Quilled Tree Landscape Picture Art - One Tree Hill

Finished my quilled tree landscape picture at last. I have used many techniques for this one. The tree top is made of honeycomb circles ( beehive technique). The grass is created from folding zig-zag. The yellow and pink hills are my own creations. I just folded the paper up & down and encircled it just like the grass but without pinching the the top and bottom so that I got a circle with something like a peace sign after encircling it.

The tree trunk is graphic quilling technique, using brown yellow and black. I have used a combination of orange, 3 shades of yellow and peach for the treetop. I cut the strips to 1.5' lengths and then pasted them randomly into one long strip and quilled the honeycomb circles ( beehive method- check my link section).

The dark green and yellow hills are made from crimped paper. Folded zigzag to the length required and encircled.

The flowers are a combination of roses quilled with 3mm strip and star flowers of yellow with tight coil centres. For the blue flowers I  used a scallop pinking scissor to cut 4mm length pieces blue 3mm strip and pasted it to a fringed flower made of 1.23" length 3mm strip. I fringed the 3mm strip slightly to get a velvety middle.

The tree is mounted at a slightly higher elevation as the root section is pasted on top of the grass and I pasted tight coils to the underside of the tree top in order to get the 3d effect, hence the shadow of the tree is visible.

All in all I am really thrilled with the outcome.  Tutorial for quilling landscape is available here.
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Quilled Butterfly & Flowers

I made the quilled butterfly from an image from the internet. I made it using landscape or picture quilling techniques.  The butterfly is made from simple loose scrolls encircled in black. I had a printout of the monarch and placed a cellophane sheet over which I pasted the quilled shapes one to the other. Gumming is the bane of my life. Used lots of pins to get the shape and had to be really careful I did not use too much of gum. the outer part of the wings are made of tight scrolls encircled in black. Made the body using 3d quilling technique.

The flowers are from Inna's design. There are links to Innas site on my tutorial links page . Leaves are simple loose scrolls pasted to the side to get the concentric effect.

Black & White Quilled Flowers and Swirls

I love black and white, so I quilled this quilled 3d flower piece. I have used fringed flowers and roses. The leaves were cut in shape on 1cm strips and I fringed the edges slightly. I scored the leaves to depict veins with a stylus tool placing the leaves on a card board box piece. (If the surface is too hard it will not emboss well and will damage the surface of the paper. If too soft it will dig into it.)
I have used husking to form the leaves and did not use a comb.
In order to get blunt swirls I pasted strips end to end on opposite directions and then brought them together to form a curl.

Honeycomb Flower - Quilled Floral Design

I wanted to experiment quilling with multi strips so I just made up this design as I went along. It just took me about half an hour to complete this. I love the honeycomb look so I made the quilled flower using the beehive technique. For the open concentric circles I used husking and then cut the last three and pasted it. The two mango shapes were achieved by quilling the tips slightly after encircling it in yellow.

Black& White Flower Swirl - Quilled Flowers

I quilled this floral design with white printer paper. Apart from quilled roses and fringed flowers with centres I have used husked leaves for the centre. The edges are made of fringed leaves and the little flowers are my instantaneous creations where I cut 5 petals each and pasted it to a 3mm , 2.5" length strip. the petals fell a little short of the strip so I could make the scroll really tight.