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.

Silver and Blue Quilled Card

Blue 2mm strips were used to make the scrolls and  leaf fronds. The large fringed flower has a smaller punched flower glued to the centre. The cream flowers are made from 4 scrunched scalloped circles pinned together with a small brad. The remaining flowers were made from six 2mm wide loose leaves with a fringed flower in the centre. The quilling is mounted on white card and matted on a light blue linen backing card, also mounted onto a darker grey-blue linen base card.

Comb Quilling

More quilling. This design was experimental (mind you, aren’t most???). I made the large flower some weeks ago using Meg’s  comb quilling method, then made the scrolls and used up left over strips to fill in the gaps. The corner strips are gold adhesive sticker strips that you can buy in sheets. I’m still managing to get glue everywhere and can’t seem to get neat ends to my scrolls – hence the tightly wound two coloured circles over one end and the blue punched flower over the other. Useful ways to hide a multitude of sins!

More Quilled Chrysanthemums

Larger quilled chrysanthemums. These have layers of stamens between the layers of tear drop petals. It’s very fiddly but looks nice when finished, reminding me of Jacobean crewel embroidery designs.
Might explore this idea further!

Double Fringed Flower

This quilled card I made to display a double quilled flower. I followed Pritesh Dagur’s instructions but the flower didn’t turn out quite how I expected. My paper was very crisp making the fold very stiff and the petals didn’t open the same way as they do in Pritesh’s video. I opened out each of my petals individually and gave it more of a scruffy spikey look, teamed it up with some leaf scrolls and scrolls made from 1.5mm strips I cut using the spaghetti cutter on my pasta machine. I have just bought a 3mm trenette cutter attachment for a pasta machine. Although it is the same make as my pasta machine, mine is a much older model and doesn’t take attachments. However, the winder fits the trenette attachment and it is easy to balance the attachment on the side of the table and cut the paper.

Purple Quilled Card

Another go at quilling – this time a DL sized card.  I was using up my 2mm strips on this one and practicing making scrolls.