Combination quilled flowers

I used a number of flowers that i have been trying out on this card/ The fringed cream flower is just a simple rolled fringed strip. The large flower had a rolled 1/2 strip 3mm and a rolled 1/2 strip 5mm, fringed. A full fringed and rounded tipped strip was added in cram followed by a wider full rounded tipped fringe in tan. The buff coloured flower was 3 circles. I folded each circle into quarters and then cut 3 petals into it. The plain cream flower was just one fringed rounded tipped flower with a half length roll in the centre.

cream chrysanthemums

This time I used matt paper and the photography worked better. I used a centre wheel this time which opens the flower out a little. Both ways, with and without the centre wheel have resulted in nice flowers. I've just used a few common fillers for the rest. the cream and brown flower uses 2 different widths if strip cut down an A4 sized piece of paper and fringed with a square tip. I like the effect of the strip of coloured corrugated cardboard. My only problem is that it is hard to find something that isn't a violent colour!

Purple Chrysanthemums

I've been playing around with quilling and fringing. The purple crysanthemums were the result and I'm quite pleased with how they came out. The paper I used was shiny scrapbooking paper, 12 x 12 inches. I used one grauated slice that was 0.5cm at one end and 1cm at the other. I then used a 1.5cm strip. Both strips were fringed with the tips being cut to a point.

The strip was rolled with the purple side innermost. I ran a thin bead of glue along the bottom edge to stop it from sliding while I rolled and then left it to dry. Next I folded down the petals on the wider strip and curled each one under by running the petal over the quilling tool. The wedge shaped slice I simply fluffed up.

The shininess of the paper has made it difficult for an amateur like me to photograph but I fiddled around with enhancing the photo to try and show how the centre is spiky but the outer petals more smooth and rounded.It looks much better in real life than in the photo though.  There is no centre wheel on this which helps the spiky centre to fluff up.

Navy and white quilling

I used a daisy cutter for the white petals which were made from white parchment paper so they are slightly translucent. There are two layers of each of 3 sizes. I used a fringed rolled centre with  a small 3mm roll (1/4 length) - then a 5mm fringed blue roll (1/2 length) and a full length hand fringed pink roll. Again I made a hole in the centre and snipped small slits out from the hole, then pushed the centre through the hole and glued into place.

Orange and Black quilling

Another birthday card using orange and black. The  daisies were made from 2 inch circles that I folded and cut. There were 4 layers in each one. I cut a small hole in the centre and then snipped slits and pushed a rolled centre into them and glued the petal centres onto the centre roll. The petals need to be rolled back a bit to give them some body. The centres were made from a 3mm roll and a 5mm fringed strip.

Pink and grey quilling

I was playing around with making flowers and filler leaves on this card. This flower was made by fringing the paper so that the ends are pointed rather than squared. I made the petals very narrow on this one. The pink layer had two strips the same width plus one slightly wider. Next time I think I'd use two wider strips. the inner cream colour used two strips the same size and the centre was a half length roll and a very narrow pointed fringe strip about 15cm long. I'm going to have a go at using strips that are narrower at one end and see what difference that makes.

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