How to do quilling. Quilling - master class. Quilling - schemes

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

Products made from twisted paper strips are called quilling or paper filigree. Even an older preschooler can master this art. Now on the Internet you can find a lot of schemes for creating flowers, landscapes, postcards, jewelry, paintings, topiaries, crafts, panels and other products using this technique. How to do quilling for beginners - we will consider in the article.

What do you need for paper rolling?

In a special store you can buy paper, scissors, a tool for paper filigree, tweezers, roll forms, PVA glue, an awl. Quilling paper compared to colored paper has 3 positive points:

• necessary density to keep the shape of the parts;
• pre-made strips from 1 mm to 3 cm;
• high-quality painting even on the side cuts.

Special paper saves time, but craft strips can be made from two-tone office paper using a metal ruler and cutter.

The tool is a kind of awl with a tip in the form of a fork. It can be made from improvised material:

• from a toothpick cut off the sharp end and cut in the middle, making a kind of fork;
• according to the analogy described above, make an incision in the stem of an ordinary pen;
• stick the needle with the tip into a tree or a cork, and file the eyelet.

Scissors take sharp with straight ends. A ruler with circles of different diameters can be used as a form for rolls. If you choose volumetric quilling, then you will need improvised material (beads, beads, wire, skewers, cardboard, frames, scallop, pin, etc.). We figured out the tools, now let's learn the basics of paper rolling.

Quilling: master class of basic elements

Insert a strip into the slot of the tool and start twisting it into a spiral, which is called a roll. It is from this element that under a certain pressing we form certain forms:

• A tight roll is a tightly twisted spiral, and the end of the strip is glued to the base.
• Free roll is a spiral with a non-glued end. Such a roll is placed in the shape of a certain circle so that the paper "blooms". Then it is taken with tweezers and the tip is glued to the base of the spiral.
• A drop is a free roll that is pressed from one edge, while the middle of the circle is not affected.
• A curved drop is a drop whose base is slightly curved.
• A triangle is a drop whose oval part is flattened and straightened.
• An arrow is a triangle whose base bends towards the top.
• A bird's foot is a triangle with two corners strongly pressed to the top.
• The eye is a free roll, in which both ends are compressed without affectingmiddle.

Quilling: schemes of the main elements

Quilling elements:

• A rectangle is an eye that shrinks in opposite directions and then square corners align. The square is made in the same way.
• A rhombus is an eye whose corners contract in opposite directions.
• A star is a rhombus whose sides bend inward.
• A semi-circle is a free roll whose opposite ends are pinched and then the space is straightened into a semi-circle.
• A crescent is a semicircle whose base curves inward.
• A leaf is an eye that is pressed in the corners, but volume is created in the middle.
• A wave is a sheet whose sides are bent in different directions.
• The turret is a triangle with a short base and long sides.
• A cone is a tight roll with a glued end, which is then pressed through like a bag.
• Spiral curl is a twisted strip.
• Horns are a strip folded in half and twisted individually into a spiral.
• A curl is a flat strip, the ends of which are twisted into a spiral in different directions.

Fancy elements for flowers

This case also has its own secrets:

• A branch is a strip folded 1 to 2, in which both ends are twisted into a spiral in the same direction at different levels.
• A heart is a strip folded in half, the ends of which are twisted into a spiral inside the figure.
• Tulip is a triangle whose base shrinks and forms a kind of “nose”.
• The loop petal is a strip that is folded by hand in the shape of an accordion and wrapped around all the loops with a small remaining edge and glued to the base with glue.



• The looped petal on the comb is a strip that wraps around the teeth of the comb with increasing turnover. Then this element is removed and folded in half, wrapped around the end of the strip and glued.
• A two-color element is two strips glued together, twisted into a spiral, from which the elements are made. Or these are ready-made elements glued together, which are wrapped with a strip of a different color.
• Shaggy core is a long wide strip that is cut into a small fringe and then twisted in a spiral. The end is glued to the base, and the cut strips are straightened with hands in different directions.

Create a filigree card

Now it becomes clear how to do quilling, that is, from the main elements you create different compositions for postcards and even paintings. As a basis, you can take a pattern of the finished work or a diagram from a magazine. But you can make your own. Just draw a schematic floral pattern, a butterfly on the front side of the card and glue the elements on them already.

For example, in the lower left corner of the card, draw a bouquet of daisies with swirls and leaves. We make petals from a drop of white color, we make the core either shaggy yellow, or fromtight roll. Chamomile can be made whole (quilling is unique in a variety of ways). A master class for making a flower with petals and a middle is presented as follows:

• take a white strip 1.5 cm wide and 30 cm long;
• make cuts 1-2 mm wide along the entire length, leaving 3-5 mm on top;
• stick a yellow strip 3-5 mm wide and 15 cm long on the back;
• insert the yellow strip into the tool and roll tight;
• glue the edge to the flower;
• gently spread the petals with your fingers in different directions.

Card design

We continue to talk about how to make quilling and postcards in this style. Glue different daisies on the base. To change the size, just take strips of different widths. Now glue the stem to the flowers - a strip in a vertical position. And to it you attach leaves made using the technique of leaves, waves and arrows. Along the edge, you can decorate with curls, twigs and horns.

To make the postcard proportional, stick a butterfly in the opposite corner, whose wings are made of an arrow and a drop, the body is made of an eye, and the antennae are made of horns. Volumetric postcards especially attract attention. This is also quilling. How to make voluminous flowers:

• spread the first layer of 12 flower petals, made in the shape of an eye;
• glue 4 drops over the previous row;
• make the middle out of a star.

Another way to make bulkcolors:

• cut out a paper circle that will determine the size of the flower;
• bend the circle into 4 parts (you get a funnel);
• stick the petals on the concave side, leaving the middle;
• also process the underside of the funnel;
• now make a tight roll, to the edge of which you glue a strip with notches;
• straighten the core and glue it to the middle of the funnel from the concave side.

Tree Paper Roll Style

It is interesting to make a tree in this technique. Quilling allows you to make it in a flat and voluminous form. In the first version, we glue a tree or trees on a piece of paper:

• Paint the background on paper.
• Pencil draw tree and grass shapes.
• Glue the strips vertically along the lines of the trunk and branches.
• The barrel cavity can be filled with brown eyes.
• Further, from different shades of green, make foliage from tight rolls.
• To create layering, you can stick elements on top with a second layer.
• Glue grass from a leaf and an eye near the trunk.

It remains only to frame the tree. Quilling offers another craft option:

• Make fluffy daisies.
• Also make leaves, just take the ribbon longer to form fluffy balls.
• Take a small pot or cup of yogurt and decorate it.
• Insert the barrel into the foam ball, which is decorated with green paper. Suitable for these purposeswooden skewer or thick wire.
• Glue paper blanks to the ball.
• Pour gypsum mortar into a glass, set the barrel and let it harden.
• Decorate the top of the pot with paper or satin ribbon grass.

If necessary, you can decorate the tree. Quilling allows you to make butterflies, spiders, birds that can be placed on the crown.

How to make voluminous flowers

This technique can be used to make ordinary flowers that can be put in a vase. Consider how to make gerberas:

• Cut 24 strips of pink, 27 cm long and white, 12 cm long.
• Glue them together.
• Twist the loose rolls, starting at the pink end, and place into a 1.5 cm circle.
• Make a leaf out of rolls.
• Shape a flower with 12 petals and glue them together.
• Make a 4 cm diameter funnel out of paper.
• On the inside, glue the first layer of flowers.
• Turn the funnel over and glue the next row of petals.
• Further from pink strips 27 cm long, make 13 free rolls with a diameter of 9 mm.



• Make leaves out of them and glue them together in the shape of a flower.
• Cut a fringe from a pink strip 1.5 cm wide.
• From a yellow or black strip 40 cm long, make a tight roll.
• Glue a strip with a fringe to the edge of the roll and twist it into a spiral, fluffing the fringe afterwards.
• Glue 9 mm petals onto the funnel andcore.

Assembling a bouquet

We continue the conversation about how to make quilling and voluminous flowers using this technique.

• Bend the funnel on the back a little.
• From the green strip make a tight roll with a diameter of 3 cm and form a cone out of it.
• Make a stem out of a skewer by wrapping it in green paper.
• Insert the stem into the cone and glue it to the wrong side of the funnel.
• Now make a crescent moon from free rolls with a diameter of 2 cm.
• From 7 crescents make a sheet in the form of a Christmas tree and glue them together.
• Attach the petiole to the lower leaves in two additions and glue to the stem.
• Make a spiral curl and decorate the junction.

Also, by analogy, make a whole bouquet. This is what makes quilling unique. With your own hands, according to this scheme, you can make different flowers: daisies, cornflowers, asters, in which the petals can be bent with scissors.

Paper rolling is amazing creativity. Try to make simple elements and then move on to complex masterpieces - landscapes, paintings, portraits, voluminous crafts. This is an extraordinary style! Quilling can be taken as a basis in the manufacture of panels for photo frames, where curls, horns, branches are made of cardboard, which is then decorated to look like wood or metal. Try to make works in this technique, and you will not remain indifferent.