drying glue to the stem and twist it tight and allow to dry. Once dry you can make the green stem starting at any point. As shown coil it around a few times and glue it then start twisting it down with the strip diagonally to make the stem as in my tutorial here.

That's It !! you can use this method for flowers using quilled petals as well as it is very firm and these flowers can be placed in quilled vases.

Quilled 3d Flowers - Orange Blossom Flower Frame

This time its a quilled 3d flowering plant. All parts including the stems are made from 3mm strips. Both the flowers and leaves are made using the looping technique that I employed  for the grass in my quilled landscape which I called Waterfall Landscape.  You can see it more clearly in my Lion Share of Love cartoon. The tutorial is available here under leafy grass. It is rounder than the grass in my Quilled Tree Landscape , hence, I was able to use it as a petal.

I have used 5 to 6 petals for each flower in order to get the circular shape. In order to make the flowers firm, I have assembled the flower slightly differently and have not attached it to 3d cups and then to stems. Instead I have merged the stems onto the flowers.  I used this same method to assemble the red flower in Flower Shower even though I used a 3d curved cone to attach the petals on to. It made it so much firmer and easier to shape the flower like a cup. I think the most important part of creating 3d flower is to shape them into cups rather than making them like discs.

For the leaves too I have adopted a method similar to the one I used in making the veins in my poinsettia tutorial. I love the natural look of these compound leaves.

For the stems too, the tutorial is available here, but I have used 3 strips to make the thicker stems.The edging strips are hand folded and are pretty easy to make.

I am planning to do 3  tutorial from this frame so, those of you who are not already following, click on " Get Updates". It is a very simple process to follow the blogs you love and you can learn anything for free thru these blogs.

The tutorials will be on

1. New Technique for Assembling Flowers.
2. New Compound Leaf - Free Hand.
3. How to Make Freehand Petals to the Same Size

Happy Valentine Quilling - Quilled Walt Disney Cartoon 101 Dalmations

Happy Valentines Day to all. To celebrate, a quilled picture from Walt Disney's cartoon, 101 Dalmation, quilled landscape style using basic shapes and graphic outline. I have used pink and blue for the collars instead of the red and blue as I wanted a red heart as the background.

I have quilled the eyes similar to what I did for "A Lion Share of Love", which is another adorable quilled cartoon.

The heart is created on photoshop as the cartoon will go into a box frame and I don't intend to put the heart. In my opinion, the heart backing is better for a card rather than a framed picture.

It took me 3 A4 sheets  and  a lot of quilling as I have used small basic shapes (3" lengths). However, these are getting much easier for me to quill once the basic shapes are done. I now make all the basic shapes varying the sizes slightly and then do the gluing. That way I find I can work much faster as I make the basic shapes while watching TV. So it is not as much a strain as it used to be.

Valentines Day Quilling - Valentine Moon Gazers

Valentines Day is upon us and I thought I'd chip in with this quilled landscape of kids gazing at the moon.
I have combined beehive quilling and silhouette paper cut for this quilled picture.

Somehow I find it more satisfying to relate kids to love as it brings out the innocence of true love in this materialistic world. I am sort of a spiritual dreamer and love everything that is pure and innocent. I had previously done a couple of Valentines day quilling with Kiddy Valentine and Butterfly Heart.

I have done this piece in 3 dimension as it has got depth through layering.

As you can see the background is quilled using beehive technique with color blending. And the grass is done using graphic quilling,  my style, as in the cases of Thumper and Bamby.  

Hope you like this one. I'd love to hear from you all.

Quilling Tutorial New Petal Design - How To Winner

The quilled 3d flower frame on which this tutorial is based is here.

This quilling tutorial is for a new  petal design using the looping technique.

Red & White Flowers

..................... and the Prize Goes tooooooooo.........................

POOJA

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Reusing with Quilling

Who hit the nail right on the head!!
in guessing how it was made.

It is simple, short loop in the middle, Left and Right long loops, left and right short loops ( very similar to Butterfly Wing Leaf) using a single strip and wrap  around the petal and glue.

Make 2 small loops and wrap around using red strip. Make it smaller than the middle white loop. Insert it into the mid white loop with a tad of glue at the bottom.

White Veronicas

Paula & Angeline were Very Close

But remember I am a beehive fanatic?? I just made a beehive quilled  1.5 mm strip and then cut each sub-coil separate. When cut, 2 ends  will open up in all but the first sub-coil as shown above. I glued one end  to a stem which I made as per my tutorial. Took me just 10 minutes to make them.

Quilled DImensional Flower Frame - Flower Shower

This quilled frame has several types of quilled flowers and quilled leaves. The flowers are three dimensional as usual. I have combine different quilling techniques to create this piece.

I have adopted a new technique to assemble the red tubular flowers so they are not glued around the mouth of the quilled 3d cone. This way it was easier to shape them.

The orange trailing flowers  are the technique I created for Abstract Lotus. The tutorial is here. Notice the difference when large and small comb is used.

The red and white flowers are made using looping technique .  I encourage you to guess how it is done as  the quickest way to learning is for you to guess.

Here's a focused look

 

While you're  at it , try and guess how the white veronica was done as well..

The leaves are straight forward. Only difference is I have used different greens which make a big difference to their appearance.

 One of my guests - Pooja, did get it right and I salute her. For those of you who could not guess the tutorial is here.